tools/include/linux/types.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

tools/include/linux/types.h

Extension

.h

Size

1997 bytes

Lines

112

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

tools

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: implementation source

Status

source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
• Uses kernel synchronization; read lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt context assumptions before translating.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

• stdbool.h
• stddef.h
• stdint.h
• asm/types.h
• asm/posix_types.h

Detected Declarations

• struct page
• struct kmem_cache
• struct list_head
• struct hlist_head
• struct hlist_node

Annotated Snippet

struct list_head {
	struct list_head *next, *prev;
};

struct hlist_head {
	struct hlist_node *first;
};

struct hlist_node {
	struct hlist_node *next, **pprev;
};

#endif /* _TOOLS_LINUX_TYPES_H_ */

Annotation

• Immediate include surface: `stdbool.h`, `stddef.h`, `stdint.h`, `asm/types.h`, `asm/posix_types.h`.
• Detected declarations: `struct page`, `struct kmem_cache`, `struct list_head`, `struct hlist_head`, `struct hlist_node`.
• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
• Implementation status: source implementation candidate.
• Synchronization appears in or near this file; preserve lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt-context constraints.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.