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From: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
To: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Cc: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org,  Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 1/6] eal: define container macro
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:06:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALe+Z00BZKT660kFvLQC9YxvbpgTki2CpWL9rCKdVW85Qmce+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479360605-20558-2-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> wrote:
> From: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h
> index db5ac91..8152bd9 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h
> @@ -331,6 +331,24 @@ rte_bsf32(uint32_t v)
>  #define offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER)  __builtin_offsetof (TYPE, MEMBER)
>  #endif
>
> +/**
> + * Return pointer to the wrapping struct instance.
> + * Example:
> + *
> + *  struct wrapper {
> + *      ...
> + *      struct child c;
> + *      ...
> + *  };
> + *
> + *  struct child *x = obtain(...);
> + *  struct wrapper *w = container_of(x, struct wrapper, c);
> + */
> +#ifndef container_of
> +#define container_of(p, type, member) \
> +       ((type *) (((char *) (p)) - offsetof(type, member)))

Are there any reasons why you choose to implement this in a non-type
safe way? Catching obvious bugs at compile time is in the interest of
us and our users from my point of view.


> +#endif
> +
>  #define _RTE_STR(x) #x
>  /** Take a macro value and get a string version of it */
>  #define RTE_STR(x) _RTE_STR(x)
> --
> 2.7.4
>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-17 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-17  5:29 [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/6] Restructure EAL device model for bus support Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-17  5:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 1/6] eal: define container macro Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-17 12:06   ` Jan Blunck [this message]
2016-11-17 13:01     ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-17  5:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 2/6] eal: introduce bus-device-driver structure Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-17 11:19   ` Jan Blunck
2016-11-17 13:00     ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-17 16:13       ` Jan Blunck
2016-11-17  5:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 3/6] bus: add bus driver layer Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-17  5:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 4/6] eal/common: handle bus abstraction for device/driver objects Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-17  5:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 5/6] eal: supporting bus model in init process Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-17  5:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 6/6] eal: removing eth_driver Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-17 12:53   ` Jan Blunck
2016-11-18 13:05     ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-17 11:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/6] Restructure EAL device model for bus support Jan Blunck
2016-11-17 13:08   ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-17 16:54     ` Jan Blunck
2016-11-20 15:30 ` David Marchand
2016-11-21  9:08   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-21 10:47     ` Jan Blunck
2016-11-23  9:45   ` Shreyansh Jain

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