Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH] UBC: user resource beancounters

Kyle Moffett
2006-08-24T23:55:04Z

On Aug 24, 2006, at 19:48:28, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 12:10 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> All you need is
>>
>> struct wombat_controller
>> {
>> struct user_beancounter counter;
>> void (*wombat_pest_control)(struct wombat *w);
>> atomic_t wombat_population;
>> int (*wombat_destructor)(struct wombat *w);
>> };
>
> This may not solve the problem, as
> - we won't be able get the controller data structure given the
> beancounter data structure.

Of course you can! This is what we do for linked lists too. Here's
an example of how to get a pointer to your wombat_controller given
the user_beancounter pointer:
struct wombat_controller *wombat = containerof
(ptr_to_user_beancounter, struct wombat_controller, counter);

The containerof(PTR, TYPE, MEMBER) returns a pointer to the parent
object of type "TYPE" whose member "MEMBER" has address "PTR".

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett