Support linked lists that can hold many different structs at once. This
is generally done using trait objects. The main challenge is figuring
what the struct is given only a pointer to the ListLinks.
We do this by storing a pointer to the struct next to the ListLinks
field. The container_of operation will then just read that pointer. When
the type is a trait object, that pointer will be a fat pointer whose
metadata is a vtable that tells you what kind of struct it is.
Heterogeneous lists are heavily used by Rust Binder. There are a lot of
so-called todo lists containing various events that need to be delivered
to userspace next time userspace calls into the driver. And there are
quite a few different todo item types: incoming transaction, changes to
refcounts, death notifications, and more.
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814-linked-list-v5-9-f5f5e8075da0@google.com
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Adds a macro for safely implementing the ListItem trait. As part of the
implementation of the macro, we also provide a HasListLinks trait
similar to the workqueue's HasWorkItem trait.
The HasListLinks trait is only necessary if you are implementing
ListItem using the impl_list_item macro.
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814-linked-list-v5-5-f5f5e8075da0@google.com
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
