container_of(9)

container_of9

Cast a member of a structure out to the containing structure

Usage

container_of(ptr, type, member);

Arguments

ptr

the pointer to the member.

type

the type of the container struct this is embedded in.

member

the name of the member within the struct.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8

From linux-manual-3.16 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.