hlist: Add hlist_is_singular_node() helper

Required to figure out whether the entry is the only one in the hlist.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704094341.867631372@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index 5356f4d661a7..5183138aa932 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -679,6 +679,16 @@ static inline bool hlist_fake(struct hlist_node *h)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Check whether the node is the only node of the head without
+ * accessing head:
+ */
+static inline bool
+hlist_is_singular_node(struct hlist_node *n, struct hlist_head *h)
+{
+	return !n->next && n->pprev == &h->first;
+}
+
+/*
  * Move a list from one list head to another. Fixup the pprev
  * reference of the first entry if it exists.
  */