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list: Introduce list_rotate_left() 

Bring a new list_rotate_left() helper that rotates a list to
the left. This is useful for codes that need to round roubin
elements which queue priority increases from tail to head.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
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Frederic Weisbecker 2010-01-09 20:53:14 +01:00
parent 889ff01506
commit 5908cdc85e
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@ -205,6 +205,20 @@ static inline int list_empty_careful(const struct list_head *head)
return (next == head) && (next == head->prev);
}
/**
* list_rotate_left - rotate the list to the left
* @head: the head of the list
*/
static inline void list_rotate_left(struct list_head *head)
{
struct list_head *first;
if (!list_empty(head)) {
first = head->next;
list_move_tail(first, head);
}
}
/**
* list_is_singular - tests whether a list has just one entry.
* @head: the list to test.