hlist_move_list(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ hlist_move_list(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (hlist_move_list(9)), and honestly? it's a little one but it does exactly what it says on the tin 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

hlist_move_list — Move an hlist 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void hlist_move_list (struct hlist_head *old , struct hlist_head *new );

🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

  • old — the hlist_head for the old list. this is the one you're moving from, bestie, it's the source 💖
  • new — the hlist_head for the new list. the destination, the glow-up location, the place it's going ✨

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so the whole vibe here is: move a list from one list head to another 🔥 that's it, that's the function.

and then — and this is the iconic part — it fixes up the pprev reference of the first entry, if it exists 🫶 so like, if the list actually has a first entry, that entry's back-pointer gets corrected to point at the new head. no cap, that's the whole job.

not me being obsessed with a two-sentence description 😭 but like, correctness is sexy, periodt.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./include/linux/list.h

the list_* fam (and friends) 👑

the hlist_* girlies (our actual neighbors) 💅

that's the whole page, bestie, go read the source if you want the deep lore 🧚💖

ngl this one's short and sweet — no warnings, no bugs section, no exit statuses. just vibes and a pointer fixup 🎀

mwah 💋 this page lives in ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it's hlist_move_list(9) signing off — stay slay, keep your pprev valid, and i'll see you in the next manpage 🌟

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