list_count_nodes(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 list_count_nodes(9) 💖

okay so this is list_count_nodes, and it lives in the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — the kernel-internals girlies know exactly what section 9 means 🧚✨

✨ NAME ✨

list_count_nodes — count nodes in the list 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

size_t list_count_nodes (struct list_head *head );

that's it. that's the whole signature. no cap, she's lowkey tiny 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • head — the head for your list. that's literally the whole description bestie, she's not gonna elaborate 💀 it's the head of the list you want counted, periodt.
ngl the page is short and that's iconic of it — the synopsis hands you back a size_t, and there's no RETURN VALUE section on this page to spell it out, so don't @ me with extra lore I can't back up 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the full lineup, fr fr — and yes you're getting every single one because we don't gatekeep 💜

the LIST_HEAD / init girlies 👑

adding & removing, the classics 🩷

vibe checks & careful deletions ⭐

splicing, she's connecting people 🫶

getting the actual data out of the node 🌈

loops, loops, and more loops 🌀 (main character energy)

and the hlist cousins showed up too, obsessed 💀

kernel file to go read, iykyk 📂

  • ./include/linux/list.h

and that's the whole page bestie, short and sweet, she ate and left no crumbs 🍓✨

source path: ./include/linux · date: October 2026 · page: list_count_nodes(9) — mwah, love u, go count some nodes 💅🎀💖

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