list_private_entry_is_head(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 list_private_entry_is_head(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes this is genuinely a page from it, and yes it's about the private list primitives, the cool mysterious ones. gather round 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

list_private_entry_is_head — the vibe check that tells you whether an entry is pointing at the head of the list 👑

like fr fr, that's it, that's the whole job. it looks at pos and goes "hmm, are you the head, or are you just some regular entry pretending?" 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

list_private_entry_is_head (pos , head , member );

yes the spacing is like that, don't come for me, that's literally how it's written 😭

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • pos — the type * to cursor. this is your lil pointer bestie, the one doing the pointing 👉 like it's the cursor that's cursor-ing.
  • head — the head for your list. the main character of the whole list situation, no cap 👑
  • member — the name of the list_head within the struct. iykyk — you gotta tell it which field inside your struct is the list node, because it can't read minds 🧠✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay this part is a whole friend group, honestly iconic, every single one of them:

like. nineteen whole references. the way this family shows up for each other 😭💖 go read them, they're all slay.

🫶 reminder bestie: everything above lives in ./include/linux and this page is dated October 2026, and the whole thing is brought to you by that very same list_private_entry_is_head(9) energy. stay hydrated, check your pointers, mwah 💋✨

that's the page!! go forth and check those heads 🧚‍♀️💜

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