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>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index 969f6e92d08..5d9c6558e8a 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -206,6 +206,20 @@ static inline int list_empty_careful(const struct list_head *head)
 }
 
 /**
+ * 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.
  */