Linux 内核中宏 offsetof 与 container_of 的含义

在linux源码中经常会使用用成员指针得到当前结构体变量的指针，就是使用container_of，在定位源代码会看到如下：

#define offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER) ((size_t) &((TYPE *)0)->MEMBER)
/**
 * container_of - cast a member of a structure out to the containing structure
 * @ptr:    the pointer to the member.
 * @type:   the type of the container struct this is embedded in.
 * @member: the name of the member within the struct.
 *
 */
#define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({          \
    const typeof(((type *)0)->member)*__mptr = (ptr);    \
             (type *)((char *)__mptr - offsetof(type, member)); })

这里面offsetof就是定位成员变量的偏移&#