How can I locate a struct's defination?

Daniel Baluta daniel.baluta at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 12:35:28 EDT 2015


On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Navy Cheng <navych at 126.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I use emacs and tags to read kernel source. The tags is create by
>
>     make tags
>
> in the kernel source tree. When I want to find a struct's defination,
> something goes wrong. For example: when I find *dentry* , the first
> result is:
>
>     struct rchan_buf
>     {
>        ...
>             struct dentry *dentry;          /* channel file dentry */
>        ...
>     }
>
> There are so many items like this before I find
>
>     struct dentry
>     {
>         ....
>     }

Usually the definition has the curly brace on the same line, like this:

struct dentry {.

Just search for "{", it work in vim.

Daniel.



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