ldm_free_vblks(9)
πΈ NAME πΈ
okay so welcome to the ldm_free_vblks(9) page, part of the Kernel API Manual bestie!! This one is literally named ldm_free_vblks β and it does exactly what it says on the label: it frees a linked list of vblk's π
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β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
void ldm_free_vblks (struct list_head *lh );
π ARGUMENTS π
lhβ the head of a linked list ofstruct vblk. yes bestie, the head of the list π
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
This function frees a list of vblk's and frees the memory used to maintain the list. That's the whole vibe: list gone, maintenance memory gone, no leftover little mess πΈπ§Ή
π RETURN π
none β literally nothing comes back. It's giving void, it's giving no return value, periodt πβ¨
π SEE ALSO π
This whole LDM friend group is here, plus the kernel file they live in π:
- Kernel file
./block/partitions/ldm.c ldm_parse_privhead(9)ldm_parse_tocblock(9)ldm_parse_vmdb(9)ldm_compare_privheads(9)ldm_compare_tocblocks(9)ldm_validate_privheads(9)ldm_validate_tocblocks(9)ldm_validate_vmdb(9)ldm_validate_partition_table(9)ldm_get_disk_objid(9)ldm_create_data_partitions(9)ldm_relative(9)ldm_get_vnum(9)ldm_get_vstr(9)ldm_parse_cmp3(9)ldm_parse_dgr3(9)ldm_parse_dgr4(9)ldm_parse_dsk3(9)ldm_parse_dsk4(9)ldm_parse_prt3(9)ldm_parse_vol5(9)ldm_parse_vblk(9)ldm_ldmdb_add(9)ldm_frag_add(9)ldm_frag_free(9)ldm_frag_commit(9)ldm_get_vblks(9)ldm_partition(9)
with love from the source/version corner ./block/partitions, dated October 2026, on the ldm_free_vblks(9) page β mwah πβ¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- nixpkgs unstable: linux-manual 7.3.1
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms