ldm_parse_tocblock(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💫 ldm_parse_tocblock(9) 💫

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — this one's a single little function from the kernel's LDM (that's Logical Disk Manager, iykyk) partition code, and it's honestly so straightforward it's giving main character energy. Let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ldm_parse_tocblock — Read the LDM Database TOCBLOCK structure 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bool ldm_parse_tocblock (const u8 *data , struct tocblock *toc );

like, that's the whole vibe. one call, two args, one bool back 💅

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • data — the raw database TOCBLOCK structure, freshly loaded off the device. literally the bytes straight from the disk, no cap 🍓
  • toc — the in-memory toc structure where the parsed info gets handed back to you. it's your lil output basket 🧺✨

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So what does it do? It parses the LDM Database TOCBLOCK (that's table of contents, bestie — yes, the boring-sounding one, but it's important 💀) structure that you handed in via data, and it sets up the in-memory tocblock structure toc with all the info it pulled out. simple as that, and it ate 💅

N.B. ⚠️ the *_start and *_size values that come back to you in toc are not range-checked. like, at all. so pls don't just trust them blindly, okay? that's on you, not on this function 🙈 no cap, this is a real caveat, do not sleep on it.

💀 RETURN 💀

(nothing listed here in the original — the return type up in the synopsis is bool, and that's all the docs give us bestie, don't @ me 😭)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./block/partitions/ldm.c — plus the whole friend group of LDM helpers, all here for you 🫶✨

like, that's the entire squad 👑 go read them too, they're all part of the same LDM story fr fr.

and that's the page!! sign-off time: this lil beauty lives in ./block/partitions, dated October 2026 — iconic, timeless, obsessed 💜🧚✨

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