parse_mpp_data(9)

💅 parse_mpp_data — kernel API manual, section 9

okay so bestie, welcome to parse_mpp_data(9), a page from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, the kernel-flavoured corner of the man page universe 🧚). Real talk: this page is a little on the mysterious side — the NAME line is literally just the function name with nothing after it, no cap. So let's go through what we do have, exactly as written, no invented lore ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

parse_mpp_data — and that's it. That's the whole description. The NAME section gives us the function name and then just... stops. Iconic lowkey minimal behaviour 💀

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void parse_mpp_data (struct seq_file *m );

That's the whole signature, exactly, spaces and all. Returns void, so no return value to obsess over 🫶

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• m — -- undescribed --

fr fr, that's the entire entry. The page does not tell us what m is for. It's a struct seq_file * per the synopsis, but the argument docs themselves are just the placeholder -- undescribed --. Don't come for me, I'm only the messenger 😭

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Here's the tea: parse_mpp_data parses out data returned from h_get_mpp. That's the entire description as given. Not me making it up — that's the one line the page gives us, and honestly it's carrying the whole section 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
• parse_mpp_x_data(9)
• update_mpp(9)

go read those if you want the fuller picture, bestie 🌈

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source/version: ./arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries · date: October 2026 — and that's the vibe check on parse_mpp_data(9), mwah 💅🎀💖