On 10/27/24 8:59 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 05:53:56PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> +This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
>> +"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
>> +module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
>> +reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
>> +parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
>> +``echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}``.
>
> How can users get support for parameters not documented here? Post to LKML
> (and hoping that they also Cc: relevant maintainers and mailing list)?
That's probably the best option currently.
>> +KMG suffixes
>> +~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> +
>> +The [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
>> +parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
>> +multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equaling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
>> +bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
>> +
>
> Metric suffixes?
Hm, it looks like memparse() supports all of these suffixes: K, M, G, T, P, E.
So the heading could be Metric suffixes along with some changed text.
thanks.
[waiting for more comments]
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~Randy
