On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 09:27:50PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
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> 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.
OK.
>
> >> +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.
>
Agreed.
Thanks.
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