From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A84C43461 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 02:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43AB21D1B for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 02:49:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="JYLx7GgO" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726348AbgIPCtT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2020 22:49:19 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36714 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726210AbgIPCtK (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2020 22:49:10 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E389CC06174A; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:49:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID: Content-Description:In-Reply-To:References; bh=Sv9Vl7JNADXrPEema1u8+9rY9RXo33Dj3P6UNr+t14k=; b=JYLx7GgOoYj35BYgnwiL04axCZ ufStCfdCdTSVXS8b5XyxXRZp/ZgBAVMPTygs4pihcjkj+5df9JRbrtguEl9UjyAaloWBR1WKSbYqs j0WL8N8o5N6C34XNnjvovYioDTrDMrMWhkxkV1Nzodtjx0s+Dvp4EuoDwDnpdac/IpB4jfST/dL4w vupiAu0A4m1HvicBswuoJaJBvnDVWMehiAZWLfHQSOwOSKQQFjQwscZfflILWGla1ff+IWgSXzwxv PiPphboOr0VZlOD64dnxpHYUaqCJrDULVflyPWrITMa4W1UwpFj9Utn+7jbqEmG6AX7mLF/cLn37g KMvVfDkg==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::19c2] by casper.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1kINVJ-0003n4-Sj; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 02:49:06 +0000 To: LKML , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , Jessica Yu From: Randy Dunlap Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: kernel-parameters: clarify "module." parameters Message-ID: <67d40b6d-c073-a3bf-cbb6-6cad941cceeb@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:49:02 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Randy Dunlap The command-line parameters "dyndbg" and "async_probe" are not parameters for kernel/module.c but instead they are for the module that is being loaded. Try to make that distinction in the help text. OTOH, "module.sig_enforce" is handled as a parameter of kernel/module.c so "module." is correct for it. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- lnx-59-rc5.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ lnx-59-rc5/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ what data is available or for reverse-engineering. dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] - module.dyndbg[="val"] + .dyndbg[="val"] Enable debug messages at boot time. See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for details. @@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found in some Intel CPUs. - module.async_probe [KNL] + .async_probe [KNL] Enable asynchronous probe on this module. early_ioremap_debug [KNL]