sys_module(5)

sys_module5

Loaded modules

Usage

/sys/module/

Overview

This subdirectory contains one subdirectory for each module that is loaded into the kernel. The name of each directory is the name of the module. In each of the subdirectories, there may be following files:

coresize

[to be documented]

initsize

[to be documented]

initstate

[to be documented]

refcnt

[to be documented]

srcversion

[to be documented]

taint

[to be documented]

uevent

[to be documented]

version

[to be documented]

In each of the subdirectories, there may be following subdirectories:

drivers

[To be documented]

holders

[To be documented]

notes

[To be documented]

parameters

This directory contains one file for each module parameter, with each file containing the value of the corresponding parameter. Some of these files are writable, allowing the parameters to be changed.

sections

This subdirectories contains files with information about module sections. This information is mainly used for debugging.

[To be documented]

Standards

Linux.

History

Linux 2.6.0.

From man-pages 6.20-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-07. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.