Commit 1c20c65e authored Oct 05, 2023 by Paul E. McKenney Committed by Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Oct 07, 2023

doc: Update /proc/cmdline documentation to include boot config

Update the /proc/cmdline documentation to explicitly state that this
file provides kernel boot parameters obtained via boot config from the
kernel image as well as those supplied by the boot loader.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231005171747.541123-1-paulmck@kernel.org/



Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

parent 8a749fd1

Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -691,7 +691,8 @@ files are there, and which are missing.
		apm Advanced power management info
		buddyinfo Kernel memory allocator information (see text) (2.5)
		bus Directory containing bus specific information
		cmdline Kernel command line
		cmdline Kernel command line, both from bootloader and embedded
		in the kernel image
		cpuinfo Info about the CPU
		devices Available devices (block and character)
		dma Used DMS channels