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35.Dd February 22, 2020
36.Dt MODSTAT 8
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm modstat
40.Nd display status of loaded kernel modules
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Op Fl Aaek
44.Op Fl n Ar name | name
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48utility displays the status of any kernel modules present in the kernel.
49.Pp
50The options are as follows:
51.Bl -tag -width indent
52.It Fl A
53Tells you whether or not modules can be autoloaded at the moment.
54This option
55.Em does
56take into consideration the sysctl
57.Li kern.module.autoload .
58.It Fl a
59Tells you whether or not modules can be autoloaded at the moment.
60This option
61.Em does not
62take into consideration the sysctl
63.Li kern.module.autoload .
64.It Fl e
65Tells you whether or not you may load a module at the moment.
66.It Fl k
67Display the kernel address of the module's text segment (disabled by default).
68.It Fl n Ar name
69Display the status of only the module with this name.
70Please note that
71.Fl n
72is optional.
73.El
74.Pp
75In addition to listing the currently loaded modules' name,
76the information reported by
77.Nm
78includes:
79.Bl -tag -width Loadaddr
80.It Li CLASS
81Module class, such as
82"vfs", "driver", "exec", "misc" or "secmodel".
83.It Li SOURCE
84Where the module was loaded from.
85.Qq Dv builtin
86indicates that the module was built into the running kernel.
87.Qq Dv boot
88indicates that the module was loaded during system bootstrap.
89.Qq Dv filesys
90indicates that the module was loaded from the file system.
91.It Li SIZE
92Size of the module's text section, in bytes.
93.It Li FLAG
94The module flags:
95.Bl -tag -width a -offset indent -compact
96.It Dv a
97Module is auto-loaded.
98.It Dv f
99Requires the
100.Xr modload 8
101flag
102.Fl f
103(force) to be loaded.
104.El
105.It Li REFS
106Number of references held on the module.
107Disabled builtin modules will show a count of \-1 here.
108.It Li ADDRESS
109The kernel address at which the module's text segment is loaded.
110Builtin modules will show 0 here.
111This field is only displayed if the
112.Fl k
113option is specified.
114.It Li REQUIRES
115Additional modules that must be present.
116.El
117.Sh EXIT STATUS
118The
119.Nm
120utility exits with a status of 0 on success
121and with a nonzero status if an error occurs.
122.Sh SEE ALSO
123.Xr module 7 ,
124.Xr sysctl 7 ,
125.Xr modload 8 ,
126.Xr modunload 8
127.Sh HISTORY
128A
129.Nm
130utility appeared in
131.Nx 0.9 .
132The
133.Nm
134command was designed to be similar in functionality
135to the corresponding command in
136.Tn "SunOS 4.1.3" .
137.Nm
138was switched to the module framework for
139.Nx 5.0 .
140.Sh AUTHORS
141.An -nosplit
142The original
143.Nx
144implementation was written by
145.An Terrence R. Lambert Aq Mt terry@cs.weber.edu .
146The switch to the module framework was by
147.An Andrew Doran Aq Mt ad@NetBSD.org .
148