Kldstat

Welcome to Kldstat.

Kernel Competence
Sysctl	Kldstat	Third-party Kernel Modules
Kernel Modules	FreeBSD Ports: Kld	Kenv
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Introduction

The kldstat utility displays the status of any files dynamically linked into the kernel.

The following options are available:

Option	Description
-h	Display the size field in a human-readable form, using unit suffixes instead of hex values.
-v	Be more verbose.
-d	Show the module specific data (as int, unsigned int and unsigned long)
-i	id; Display the status of only the file with this ID.
-n	filename; Display the status of only the file with this filename.
-q	Only check if module is loaded or compiled into the kernel.
-m	modname; Display the status of only the module with this modname.

Example

With the command:
/u/h/yourusername>kldstat
without any option will give you something like this:

Id	Refs	Address	Size	Name
1	64	0xffffffff80200000	2bf6b58	kernel
2	1	0xffffffff82df7000	ed08	aesni.ko
3	1	0xffffffff82e06000	3acdd0	zfs.ko
4	2	0xffffffff831b3000	a430	opensolaris.ko
5	3	0xffffffff831be000	88520	vboxdrv.ko
6	1	0xffffffff83247000	26160	fuse.ko
7	1	0xffffffff8326e000	1e8c8	geom_eli.ko
8	1	0xffffffff83521000	8830	tmpfs.ko
9	1	0xffffffff8352a000	3614	geom_uzip.ko
10	1	0xffffffff8352e000	2e80	xz.ko
11	1	0xffffffff83531000	1a80	fdescfs.ko
12	1	0xffffffff83533000	2968	ums.ko
13	2	0xffffffff83536000	3d620	linux.ko
14	4	0xffffffff83574000	3148	linux_common.ko
15	1	0xffffffff83578000	35490	linux64.ko
16	1	0xffffffff835ae000	5814	cuse.ko
17	1	0xffffffff835b4000	962300	nvidia.ko
18	1	0xffffffff83f17000	4950	linprocfs.ko
19	2	0xffffffff83f1c000	2ce0	vboxnetflt.ko
20	2	0xffffffff83f1f000	9be0	netgraph.ko
21	1	0xffffffff83f29000	16e0	ng_ether.ko
22	1	0xffffffff83f2b000	3f30	vboxnetadp.ko
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These kernel modules are already loaded into the kernel.
The opensolaris kernel module is needed by ZFS. vboxdrv.ko, vboxnetflt.ko and vboxnetadp.ko are added because of the use of VirtualBox.