On a Linux server running a custom kernel, the storage team added the boot-time option "elevator=deadline" to the GRUB menu entry. After the system finishes booting you want to verify, from user space, that the running kernel actually received this parameter. Which single pseudo-file inside the /proc directory will display the exact command line that the bootloader passed to the currently running kernel?
The pseudo-file /proc/cmdline contains the literal text of the kernel command line that the bootloader supplied. Reading it with cat shows whether options such as "elevator=deadline" (or any other boot parameter) were accepted.
/proc/version shows only the kernel version and build information, not the boot arguments.
/proc/config.gz (when present) holds the configuration used when the kernel was compiled and does not record the parameters applied at boot time.
/proc/modules lists modules that are currently loaded and also has no information about the boot command line.
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