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[PULL,04/19] qemu-options: document memory-backend-ram

Message ID 20180118021000.27203-5-ehabkost@redhat.com
State New
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Series machine queue, 2018-01-18 | expand

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Eduardo Habkost Jan. 18, 2018, 2:09 a.m. UTC 
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

The documentation should mention -object memory-backend-ram.

Suggested-by: Yumei Huang <yuhuang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20171128161529.3025-3-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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 qemu-options.hx | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index fe8c04f644..5b0ee43b18 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -4025,6 +4025,13 @@  restrict memory allocation to the given host node list
 interleave memory allocations across the given host node list
 @end table
 
+@item -object memory-backend-ram,id=@var{id},merge=@var{on|off},dump=@var{on|off},prealloc=@var{on|off},size=@var{size},host-nodes=@var{host-nodes},policy=@var{default|preferred|bind|interleave}
+
+Creates a memory backend object, which can be used to back the guest RAM.
+Memory backend objects offer more control than the @option{-m} option that is
+traditionally used to define guest RAM. Please refer to
+@option{memory-backend-file} for a description of the options.
+
 @item -object rng-random,id=@var{id},filename=@var{/dev/random}
 
 Creates a random number generator backend which obtains entropy from