From patchwork Thu Jan 18 02:09:45 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Eduardo Habkost X-Patchwork-Id: 862698 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; spf=pass (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=nongnu.org (client-ip=2001:4830:134:3::11; helo=lists.gnu.org; envelope-from=qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org; receiver=) Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [IPv6:2001:4830:134:3::11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3zMSRC52XLz9t0m for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:22:47 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([::1]:52230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebzqn-0001iQ-PB for incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:22:45 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45923) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebzf4-0000XH-Tb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:10:39 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebzez-0004YT-RH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:10:38 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebzez-0004Xa-L0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:10:33 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5D2E2CE91D; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 02:10:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (ovpn-116-6.gru2.redhat.com [10.97.116.6]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10426855AB; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 02:10:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Eduardo Habkost To: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:09:45 -0200 Message-Id: <20180118021000.27203-5-ehabkost@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20180118021000.27203-1-ehabkost@redhat.com> References: <20180118021000.27203-1-ehabkost@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.13 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.29]); Thu, 18 Jan 2018 02:10:32 +0000 (UTC) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 04/19] qemu-options: document memory-backend-ram X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum , Stefan Hajnoczi Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" From: Stefan Hajnoczi The documentation should mention -object memory-backend-ram. Suggested-by: Yumei Huang Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-Id: <20171128161529.3025-3-stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost --- qemu-options.hx | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) 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