From: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qemu-options.hx: Fix formatting of -machine memory-backend option
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:07:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210719150705.26db8ed4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210719105257.3599-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:52:57 +0100
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> The documentation of the -machine memory-backend has some minor
> formatting errors:
> * Misindentation of the initial line meant that the whole option
> section is incorrectly indented in the HTML output compared to
> the other -machine options
> * The examples weren't indented, which meant that they were formatted
> as plain run-on text including outputting the "::" as text.
> * The a) b) list has no rst-format markup so it is rendered as
> a single run-on paragraph
>
> Fix the formatting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> ---
> qemu-options.hx | 30 +++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
> index 0c9ddc02746..d783626d5b6 100644
> --- a/qemu-options.hx
> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
> @@ -98,28 +98,32 @@ SRST
> Enables or disables ACPI Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table
> (HMAT) support. The default is off.
>
> - ``memory-backend='id'``
> + ``memory-backend='id'``
> An alternative to legacy ``-mem-path`` and ``mem-prealloc`` options.
> Allows to use a memory backend as main RAM.
>
> For example:
> ::
> - -object memory-backend-file,id=pc.ram,size=512M,mem-path=/hugetlbfs,prealloc=on,share=on
> - -machine memory-backend=pc.ram
> - -m 512M
> +
> + -object memory-backend-file,id=pc.ram,size=512M,mem-path=/hugetlbfs,prealloc=on,share=on
> + -machine memory-backend=pc.ram
> + -m 512M
>
> Migration compatibility note:
> - a) as backend id one shall use value of 'default-ram-id', advertised by
> - machine type (available via ``query-machines`` QMP command), if migration
> - to/from old QEMU (<5.0) is expected.
> - b) for machine types 4.0 and older, user shall
> - use ``x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id=off`` backend option
> - if migration to/from old QEMU (<5.0) is expected.
> +
> + * as backend id one shall use value of 'default-ram-id', advertised by
> + machine type (available via ``query-machines`` QMP command), if migration
> + to/from old QEMU (<5.0) is expected.
> + * for machine types 4.0 and older, user shall
> + use ``x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id=off`` backend option
> + if migration to/from old QEMU (<5.0) is expected.
> +
> For example:
> ::
> - -object memory-backend-ram,id=pc.ram,size=512M,x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id=off
> - -machine memory-backend=pc.ram
> - -m 512M
> +
> + -object memory-backend-ram,id=pc.ram,size=512M,x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id=off
> + -machine memory-backend=pc.ram
> + -m 512M
> ERST
>
> HXCOMM Deprecated by -machine
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-19 13:08 UTC|newest]
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2021-07-19 10:52 [PATCH] qemu-options.hx: Fix formatting of -machine memory-backend option Peter Maydell
2021-07-19 13:07 ` Igor Mammedov [this message]
2021-07-26 10:10 ` Peter Maydell
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