From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
kernel-team@android.com, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] docs/system/arm/virt: Fix documentation for the 'highmem' option
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 15:44:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210822144441.1290891-4-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210822144441.1290891-1-maz@kernel.org>
The documentation for the 'highmem' option indicates that it controls
the placement of both devices and RAM. The actual behaviour of QEMU
seems to be that RAM is allowed to go beyond the 4GiB limit, and
that only devices are constraint by this option.
Align the documentation with the actual behaviour.
Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
---
docs/system/arm/virt.rst | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
index 59acf0eeaf..e206e7565d 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
@@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ mte
Arm Memory Tagging Extensions. The default is ``off``.
highmem
- Set ``on``/``off`` to enable/disable placing devices and RAM in physical
- address space above 32 bits. The default is ``on`` for machine types
- later than ``virt-2.12``.
+ Set ``on``/``off`` to enable/disable placing devices in physical address
+ space above 32 bits. RAM in excess of 3GiB will always be placed above
+ 32 bits. The default is ``on`` for machine types later than ``virt-2.12``.
gic-version
Specify the version of the Generic Interrupt Controller (GIC) to provide.
--
2.30.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-22 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-22 14:44 [PATCH 0/3] target/arm: Reduced-IPA space and highmem=off fixes Marc Zyngier
2021-08-22 14:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] hw/arm/virt: KVM: Probe for KVM_CAP_ARM_VM_IPA_SIZE when creating scratch VM Marc Zyngier
2021-08-23 9:07 ` Andrew Jones
2021-09-08 7:16 ` Eric Auger
2021-08-22 14:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] hw/arm/virt: Honor highmem setting when computing highest_gpa Marc Zyngier
2021-09-07 12:58 ` Peter Maydell
2021-09-08 7:16 ` Eric Auger
2021-08-22 14:44 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2021-09-07 12:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] docs/system/arm/virt: Fix documentation for the 'highmem' option Peter Maydell
2021-09-07 17:09 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-09-07 18:25 ` Peter Maydell
2021-09-08 9:16 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-09-08 8:53 ` Eric Auger
2021-08-22 14:48 ` [PATCH 0/3] target/arm: Reduced-IPA space and highmem=off fixes Marc Zyngier
2021-09-07 12:52 ` Peter Maydell
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