From nobody Mon Oct 27 18:01:19 2025 Delivered-To: importer@patchew.org Received-SPF: pass (zoho.com: domain of gnu.org designates 208.118.235.17 as permitted sender) client-ip=208.118.235.17; envelope-from=qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org; helo=lists.gnu.org; Authentication-Results: mx.zohomail.com; spf=pass (zoho.com: domain of gnu.org designates 208.118.235.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org Return-Path: Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [208.118.235.17]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1516242237808768.0725824425023; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:23:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([::1]:52368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebzrw-0002tk-W9 for importer@patchew.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:23:57 -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+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" X-ZohoMail: RSF_0 Z_629925259 SPT_0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 li= st interleave memory allocations across the given host node list @end table =20 +@item -object memory-backend-ram,id=3D@var{id},merge=3D@var{on|off},dump= =3D@var{on|off},prealloc=3D@var{on|off},size=3D@var{size},host-nodes=3D@var= {host-nodes},policy=3D@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=3D@var{id},filename=3D@var{/dev/random} =20 Creates a random number generator backend which obtains entropy from --=20 2.14.3