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qemu-options: document missing memory-backend-file options 

This patch adds undocumented memory-backend-file options to the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20171128161529.3025-2-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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Stefan Hajnoczi 2017-11-28 16:15:28 +00:00 committed by Eduardo Habkost
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@ -3972,18 +3972,24 @@ property must be set. These objects are placed in the
@table @option
@item -object memory-backend-file,id=@var{id},size=@var{size},mem-path=@var{dir},share=@var{on|off},discard-data=@var{on|off}
@item -object memory-backend-file,id=@var{id},size=@var{size},mem-path=@var{dir},share=@var{on|off},discard-data=@var{on|off},merge=@var{on|off},dump=@var{on|off},prealloc=@var{on|off},host-nodes=@var{host-nodes},policy=@var{default|preferred|bind|interleave}
Creates a memory file backend object, which can be used to back
the guest RAM with huge pages. The @option{id} parameter is a
unique ID that will be used to reference this memory region
when configuring the @option{-numa} argument. The @option{size}
option provides the size of the memory region, and accepts
common suffixes, eg @option{500M}. The @option{mem-path} provides
the path to either a shared memory or huge page filesystem mount.
the guest RAM with huge pages.
The @option{id} parameter is a unique ID that will be used to reference this
memory region when configuring the @option{-numa} argument.
The @option{size} option provides the size of the memory region, and accepts
common suffixes, eg @option{500M}.
The @option{mem-path} provides the path to either a shared memory or huge page
filesystem mount.
The @option{share} boolean option determines whether the memory
region is marked as private to QEMU, or shared. The latter allows
a co-operating external process to access the QEMU memory region.
Setting the @option{discard-data} boolean option to @var{on}
indicates that file contents can be destroyed when QEMU exits,
to avoid unnecessarily flushing data to the backing file. Note
@ -3991,6 +3997,34 @@ that @option{discard-data} is only an optimization, and QEMU
might not discard file contents if it aborts unexpectedly or is
terminated using SIGKILL.
The @option{merge} boolean option enables memory merge, also known as
MADV_MERGEABLE, so that Kernel Samepage Merging will consider the pages for
memory deduplication.
Setting the @option{dump} boolean option to @var{off} excludes the memory from
core dumps. This feature is also known as MADV_DONTDUMP.
The @option{prealloc} boolean option enables memory preallocation.
The @option{host-nodes} option binds the memory range to a list of NUMA host
nodes.
The @option{policy} option sets the NUMA policy to one of the following values:
@table @option
@item @var{default}
default host policy
@item @var{preferred}
prefer the given host node list for allocation
@item @var{bind}
restrict memory allocation to the given host node list
@item @var{interleave}
interleave memory allocations across the given host node list
@end table
@item -object rng-random,id=@var{id},filename=@var{/dev/random}
Creates a random number generator backend which obtains entropy from