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machine: add missing doc for memory-backend option

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Add documentation for '-machine memory-backend' CLI option and
how to use it.

And document that x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id,
is considered to be stable to make sure it won't go away by accident.

x- was intended for unstable/iternal properties, and not supposed to
be stable option. However it's too late to rename (drop x-)
it as it would mean that users will have to mantain both
x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id (for QEMU 5.0-5.2) versions
and prefix-less for later versions.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210121161504.1007247-1-imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Igor Mammedov 2021-01-21 11:15:04 -05:00 • committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent 5ea9e9e239
commit 8db0b20415
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backends/hostmem.c
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@ -494,6 +494,16 @@ host_memory_backend_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
host_memory_backend_get_share, host_memory_backend_set_share);
object_class_property_set_description(oc, "share",
"Mark the memory as private to QEMU or shared");
/*
* Do not delete/rename option. This option must be considered stable
* (as if it didn't have the 'x-' prefix including deprecation period) as
* long as 4.0 and older machine types exists.
* Option will be used by upper layers to override (disable) canonical path
* for ramblock-id set by compat properties on old machine types ( <= 4.0),
* to keep migration working when backend is used for main RAM with
* -machine memory-backend= option (main RAM historically used prefix-less
* ramblock-id).
*/
object_class_property_add_bool(oc, "x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id",
host_memory_backend_get_use_canonical_path,
host_memory_backend_set_use_canonical_path);