ivshmem: Rename property memdev to x-memdev for 2.5
The device's guest interface and its QEMU user interface are flawed^Whotly debated. We'll resolve that in the next development cycle, probably by deprecating the device in favour of a cleaned up, but not quite compatible revision. To avoid adding more baggage to the soon-to-be-deprecated interface, mark property "memdev" as experimental, by renaming it to "x-memdev". It's the only recent user interface change. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1448384789-14830-6-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> [Update of qemu-doc.texi squashed in] Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
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@@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ a memory backend that has hugepage support:
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@example
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qemu-system-i386 -object memory-backend-file,size=1G,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages/my-shmem-file,id=mb1
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-device ivshmem,memdev=mb1
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-device ivshmem,x-memdev=mb1
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@end example
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ivshmem-server also supports hugepages mount points with the
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