Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

[mirror_qemu.git] / qemu-options.hx

diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 004370ccecb156f6070892a194b136329f0b94e2..e9d623143861a8ce34efb16053af8f99fd9da01d 100644 (file)
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ DEF("machine", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_machine, \
     "                selects emulated machine ('-machine help' for list)\n"
     "                property accel=accel1[:accel2[:...]] selects accelerator\n"
     "                supported accelerators are kvm, xen, hax, hvf, whpx or tcg (default: tcg)\n"
-    "                kernel_irqchip=on|off|split controls accelerated irqchip support (default=off)\n"
     "                vmport=on|off|auto controls emulation of vmport (default: auto)\n"
     "                dump-guest-core=on|off include guest memory in a core dump (default=on)\n"
     "                mem-merge=on|off controls memory merge support (default: on)\n"
@@ -67,8 +66,6 @@ This is used to enable an accelerator. Depending on the target architecture,
 kvm, xen, hax, hvf, whpx or tcg can be available. By default, tcg is used. If there is
 more than one accelerator specified, the next one is used if the previous one
 fails to initialize.
-@item kernel_irqchip=on|off
-Controls in-kernel irqchip support for the chosen accelerator when available.
 @item vmport=on|off|auto
 Enables emulation of VMWare IO port, for vmmouse etc. auto says to select the
 value based on accel. For accel=xen the default is off otherwise the default
@@ -115,6 +112,7 @@ DEF("accel", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_accel,
     "-accel [accel=]accelerator[,prop[=value][,...]]\n"
     "                select accelerator (kvm, xen, hax, hvf, whpx or tcg; use 'help' for a list)\n"
     "                igd-passthru=on|off (enable Xen integrated Intel graphics passthrough, default=off)\n"
+    "                kernel-irqchip=on|off|split controls accelerated irqchip support (default=on)\n"
     "                kvm-shadow-mem=size of KVM shadow MMU in bytes\n"
     "                tb-size=n (TCG translation block cache size)\n"
     "                thread=single|multi (enable multi-threaded TCG)\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
@@ -129,6 +127,11 @@ fails to initialize.
 @item igd-passthru=on|off
 When Xen is in use, this option controls whether Intel integrated graphics
 devices can be passed through to the guest (default=off)
+@item kernel-irqchip=on|off|split
+Controls KVM in-kernel irqchip support.  The default is full acceleration of the
+interrupt controllers.  On x86, split irqchip reduces the kernel attack
+surface, at a performance cost for non-MSI interrupts.  Disabling the in-kernel
+irqchip completely is not recommended except for debugging purposes.
 @item kvm-shadow-mem=size
 Defines the size of the KVM shadow MMU.
 @item tb-size=@var{n}
@@ -331,8 +334,8 @@ format(true color). The resolution should be supported by the SVGA mode, so
 the recommended is 320x240, 640x480, 800x640.
 
 A timeout could be passed to bios, guest will pause for @var{rb_timeout} ms
-when boot failed, then reboot. If @option{reboot-timeout} is not set,
-guest will not reboot by default. Currently Seabios for X86
+when boot failed, then reboot. If @var{rb_timeout} is '-1', guest will not
+reboot, qemu passes '-1' to bios by default. Currently Seabios for X86
 system support it.
 
 Do strict boot via @option{strict=on} as far as firmware/BIOS
@@ -4172,13 +4175,17 @@ DEF("no-kvm", 0, QEMU_OPTION_no_kvm, "", QEMU_ARCH_I386)
 
 DEF("msg", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_msg,
     "-msg timestamp[=on|off]\n"
-    "                change the format of messages\n"
-    "                on|off controls leading timestamps (default:on)\n",
+    "                control error message format\n"
+    "                timestamp=on enables timestamps (default: off)\n",
     QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
 STEXI
 @item -msg timestamp[=on|off]
 @findex -msg
-prepend a timestamp to each log message.(default:on)
+Control error message format.
+@table @option
+@item timestamp=on|off
+Prefix messages with a timestamp.  Default is off.
+@end table
 ETEXI
 
 DEF("dump-vmstate", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_dump_vmstate,