Commit 09ad6438 authored by Peter Maydell's avatar Peter Maydell
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include/hw/boards.h: Document memory_region_allocate_system_memory()



Add a documentation comment for memory_region_allocate_system_memory().

In particular, the reason for this function's existence and the
requirement on board code to call it exactly once are non-obvious.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1499438577-7674-2-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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#include "qom/object.h"
#include "qom/cpu.h"

/**
 * memory_region_allocate_system_memory - Allocate a board's main memory
 * @mr: the #MemoryRegion to be initialized
 * @owner: the object that tracks the region's reference count
 * @name: name of the memory region
 * @ram_size: size of the region in bytes
 *
 * This function allocates the main memory for a board model, and
 * initializes @mr appropriately. It also arranges for the memory
 * to be migrated (by calling vmstate_register_ram_global()).
 *
 * Memory allocated via this function will be backed with the memory
 * backend the user provided using "-mem-path" or "-numa node,memdev=..."
 * if appropriate; this is typically used to cause host huge pages to be
 * used. This function should therefore be called by a board exactly once,
 * for the primary or largest RAM area it implements.
 *
 * For boards where the major RAM is split into two parts in the memory
 * map, you can deal with this by calling memory_region_allocate_system_memory()
 * once to get a MemoryRegion with enough RAM for both parts, and then
 * creating alias MemoryRegions via memory_region_init_alias() which
 * alias into different parts of the RAM MemoryRegion and can be mapped
 * into the memory map in the appropriate places.
 *
 * Smaller pieces of memory (display RAM, static RAMs, etc) don't need
 * to be backed via the -mem-path memory backend and can simply
 * be created via memory_region_init_ram().
 */
void memory_region_allocate_system_memory(MemoryRegion *mr, Object *owner,
                                          const char *name,
                                          uint64_t ram_size);