Commit ad492938 authored Mar 15, 2016 by Markus Armbruster

qemu-doc: Fix ivshmem huge page example



Option parameter "share" is missing.  Without it, you get a *private*
mmap(), which defeats ivshmem's purpose pretty thoroughly ;)

While there, switch to the conventional mountpoint of hugetlbfs
/dev/hugepages.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1458066895-20632-5-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>

parent 3625c739

qemu-doc.texi

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		@@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ Instead of specifying the <shm size> using POSIX shm, you may specify
		a memory backend that has hugepage support:

		@example
		qemu-system-i386 -object memory-backend-file,size=1G,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages/my-shmem-file,id=mb1
		qemu-system-i386 -object memory-backend-file,size=1G,mem-path=/dev/hugepages/my-shmem-file,share,id=mb1
		-device ivshmem,x-memdev=mb1
		@end example