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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2019-03-07 15:21:54 +0000
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Enable building and installing rST docs with Sphinx # gpg: Signature made Thu 07 Mar 2019 15:05:12 GMT # gpg: using RSA key E1A5C593CD419DE28E8315CF3C2525ED14360CDE # gpg: issuer "peter.maydell@linaro.org" # gpg: Good signature from "Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>" [ultimate] # gpg: aka "Peter Maydell <pmaydell@gmail.com>" [ultimate] # gpg: aka "Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>" [ultimate] # Primary key fingerprint: E1A5 C593 CD41 9DE2 8E83 15CF 3C25 25ED 1436 0CDE * remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-sphinx-20190307: MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Sphinx documentation infrastructure docs/conf.py: Don't hard-code QEMU version Makefile: Abstract out "identify the pkgversion" code Makefile, configure: Support building rST documentation docs: Provide separate conf.py for each manual we want docs/conf.py: Disable option warnings docs/conf.py: Don't include rST sources in HTML build docs/conf.py: Configure the 'alabaster' theme docs/conf.py: Disable unused _static directory docs: Commit initial files from sphinx-quickstart docs: Convert memory.txt to rst format docs/cpu-hotplug.rst: Fix rST markup issues Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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-rw-r--r--docs/conf.py216
-rw-r--r--docs/cpu-hotplug.rst2
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/conf.py15
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/index.rst21
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/memory.rst (renamed from docs/devel/memory.txt)132
-rw-r--r--docs/index.rst15
-rw-r--r--docs/interop/conf.py15
-rw-r--r--docs/interop/index.rst18
8 files changed, 373 insertions, 61 deletions
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..befbcc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,216 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# QEMU documentation build configuration file, created by
+# sphinx-quickstart on Thu Jan 31 16:40:14 2019.
+#
+# This config file can be used in one of two ways:
+# (1) as a common config file which is included by the conf.py
+# for each of QEMU's manuals: in this case sphinx-build is run multiple
+# times, once per subdirectory.
+# (2) as a top level conf file which will result in building all
+# the manuals into a single document: in this case sphinx-build is
+# run once, on the top-level docs directory.
+#
+# QEMU's makefiles take option (1), which allows us to install
+# only the ones the user cares about (in particular we don't want
+# to ship the 'devel' manual to end-users).
+# Third-party sites such as readthedocs.org will take option (2).
+#
+#
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
+# containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import os
+import sys
+
+# The per-manual conf.py will set qemu_docdir for a single-manual build;
+# otherwise set it here if this is an entire-manual-set build.
+# This is always the absolute path of the docs/ directory in the source tree.
+try:
+ qemu_docdir
+except NameError:
+ qemu_docdir = os.path.abspath(".")
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use an absolute path starting from qemu_docdir.
+#
+# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(qemu_docdir, "my_subdir"))
+
+
+# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#
+# 1.3 is where the 'alabaster' theme was shipped with Sphinx.
+needs_sphinx = '1.3'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = []
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix(es) of source filenames.
+# You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
+#
+# source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = u'QEMU'
+copyright = u'2019, The QEMU Project Developers'
+author = u'The QEMU Project Developers'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+
+# Extract this information from the VERSION file, for the benefit of
+# standalone Sphinx runs as used by readthedocs.org. Builds run from
+# the Makefile will pass version and release on the sphinx-build
+# command line, which override this.
+try:
+ extracted_version = None
+ with open(os.path.join(qemu_docdir, '../VERSION')) as f:
+ extracted_version = f.readline().strip()
+except:
+ pass
+finally:
+ if extracted_version:
+ version = release = extracted_version
+ else:
+ version = release = "unknown version"
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#
+# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
+# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
+language = None
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+# This patterns also effect to html_static_path and html_extra_path
+exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'Thumbs.db', '.DS_Store']
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# If true, `todo` and `todoList` produce output, else they produce nothing.
+todo_include_todos = False
+
+# Sphinx defaults to warning about use of :option: for options not defined
+# with "option::" in the document being processed. Turn that off.
+suppress_warnings = ["ref.option"]
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages. See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+#
+html_theme = 'alabaster'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further. For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+# We initialize this to empty here, so the per-manual conf.py can just
+# add individual key/value entries.
+html_theme_options = {
+}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+# QEMU doesn't yet have any static files, so comment this out so we don't
+# get a warning about a missing directory.
+# If we do ever add this then it would probably be better to call the
+# subdirectory sphinx_static, as the Linux kernel does.
+# html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, must be a dictionary that maps document names
+# to template names.
+#
+# This is required for the alabaster theme
+# refs: http://alabaster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#sidebars
+html_sidebars = {
+ '**': [
+ 'about.html',
+ 'navigation.html',
+ 'searchbox.html',
+ ]
+}
+
+# Don't copy the rST source files to the HTML output directory,
+# and don't put links to the sources into the output HTML.
+html_copy_source = False
+
+# -- Options for HTMLHelp output ------------------------------------------
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'QEMUdoc'
+
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+ # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+ #
+ # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+ # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+ #
+ # 'pointsize': '10pt',
+
+ # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+ #
+ # 'preamble': '',
+
+ # Latex figure (float) alignment
+ #
+ # 'figure_align': 'htbp',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+# author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+ (master_doc, 'QEMU.tex', u'QEMU Documentation',
+ u'The QEMU Project Developers', 'manual'),
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+ (master_doc, 'qemu', u'QEMU Documentation',
+ [author], 1)
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+# dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+ (master_doc, 'QEMU', u'QEMU Documentation',
+ author, 'QEMU', 'One line description of project.',
+ 'Miscellaneous'),
+]
+
+
+
diff --git a/docs/cpu-hotplug.rst b/docs/cpu-hotplug.rst
index cfeb79f..d0b0640 100644
--- a/docs/cpu-hotplug.rst
+++ b/docs/cpu-hotplug.rst
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ vCPU hotplug
hot-plugged (no "qom-path" member). From its output in step (3), we
can see that ``IvyBridge-IBRS-x86_64-cpu`` is present in socket 0,
while hot-plugging a CPU into socket 1 requires passing the listed
- properties to QMP ``device_add``:
+ properties to QMP ``device_add``::
(QEMU) device_add id=cpu-2 driver=IvyBridge-IBRS-x86_64-cpu socket-id=1 core-id=0 thread-id=0
{
diff --git a/docs/devel/conf.py b/docs/devel/conf.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7441f87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/devel/conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# QEMU documentation build configuration file for the 'devel' manual.
+#
+# This includes the top level conf file and then makes any necessary tweaks.
+import sys
+import os
+
+qemu_docdir = os.path.abspath("..")
+parent_config = os.path.join(qemu_docdir, "conf.py")
+exec(compile(open(parent_config, "rb").read(), parent_config, 'exec'))
+
+# This slightly misuses the 'description', but is the best way to get
+# the manual title to appear in the sidebar.
+html_theme_options['description'] = u'Developer''s Guide'
diff --git a/docs/devel/index.rst b/docs/devel/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd0fa6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/devel/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+.. This is the top level page for the 'devel' manual.
+
+
+QEMU Developer's Guide
+======================
+
+This manual documents various parts of the internals of QEMU.
+You only need to read it if you are interested in reading or
+modifying QEMU's source code.
+
+Contents:
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+ loads-stores
+ memory
+ migration
+ stable-process
+ testing
+
diff --git a/docs/devel/memory.txt b/docs/devel/memory.rst
index 42577e1..b6a4c37 100644
--- a/docs/devel/memory.txt
+++ b/docs/devel/memory.rst
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
+==============
The memory API
==============
The memory API models the memory and I/O buses and controllers of a QEMU
machine. It attempts to allow modelling of:
- - ordinary RAM
- - memory-mapped I/O (MMIO)
- - memory controllers that can dynamically reroute physical memory regions
- to different destinations
+- ordinary RAM
+- memory-mapped I/O (MMIO)
+- memory controllers that can dynamically reroute physical memory regions
+ to different destinations
The memory model provides support for
- - tracking RAM changes by the guest
- - setting up coalesced memory for kvm
- - setting up ioeventfd regions for kvm
+- tracking RAM changes by the guest
+- setting up coalesced memory for kvm
+- setting up ioeventfd regions for kvm
Memory is modelled as an acyclic graph of MemoryRegion objects. Sinks
(leaves) are RAM and MMIO regions, while other nodes represent
@@ -98,25 +99,30 @@ ROM device memory region types), this host memory needs to be
copied to the destination on migration. These APIs which allocate
the host memory for you will also register the memory so it is
migrated:
- - memory_region_init_ram()
- - memory_region_init_rom()
- - memory_region_init_rom_device()
+
+- memory_region_init_ram()
+- memory_region_init_rom()
+- memory_region_init_rom_device()
For most devices and boards this is the correct thing. If you
have a special case where you need to manage the migration of
the backing memory yourself, you can call the functions:
- - memory_region_init_ram_nomigrate()
- - memory_region_init_rom_nomigrate()
- - memory_region_init_rom_device_nomigrate()
+
+- memory_region_init_ram_nomigrate()
+- memory_region_init_rom_nomigrate()
+- memory_region_init_rom_device_nomigrate()
+
which only initialize the MemoryRegion and leave handling
migration to the caller.
The functions:
- - memory_region_init_resizeable_ram()
- - memory_region_init_ram_from_file()
- - memory_region_init_ram_from_fd()
- - memory_region_init_ram_ptr()
- - memory_region_init_ram_device_ptr()
+
+- memory_region_init_resizeable_ram()
+- memory_region_init_ram_from_file()
+- memory_region_init_ram_from_fd()
+- memory_region_init_ram_ptr()
+- memory_region_init_ram_device_ptr()
+
are for special cases only, and so they do not automatically
register the backing memory for migration; the caller must
manage migration if necessary.
@@ -218,7 +224,7 @@ For example, suppose we have a container A of size 0x8000 with two subregions
B and C. B is a container mapped at 0x2000, size 0x4000, priority 2; C is
an MMIO region mapped at 0x0, size 0x6000, priority 1. B currently has two
of its own subregions: D of size 0x1000 at offset 0 and E of size 0x1000 at
-offset 0x2000. As a diagram:
+offset 0x2000. As a diagram::
0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000
|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
@@ -228,8 +234,9 @@ offset 0x2000. As a diagram:
D: [DDDDD]
E: [EEEEE]
-The regions that will be seen within this address range then are:
- [CCCCCCCCCCCC][DDDDD][CCCCC][EEEEE][CCCCC]
+The regions that will be seen within this address range then are::
+
+ [CCCCCCCCCCCC][DDDDD][CCCCC][EEEEE][CCCCC]
Since B has higher priority than C, its subregions appear in the flat map
even where they overlap with C. In ranges where B has not mapped anything
@@ -237,8 +244,9 @@ C's region appears.
If B had provided its own MMIO operations (ie it was not a pure container)
then these would be used for any addresses in its range not handled by
-D or E, and the result would be:
- [CCCCCCCCCCCC][DDDDD][BBBBB][EEEEE][BBBBB]
+D or E, and the result would be::
+
+ [CCCCCCCCCCCC][DDDDD][BBBBB][EEEEE][BBBBB]
Priority values are local to a container, because the priorities of two
regions are only compared when they are both children of the same container.
@@ -257,6 +265,7 @@ guest accesses an address:
- all direct subregions of the root region are matched against the address, in
descending priority order
+
- if the address lies outside the region offset/size, the subregion is
discarded
- if the subregion is a leaf (RAM or MMIO), the search terminates, returning
@@ -270,36 +279,39 @@ guest accesses an address:
address range), then if this is a container with its own MMIO or RAM
backing the search terminates, returning the container itself. Otherwise
we continue with the next subregion in priority order
+
- if none of the subregions match the address then the search terminates
with no match found
Example memory map
------------------
-system_memory: container@0-2^48-1
- |
- +---- lomem: alias@0-0xdfffffff ---> #ram (0-0xdfffffff)
- |
- +---- himem: alias@0x100000000-0x11fffffff ---> #ram (0xe0000000-0xffffffff)
- |
- +---- vga-window: alias@0xa0000-0xbffff ---> #pci (0xa0000-0xbffff)
- | (prio 1)
- |
- +---- pci-hole: alias@0xe0000000-0xffffffff ---> #pci (0xe0000000-0xffffffff)
-
-pci (0-2^32-1)
- |
- +--- vga-area: container@0xa0000-0xbffff
- | |
- | +--- alias@0x00000-0x7fff ---> #vram (0x010000-0x017fff)
- | |
- | +--- alias@0x08000-0xffff ---> #vram (0x020000-0x027fff)
- |
- +---- vram: ram@0xe1000000-0xe1ffffff
- |
- +---- vga-mmio: mmio@0xe2000000-0xe200ffff
-
-ram: ram@0x00000000-0xffffffff
+::
+
+ system_memory: container@0-2^48-1
+ |
+ +---- lomem: alias@0-0xdfffffff ---> #ram (0-0xdfffffff)
+ |
+ +---- himem: alias@0x100000000-0x11fffffff ---> #ram (0xe0000000-0xffffffff)
+ |
+ +---- vga-window: alias@0xa0000-0xbffff ---> #pci (0xa0000-0xbffff)
+ | (prio 1)
+ |
+ +---- pci-hole: alias@0xe0000000-0xffffffff ---> #pci (0xe0000000-0xffffffff)
+
+ pci (0-2^32-1)
+ |
+ +--- vga-area: container@0xa0000-0xbffff
+ | |
+ | +--- alias@0x00000-0x7fff ---> #vram (0x010000-0x017fff)
+ | |
+ | +--- alias@0x08000-0xffff ---> #vram (0x020000-0x027fff)
+ |
+ +---- vram: ram@0xe1000000-0xe1ffffff
+ |
+ +---- vga-mmio: mmio@0xe2000000-0xe200ffff
+
+ ram: ram@0x00000000-0xffffffff
This is a (simplified) PC memory map. The 4GB RAM block is mapped into the
system address space via two aliases: "lomem" is a 1:1 mapping of the first
@@ -336,16 +348,16 @@ rather than completing successfully; those devices can use the
In addition various constraints can be supplied to control how these
callbacks are called:
- - .valid.min_access_size, .valid.max_access_size define the access sizes
- (in bytes) which the device accepts; accesses outside this range will
- have device and bus specific behaviour (ignored, or machine check)
- - .valid.unaligned specifies that the *device being modelled* supports
- unaligned accesses; if false, unaligned accesses will invoke the
- appropriate bus or CPU specific behaviour.
- - .impl.min_access_size, .impl.max_access_size define the access sizes
- (in bytes) supported by the *implementation*; other access sizes will be
- emulated using the ones available. For example a 4-byte write will be
- emulated using four 1-byte writes, if .impl.max_access_size = 1.
- - .impl.unaligned specifies that the *implementation* supports unaligned
- accesses; if false, unaligned accesses will be emulated by two aligned
- accesses.
+- .valid.min_access_size, .valid.max_access_size define the access sizes
+ (in bytes) which the device accepts; accesses outside this range will
+ have device and bus specific behaviour (ignored, or machine check)
+- .valid.unaligned specifies that the *device being modelled* supports
+ unaligned accesses; if false, unaligned accesses will invoke the
+ appropriate bus or CPU specific behaviour.
+- .impl.min_access_size, .impl.max_access_size define the access sizes
+ (in bytes) supported by the *implementation*; other access sizes will be
+ emulated using the ones available. For example a 4-byte write will be
+ emulated using four 1-byte writes, if .impl.max_access_size = 1.
+- .impl.unaligned specifies that the *implementation* supports unaligned
+ accesses; if false, unaligned accesses will be emulated by two aligned
+ accesses.
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3690955
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+.. QEMU documentation master file, created by
+ sphinx-quickstart on Thu Jan 31 16:40:14 2019.
+ You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
+ contain the root `toctree` directive.
+
+Welcome to QEMU's documentation!
+================================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 2
+ :caption: Contents:
+
+ interop/index
+ devel/index
+
diff --git a/docs/interop/conf.py b/docs/interop/conf.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf3c69d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/interop/conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# QEMU documentation build configuration file for the 'interop' manual.
+#
+# This includes the top level conf file and then makes any necessary tweaks.
+import sys
+import os
+
+qemu_docdir = os.path.abspath("..")
+parent_config = os.path.join(qemu_docdir, "conf.py")
+exec(compile(open(parent_config, "rb").read(), parent_config, 'exec'))
+
+# This slightly misuses the 'description', but is the best way to get
+# the manual title to appear in the sidebar.
+html_theme_options['description'] = u'System Emulation Management and Interoperability Guide'
diff --git a/docs/interop/index.rst b/docs/interop/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2df977d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/interop/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+.. This is the top level page for the 'interop' manual.
+
+
+QEMU System Emulation Management and Interoperability Guide
+===========================================================
+
+This manual contains documents and specifications that are useful
+for making QEMU interoperate with other software.
+
+Contents:
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+ bitmaps
+ live-block-operations
+ pr-helper
+