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

* minor patches here and there
* MTTCG: lock-free TB lookup
* SCSI: bugfixes for MPTSAS, MegaSAS, LSI53c, vmw_pvscsi
* buffer_is_zero rewrite (except for one patch)
* chardev: qemu_chr_fe_write checks
* checkpatch improvement for markdown preformatted text
* default-configs cleanups
* atomics cleanups

# gpg: Signature made Tue 13 Sep 2016 18:14:30 BST
# gpg:                using RSA key 0xBFFBD25F78C7AE83
# gpg: Good signature from "Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>"
# gpg:                 aka "Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>"
# Primary key fingerprint: 46F5 9FBD 57D6 12E7 BFD4  E2F7 7E15 100C CD36 69B1
#      Subkey fingerprint: F133 3857 4B66 2389 866C  7682 BFFB D25F 78C7 AE83

* remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream: (58 commits)
  cutils: Add generic prefetch
  cutils: Add SSE4 version
  cutils: Add test for buffer_is_zero
  cutils: Remove ppc buffer zero checking
  cutils: Remove aarch64 buffer zero checking
  cutils: Rearrange buffer_is_zero acceleration
  cutils: Export only buffer_is_zero
  cutils: Remove SPLAT macro
  cutils: Move buffer_is_zero and subroutines to a new file
  ppc: do not redefine CPUPPCState
  x86/lapic: Load LAPIC state at post_load
  optionrom: do not rely on compiler's bswap optimization
  checkpatch: Fix whitespace checks for documentation code blocks
  atomics: Use __atomic_*_n() variant primitives
  atomics: Remove redundant barrier()'s
  kvm-all: drop kvm_setup_guest_memory
  i8257: Make device "i8257" unavailable with -device
  Revert "megasas: remove useless check for cmd->frame"
  char: convert qemu_chr_fe_write to qemu_chr_fe_write_all
  hw: replace most use of qemu_chr_fe_write with qemu_chr_fe_write_all
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

 Conflicts:
	cpus.c
	tests/Makefile.include

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index cde4a05..0b621bb 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -982,13 +982,14 @@ DEF("nographic", 0, QEMU_OPTION_nographic,
 STEXI
 @item -nographic
 @findex -nographic
-Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output. With this option,
-you can totally disable graphical output so that QEMU is a simple
-command line application. The emulated serial port is redirected on
-the console and muxed with the monitor (unless redirected elsewhere
-explicitly). Therefore, you can still use QEMU to debug a Linux kernel
-with a serial console.  Use @key{C-a h} for help on switching between
-the console and monitor.
+Normally, if QEMU is compiled with graphical window support, it displays
+output such as guest graphics, guest console, and the QEMU monitor in a
+window. With this option, you can totally disable graphical output so
+that QEMU is a simple command line application. The emulated serial port
+is redirected on the console and muxed with the monitor (unless
+redirected elsewhere explicitly). Therefore, you can still use QEMU to
+debug a Linux kernel with a serial console. Use @key{C-a h} for help on
+switching between the console and monitor.
 ETEXI
 
 DEF("curses", 0, QEMU_OPTION_curses,
@@ -997,9 +998,11 @@ DEF("curses", 0, QEMU_OPTION_curses,
 STEXI
 @item -curses
 @findex -curses
-Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output.  With this option,
-QEMU can display the VGA output when in text mode using a
-curses/ncurses interface.  Nothing is displayed in graphical mode.
+Normally, if QEMU is compiled with graphical window support, it displays
+output such as guest graphics, guest console, and the QEMU monitor in a
+window. With this option, QEMU can display the VGA output when in text
+mode using a curses/ncurses interface. Nothing is displayed in graphical
+mode.
 ETEXI
 
 DEF("no-frame", 0, QEMU_OPTION_no_frame,
@@ -1243,13 +1246,14 @@ DEF("vnc", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_vnc ,
 STEXI
 @item -vnc @var{display}[,@var{option}[,@var{option}[,...]]]
 @findex -vnc
-Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output.  With this option,
-you can have QEMU listen on VNC display @var{display} and redirect the VGA
-display over the VNC session.  It is very useful to enable the usb
-tablet device when using this option (option @option{-usbdevice
-tablet}). When using the VNC display, you must use the @option{-k}
-parameter to set the keyboard layout if you are not using en-us. Valid
-syntax for the @var{display} is
+Normally, if QEMU is compiled with graphical window support, it displays
+output such as guest graphics, guest console, and the QEMU monitor in a
+window. With this option, you can have QEMU listen on VNC display
+@var{display} and redirect the VGA display over the VNC session. It is
+very useful to enable the usb tablet device when using this option
+(option @option{-usbdevice tablet}). When using the VNC display, you
+must use the @option{-k} parameter to set the keyboard layout if you are
+not using en-us. Valid syntax for the @var{display} is
 
 @table @option
 
@@ -2148,6 +2152,7 @@ The general form of a character device option is:
 ETEXI
 
 DEF("chardev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_chardev,
+    "-chardev help\n"
     "-chardev null,id=id[,mux=on|off][,logfile=PATH][,logappend=on|off]\n"
     "-chardev socket,id=id[,host=host],port=port[,to=to][,ipv4][,ipv6][,nodelay][,reconnect=seconds]\n"
     "         [,server][,nowait][,telnet][,reconnect=seconds][,mux=on|off]\n"
@@ -2213,6 +2218,8 @@ Backend is one of:
 @option{spiceport}.
 The specific backend will determine the applicable options.
 
+Use "-chardev help" to print all available chardev backend types.
+
 All devices must have an id, which can be any string up to 127 characters long.
 It is used to uniquely identify this device in other command line directives.