From: Paul Durrant Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:21:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: docs/man: modify xl(1) in preparation for naming of assignable devices X-Git-Url: http://xenbits.xensource.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e32d7d9d0c6475a694f750229d5808475d4fd35b;p=people%2Fpauldu%2Fxen.git docs/man: modify xl(1) in preparation for naming of assignable devices A subsequent patch will introduce code to allow a name to be specified to 'xl pci-assignable-add' such that the assignable device may be referred to by than name in subsequent operations. Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant Acked-by: Wei Liu --- Cc: Ian Jackson --- diff --git a/docs/man/xl.1.pod.in b/docs/man/xl.1.pod.in index af31d2b572..f4779d8fd6 100644 --- a/docs/man/xl.1.pod.in +++ b/docs/man/xl.1.pod.in @@ -1595,19 +1595,23 @@ List virtual network interfaces for a domain. =over 4 -=item B +=item B [I<-n>] List all the B of assignable PCI devices. See -L for more information. +L for more information. If the -n option is +specified then any name supplied when the device was made assignable +will also be displayed. These are devices in the system which are configured to be available for passthrough and are bound to a suitable PCI backend driver in domain 0 rather than a real driver. -=item B I +=item B [I<-n NAME>] I Make the device at B assignable to guests. See -L for more information. +L for more information. If the -n option is +supplied then the assignable device entry will the named with the +given B. This will bind the device to the pciback driver and assign it to the "quarantine domain". If it is already bound to a driver, it will @@ -1622,10 +1626,11 @@ not to do this on a device critical to domain 0's operation, such as storage controllers, network interfaces, or GPUs that are currently being used. -=item B [I<-r>] I +=item B [I<-r>] I|I -Make the device at B not assignable to guests. See -L for more information. +Make a device non-assignable to guests. The device may be identified +either by its B or the B supplied when the device was made +assignable. See L for more information. This will at least unbind the device from pciback, and re-assign it from the "quarantine domain" back to domain 0. If the -r