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[v5,20/23] docs/man: modify xl(1) in preparation for naming of assignable devices

Message ID 20201203142534.4017-21-paul@xen.org (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series xl / libxl: named PCI pass-through devices | expand

Commit Message

Paul Durrant Dec. 3, 2020, 2:25 p.m. UTC 
From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>

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 <pdurrant@amazon.com>
---
Cc: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
Cc: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
---
 docs/man/xl.1.pod.in | 19 ++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Comments

Wei Liu Dec. 4, 2020, 11:35 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 02:25:31PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
> 
> 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 <pdurrant@amazon.com>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
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diff --git a/docs/man/xl.1.pod.in b/docs/man/xl.1.pod.in
index c5fbce3b5c4b..0822a5842835 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<pci-assignable-list>
+=item B<pci-assignable-list> [I<-n>]
 
 List all the B<BDF> of assignable PCI devices. See
-L<xl-pci-configuration(5)> for more information.
+L<xl-pci-configuration(5)> 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<pci-assignable-add> I<BDF>
+=item B<pci-assignable-add> [I<-n NAME>] I<BDF>
 
 Make the device at B<BDF> assignable to guests. See
-L<xl-pci-configuration(5)> for more information.
+L<xl-pci-configuration(5)> for more information. If the -n option is
+supplied then the assignable device entry will the named with the
+given B<NAME>.
 
 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<pci-assignable-remove> [I<-r>] I<BDF>
+=item B<pci-assignable-remove> [I<-r>] I<BDF>|I<NAME>
 
-Make the device at B<BDF> not assignable to guests. See
-L<xl-pci-configuration(5)> for more information.
+Make a device non-assignable to guests. The device may be identified
+either by its B<BDF> or the B<NAME> supplied when the device was made
+assignable. See L<xl-pci-configuration(5)> 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