docs: More precisely describe memory-backend-*::id's user
'id' of memory-backend-{file,ram} is not only for '-numa''s reference, but
also other parameters like '-device nvdimm'.
More clearly call out this to avoid misinterpretation.
Signed-off-by: Robert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1619080922-83527-1-git-send-email-robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index fd21002..635dc8a 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -4508,11 +4508,11 @@
the guest RAM with huge pages.
The ``id`` parameter is a unique ID that will be used to
- reference this memory region when configuring the ``-numa``
- argument.
+ reference this memory region in other parameters, e.g. ``-numa``,
+ ``-device nvdimm``, etc.
The ``size`` option provides the size of the memory region, and
- accepts common suffixes, eg ``500M``.
+ accepts common suffixes, e.g. ``500M``.
The ``mem-path`` provides the path to either a shared memory or
huge page filesystem mount.