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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-06-05 21:52:37 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-06-05 21:52:37 +0100
commit26edf8cc08e2ec15d9e65bb0dd4fbac22edd730b (patch)
treea010815e0435a73d2a6347b5b75ee3f6ece1c788 /docs
parent31e25e3e5701607a2a88b5b6c5fb1057b20941fd (diff)
parent711e2f1e9ecad845e142fdddbbf1e8037bce902b (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream' into staging
pc,pci,virtio,qdev fixes, tests new tests for SMBIOS SMBIOS fixes pc, pci fixes qdev patches stayed on list for a month with no review, as I told people on KVM forum I'm merging stuch patches if they look fine. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> * remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream: qdev: Add test of qdev_prop_check_global qdev: Display warning about unused -global tests: add smbios testing tests: rename acpi-test to bios-tables-test virtio-balloon: return empty data when no stats are available pcie_host: Turn pcie_host_init() into an instance_init SMBIOS: Fix type 17 field sizes SMBIOS: Update Type 0 struct generator for machines >= 2.1 SMBIOS: Fix endian-ness when populating multi-byte fields serial-pci: Set prog interface field of pci config to 16550 compatible Conflicts: include/hw/i386/pc.h [PMM: fixed trivial conflict in pc.h] Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
index f74612f468..edff5f22a8 100644
--- a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
+++ b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ which will return a dictionary containing:
o A key named last-update, which contains the last stats update
timestamp in seconds. Since this timestamp is generated by the host,
- a buggy guest can't influence its value
+ a buggy guest can't influence its value. The value is 0 if the guest
+ has not updated the stats (yet).
It's also important to note the following:
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ It's also important to note the following:
- Polling can be enabled even if the guest doesn't have stats support
or the balloon driver wasn't loaded in the guest. If this is the case
- and stats are queried, an error will be returned
+ and stats are queried, last-update will be 0.
- The polling timer is only re-armed when the guest responds to the
statistics request. This means that if a (buggy) guest doesn't ever