kvm: convert "-machine kernel_irqchip" to an accelerator property

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 004370ccec..71ec733a6c 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ DEF("machine", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_machine, \
     "                selects emulated machine ('-machine help' for list)\n"
     "                property accel=accel1[:accel2[:...]] selects accelerator\n"
     "                supported accelerators are kvm, xen, hax, hvf, whpx or tcg (default: tcg)\n"
-    "                kernel_irqchip=on|off|split controls accelerated irqchip support (default=off)\n"
     "                vmport=on|off|auto controls emulation of vmport (default: auto)\n"
     "                dump-guest-core=on|off include guest memory in a core dump (default=on)\n"
     "                mem-merge=on|off controls memory merge support (default: on)\n"
@@ -67,8 +66,6 @@ This is used to enable an accelerator. Depending on the target architecture,
 kvm, xen, hax, hvf, whpx or tcg can be available. By default, tcg is used. If there is
 more than one accelerator specified, the next one is used if the previous one
 fails to initialize.
-@item kernel_irqchip=on|off
-Controls in-kernel irqchip support for the chosen accelerator when available.
 @item vmport=on|off|auto
 Enables emulation of VMWare IO port, for vmmouse etc. auto says to select the
 value based on accel. For accel=xen the default is off otherwise the default
@@ -115,6 +112,7 @@ DEF("accel", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_accel,
     "-accel [accel=]accelerator[,prop[=value][,...]]\n"
     "                select accelerator (kvm, xen, hax, hvf, whpx or tcg; use 'help' for a list)\n"
     "                igd-passthru=on|off (enable Xen integrated Intel graphics passthrough, default=off)\n"
+    "                kernel-irqchip=on|off|split controls accelerated irqchip support (default=on)\n"
     "                kvm-shadow-mem=size of KVM shadow MMU in bytes\n"
     "                tb-size=n (TCG translation block cache size)\n"
     "                thread=single|multi (enable multi-threaded TCG)\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
@@ -129,6 +127,11 @@ fails to initialize.
 @item igd-passthru=on|off
 When Xen is in use, this option controls whether Intel integrated graphics
 devices can be passed through to the guest (default=off)
+@item kernel-irqchip=on|off|split
+Controls KVM in-kernel irqchip support.  The default is full acceleration of the
+interrupt controllers.  On x86, split irqchip reduces the kernel attack
+surface, at a performance cost for non-MSI interrupts.  Disabling the in-kernel
+irqchip completely is not recommended except for debugging purposes.
 @item kvm-shadow-mem=size
 Defines the size of the KVM shadow MMU.
 @item tb-size=@var{n}