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authorStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>2011-12-01 16:26:34 +0000
committerStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>2011-12-01 16:26:34 +0000
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xl.pod.1: improve the description of the info subcommand
also update the example Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Committed-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/docs/man/xl.pod.1 b/docs/man/xl.pod.1
index ab8a2f381f..a765a11617 100644
--- a/docs/man/xl.pod.1
+++ b/docs/man/xl.pod.1
@@ -526,39 +526,41 @@ Clears Xen's message buffer.
Print information about the Xen host in I<name : value> format. When
reporting a Xen bug, please provide this information as part of the
-bug report.
+bug report. See I<http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/ReportingBugs> on how to
+report Xen bugs.
-Sample output looks as follows (lines wrapped manually to make the man
-page more readable):
+Sample output looks as follows:
- host : talon
- release : 2.6.12.6-xen0
- version : #1 Mon Nov 14 14:26:26 EST 2005
- machine : i686
- nr_cpus : 2
+ host : scarlett
+ release : 3.1.0-rc4+
+ version : #1001 SMP Wed Oct 19 11:09:54 UTC 2011
+ machine : x86_64
+ nr_cpus : 4
nr_nodes : 1
- cores_per_socket : 1
+ cores_per_socket : 4
threads_per_core : 1
- cpu_mhz : 696
- hw_caps : 0383fbff:00000000:00000000:00000040
- total_memory : 767
- free_memory : 37
- xen_major : 3
- xen_minor : 0
- xen_extra : -devel
- xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_32
+ cpu_mhz : 2266
+ hw_caps : bfebfbff:28100800:00000000:00003b40:009ce3bd:00000000:00000001:00000000
+ virt_caps : hvm hvm_directio
+ total_memory : 6141
+ free_memory : 4274
+ free_cpus : 0
+ xen_major : 4
+ xen_minor : 2
+ xen_extra : -unstable
+ xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
xen_scheduler : credit
xen_pagesize : 4096
- platform_params : virt_start=0xfc000000
- xen_changeset : Mon Nov 14 18:13:38 2005 +0100
- 7793:090e44133d40
- cc_compiler : gcc version 3.4.3 (Mandrakelinux
- 10.2 3.4.3-7mdk)
- cc_compile_by : sdague
- cc_compile_domain : (none)
- cc_compile_date : Mon Nov 14 14:16:48 EST 2005
+ platform_params : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
+ xen_changeset : Wed Nov 02 17:09:09 2011 +0000 24066:54a5e994a241
+ xen_commandline : com1=115200,8n1 guest_loglvl=all dom0_mem=750M console=com1
+ cc_compiler : gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8)
+ cc_compile_by : sstabellini
+ cc_compile_domain : uk.xensource.com
+ cc_compile_date : Tue Nov 8 12:03:05 UTC 2011
xend_config_format : 4
+
B<FIELDS>
Not all fields will be explained here, but some of the less obvious
@@ -570,7 +572,8 @@ ones deserve explanation:
A vector showing what hardware capabilities are supported by your
processor. This is equivalent to, though more cryptic, the flags
-field in /proc/cpuinfo on a normal Linux machine.
+field in /proc/cpuinfo on a normal Linux machine: they both derive from
+the feature bits returned by the cpuid command on x86 platforms.
=item B<free_memory>