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[v3,2/4] docs/system: Add vhost-user-input documentation

Message ID 20231120043721.50555-3-leo.yan@linaro.org
State New
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Series virtio: Refactor vhost input stub | expand

Commit Message

Leo Yan Nov. 20, 2023, 4:37 a.m. UTC 
This adds basic documentation for vhost-user-input.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
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 MAINTAINERS                              |  1 +
 docs/system/device-emulation.rst         |  1 +
 docs/system/devices/vhost-user-input.rst | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst       |  4 ++-
 4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/system/devices/vhost-user-input.rst
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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 0624d67932..8a26fe9493 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2262,6 +2262,7 @@  L: virtio-fs@lists.linux.dev
 virtio-input
 M: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
 S: Odd Fixes
+F: docs/system/devices/vhost-user-input.rst
 F: hw/input/vhost-user-input.c
 F: hw/input/virtio-input*.c
 F: include/hw/virtio/virtio-input.h
diff --git a/docs/system/device-emulation.rst b/docs/system/device-emulation.rst
index d1f3277cb0..f19777411c 100644
--- a/docs/system/device-emulation.rst
+++ b/docs/system/device-emulation.rst
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@  Emulated Devices
    devices/virtio-gpu.rst
    devices/virtio-pmem.rst
    devices/virtio-snd.rst
+   devices/vhost-user-input.rst
    devices/vhost-user-rng.rst
    devices/canokey.rst
    devices/usb-u2f.rst
diff --git a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user-input.rst b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user-input.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..118eb78101
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user-input.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ 
+.. _vhost_user_input:
+
+QEMU vhost-user-input - Input emulation
+=======================================
+
+This document describes the setup and usage of the Virtio input device.
+The Virtio input device is a paravirtualized device for input events.
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+The vhost-user-input device implementation was designed to work with a daemon
+polling on input devices and passes input events to the guest.
+
+QEMU provides a backend implementation in contrib/vhost-user-input.
+
+Linux kernel support
+--------------------
+
+Virtio input requires a guest Linux kernel built with the
+``CONFIG_VIRTIO_INPUT`` option.
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+The backend daemon should be started first:
+
+::
+
+  host# vhost-user-input --socket-path=input.sock	\
+      --evdev-path=/dev/input/event17
+
+The QEMU invocation needs to create a chardev socket to communicate with the
+backend daemon and access the VirtIO queues with the guest over the
+:ref:`shared memory <shared_memory_object>`.
+
+::
+
+  host# qemu-system								\
+      -chardev socket,path=/tmp/input.sock,id=mouse0				\
+      -device vhost-user-input-pci,chardev=mouse0				\
+      -m 4096 									\
+      -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=4G,mem-path=/dev/shm,share=on	\
+      -numa node,memdev=mem							\
+      ...
diff --git a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst
index c6afc4836f..9b2da106ce 100644
--- a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst
+++ b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@  platform details for what sort of virtio bus to use.
     - See https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device
   * - vhost-user-input
     - Generic input driver
-    - See contrib/vhost-user-input
+    - :ref:`vhost_user_input`
   * - vhost-user-rng
     - Entropy driver
     - :ref:`vhost_user_rng`
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@  following the :ref:`vhost_user_proto`. There are a number of daemons
 that can be built when enabled by the project although any daemon that
 meets the specification for a given device can be used.
 
+.. _shared_memory_object:
+
 Shared memory object
 ====================