[PATCH v4 kvmtool 01/12] Use MB for megabytes consistently

Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei at arm.com
Thu Jun 16 06:48:17 PDT 2022


The help text for the -m/--mem argument states that the guest memory size
is in MiB (mebibyte). MiB is the same thing as MB (megabyte), and indeed
this is how MB is used throughout kvmtool.

Replace MiB with MB, so people don't get the wrong idea and start
believing that for kvmtool a MB is 10^6 bytes instead of 2^20.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
---
 Documentation/kvmtool.1 | 4 ++--
 builtin-run.c           | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kvmtool.1 b/Documentation/kvmtool.1
index 2b8c274dc3ff..25d46f8f51f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/kvmtool.1
+++ b/Documentation/kvmtool.1
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ kvmtool is a userland tool for creating and controlling KVM guests.
 .SH "KVMTOOL COMMANDS"
 .sp
 .PP
-.B run -k <kernel\-image> [\-c <cores>] [\-m <MiB>] [\-p <command line>]
+.B run -k <kernel\-image> [\-c <cores>] [\-m <MB>] [\-p <command line>]
 .br
 .B [\-i <initrd>] [\-d <image file>] [\-\-console serial|virtio|hv]
 .br
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The number of virtual CPUs to run.
 .sp
 .B \-m, \-\-mem <n>
 .RS 4
-Virtual machine memory size in MiB.
+Virtual machine memory size in MB.
 .RE
 .sp
 .B \-p, \-\-params <parameters>
diff --git a/builtin-run.c b/builtin-run.c
index 9a1a0c1fa6fb..0126c9fbcba6 100644
--- a/builtin-run.c
+++ b/builtin-run.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ void kvm_run_set_wrapper_sandbox(void)
 			"A name for the guest"),			\
 	OPT_INTEGER('c', "cpus", &(cfg)->nrcpus, "Number of CPUs"),	\
 	OPT_U64('m', "mem", &(cfg)->ram_size, "Virtual machine memory"	\
-		" size in MiB."),					\
+		" size in MB."),					\
 	OPT_CALLBACK('d', "disk", kvm, "image or rootfs_dir", "Disk "	\
 			" image or rootfs directory", img_name_parser,	\
 			kvm),						\
-- 
2.36.1




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