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authorAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2025-07-25 16:45:06 +0100
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docs/user: clean up headings
This was a slightly duff format for rst, make it use proper headings.

Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20250725154517.3523095-4-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
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@@ -17,28 +17,34 @@ Features
 
 QEMU user space emulation has the following notable features:
 
-**System call translation:**
-   QEMU includes a generic system call translator. This means that the
-   parameters of the system calls can be converted to fix endianness and
-   32/64-bit mismatches between hosts and targets. IOCTLs can be
-   converted too.
-
-**POSIX signal handling:**
-   QEMU can redirect to the running program all signals coming from the
-   host (such as ``SIGALRM``), as well as synthesize signals from
-   virtual CPU exceptions (for example ``SIGFPE`` when the program
-   executes a division by zero).
-
-   QEMU relies on the host kernel to emulate most signal system calls,
-   for example to emulate the signal mask. On Linux, QEMU supports both
-   normal and real-time signals.
-
-**Threading:**
-   On Linux, QEMU can emulate the ``clone`` syscall and create a real
-   host thread (with a separate virtual CPU) for each emulated thread.
-   Note that not all targets currently emulate atomic operations
-   correctly. x86 and Arm use a global lock in order to preserve their
-   semantics.
+System call translation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+QEMU includes a generic system call translator. This means that the
+parameters of the system calls can be converted to fix endianness
+and 32/64-bit mismatches between hosts and targets. IOCTLs can be
+converted too.
+
+POSIX signal handling
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+QEMU can redirect to the running program all signals coming from the
+host (such as ``SIGALRM``), as well as synthesize signals from
+virtual CPU exceptions (for example ``SIGFPE`` when the program
+executes a division by zero).
+
+QEMU relies on the host kernel to emulate most signal system calls,
+for example to emulate the signal mask. On Linux, QEMU supports both
+normal and real-time signals.
+
+Threading
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+On Linux, QEMU can emulate the ``clone`` syscall and create a real
+host thread (with a separate virtual CPU) for each emulated thread.
+Note that not all targets currently emulate atomic operations
+correctly. x86 and Arm use a global lock in order to preserve their
+semantics.
 
 QEMU was conceived so that ultimately it can emulate itself. Although it
 is not very useful, it is an important test to show the power of the