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author | Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> | 2019-06-26 03:42:28 -0400 |
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committer | Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> | 2019-07-05 17:08:03 -0300 |
commit | cb79224b7e4b3d981c4080e60f20557739681000 (patch) | |
tree | 86804b57cede8e889f5f84d9f3b32813a70af706 /hw | |
parent | d730b9d1f25b83e1b0a7e8b75aec02b93b78bdc7 (diff) |
deprecate -mem-path fallback to anonymous RAM
Fallback might affect guest or worse whole host performance
or functionality if backing file were used to share guest RAM
with another process.
Patch deprecates fallback so that we could remove it in future
and ensure that QEMU will provide expected behavior and fail if
it can't use user provided backing file.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190626074228.11558-1-imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw')
-rw-r--r-- | hw/core/numa.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/hw/core/numa.c b/hw/core/numa.c index cb5fdbcb1e..dd5c6e2334 100644 --- a/hw/core/numa.c +++ b/hw/core/numa.c @@ -479,8 +479,10 @@ static void allocate_system_memory_nonnuma(MemoryRegion *mr, Object *owner, if (mem_prealloc) { exit(1); } - error_report("falling back to regular RAM allocation."); - + warn_report("falling back to regular RAM allocation"); + error_printf("This is deprecated. Make sure that -mem-path " + " specified path has sufficient resources to allocate" + " -m specified RAM amount"); /* Legacy behavior: if allocation failed, fall back to * regular RAM allocation. */ |