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authorIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>2021-01-11 15:33:32 -0500
committerEduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>2021-07-06 18:05:16 -0400
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Deprecate pmem=on with non-DAX capable backend file
It is not safe to pretend that emulated NVDIMM supports
persistence while backend actually failed to enable it
and used non-persistent mapping as fall back.
Instead of falling-back, QEMU should be more strict and
error out with clear message that it's not supported.
So if user asks for persistence (pmem=on), they should
store backing file on NVDIMM.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210111203332.740815-1-imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/util/mmap-alloc.c b/util/mmap-alloc.c
index 838e286ce5..893d864354 100644
--- a/util/mmap-alloc.c
+++ b/util/mmap-alloc.c
@@ -225,6 +225,8 @@ static void *mmap_activate(void *ptr, size_t size, int fd,
                     "crash.\n", file_name);
             g_free(proc_link);
             g_free(file_name);
+            warn_report("Using non DAX backing file with 'pmem=on' option"
+                        " is deprecated");
         }
         /*
          * If mmap failed with MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE | MAP_SYNC, we will try