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-rw-r--r--hw/ppc/spapr_nvdimm.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_nvdimm.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_nvdimm.c
index bc2b65420c..95cbc30528 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/spapr_nvdimm.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_nvdimm.c
@@ -27,13 +27,17 @@
 #include "hw/ppc/spapr_nvdimm.h"
 #include "hw/mem/nvdimm.h"
 #include "qemu/nvdimm-utils.h"
+#include "qemu/option.h"
 #include "hw/ppc/fdt.h"
 #include "qemu/range.h"
+#include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
 
 void spapr_nvdimm_validate(HotplugHandler *hotplug_dev, NVDIMMDevice *nvdimm,
                            uint64_t size, Error **errp)
 {
     const MachineClass *mc = MACHINE_GET_CLASS(hotplug_dev);
+    const MachineState *ms = MACHINE(hotplug_dev);
+    const char *nvdimm_opt = qemu_opt_get(qemu_get_machine_opts(), "nvdimm");
     g_autofree char *uuidstr = NULL;
     QemuUUID uuid;
     int ret;
@@ -43,6 +47,20 @@ void spapr_nvdimm_validate(HotplugHandler *hotplug_dev, NVDIMMDevice *nvdimm,
         return;
     }
 
+    /*
+     * NVDIMM support went live in 5.1 without considering that, in
+     * other archs, the user needs to enable NVDIMM support with the
+     * 'nvdimm' machine option and the default behavior is NVDIMM
+     * support disabled. It is too late to roll back to the standard
+     * behavior without breaking 5.1 guests. What we can do is to
+     * ensure that, if the user sets nvdimm=off, we error out
+     * regardless of being 5.1 or newer.
+     */
+    if (!ms->nvdimms_state->is_enabled && nvdimm_opt) {
+        error_setg(errp, "nvdimm device found but 'nvdimm=off' was set");
+        return;
+    }
+
     if (object_property_get_int(OBJECT(nvdimm), NVDIMM_LABEL_SIZE_PROP,
                                 &error_abort) == 0) {
         error_setg(errp, "PAPR requires NVDIMM devices to have label-size set");