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From: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: ehabkost@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, libvir-list@redhat.com,
	qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, rth@twiddle.net
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] doc: Cleanup "'-mem-path' fallback to RAM" deprecation text
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 04:44:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200911084410.788171-3-imammedo@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200911084410.788171-1-imammedo@redhat.com>

it was actually removed in 5.0,
commit 68a86dc15c (numa: remove deprecated -mem-path fallback to anonymous RAM)
clean up forgotten remnants in docs.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
---
 docs/system/deprecated.rst | 21 ++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
index 6f9441005a..f252c92901 100644
--- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
@@ -104,17 +104,6 @@ error in the future.
 The ``-realtime mlock=on|off`` argument has been replaced by the
 ``-overcommit mem-lock=on|off`` argument.
 
-``-mem-path`` fallback to RAM (since 4.1)
-'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
-
-Currently if guest RAM allocation from file pointed by ``mem-path``
-fails, QEMU falls back to allocating from RAM, which might result
-in unpredictable behavior since the backing file specified by the user
-is ignored. In the future, users will be responsible for making sure
-the backing storage specified with ``-mem-path`` can actually provide
-the guest RAM configured with ``-m`` and QEMU will fail to start up if
-RAM allocation is unsuccessful.
-
 RISC-V ``-bios`` (since 5.1)
 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
@@ -624,6 +613,16 @@ New machine versions (since 5.1) will not accept the option but it will still
 work with old machine types. User can check the QAPI schema to see if the legacy
 option is supported by looking at MachineInfo::numa-mem-supported property.
 
+``-mem-path`` fallback to RAM (remove 5.0)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+If guest RAM allocation from file pointed by ``mem-path`` failed,
+QEMU was falling back to allocating from RAM, which might have resulted
+in unpredictable behavior since the backing file specified by the user
+as ignored. Currently, users are responsible for making sure the backing storage
+specified with ``-mem-path`` can actually provide the guest RAM configured with
+``-m`` and QEMU fails to start up if RAM allocation is unsuccessful.
+
 Block devices
 -------------
 
-- 
2.27.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-11  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-11  8:44 [PATCH 0/3] numa: cleanups for 5.2 Igor Mammedov
2020-09-11  8:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] numa: drop support for '-numa node' (without memory specified) Igor Mammedov
2020-09-11  8:44 ` Igor Mammedov [this message]
2020-09-11  8:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] numa: remove fixup numa_state->num_nodes to MAX_NODES Igor Mammedov
2020-09-12  7:44 ` [PATCH 0/3] numa: cleanups for 5.2 Paolo Bonzini

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