Re: [PATCH] docs/nvdimm: add 'pmem=on' for the device dax backend file

[Liu, Jingqi]

Hi Paolo,

Any comments for this patch ?

Thanks,

Jingqi

On 7/15/2020 10:54 AM, Liu, Jingqi wrote:

At the end of live migration, QEMU uses msync() to flush the data to
the backend storage. When the backend file is a character device dax,
the pages explicitly avoid the page cache. It will return failure from msync().
The following warning is output.

     "warning: qemu_ram_msync: failed to sync memory range“

So we add 'pmem=on' to avoid calling msync(), use the QEMU command line:

     -object memory-backend-file,id=mem1,pmem=on,mem-path=/dev/dax0.0,size=4G

Signed-off-by: Jingqi Liu <jingqi....@intel.com>
---
  docs/nvdimm.txt | 7 +++++++
  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/nvdimm.txt b/docs/nvdimm.txt
index c2c6e441b3..31048aff5e 100644
--- a/docs/nvdimm.txt
+++ b/docs/nvdimm.txt
@@ -243,6 +243,13 @@ use the QEMU command line:

-object memory-backend-file,id=nv_mem,mem-path=/XXX/yyy,size=4G,pmem=on +At the end of live migration, QEMU uses msync() to flush the data to the

+backend storage. When the backend file is a character device dax, the pages
+explicitly avoid the page cache. It will return failure from msync().
+So we add 'pmem=on' to avoid calling msync(), use the QEMU command line:
+
+    -object memory-backend-file,id=mem1,pmem=on,mem-path=/dev/dax0.0,size=4G
+
  References
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