[libvirt] [PATCH 04/14] qemu: Introduce QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_NVDIMM

[Michal Privoznik]

On 02/23/2017 10:02 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> Introduce a qemu capability for -device nvdimm.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c                     | 2 ++
>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h                     | 1 +
>  tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.6.0.x86_64.xml | 1 +
>  tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.7.0.x86_64.xml | 1 +
>  tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.8.0.x86_64.xml | 1 +
>  tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.9.0.x86_64.xml | 1 +
>  6 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

Based on the conversation under 05/14 you can assume the following is squashed in:

diff --git i/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c w/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
index 0e3f74de5..466931890 100644
--- i/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
+++ w/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
@@ -4356,6 +4356,13 @@ virQEMUCapsInitQMPMonitor(virQEMUCapsPtr qemuCaps,
         virQEMUCapsProbeQMPGICCapabilities(qemuCaps, mon) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
 
+    /* Prealloc on NVDIMMs is broken on older QEMUs leading to
+     * user data corruption. If we are dealing with such version
+     * of QEMU pretend we don't know how to NVDIMM. */
+    if (qemuCaps->version < 2009000 &&
+        virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_NVDIMM))
+        virQEMUCapsClear(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_NVDIMM);
+
     ret = 0;
  cleanup:
     return ret;


Michal