Currently, when using "nvme://" for a block device, like
-drive file=nvme://0000:01:00.0/1,if=none,id=drive0 \
-device virtio-blk,drive=drive0 \
VFIO may pin all guest memory, and discarding of RAM no longer works as
expected. I was able to reproduce this easily with my
01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983
Similar to common VFIO, we have to disable it, making sure that:
a) virtio-balloon won't discard any memory ("silently disabled")
b) virtio-mem and nvme:// run mutually exclusive
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201116105947.9194-1-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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