Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH for-QEMU-4.1] Declare -realtime as deprecated

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 07:53:45PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The old -realtime mlock=on|off parameter does exactly the same as the
> new -overcommit mem-lock=on|off parameter. Additionally, "-realtime"
> does not activate any additional "realtime" capabilities as the name
> might indicate. We should avoid to confuse the users this way, so
> let's deprecate the old -realtime option.

FYI libvirt currently uses  -realtime mlock=on so will need adapting
to cope with this change.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Deprecation has already been suggested last year:
>   https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10480963/#22026215
>  ... but apparently we forgot to really do it.
> 
>  qemu-deprecated.texi | 5 +++++
>  vl.c                 | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> index 2219386769..2c45204f3f 100644
> --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
> +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> @@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ backend settings instead of environment variables.  To ease migration to
>  the new format, the ``-audiodev-help'' option can be used to convert
>  the current values of the environment variables to ``-audiodev'' options.
>  
> +@subsection -realtime (since 4.1)
> +
> +The @code{-realtime mlock=on|off} argument has been replaced by the
> +@code{-overcommit mem-lock=on|off} argument.
> +
>  @section QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands
>  
>  @subsection block-dirty-bitmap-add "autoload" parameter (since 2.12.0)
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index c696ad2a13..d6a2779b70 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> @@ -3912,6 +3912,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>                  }
>                  break;
>              case QEMU_OPTION_realtime:
> +                warn_report("'-realtime mlock=...' is deprecated, please use "
> +                             "'-overcommit mem-lock=...' instead");
>                  opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("realtime"),
>                                                 optarg, false);
>                  if (!opts) {
> -- 
> 2.21.0
> 
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Regards,
Daniel
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