numa: remove deprecated -mem-path fallback to anonymous RAM

it has been deprecated since 4.0 by commit
 cb79224b7 (deprecate -mem-path fallback to anonymous RAM)
Deprecation period ran out and it's time to remove it
so it won't get in a way of switching to using hostmem
backend for RAM.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200219160953.13771-2-imammedo@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/hw/core/numa.c b/hw/core/numa.c
index 0d1b4be76a..840e68581f 100644
--- a/hw/core/numa.c
+++ b/hw/core/numa.c
@@ -784,24 +784,8 @@ static void allocate_system_memory_nonnuma(MemoryRegion *mr, Object *owner,
 {
     if (mem_path) {
 #ifdef __linux__
-        Error *err = NULL;
         memory_region_init_ram_from_file(mr, owner, name, ram_size, 0, 0,
-                                         mem_path, &err);
-        if (err) {
-            error_report_err(err);
-            if (mem_prealloc) {
-                exit(1);
-            }
-            warn_report("falling back to regular RAM allocation");
-            error_printf("This is deprecated. Make sure that -mem-path "
-                         " specified path has sufficient resources to allocate"
-                         " -m specified RAM amount\n");
-            /* Legacy behavior: if allocation failed, fall back to
-             * regular RAM allocation.
-             */
-            mem_path = NULL;
-            memory_region_init_ram_nomigrate(mr, owner, name, ram_size, &error_fatal);
-        }
+                                         mem_path, &error_fatal);
 #else
         fprintf(stderr, "-mem-path not supported on this host\n");
         exit(1);
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index 0671c26c80..66eca3a1de 100644
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -113,15 +113,6 @@ QEMU using implicit generic or board specific splitting rule.
 Use @option{memdev} with @var{memory-backend-ram} backend or @option{mem} (if
 it's supported by used machine type) to define mapping explictly instead.
 
-@subsection -mem-path fallback to RAM (since 4.1)
-Currently if guest RAM allocation from file pointed by @option{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 @option{-mem-path} can actually provide
-the guest RAM configured with @option{-m} and QEMU will fail to start up if
-RAM allocation is unsuccessful.
-
 @subsection RISC-V -bios (since 4.1)
 
 QEMU 4.1 introduced support for the -bios option in QEMU for RISC-V for the