From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> When a host is running with memory encryption, the memory isn't visible to the host kernel; attempts to merge that memory are futile because what it's really comparing is encrypted memory, usually encrypted with different keys.
Automatically turn mem-merge off when memory encryption is specified. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1796356 Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> --- hw/core/machine.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c index 3e288bfceb..029e1f85b8 100644 --- a/hw/core/machine.c +++ b/hw/core/machine.c @@ -419,6 +419,14 @@ static void machine_set_memory_encryption(Object *obj, const char *value, g_free(ms->memory_encryption); ms->memory_encryption = g_strdup(value); + + /* + * With memory encryption, the host can't see the real contents of RAM, + * so there's no point in it trying to merge areas. + */ + if (value) { + machine_set_mem_merge(obj, false, errp); + } } static bool machine_get_nvdimm(Object *obj, Error **errp) -- 2.24.1
