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deprecations:
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Support to monitor performance events for Intel CMT (Cache
Monitoring Technology, or "CQM" in Linux kernel parlance) -- namely
``cmt``, ``mbm_local`` and ``mbm_total`` -- via the config attribute
``[libvirt]/enabled_perf_events`` is now *deprecated* from Nova, and
will be *removed* in the "Stein" release. Otherwise, if you have
enabled those events, and upgraded to Linux kernel 4.14 (or suitable
downstream version), it will result in instances failing to boot.
That is because the Linux kernel has deleted the `perf` framework
integration with Intel CMT, as the feature was broken by design --
an incompatibility between Linux's `perf` infrastructure and Intel
CMT. It was removed in upstream Linux version v4.14; but bear in
mind that downstream Linux distributions with lower kernel versions
than 4.14 have backported the said change.