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doc(changelog): mention usage of anon private for non-vhost-user vms
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Adds a changelog entry that VMs that do not use
vhost-user-blk devices are backed by anon private memory mapping.

Signed-off-by: Nikita Kalyazin <kalyazin@amazon.com>
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Expand Up @@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ and this project adheres to
information about page size to the payload Firecracker sends to the UFFD
handler. Each memory region object now contains a `page_size_kib` field. See
also the [hugepages documentation](docs/hugepages.md).
- [#4498](https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/4498): Only
use memfd to back guest memory if a vhost-user-blk device is configured,
otherwise use anonymous private memory. This is because serving page faults of
shared memory used by memfd is slower and may impact workloads.

### Deprecated

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