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doc(changelog): mention usage of anon private for non-vhost-user vms
Adds a changelog entry that VMs that do not use vhost-user-blk devices are backed by anon private memory mapping. (cherry picked from commit a6ee3b5) Signed-off-by: Nikita Kalyazin <kalyazin@amazon.com>
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CHANGELOG.md

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information about page size to the payload Firecracker sends to the UFFD
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handler. Each memory region object now contains a `page_size_kib` field. See
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also the [hugepages documentation](docs/hugepages.md).
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- [#4501](https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/4501): Only
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use memfd to back guest memory if a vhost-user-blk device is configured,
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otherwise use anonymous private memory. This is because serving page faults of
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shared memory used by memfd is slower and may impact workloads.
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### Fixed
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