17. While tracing virtio-blk crash issues, I have found
cpu_physical_memory_map() in upstream-qemu+xen behaves
different with others. This prevents proper work of virtio-ring bundled
in qemu.
When a caller requests more than 2 guest-physical pages, the function
will map the pages in host-virtual, as possible. In kvm+qemu, the
region residents always sequential in host-virtual, so it will work
perfectly. However, in xen+qemu, the region mapping is sometimes
fragmented and partial. ( )
18. Citrix
This is a very serious issue, thank you very much for
spotting it!
I am going to refactor cpu_physical_memory_map to fix the
problem, I‘ll send you a patch as soon as I have it ready.
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