[Xen-devel] MMAP failure after creating an HVM guest

["Dugger, Donald D" <donald.d.dugger@xxxxxxxxx>]

In tracking down an X windows problem I've discovered that an `mmap' on
Dom0 fails after an HVM guest is created.  The problem is with the 2
system calls:

        fd = open("/dev/mem", O_RDWR);
        p = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);

These calls work fine until after the first HVM guest is created and
then the `mmap' fails with an EFAULT.  Interestingly enough, the `mmap'
works if `/dev/mem' is opened read only and the failure only happens
after the HVM guest goes into protected mode, if you destroy an HVM
Linux guest while it's still in Grub then this `mmap' will still work.

--
Don Dugger
"Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale
Donald.D.Dugger@xxxxxxxxx
Ph: (303)440-1368

mmap.c
Description: mmap.c

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