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Date:      Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:05:21 +0100
From:      Giovanni Trematerra <giovanni.trematerra@gmail.com>
To:        Jacques Fourie <jacques.fourie@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox and vtophys
Message-ID:  <4e6cba831002240605g17cd3ed7l60b635cedba2ae77@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <be2f52431002240341g7eea52f3tc751d59b2a51806@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <be2f52431002240341g7eea52f3tc751d59b2a51806@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Jacques Fourie
<jacques.fourie@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that my virtualbox vboxdrv.ko started crashing after
> updating my 8.0-stable install. The crash occurs when vboxdrv calls
> vtophys() on a userland virtual address. Prior to r202894 this was
> working fine. Modifying pmap_kextract() to use vtopte() for non-kernel
> virtual adresses fixes the problem. Is it intended for vtophys() to
> still work on userland virtual addresses?

No, vtophys is not intended to be used along with user virtual addresses.

--
Gianni



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