From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 24 14:56:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E691065673 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA8D58FC14 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9747F46B53; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:56:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id DDC3B8A024; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:56:11 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:43:20 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.2-CBSD-20100120; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002240943.20648.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:56:11 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Jacques Fourie Subject: Re: VirtualBox and vtophys X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:13 -0000 On Wednesday 24 February 2010 6:41:31 am Jacques Fourie 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? Use pmap_extract(pmap, ...) for user addresses. Granted, that is only reliable if the user pages have been wired in some fashion. -- John Baldwin