[Xen-devel] Re: two xenfb bugs for sale ;)

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx> writes:

>   Hi,
>
> Wondered where some xen-vncfb processes handing around on my machine
> came from.  After some Investigation I've figured that xen-vncfb never
> ever exits if you boot a virtual machine with a virtual framebuffer
> configured, but boot a kernel without framebuffer support.  It sits
> waiting for the frontend device come up and doesn't exit when the domain
> goes away.

Patch to be posted shortly.

> Oh, and it also doesn't unmap the framebuffer memory once the frontend
> enteres the "Closing" state.

You're right, it only unmaps the two shared pages.  The framebuffer is
normally unmapped in xenfb_detach_dom(), called from xenfb_delete().
What's wrong with that?  Note that we must not unmap the framebuffer
while it's still being used by LibVNCServer or SDL.

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