The data plane thread needs to map guest physical addresses to host
pointers. Normally this is done with cpu_physical_memory_map() but the
function assumes the global mutex is held. The data plane thread does
not touch the global mutex and therefore needs a thread-safe memory
mapping mechanism.
The data plane thread needs to map guest physical addresses to host
pointers. Normally this is done with cpu_physical_memory_map() but the
function assumes the global mutex is held. The data plane thread does
not touch the global mutex and therefore needs a thread-safe memory
mapping mechanism.