[vbox-dev] Assertion in vmmdevHGCMSaveLinPtr()

[Frank Mehnert]

On Saturday 09 April 2011 12:55:37 David P. Reese, Jr. wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get my own HGCM module to work on a Mac OS X host and I'm
> occasionally getting an assertion just after my module's Connect() routine
> completes.  Here's the message and stack trace:
> 
>    !!Assertion Failed!!
>    Expression: iPage == cPages
>    Location  :
> /Users/daver/Software/VirtualBox-4.0.4_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/VMMDev/VMMDevH
> GCM.cpp(278) int vmmdevHGCMSaveLinPtr(PDMDEVINS*, uint32_t, RTGCPTR,
> uint32_t, uint32_t, VBOXHGCMLINPTR*, RTGCPHYS**)
> 
> [...]
>
> Taking a look at vmmdevHGCMSaveLinPtr(), it looks like the VMM has failed
> to map the guest pages required to make a HGCM call.  This assertion is
> only triggered occasionally and, rather disturbingly, I cannot get the
> assertion to happen with a debug build of VirtualBox.
> 
> I'm running a Linux guest with a kernel module that uses vboxguest.ko to
> interface with HGCM.  My kernel module simply connects and spawns a kernel
> thread that makes a service call once every second.
> 
> This is using the 4.0.4_OSE sources from the web site.

How does that service call look like? Looks like your guest did not
specify guest physical addresses.

Kind regards,

Frank
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