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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ivshmem: document a potential segmentation
	fault in rte_ring
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:05:27 +0200
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2016-06-01 15:51, Anatoly Burakov:
> Commit 4768c475 added a pointer to the memzone in rte_ring. However,
> all memzones are residing in local mem_config, therefore accessing
> the memzone pointer inside the guest in an IVSHMEM-shared rte_ring
> will cause segmentation fault. This issue is unlikely to ever get
> fixed, as this would require lots of changes for very little benefit,
> therefore we're documenting this limitation instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

Applied, thanks