On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 19:39 +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > > The reason I ask is that we will have to be much more careful about > > memory allocation lifetimes with this patch. > > yes. bad refcounting will lead the host kernel to a crash. One way to alleviate that is to make sure this is only supported on selected devices such as XICS via some flag or the presence of a callback. Cheers, Ben.