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a single map is used to store mappings between sharing handles and disk blocks.
This is used to share pages which store data read of the same blocks on
(virtual) disk.
Note that the map is stored in a shared memory region, as it needs to be
accessed by multiple tapdisk processes. This complicates memory allocation
(malloc cannot be used), prevents poniters to be stored directly (as the shared
memory region might and is mapped at different base address) and finally pthread
locks need to be multi-process aware.
Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Milos <Grzegorz.Milos@citrix.com>
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