userspace emulated smmu/vfio integration: how to trap updates to the table structures?

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Hi Will, Robin, Jean-Philippe,

I have been working on the integration between user-space emulated
SMMU-v3 and VFIO in QEMU. At the moment I fail identifying a proper easy
way to trap page table updates. This is requested to keep the host
translation structures consistent to guest translation structures.

On Intel VTD there is a so-called "caching mode" (CM, see VTD spec
paragraph 6.1) that forces the OS to explicitly invalidate caches
whenever it updates any remapping structure (updates to not-present or
present entries). Those invalidation commands are used to trap and
update host structures. This mode was devised for virtualization. I was
not able to find such "caching mode" on ARM SMMU. Is there any?

If not, do you have any other suggestion, I mean, besides the
virtio-based solution.

Thanks

Eric



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