Monitoring MMIO to PCI Passthrough devices?

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Hi all,

I'm quite new to KVM/QEMU internals.
On recent x86 setups (Sandy/Ivy Bridge with vt-x and vt-d), if I
attach a PCI device via PCI-Passthrough to a VM,
I can directly do MMIO with the device's registers or whatsoever hides
behind it's BAR addresses.

I wonder if there is a way for the Host/VMM to monitor/trap guest
access to such areas.
I think this is not what PCI passthrough is intended for, because it
wants to get the host out of the way for I/O with device.
But what if a guest goes nuts and starts to flood the interconnect
with usless transactions to the PCI device?

I would be very thankful for some hints / pointers :)

Greetings,
Andre
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