On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:38:42AM -0800, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > The virtual event queue should behave the same as if the physical
> > event queue overflows, and that logic should be in the smmu driver -
> > this should return some Exxx to indicate the queue is filled.
> 
> Hmm, the driver only screams...
> 
> static irqreturn_t arm_smmu_evtq_thread(int irq, void *dev)
> {
> [...]
>               /*
>                * Not much we can do on overflow, so scream and pretend we're
>                * trying harder.
>                */
>               if (queue_sync_prod_in(q) == -EOVERFLOW)
>                       dev_err(smmu->dev, "EVTQ overflow detected -- events 
> lost\n");

Well it must know from the HW somehow that the overflow has happened??

> > I supposed we will need a way to indicate lost events to userspace on
> > top of this?
> 
> Perhaps another u32 flag in the arm_smmuv3_vevent struct to report
> an overflow. That said, what userspace/VMM will need to do with it?

Trigger the above code in the VM somehow?

Jason

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