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-rw-r--r--cpus.c19
-rw-r--r--include/qemu-common.h1
-rw-r--r--qemu-options.hx15
-rw-r--r--vl.c4
4 files changed, 30 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/cpus.c b/cpus.c
index 8291044..7e09538 100644
--- a/cpus.c
+++ b/cpus.c
@@ -476,25 +476,30 @@ static const VMStateDescription vmstate_timers = {
void configure_icount(QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp)
{
const char *option;
+ char *rem_str = NULL;
seqlock_init(&timers_state.vm_clock_seqlock, NULL);
vmstate_register(NULL, 0, &vmstate_timers, &timers_state);
option = qemu_opt_get(opts, "shift");
if (!option) {
+ if (qemu_opt_get(opts, "align") != NULL) {
+ error_setg(errp, "Please specify shift option when using align");
+ }
return;
}
- /* When using -icount shift, the shift option will be
- misinterpreted as a boolean */
- if (strcmp(option, "on") == 0 || strcmp(option, "off") == 0) {
- error_setg(errp, "The shift option must be a number or auto");
- }
-
+ icount_align_option = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "align", false);
icount_warp_timer = timer_new_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME,
icount_warp_rt, NULL);
if (strcmp(option, "auto") != 0) {
- icount_time_shift = strtol(option, NULL, 0);
+ errno = 0;
+ icount_time_shift = strtol(option, &rem_str, 0);
+ if (errno != 0 || *rem_str != '\0' || !strlen(option)) {
+ error_setg(errp, "icount: Invalid shift value");
+ }
use_icount = 1;
return;
+ } else if (icount_align_option) {
+ error_setg(errp, "shift=auto and align=on are incompatible");
}
use_icount = 2;
diff --git a/include/qemu-common.h b/include/qemu-common.h
index 04b0769..5d10ac2 100644
--- a/include/qemu-common.h
+++ b/include/qemu-common.h
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ static inline char *realpath(const char *path, char *resolved_path)
/* icount */
void configure_icount(QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp);
extern int use_icount;
+extern int icount_align_option;
#include "qemu/osdep.h"
#include "qemu/bswap.h"
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 5a1b001..96516c1 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -3011,9 +3011,9 @@ re-inject them.
ETEXI
DEF("icount", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_icount, \
- "-icount [shift=N|auto]\n" \
+ "-icount [shift=N|auto][,align=on|off]\n" \
" enable virtual instruction counter with 2^N clock ticks per\n" \
- " instruction\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
+ " instruction and enable aligning the host and virtual clocks\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
STEXI
@item -icount [shift=@var{N}|auto]
@findex -icount
@@ -3026,6 +3026,17 @@ Note that while this option can give deterministic behavior, it does not
provide cycle accurate emulation. Modern CPUs contain superscalar out of
order cores with complex cache hierarchies. The number of instructions
executed often has little or no correlation with actual performance.
+
+@option{align=on} will activate the delay algorithm which will try to
+to synchronise the host clock and the virtual clock. The goal is to
+have a guest running at the real frequency imposed by the shift option.
+Whenever the guest clock is behind the host clock and if
+@option{align=on} is specified then we print a messsage to the user
+to inform about the delay.
+Currently this option does not work when @option{shift} is @code{auto}.
+Note: The sync algorithm will work for those shift values for which
+the guest clock runs ahead of the host clock. Typically this happens
+when the shift value is high (how high depends on the host machine).
ETEXI
DEF("watchdog", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_watchdog, \
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index f2621a5..a8029d5 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ uint8_t *boot_splash_filedata;
size_t boot_splash_filedata_size;
uint8_t qemu_extra_params_fw[2];
+int icount_align_option;
typedef struct FWBootEntry FWBootEntry;
struct FWBootEntry {
@@ -546,6 +547,9 @@ static QemuOptsList qemu_icount_opts = {
{
.name = "shift",
.type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
+ }, {
+ .name = "align",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
},
{ /* end of list */ }
},
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