| Message ID | cover.1539846575.git.artem.k.pisarenko@gmail.com |
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| Series | Fix and improve core RTC function and documentation | expand |
On 18/10/2018 09:12, Artem Pisarenko wrote: > Modifications are motivated by bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1797033 I've encountered recently. > > Trying to fix it and analyzing its effect on all use cases (not covered in bug report) revealed much deeper problems. > This is my first patch to QEMU and I'm not sure whether the way I addressed them is proper. > They definitely require either modifications to current implementation (breaking compability), or adding clarifications to user documentation. I've tried to find compromise. > Changes I propose are driven mostly by my interpretation of user documentation and comments in code, rather than by existing implementation. > > I've splitted patches in a way that at least some of them may be accepted. Following subsets are make sense on their own: > - 1 > - 1,2,3 > > I limited refactoring only to vl.c, although it leads to reworking of all hw/* rtc models which have unreasonable duplications of actions performed by vl.c. > I'm sure such kind of rework will reveal more hidden bugs/features, but so far I've had enough (it's a long story how muсh effort and pain cost me to find that tricky bug above). > I suppose just to draw attention of relevant hw/* maintainers. Queued, thanks. As a start of future refactoring, would you mind moving all this code to hw/timer/rtc.c or rtc.c? It was somewaht generic before, but now it's very tied to -rtc. Paolo > > v3 changes: > - commit messages rewritten/shortened/wrapped to match patch requirements > - fixed minor typo > v2 changes: > - fixed compiler warning caused non-debug build fail > > > Artem Pisarenko (4): > vl: improve/fix documentation related to RTC function > vl: refactor -rtc option references > Fixes RTC bug with base datetime shifts in clock=vm > vl,qapi: offset calculation in RTC_CHANGE event reverted > > qapi/misc.json | 3 +- > qemu-options.hx | 14 +++++--- > vl.c | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- > 3 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) >
> As a start of future refactoring, would you mind moving all this code to > hw/timer/rtc.c or rtc.c? It was somewaht generic before, but now it's > very tied to -rtc. Yes, sure.