Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH v5 0/7] RTC: New logic to emulate RTC

[Zhang, Yang Z]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 9:07 PM
> Subject: Re: PATCH v5 0/7] RTC: New logic to emulate RTC
> 
> 
> At last this passes my tests, great!  There's still a few problems, but more
> or less it's ok:
> 
> 1) it needs rebase on top of the latest version of QEMU;

I rebased those patches on the top of KVM. I will change to use QEMU in next 
version.

> 2) it doesn't pass tests/rtc-test, but that might even be a problem with
> the test; I'll try to look at it.

How to use rtc-test? I cannot manage to run rtc-test. I searched in google but 
get nothing.

> 3) the migration code is not perfect, something like this needs to be
> squashed in
> 
> diff --git a/hw/mc146818rtc.c b/hw/mc146818rtc.c
> index e76c34b..026bb29 100644
> --- a/hw/mc146818rtc.c
> +++ b/hw/mc146818rtc.c
> @@ -821,27 +821,34 @@ static int rtc_load_old(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque,
> int version_id)
>      }
> 
>      qemu_get_buffer(f, s->cmos_data, sizeof(s->cmos_data));
> -    /* dummy load for compatibility */
> -    qemu_get_buffer(f, buf, 77);
> +    qemu_get_8s(f, &s->cmos_index);
> +
> +    /* Skip loading of s->current_tm, we already have the
> +     * information in cmos_data.
> +     */
> +    qemu_get_buffer(f, buf, 7*4);
> +
> +    qemu_get_timer(f, s->periodic_timer);
> +    s->next_periodic_time = qemu_get_be64(f);
> +
> +    /* Skip loading of next_second_time, second_timer, second_timer2.  */
> +    qemu_get_buffer(f, buf, 3*8);
> 
>      rtc_set_time(s);
>      rtc_set_offset(s, 0);
> -    periodic_timer_update(s,  qemu_get_clock_ns(rtc_clock));
>      check_update_timer(s);
> -
> -#ifdef TARGET_I386
> -    if (s->lost_tick_policy == LOST_TICK_SLEW) {
> -        rtc_coalesced_timer_update(s);
> +    if (version_id >= 2) {
> +        s->irq_coalesced = qemu_get_be32(f);
> +        s->period = qemu_get_be32(f);
>      }
> -#endif
> -    return 0;
> +    return rtc_post_load(opaque, version_id);
>  }
> 
>  static const VMStateDescription vmstate_rtc = {
>      .name = "mc146818rtc",
>      .version_id = 3,
>      .minimum_version_id = 3,
> -    .minimum_version_id_old = 2,
> +    .minimum_version_id_old = 1,
>      .load_state_old = rtc_load_old,
>      .post_load = rtc_post_load,
>      .fields      = (VMStateField []) {
> 
> Otherwise looks good!

Would you mind if I add your name in Acked-by in next version?

Best regards
yang