PowerPC CPUs have had two ways to read the time base for quite some time now.
They provide it using the mfspr instruction or - if a special bit is set in
that opcode - using mftb. For timekeeping we're currently using mftb.

While trying to get Qemu up and running on an e500v2 system, I stumbled over
the CPU not supporting mftbu. It just throws an illegal instruction trap.

So let's read the SPR values instead. All PPC CPUs should support them anyways.

I tested this patch on an e500v2 system where it makes qemu work and on my 970MP
system with 32-bit user space where everything still works with this patch
applied.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nmalc <av1474@comtv.ru>

Arrange various declarations so that also non-CPU code can access
them, adjust users.

Move CPU specific code to cpus.c.
Signed-off-by: NBlue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

Some places use get_clock directly because they want to access the
rt_clock with nanosecond precision.  Add a function to do exactly that
instead of using internal interfaces.
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

Despite its name QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME is (normally) not using
CLOCK_REALTIME / the host system time as base. In order to allow also
non-trivial RTC emulations (MC146818) to follow the host time instead of
the virtual guest time, introduce the new clock type QEMU_CLOCK_HOST. It
is unconditionally based on CLOCK_REALTIME, thus will follow system time
changes of the host.

The only limitation of its current implementation is that pending
host_clock timers may not fire early if the host time is pushed forward
beyond their expiry. So far no urgent need to overcome this limitation
was identified, so it's left as simple as it is (expiry on next alarm
timer tick).
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

ticks_per_sec is a constant.  There's no need to store it as a variable as it
never changes since our time is based on units.

Convert get_ticks_per_sec() to a static inline and move the constant into
qemu-timer.h.  Remove all references to QEMU_TIMER_BASE so that we consistently
use this interface.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: NJuan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

This patch introduces dynamic timer intervals: we slow down the refresh
rate when there in no much activity but we get back to a fast refresh
rate when the activity resume.

Please note that qemu_timer_expired is not an inline function any more
because I needed to call it from vnc.c however I don't think this change
should have any serious consequence.
Signed-off-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-Id: 

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@3674 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162