Re: [PATCH v6 01/16] cpu-timers, icount: new modules

[Richard Henderson]

On 9/1/20 12:21 AM, Claudio Fontana wrote:
> refactoring of cpus.c continues with cpu timer state extraction.
> 
> cpu-timers: responsible for the softmmu cpu timers state,
>             including cpu clocks and ticks.
> 
> icount: counts the TCG instructions executed. As such it is specific to
> the TCG accelerator. Therefore, it is built only under CONFIG_TCG.
> 
> One complication is due to qtest, which uses an icount field to warp time
> as part of qtest (qtest_clock_warp).
> 
> In order to solve this problem, provide a separate counter for qtest.
> 
> This requires fixing assumptions scattered in the code that
> qtest_enabled() implies icount_enabled(), checking each specific case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

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