hw/ptimer: Introduce timer policy feature

Some of the timer devices may behave differently from what ptimer
provides. Introduce ptimer policy feature that allows ptimer users to
change default and wrong timer behaviour, for example to continuously
trigger periodic timer when load value is equal to "0".

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
Message-id: 994cd608ec392da6e58f0643800dda595edb9d97.1473252818.git.digetx@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/hw/core/ptimer.c b/hw/core/ptimer.c
index 02c313542d..00fdf157fd 100644
--- a/hw/core/ptimer.c
+++ b/hw/core/ptimer.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ struct ptimer_state
     int64_t period;
     int64_t last_event;
     int64_t next_event;
+    uint8_t policy_mask;
     QEMUBH *bh;
     QEMUTimer *timer;
 };
@@ -243,12 +244,13 @@ const VMStateDescription vmstate_ptimer = {
     }
 };
 
-ptimer_state *ptimer_init(QEMUBH *bh)
+ptimer_state *ptimer_init(QEMUBH *bh, uint8_t policy_mask)
 {
     ptimer_state *s;
 
     s = (ptimer_state *)g_malloc0(sizeof(ptimer_state));
     s->bh = bh;
     s->timer = timer_new_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL, ptimer_tick, s);
+    s->policy_mask = policy_mask;
     return s;
 }