Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-target-arm-20160922' into staging

target-arm queue:
 * add Cortex-A7 CPU
 * new ast2500 SoC model and evaluation board
 * palmetto-bmc: remove stray double assignment
 * aspeed: clean up RAM size handling
 * ptimer: framework for defining policy bits to change
   behaviour choices for different timer devices
 * ptimer: add some test cases
 * cadence_gem: add queue support
 * loader: support loading images to specified address spaces
 * loader: support auto-detect of ELF architecture from file
 * dma: xlnx-zynq-devcfg: Fix up XLNX_ZYNQ_DEVCFG_R_MAX
 * vmstateify ssd0323
 * vmstateify ssi-sd
 * disas/arm.c: remove unused macros
 * imx: use 'const char', not 'char const'

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# gpg:                 aka "Peter Maydell <pmaydell@gmail.com>"
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* remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-target-arm-20160922: (36 commits)
  imx: Use 'const char', not 'char const'
  disas/arm.c: Remove unused macro definitions
  vmstateify ssi-sd
  vmstateify ssd0323 display
  dma: xlnx-zynq-devcfg: Fix up XLNX_ZYNQ_DEVCFG_R_MAX
  loader: Add AddressSpace loading support to targphys
  loader: Add AddressSpace loading support to uImages
  loader: Add AddressSpace loading support to ELFs
  loader: Allow a custom AddressSpace when loading ROMs
  loader: Use the specified MemoryRegion
  loader: Allow ELF loader to auto-detect the ELF arch
  xlnx-zynqmp: Set the number of priority queues
  cadence_gem: Correct indentation
  cadence_gem: Add queue support
  cadence_gem: Add support for screening
  cadence_gem: Add the num-priority-queues property
  cadence_gem: QOMify Cadence GEM
  tests: Add ptimer tests
  hw/ptimer: Suppress error messages under qtest
  hw/ptimer: Introduce timer policy feature
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/hw/ptimer.h b/include/hw/ptimer.h
index e397db5bdb..26c7fdcd75 100644
--- a/include/hw/ptimer.h
+++ b/include/hw/ptimer.h
@@ -12,11 +12,34 @@
 #include "qemu/timer.h"
 #include "migration/vmstate.h"
 
+/* The default ptimer policy retains backward compatibility with the legacy
+ * timers. Custom policies are adjusting the default one. Consider providing
+ * a correct policy for your timer.
+ *
+ * The rough edges of the default policy:
+ *  - Starting to run with a period = 0 emits error message and stops the
+ *    timer without a trigger.
+ *
+ *  - Setting period to 0 of the running timer emits error message and
+ *    stops the timer without a trigger.
+ *
+ *  - Starting to run with counter = 0 or setting it to "0" while timer
+ *    is running causes a trigger and reloads counter with a limit value.
+ *    If limit = 0, ptimer emits error message and stops the timer.
+ *
+ *  - Counter value of the running timer is one less than the actual value.
+ *
+ *  - Changing period/frequency of the running timer loses time elapsed
+ *    since the last period, effectively restarting the timer with a
+ *    counter = counter value at the moment of change (.i.e. one less).
+ */
+#define PTIMER_POLICY_DEFAULT               0
+
 /* ptimer.c */
 typedef struct ptimer_state ptimer_state;
 typedef void (*ptimer_cb)(void *opaque);
 
-ptimer_state *ptimer_init(QEMUBH *bh);
+ptimer_state *ptimer_init(QEMUBH *bh, uint8_t policy_mask);
 void ptimer_set_period(ptimer_state *s, int64_t period);
 void ptimer_set_freq(ptimer_state *s, uint32_t freq);
 uint64_t ptimer_get_limit(ptimer_state *s);