4 * Copyright IBM Corp. 2008
9 * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
10 * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
14 #include "qemu-common.h"
15 #include "qemu-timer.h"
17 #include "device_tree.h"
19 #define PROC_DEVTREE_PATH "/proc/device-tree"
21 static QEMUTimer *kvmppc_timer;
22 static unsigned int kvmppc_timer_rate;
24 static void kvmppc_timer_hack(void *opaque)
27 qemu_mod_timer(kvmppc_timer, qemu_get_clock_ns(vm_clock) + kvmppc_timer_rate);
30 void kvmppc_init(void)
32 /* XXX The only reason KVM yields control back to qemu is device IO. Since
33 * an idle guest does no IO, qemu's device model will never get a chance to
34 * run. So, until QEMU gains IO threads, we create this timer to ensure
35 * that the device model gets a chance to run. */
36 kvmppc_timer_rate = get_ticks_per_sec() / 10;
37 kvmppc_timer = qemu_new_timer_ns(vm_clock, &kvmppc_timer_hack, NULL);
38 qemu_mod_timer(kvmppc_timer, qemu_get_clock_ns(vm_clock) + kvmppc_timer_rate);