util/qemu-timer: refactor deadline calculation for external timers

icount-based record/replay uses qemu_clock_deadline_ns_all to measure
the period until vCPU may be interrupted.
This function takes in account the virtual timers, because they belong
to the virtual devices that may generate interrupt request or affect
the virtual machine state.
However, there are a subset of virtual timers, that are marked with
'external' flag. These do not change the virtual machine state and
only based on virtual clock. Calculating the deadling using the external
timers breaks the determinism, because they do not belong to the replayed
part of the virtual machine.
This patch fixes the deadline calculation for this case by adding
new parameter for skipping the external timers when it is needed.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <Pavel.Dovgaluk@ispras.ru>

--

v2 changes:
 - added new parameter for timer attribute mask
Message-Id: <156404426682.18669.17014100602930969222.stgit@pasha-Precision-3630-Tower>

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/cpus.c b/cpus.c
index f4ad855..85cd451 100644
--- a/cpus.c
+++ b/cpus.c
@@ -556,7 +556,8 @@ void qtest_clock_warp(int64_t dest)
     assert(qtest_enabled());
     aio_context = qemu_get_aio_context();
     while (clock < dest) {
-        int64_t deadline = qemu_clock_deadline_ns_all(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL);
+        int64_t deadline = qemu_clock_deadline_ns_all(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL,
+                                                      QEMU_TIMER_ATTR_ALL);
         int64_t warp = qemu_soonest_timeout(dest - clock, deadline);
 
         seqlock_write_lock(&timers_state.vm_clock_seqlock,
@@ -616,7 +617,8 @@ void qemu_start_warp_timer(void)
 
     /* We want to use the earliest deadline from ALL vm_clocks */
     clock = qemu_clock_get_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL_RT);
-    deadline = qemu_clock_deadline_ns_all(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL);
+    deadline = qemu_clock_deadline_ns_all(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL,
+                                          ~QEMU_TIMER_ATTR_EXTERNAL);
     if (deadline < 0) {
         static bool notified;
         if (!icount_sleep && !notified) {
@@ -1352,7 +1354,12 @@ static int64_t tcg_get_icount_limit(void)
     int64_t deadline;
 
     if (replay_mode != REPLAY_MODE_PLAY) {
-        deadline = qemu_clock_deadline_ns_all(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL);
+        /*
+         * Include all the timers, because they may need an attention.
+         * Too long CPU execution may create unnecessary delay in UI.
+         */
+        deadline = qemu_clock_deadline_ns_all(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL,
+                                              QEMU_TIMER_ATTR_ALL);
 
         /* Maintain prior (possibly buggy) behaviour where if no deadline
          * was set (as there is no QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL timer) or it is more than
@@ -1373,8 +1380,8 @@ static void handle_icount_deadline(void)
 {
     assert(qemu_in_vcpu_thread());
     if (use_icount) {
-        int64_t deadline =
-            qemu_clock_deadline_ns_all(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL);
+        int64_t deadline = qemu_clock_deadline_ns_all(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL,
+                                                      QEMU_TIMER_ATTR_ALL);
 
         if (deadline == 0) {
             /* Wake up other AioContexts.  */