ptimer: Provide new transaction-based API

Provide the new transaction-based API. If a ptimer is created
using ptimer_init() rather than ptimer_init_with_bh(), then
instead of providing a QEMUBH, it provides a pointer to the
callback function directly, and has opted into the transaction
API. All calls to functions which modify ptimer state:
 - ptimer_set_period()
 - ptimer_set_freq()
 - ptimer_set_limit()
 - ptimer_set_count()
 - ptimer_run()
 - ptimer_stop()
must be between matched calls to ptimer_transaction_begin()
and ptimer_transaction_commit(). When ptimer_transaction_commit()
is called it will evaluate the state of the timer after all the
changes in the transaction, and call the callback if necessary.

In the old API the individual update functions generally would
call ptimer_trigger() immediately, which would schedule the QEMUBH.
In the new API the update functions will instead defer the
"set s->next_event and call ptimer_reload()" work to
ptimer_transaction_commit().

Because ptimer_trigger() can now immediately call into the
device code which may then call other ptimer functions that
update ptimer_state fields, we must be more careful in
ptimer_reload() not to cache fields from ptimer_state across
the ptimer_trigger() call. (This was harmless with the QEMUBH
mechanism as the BH would not be invoked until much later.)

We use assertions to check that:
 * the functions modifying ptimer state are not called outside
   a transaction block
 * ptimer_transaction_begin() and _commit() calls are paired
 * the transaction API is not used with a QEMUBH ptimer

There is some slight repetition of code:
 * most of the set functions have similar looking "if s->bh
   call ptimer_reload, otherwise set s->need_reload" code
 * ptimer_init() and ptimer_init_with_bh() have similar code
We deliberately don't try to avoid this repetition, because
it will all be deleted when the QEMUBH version of the API
is removed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20191008171740.9679-3-peter.maydell@linaro.org

1 files changed, 72 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/hw/ptimer.h b/include/hw/ptimer.h
index 2fb9ba1..4c321f6 100644
--- a/include/hw/ptimer.h
+++ b/include/hw/ptimer.h
@@ -92,6 +92,38 @@ typedef void (*ptimer_cb)(void *opaque);
 ptimer_state *ptimer_init_with_bh(QEMUBH *bh, uint8_t policy_mask);
 
 /**
+ * ptimer_init - Allocate and return a new ptimer
+ * @callback: function to call on ptimer expiry
+ * @callback_opaque: opaque pointer passed to @callback
+ * @policy: PTIMER_POLICY_* bits specifying behaviour
+ *
+ * The ptimer returned must be freed using ptimer_free().
+ *
+ * If a ptimer is created using this API then will use the
+ * transaction-based API for modifying ptimer state: all calls
+ * to functions which modify ptimer state:
+ *  - ptimer_set_period()
+ *  - ptimer_set_freq()
+ *  - ptimer_set_limit()
+ *  - ptimer_set_count()
+ *  - ptimer_run()
+ *  - ptimer_stop()
+ * must be between matched calls to ptimer_transaction_begin()
+ * and ptimer_transaction_commit(). When ptimer_transaction_commit()
+ * is called it will evaluate the state of the timer after all the
+ * changes in the transaction, and call the callback if necessary.
+ *
+ * The callback function is always called from within a transaction
+ * begin/commit block, so the callback should not call the
+ * ptimer_transaction_begin() function itself. If the callback changes
+ * the ptimer state such that another ptimer expiry is triggered, then
+ * the callback will be called a second time after the first call returns.
+ */
+ptimer_state *ptimer_init(ptimer_cb callback,
+                          void *callback_opaque,
+                          uint8_t policy_mask);
+
+/**
  * ptimer_free - Free a ptimer
  * @s: timer to free
  *
@@ -101,6 +133,28 @@ ptimer_state *ptimer_init_with_bh(QEMUBH *bh, uint8_t policy_mask);
 void ptimer_free(ptimer_state *s);
 
 /**
+ * ptimer_transaction_begin() - Start a ptimer modification transaction
+ *
+ * This function must be called before making any calls to functions
+ * which modify the ptimer's state (see the ptimer_init() documentation
+ * for a list of these), and must always have a matched call to
+ * ptimer_transaction_commit().
+ * It is an error to call this function for a BH-based ptimer;
+ * attempting to do this will trigger an assert.
+ */
+void ptimer_transaction_begin(ptimer_state *s);
+
+/**
+ * ptimer_transaction_commit() - Commit a ptimer modification transaction
+ *
+ * This function must be called after calls to functions which modify
+ * the ptimer's state, and completes the update of the ptimer. If the
+ * ptimer state now means that we should trigger the timer expiry
+ * callback, it will be called directly.
+ */
+void ptimer_transaction_commit(ptimer_state *s);
+
+/**
  * ptimer_set_period - Set counter increment interval in nanoseconds
  * @s: ptimer to configure
  * @period: period of the counter in nanoseconds
@@ -108,6 +162,9 @@ void ptimer_free(ptimer_state *s);
  * Note that if your counter behaviour is specified as having a
  * particular frequency rather than a period then ptimer_set_freq()
  * may be more appropriate.
+ *
+ * This function will assert if it is called outside a
+ * ptimer_transaction_begin/commit block, unless this is a bottom-half ptimer.
  */
 void ptimer_set_period(ptimer_state *s, int64_t period);
 
@@ -121,6 +178,9 @@ void ptimer_set_period(ptimer_state *s, int64_t period);
  * as setting the frequency then this function is more appropriate,
  * because it allows specifying an effective period which is
  * precise to fractions of a nanosecond, avoiding rounding errors.
+ *
+ * This function will assert if it is called outside a
+ * ptimer_transaction_begin/commit block, unless this is a bottom-half ptimer.
  */
 void ptimer_set_freq(ptimer_state *s, uint32_t freq);
 
@@ -148,6 +208,9 @@ uint64_t ptimer_get_limit(ptimer_state *s);
  * Set the limit value of the down-counter. The @reload flag can
  * be used to emulate the behaviour of timers which immediately
  * reload the counter when their reload register is written to.
+ *
+ * This function will assert if it is called outside a
+ * ptimer_transaction_begin/commit block, unless this is a bottom-half ptimer.
  */
 void ptimer_set_limit(ptimer_state *s, uint64_t limit, int reload);
 
@@ -169,6 +232,9 @@ uint64_t ptimer_get_count(ptimer_state *s);
  * Set the value of the down-counter. If the counter is currently
  * enabled this will arrange for a timer callback at the appropriate
  * point in the future.
+ *
+ * This function will assert if it is called outside a
+ * ptimer_transaction_begin/commit block, unless this is a bottom-half ptimer.
  */
 void ptimer_set_count(ptimer_state *s, uint64_t count);
 
@@ -183,6 +249,9 @@ void ptimer_set_count(ptimer_state *s, uint64_t count);
  * the counter value will then be reloaded from the limit and it will
  * start counting down again. If @oneshot is non-zero, then the counter
  * will disable itself when it reaches zero.
+ *
+ * This function will assert if it is called outside a
+ * ptimer_transaction_begin/commit block, unless this is a bottom-half ptimer.
  */
 void ptimer_run(ptimer_state *s, int oneshot);
 
@@ -195,6 +264,9 @@ void ptimer_run(ptimer_state *s, int oneshot);
  *
  * Note that this can cause it to "lose" time, even if it is immediately
  * restarted.
+ *
+ * This function will assert if it is called outside a
+ * ptimer_transaction_begin/commit block, unless this is a bottom-half ptimer.
  */
 void ptimer_stop(ptimer_state *s);