dev,arm: remove and recreate timer events around drains

Having timer events stored in checkpoints complicates Kvm
execution.  We change the timer behavior so that it always
deschedules any pending events on a drain() and recreates
them on a drainResume(), thus they will never appear in
checkpoints henceforth.  This pattern of behavior makes
it simpler to handle Kvm execution, where the hardware
performs the timer function directly.

Change-Id: Ia218868c69350d96e923c640634d492b5c19cd3f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3541
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/src/dev/arm/generic_timer.cc b/src/dev/arm/generic_timer.cc
index efaebb1ba..48f70e135 100644
--- a/src/dev/arm/generic_timer.cc
+++ b/src/dev/arm/generic_timer.cc
@@ -179,13 +179,6 @@ ArchTimer::serialize(CheckpointOut &cp) const
     paramOut(cp, "control_serial", _control);
     SERIALIZE_SCALAR(_counterLimit);
     SERIALIZE_SCALAR(_offset);
-
-    const bool event_scheduled(_counterLimitReachedEvent.scheduled());
-    SERIALIZE_SCALAR(event_scheduled);
-    if (event_scheduled) {
-        const Tick event_time(_counterLimitReachedEvent.when());
-        SERIALIZE_SCALAR(event_time);
-    }
 }
 
 void
@@ -197,13 +190,24 @@ ArchTimer::unserialize(CheckpointIn &cp)
     // compatibility.
     if (!UNSERIALIZE_OPT_SCALAR(_offset))
         _offset = 0;
-    bool event_scheduled;
-    UNSERIALIZE_SCALAR(event_scheduled);
-    if (event_scheduled) {
-        Tick event_time;
-        UNSERIALIZE_SCALAR(event_time);
-        _parent.schedule(_counterLimitReachedEvent, event_time);
-    }
+
+    // We no longer schedule an event here because we may enter KVM
+    // emulation.  The event creation is delayed until drainResume().
+}
+
+DrainState
+ArchTimer::drain()
+{
+    if (_counterLimitReachedEvent.scheduled())
+        _parent.deschedule(_counterLimitReachedEvent);
+
+    return DrainState::Drained;
+}
+
+void
+ArchTimer::drainResume()
+{
+    updateCounter();
 }
 
 void