[edk2-devel] [PATCH v4 30/35] OvmfPkg/OvmfXen: Introduce XenTimerDxe

Laszlo Ersek lersek at redhat.com
Tue Jul 30 12:30:41 UTC 2019


On 07/29/19 17:39, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> "OvmfPkg/8254TimerDxe" is replaced with a Xen-specific
> EFI_TIMER_ARCH_PROTOCOL implementation. Also remove
> 8259InterruptControllerDxe as it is not used anymore.
> 
> This Timer uses the local APIC timer as time source as it can work on
> both a Xen PVH guest and an HVM one.
> 
> Based on the "OvmfPkg/8254TimerDxe" implementation.
> 
> Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689
> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard at citrix.com>
> Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     v4:
>     - fix the commit message to reflect the fact that the original code as
>       moved.
>     - Update Maintainers.txt
>     
>     v3:
>     - rebased, SPDX, copyright
>     
>     v2:
>     - Use InitializeApicTimer instead of WriteLocalApicReg
>     - rework comments (remove many that don't apply)
>     - remove unused includes, and libs
>     - have a macro to the timervector.
>     - cleanup, copyright
>     - rework calculation of TimerCount, value to be use by the APIC timer
>     - check for overflow of TimerPeriod, with the apic timer, the period can
>       be up to about 42s on Xen (or even higher by changing the DivideValue).
> 
>  OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.dsc                 |   3 +-
>  OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.fdf                 |   3 +-
>  OvmfPkg/XenTimerDxe/XenTimerDxe.inf |  42 ++++
>  OvmfPkg/XenTimerDxe/XenTimerDxe.h   | 177 ++++++++++++++
>  OvmfPkg/XenTimerDxe/XenTimerDxe.c   | 355 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  Maintainers.txt                     |   1 +
>  6 files changed, 577 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 OvmfPkg/XenTimerDxe/XenTimerDxe.inf
>  create mode 100644 OvmfPkg/XenTimerDxe/XenTimerDxe.h
>  create mode 100644 OvmfPkg/XenTimerDxe/XenTimerDxe.c

[...]

> diff --git a/Maintainers.txt b/Maintainers.txt
> index f51731a6b6..78e9f889ab 100644
> --- a/Maintainers.txt
> +++ b/Maintainers.txt
> @@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ F: OvmfPkg/XenIoPciDxe/
>  F: OvmfPkg/XenPlatformPei/
>  F: OvmfPkg/XenPvBlkDxe/
>  F: OvmfPkg/XenResetVector/
> +F: OvmfPkg/XenTimerDxe/
>  R: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard at citrix.com>
>  R: Julien Grall <julien.grall at arm.com>
>  
> 

Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>

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