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Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] x86/time: introduce probing logic for the wallclock


  • To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 17:58:47 +0200
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  • Cc: "Daniel P. Smith" <dpsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:58:56 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On 04.09.2024 17:31, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/time.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/time.c
> @@ -1291,14 +1291,23 @@ static bool __get_cmos_time(struct rtc_time *rtc)
>      return t1 <= SECONDS(1) && t2 < MILLISECS(3);
>  }
>  
> -static bool cmos_probe(struct rtc_time *rtc_p, bool cmos_rtc_probe)
> +static bool __initdata cmos_rtc_probe;
> +boolean_param("cmos-rtc-probe", cmos_rtc_probe);
> +
> +static bool __init cmos_probe(void)

I'm sorry for not paying attention to this earlier, but "cmos" alone
is misleading here and perhaps even more so for cmos_read(). These
aren't about the CMOS (storage) but the CMOS RTC. May I suggest
cmos_rtc_{probe,read}() instead?

>  {
>      unsigned int seconds = 60;
>  
> +    if ( !(acpi_gbl_FADT.boot_flags & ACPI_FADT_NO_CMOS_RTC) )
> +        return true;
> +
> +    if ( !cmos_rtc_probe )
> +        return false;

With this I think ...

>      for ( ; ; )
>      {
> -        bool success = __get_cmos_time(rtc_p);
> -        struct rtc_time rtc = *rtc_p;
> +        struct rtc_time rtc;
> +        bool success = __get_cmos_time(&rtc);
>  
>          if ( likely(!cmos_rtc_probe) )
>              return true;

... this ends up being dead code.

Jan



 


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