This ensures each time the vCPU thread reads the icount we update the master timer_state.qemu_icount field. This way as long as updates are in BQL protected sections (which they should be) the main-loop can never come to update the log and find time has gone backwards.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> --- cpus.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/cpus.c b/cpus.c index ff75af449a..63de033cc8 100644 --- a/cpus.c +++ b/cpus.c @@ -246,19 +246,17 @@ void cpu_update_icount(CPUState *cpu) int64_t cpu_get_icount_raw(void) { - int64_t icount; CPUState *cpu = current_cpu; - icount = atomic_read(&timers_state.qemu_icount); if (cpu && cpu->running) { if (!cpu->can_do_io) { fprintf(stderr, "Bad icount read\n"); exit(1); } /* Take into account what has run */ - icount += cpu_get_icount_executed(cpu); + cpu_update_icount(cpu); } - return icount; + return atomic_read(&timers_state.qemu_icount); } /* Return the virtual CPU time, based on the instruction counter. */ -- 2.11.0