There's a fallback to PIT if TSC is not present but it doesn't work properly. It prevents boot from floppy on isapc and 486 cpu [1][2].
SeaBIOS configures PIT in Mode 2. PIT counter is decremented in the mode but timer_adjust_bits() thinks that the counter overflows and increases 32-bit tick counter on each detected "overflow". Invalid overflow detection results in 55ms time advance (1 / 18.2Hz) on each read from PIT counter. So all timers expire much faster and 5-second floppy timeout expires in 83 real microseconds (or just a bit longer).
Provide counter direction to timer_adjust_bits() and normalize the counter to advance ticks in monotonically increasing TimerLast.
1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/seabios/+bug/1840719 2. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-08/msg03924.html
Fixes: eac11944019 ("Unify pmtimer_read() and pittimer_read() code.") Reported-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé philmd@redhat.com Cc: Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov r.bolshakov@yadro.com --- src/hw/timer.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/hw/timer.c b/src/hw/timer.c index 56bb289..2441402 100644 --- a/src/hw/timer.c +++ b/src/hw/timer.c @@ -156,10 +156,15 @@ u32 TimerLast VARLOW;
// Add extra high bits to timers that have less than 32bits of precision. static u32 -timer_adjust_bits(u32 value, u32 validbits) +timer_adjust_bits(u32 value, u32 validbits, u8 countup) { u32 last = GET_LOW(TimerLast); - value = (last & ~validbits) | (value & validbits); + u32 validvalue; + if (countup) + validvalue = value & validbits; + else + validvalue = validbits - (value & validbits); + value = (last & ~validbits) | validvalue; if (value < last) value += validbits + 1; SET_LOW(TimerLast, value); @@ -176,11 +181,11 @@ timer_read(void) return rdtscll() >> GET_GLOBAL(ShiftTSC); if (CONFIG_PMTIMER && port != PORT_PIT_COUNTER0) // Read from PMTIMER - return timer_adjust_bits(inl(port), 0xffffff); + return timer_adjust_bits(inl(port), 0xffffff, 1); // Read from PIT. outb(PM_SEL_READBACK | PM_READ_VALUE | PM_READ_COUNTER0, PORT_PIT_MODE); u16 v = inb(PORT_PIT_COUNTER0) | (inb(PORT_PIT_COUNTER0) << 8); - return timer_adjust_bits(v, 0xffff); + return timer_adjust_bits(v, 0xffff, 0); }
// Return the TSC value that is 'msecs' time in the future.