[SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2] add acpi pmtimer support

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Aug 14 07:29:19 CEST 2012


This patch makes seabios use the acpi pmtimer instead of tsc for
timekeeping.  The pmtimer has a fixed frequency and doesn't need
calibration, thus it doesn't suffer from calibration errors due to a
loaded host machine.

[ v2: add CONFIG_PMTIMER ]

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
---
 src/Kconfig   |    6 ++++++
 src/clock.c   |   31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/pciinit.c |    5 +++++
 src/util.h    |    1 +
 4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Kconfig b/src/Kconfig
index 6de3e71..b5dd63b 100644
--- a/src/Kconfig
+++ b/src/Kconfig
@@ -222,6 +222,12 @@ menu "Hardware support"
         default y
         help
             Initialize the Memory Type Range Registers (on emulators).
+    config PMTIMER
+        depends on !COREBOOT
+        bool "Use ACPI timer"
+        default y
+        help
+            Use the ACPI timer instead of the TSC for timekeeping (on qemu).
 endmenu
 
 menu "BIOS interfaces"
diff --git a/src/clock.c b/src/clock.c
index 69e9f17..b4abf37 100644
--- a/src/clock.c
+++ b/src/clock.c
@@ -129,11 +129,42 @@ emulate_tsc(void)
     return ret;
 }
 
+u16 pmtimer_ioport VAR16VISIBLE;
+u32 pmtimer_wraps VARLOW;
+u32 pmtimer_last VARLOW;
+
+void pmtimer_init(u16 ioport, u32 khz)
+{
+    if (!CONFIG_PMTIMER)
+        return;
+    dprintf(1, "Using pmtimer, ioport 0x%x, freq %d kHz\n", ioport, khz);
+    SET_GLOBAL(pmtimer_ioport, ioport);
+    SET_GLOBAL(cpu_khz, khz);
+}
+
+static u64 pmtimer_get(void)
+{
+    u16 ioport = GET_GLOBAL(pmtimer_ioport);
+    u32 wraps = GET_LOW(pmtimer_wraps);
+    u32 pmtimer = inl(ioport);
+
+    if (pmtimer < GET_LOW(pmtimer_last)) {
+        wraps++;
+        SET_LOW(pmtimer_wraps, wraps);
+    }
+    SET_LOW(pmtimer_last, pmtimer);
+
+    dprintf(9, "pmtimer: %u:%u\n", wraps, pmtimer);
+    return (u64)wraps << 24 | pmtimer;
+}
+
 static u64
 get_tsc(void)
 {
     if (unlikely(GET_GLOBAL(no_tsc)))
         return emulate_tsc();
+    if (CONFIG_PMTIMER && GET_GLOBAL(pmtimer_ioport))
+        return pmtimer_get();
     return rdtscll();
 }
 
diff --git a/src/pciinit.c b/src/pciinit.c
index 68f302a..31115ee 100644
--- a/src/pciinit.c
+++ b/src/pciinit.c
@@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ static const struct pci_device_id pci_class_tbl[] = {
     PCI_DEVICE_END,
 };
 
+/* PM Timer ticks per second (HZ) */
+#define PM_TIMER_FREQUENCY  3579545
+
 /* PIIX4 Power Management device (for ACPI) */
 static void piix4_pm_init(struct pci_device *pci, void *arg)
 {
@@ -191,6 +194,8 @@ static void piix4_pm_init(struct pci_device *pci, void *arg)
     pci_config_writeb(bdf, 0x80, 0x01); /* enable PM io space */
     pci_config_writel(bdf, 0x90, PORT_SMB_BASE | 1);
     pci_config_writeb(bdf, 0xd2, 0x09); /* enable SMBus io space */
+
+    pmtimer_init(PORT_ACPI_PM_BASE + 0x08, PM_TIMER_FREQUENCY / 1000);
 }
 
 static const struct pci_device_id pci_device_tbl[] = {
diff --git a/src/util.h b/src/util.h
index 89e928c..1603a57 100644
--- a/src/util.h
+++ b/src/util.h
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ void lpt_setup(void);
 // clock.c
 #define PIT_TICK_RATE 1193180   // Underlying HZ of PIT
 #define PIT_TICK_INTERVAL 65536 // Default interval for 18.2Hz timer
+void pmtimer_init(u16 ioport, u32 khz);
 int check_tsc(u64 end);
 void timer_setup(void);
 void ndelay(u32 count);
-- 
1.7.1




More information about the SeaBIOS mailing list