[RFC PATCH 2/5] timer: arm: Introduce functions to get the host cntfrq

[Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>]

When acceleration like KVM is in use it's necessary to use the host's
counter frequency when converting ticks to or from time units.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
---
 include/qemu/timer.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/qemu/timer.h b/include/qemu/timer.h
index 85bc6eb00b21..8941ddea8242 100644
--- a/include/qemu/timer.h
+++ b/include/qemu/timer.h
@@ -1006,6 +1006,22 @@ static inline int64_t cpu_get_host_ticks(void)
 }
 #endif
 
+#if defined(__aarch64__)
+static inline uint32_t cpu_get_host_tick_frequency(void)
+{
+    uint64_t frq;
+    asm volatile("mrs %0, cntfrq_el0" : "=r" (frq));
+    return frq;
+}
+#elif defined(__arm__)
+static inline uint32_t cpu_get_host_tick_frequency(void)
+{
+    uint32_t frq;
+    asm volatile("mrc p15, 0, %0, c14, c0, 0" : "=r" (frq));
+    return frq;
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROFILER
 static inline int64_t profile_getclock(void)
 {
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