Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] Fix and improve core RTC function and documentation

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 18/10/2018 09:12, Artem Pisarenko wrote:
> Modifications are motivated by bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1797033 I've encountered recently.
> 
> Trying to fix it and analyzing its effect on all use cases (not covered in bug report) revealed much deeper problems.
> This is my first patch to QEMU and I'm not sure whether the way I addressed them is proper.
> They definitely require either modifications to current implementation (breaking compability), or adding clarifications to user documentation. I've tried to find compromise.
> Changes I propose are driven mostly by my interpretation of user documentation and comments in code, rather than by existing implementation.
> 
> I've splitted patches in a way that at least some of them may be accepted. Following subsets are make sense on their own:
> - 1
> - 1,2,3
> 
> I limited refactoring only to vl.c, although it leads to reworking of all hw/* rtc models which have unreasonable duplications of actions performed by vl.c.
> I'm sure such kind of rework will reveal more hidden bugs/features, but so far I've had enough (it's a long story how muсh effort and pain cost me to find that tricky bug above).
> I suppose just to draw attention of relevant hw/* maintainers.

Queued, thanks.

As a start of future refactoring, would you mind moving all this code to
hw/timer/rtc.c or rtc.c?  It was somewaht generic before, but now it's
very tied to -rtc.

Paolo

> 
> v3 changes:
>  - commit messages rewritten/shortened/wrapped to match patch requirements
>  - fixed minor typo
> v2 changes:
>  - fixed compiler warning caused non-debug build fail
> 
> 
> Artem Pisarenko (4):
>   vl: improve/fix documentation related to RTC function
>   vl: refactor -rtc option references
>   Fixes RTC bug with base datetime shifts in clock=vm
>   vl,qapi: offset calculation in RTC_CHANGE event reverted
> 
>  qapi/misc.json  |   3 +-
>  qemu-options.hx |  14 +++++---
>  vl.c            | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  3 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>