Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] qemu-timer: gracefully handle the end of time

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 28/07/20 16:10, Alex Bennée wrote:
> +    /*
> +     * Check to see if we have run out of time. Most of our time
> +     * sources are nanoseconds since epoch (some time around the fall
> +     * of Babylon 5, the start of the Enterprises five year mission
> +     * and just before the arrival of the great evil ~ 2262CE).
> +     * Although icount based time is ns since the start of emulation
> +     * it is able to skip forward if the device is sleeping (think IoT
> +     * device with a very long heartbeat). Either way we don't really
> +     * handle running out of time so lets catch it and report it here.
> +     */
> +    if (current_time == INT64_MAX) {
> +        qemu_handle_outa_time();
> +        goto out;
> +    }
> +

Doing this here is a bit dangerous, I'd rather do nothing here and
detect the situation in cpus.c where we can do
qemu_system_shutdown_request() (and also do nothing).

Paolo