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hw/ppc: Avoid decrementer rounding errors
The decrementer register contains a relative time in timebase units. When writing to DECR this is converted and stored as an absolute value in nanosecond units, reading DECR converts back to relative timebase. The tb<->ns conversion of the relative part can cause rounding such that a value writen to the decrementer can read back a different, with time held constant. This is a particular problem for a deterministic icount and record-replay trace. Fix this by storing the absolute value in timebase units rather than nanoseconds. The math before: store: decr_next = now_ns + decr * ns_per_sec / tb_per_sec load: decr = (decr_next - now_ns) * tb_per_sec / ns_per_sec load(store): decr = decr * ns_per_sec / tb_per_sec * tb_per_sec / ns_per_sec After: store: decr_next = now_ns * tb_per_sec / ns_per_sec + decr load: decr = decr_next - now_ns * tb_per_sec / ns_per_sec load(store): decr = decr Fixes: 9fddaa0 ("PowerPC merge: real time TB and decrementer - faster and simpler exception handling (Jocelyn Mayer)") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> (cherry picked from commit 8e0a5ac) Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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