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Re: [Xen-devel] RE: A question about PIT platform timer


  • To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:35:35 +0000
  • Delivery-date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:35:43 -0800
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] RE: A question about PIT platform timer



On 11/12/06 12:10, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes, there's no interrupt from it. But what's the known frequency?
> CALIBRATE_LATCH or CLOCK_TICK_RATE? platform_timer_scale
> is set to the later, and so ch2 needs to work on same frequency or
> else count value will result incorrect offset. However I didn't see such
> setting on ch2. Does I miss something? :-)

All the PIT channels tick at CLOCK_TICK_RATE. Mode-0 is not auto-relatching,
so when the counter reaches 0000 it carries on FFFF, FFFE, FFFD, ....

So we calculate platform system time as:
 system_timestamp + (pit_timestamp - pit_timenow) * (delta_system/delta_pit)

 -- Keir


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