[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 3/3] armv7m_systick: abort instead of locking on a bad rate

[KONRAD Frederic]

This helps the board developer by asserting that system_clock_rate is not
null. Using systick with a zero rate will lead to a deadlock so better showing
the error.

Signed-off-by: KONRAD Frederic <address@hidden>
---
 hw/timer/armv7m_systick.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/timer/armv7m_systick.c b/hw/timer/armv7m_systick.c
index df8d280..745efb7 100644
--- a/hw/timer/armv7m_systick.c
+++ b/hw/timer/armv7m_systick.c
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ static void systick_reload(SysTickState *s, int reset)
         s->tick = qemu_clock_get_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL);
     }
     s->tick += (s->reload + 1) * systick_scale(s);
+
+    /* system_clock_scale = 0 leads to a nasty deadlock, better aborting */
+    assert(systick_scale(s));
     timer_mod(s->timer, s->tick);
 }
 
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