From: Peter Dinda <pdinda@northwestern.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:29:24 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Corrected delivery of PIT interrupts via the IOAPIC
X-Git-Url: http://v3vee.org/palacios/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4dd1b9b1f155688a8196c1bc9f32f74275511718;p=palacios.git

Corrected delivery of PIT interrupts via the IOAPIC

This should address the MP-BIOS timer bug
---

diff --git a/palacios/src/devices/io_apic.c b/palacios/src/devices/io_apic.c
index 0817e9b..0d7c3dc 100644
--- a/palacios/src/devices/io_apic.c
+++ b/palacios/src/devices/io_apic.c
@@ -267,6 +267,17 @@ static int ioapic_raise_irq(struct v3_vm_info * vm, void * private_data, int irq
     struct io_apic_state * ioapic = (struct io_apic_state *)(private_data);  
     struct redir_tbl_entry * irq_entry = NULL;
 
+    if (irq==0) { 
+      // IRQ 0 being raised, in the Palacios context, means the PIT
+      // However, the convention is that it is the PIC that is connected
+      // to PIN 0 of the IOAPIC and the PIT is connected to pin 2
+      // Hence we convert this to the relvant pin.  In the future,
+      // the PIC may signal to the IOAPIC in a different path.
+      // Yes, this is kind of hideous, but it is needed to have the
+      // PIT correctly show up via the IOAPIC
+      irq=2;
+    }
+
     if (irq > 24) {
 	PrintDebug("ioapic %u: IRQ out of range of IO APIC\n", ioapic->ioapic_id.id);
 	return -1;