drivers/timer: Unify timeout setting APIs

The existing API had two almost identical functions: _set_time() and
_timer_idle_enter().  Both simply instruct the timer driver to set the
next timer interrupt expiration appropriately so that the call to
z_clock_announce() will be made at the requested number of ticks.  On
most/all hardware, these should be implementable identically.

Unfortunately because they are specified differently, existing drivers
have implemented them in parallel.

Specify a new, unified, z_clock_set_timeout().  Document it clearly
for implementors.  And provide a shim layer for legacy drivers that
will continue to use the old functions.

Note that this patch fixes an existing bug found by inspection: the
old call to _set_time() out of z_clock_announce() failed to test for
the "wait forever" case in the situation where clock_always_on is
true, meaning that a system that reached this point and then never set
another timeout would freeze its uptime clock incorrectly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
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Andy Ross 2018-09-20 13:56:45 -07:00 committed by Anas Nashif
commit ab488277bc
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#include <board.h>
#include "legacy_api.h"
/* HPET register offsets */
#define GENERAL_CAPS_REG 0 /* 64-bit register */