Some platforms such as hifive unmatched doesn't implement mcountinhibit
csr. However, it has hardware events that can be monitored using 2
hpmcounter it has (i.e. mhpmcounter3 & mhpmcounter4).
Currently, PMU extension disabled if mcountinhibit is absent. That's not
really necessary as long as the supervisor OS keeps track of the delta
value of the counters. Without mcountinhibit, the delta value won't be
entirely accurate because the counters are freely running. However, that
should be fine to produce an approximate counter value which can help
performance analysis. Perf sampling won't work though as sscof extension
is not present in hifive unmatched.
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
RISC-V SBI specfication 0.3 defines a PMU extension that allows supervisor
mode to start/stop/configure pmu related events. This patch implements
all of the functionality defined in the specification.
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
