Currently, all bits in mcountern are enabled unconditionally at boot time.
With SBI PMU extension, all the programmable counters should enabled only
during performance monitoring for a particular event. However, this is done
only if mcountinhibit is implemented because the supervisor mode can not
start/stop any event without mcountinhibit.
Similarly, supervisor should take care enabling scounteren which allows
U-mode to access programmable pmu counters. All the non-programmable ones
(CY, TM, IR) should be enabled in M-mode because some userspace may rely on
builtins such as __builtin_readcyclecounter. Supervisor OS can still disable
them during initial configuration.
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
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