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RISC-V: Provide the frequency of time CSR via hwprobe
authorPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Tue, 2 Jul 2024 03:37:31 +0000 (11:37 +0800)
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:50:51 +0000 (05:50 -0700)
commit52420e483d3e1562f11a208d3c540b27b5e5dbf4
tree151da776746d0951d9cf741b5b091f3aca13a9eb
parent5c8405d763dc2b125b39166bc70be1b8dcc80582
RISC-V: Provide the frequency of time CSR via hwprobe

The RISC-V architecture makes a real time counter CSR (via RDTIME
instruction) available for applications in U-mode but there is no
architected mechanism for an application to discover the frequency
the counter is running at. Some applications (e.g., DPDK) use the
time counter for basic performance analysis as well as fine grained
time-keeping.

Add support to the hwprobe system call to export the time CSR
frequency to code running in U-mode.

Signed-off-by: Yunhui Cui <cuiyunhui@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Acked-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240702033731.71955-2-cuiyunhui@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h
arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c