[PATCH] RISC-V: Re-enable counter access from userspace

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at rivosinc.com
Wed Sep 28 06:18:07 PDT 2022


These counters were part of the ISA when we froze the uABI, removing
them breaks userspace.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YxEhC%2FmDW1lFt36J@aurel32.net/
Fixes: e9991434596f ("RISC-V: Add perf platform driver based on SBI PMU extension")
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
---
 drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
index 6f6681bbfd36..e45daffbfb36 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
@@ -645,8 +645,11 @@ static int pmu_sbi_starting_cpu(unsigned int cpu, struct hlist_node *node)
 	struct riscv_pmu *pmu = hlist_entry_safe(node, struct riscv_pmu, node);
 	struct cpu_hw_events *cpu_hw_evt = this_cpu_ptr(pmu->hw_events);
 
-	/* Enable the access for TIME csr only from the user mode now */
-	csr_write(CSR_SCOUNTEREN, 0x2);
+	/*
+	 * Enable the access for CYCLE, TIME, and INSTRET CSRs from userspace,
+	 * as is necessary to maintain uABI compatibility.
+	 */
+	csr_write(CSR_SCOUNTEREN, 0x7);
 
 	/* Stop all the counters so that they can be enabled from perf */
 	pmu_sbi_stop_all(pmu);
-- 
2.34.1




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