[PATCH v4] RISC-V: Provide the frequency of time CSR via hwprobe

[Yunhui Cui]

From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>

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: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Yunhui Cui <cuiyunhui at bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evan at rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>
Acked-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal at bytedance.com>
---
 Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst  | 2 ++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h      | 2 +-
 arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h | 1 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c       | 5 +++++
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
index 25d783be2878..e99008fc4501 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
@@ -257,3 +257,5 @@ The following keys are defined:
 
 * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_ZICBOZ_BLOCK_SIZE`: An unsigned int which
   represents the size of the Zicboz block in bytes.
+
+* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_TIME_CSR_FREQ`: Frequency (in Hz) of `time CSR`.
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h
index 630507dff5ea..150a9877b0af 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 #include <uapi/asm/hwprobe.h>
 
-#define RISCV_HWPROBE_MAX_KEY 6
+#define RISCV_HWPROBE_MAX_KEY 7
 
 static inline bool riscv_hwprobe_key_is_valid(__s64 key)
 {
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h
index 920fc6a586c9..8094b45fe16f 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ struct riscv_hwprobe {
 #define		RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_UNSUPPORTED	(4 << 0)
 #define		RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_MASK		(7 << 0)
 #define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_ZICBOZ_BLOCK_SIZE	6
+#define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_TIME_CSR_FREQ	7
 /* Increase RISCV_HWPROBE_MAX_KEY when adding items. */
 
 /* Flags */
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
index 3d1aa13a0bb2..45f32a60b9c3 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/cpufeature.h>
 #include <asm/hwprobe.h>
+#include <asm/delay.h>
 #include <asm/sbi.h>
 #include <asm/switch_to.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -232,6 +233,10 @@ static void hwprobe_one_pair(struct riscv_hwprobe *pair,
 			pair->value = riscv_cboz_block_size;
 		break;
 
+	case RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_TIME_CSR_FREQ:
+		pair->value = riscv_timebase;
+		break;
+
 	/*
 	 * For forward compatibility, unknown keys don't fail the whole
 	 * call, but get their element key set to -1 and value set to 0
-- 
2.20.1