[PATCH v2 2/2] RISC-V: Add common csr_read_num() and csr_write_num() functions

Nutty.Liu nutty.liu at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 18 21:04:16 PDT 2025


On 8/18/2025 10:36 PM, Anup Patel wrote:
> In RISC-V, there is no CSR read/write instruction which takes CSR
> number via register so add common csr_read_num() and csr_write_num()
> functions which allow accessing certain CSRs by passing CSR number
> as parameter. These common functions will be first used by the
> ACPI CPPC driver and RISC-V PMU driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel at ventanamicro.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl at ventanamicro.com>
> ---
>   arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h |   3 +
>   arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile   |   1 +
>   arch/riscv/kernel/csr.c      | 165 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/acpi/riscv/cppc.c    |  17 ++--
>   drivers/perf/riscv_pmu.c     |  54 ++----------
>   5 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/csr.c
Reviewed-by: Nutty Liu <nutty.liu at hotmail.com>

Thanks,
Nutty



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