[PATCH] RISC-V: Skip stopping cycle counter

qingwei.hu qingwei.hu at bytedance.com
Mon Feb 2 03:17:28 PST 2026


From: Qingwei Hu <qingwei.hu at bytedance.com>

In the riscv_pmu_sbi driver, pmu_sbi_stop_all() is intended to stop
all available counters. However, counter 0 (the cycle counter) should
be excluded from this operation because the counter may be used in
user mode by rdcycle.

Signed-off-by: Qingwei Hu <qingwei.hu at bytedance.com>
---
 drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
index 7dd282da67ce..2bc0050dabd2 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
@@ -900,11 +900,15 @@ static int pmu_sbi_get_ctrinfo(int nctr, unsigned long *mask)
 static inline void pmu_sbi_stop_all(struct riscv_pmu *pmu)
 {
 	/*
-	 * No need to check the error because we are disabling all the counters
-	 * which may include counters that are not enabled yet.
+	 * No need to check the error because we are disabling all available
+	 * counters (except the cycle counter) which may include counters
+	 * that are not enabled yet.
+	 *
+	 * Cycle counter is excluded because it might be accessed by user
+	 * mode via rdcycle.
 	 */
 	sbi_ecall(SBI_EXT_PMU, SBI_EXT_PMU_COUNTER_STOP,
-		  0, pmu->cmask, SBI_PMU_STOP_FLAG_RESET, 0, 0, 0);
+		  0, pmu->cmask & ~BIT(0), SBI_PMU_STOP_FLAG_RESET, 0, 0, 0);
 }
 
 static inline void pmu_sbi_stop_hw_ctrs(struct riscv_pmu *pmu)
-- 
2.39.5




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