mcycle/minstret are actually WARL registers and can be written with any
given value. With SBI PMU extension, it will be used to store a initial
value provided from supervisor OS. The Qemu also need prohibit the counter
increment if mcountinhibit is set.
Support mcycle/minstret through generic counter infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Message-Id: <20220620231603.2547260-8-atishp@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
