Thanks for your answer, do you know if the working ones return actual or random numbers?
And do you know if it is easily possible to implement the actual behavior of other counters?
Regards,
Elio
Il 4 dic 2023, 9:30 AM +0100, Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>, ha scritto:
On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 7:57 AM ELIO VINCIGUERRA
<elio.vinciguerra@phd.unict.it> wrote:
Hi everybody, I recently started using RISCV architectures, I would need a way to access “hpmcounter[3-31]” registers using QEMU emulator.
The kernel used for simulations is a C program, not a heavy operating system, which is why I would need to access the registers mentioned before via assembly.
Trivially accessing any of those registers always returns zero.
The question is:
Are these registers enabled in QEMU? If not, is it possible to enable them or are they hardwired to zero? How?
Trying to access the registers “cycle”, “instret” and “time” the values come out to be non-zero, which is why I think it is also possible to enable “hpmcounter[3-31]”, but the mode of operation is unknown to me, can anyone help me?
Yes. You can use all the hpmcounters[3-31]. By default,
hpmcounter[3-18] are enabled. You can modify the set of counters using
pmu-mask cpu property.
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/blob/master/target/riscv/cpu.c?ref_type=heads#L1467
However, upstream Qemu doesn't support a lot of PMU events. It only
supports 3 cache related events apart from cycle/instret.
Here are the events it supports.
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/blob/master/target/riscv/pmu.c?ref_type=heads#L36
Regards,
Elio
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Regards,
Atish