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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: Yunhui Cui <cuiyunhui@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Acked-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@bytedance.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240702033731.71955-2-cuiyunhui@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.