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KVM module needs to know how many hardware counters and the counter width that the platform supports. Otherwise, it will not be able to show optimal value of virtual counters to the guest. The virtual hardware counters also need to have the same width as the logical hardware counters for simplicity. However, there shouldn't be mapping between virtual hardware counters and logical hardware counters. As we don't support hetergeneous harts or counters with different width as of now, the implementation relies on the counter width of the first available programmable counter. Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
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 Restructured Text 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.