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[arm64] enable cycle counter #158

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@raphui raphui commented Sep 1, 2016

Hello,

Cycle counter is not enable on arm64 arch, so the command line "bench" always return "took 0 cycles".

This patch enable cycle counter, let me know if it's ok or not.


int pmcr_mask = 1;

__asm__ volatile("msr pmcr_el0, %0":: "r"(pmcr_mask):);
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Looks good, but need to move it into the percpu routines, so it also gets initialized on more than just the first cpu.

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raphui commented Sep 6, 2016

Yes, you're right, I will do it and send a v2 pull request when I am back from holiday.

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travisg commented Sep 30, 2016

I did another implementation over in magenta that works on all processors. I'll try to merge that back soon.

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