From 8a84e3d947230c1031254884d8fff18a54b77df5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mans Rullgard Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:52:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 40/48] ARM: Add option to allow userspace access to performance counters This adds an option to allow userspace access to the performance monitor registers of the Cortex-A8. Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard --- arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 7 +++++++ arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig index 564ff7d..fda2e68 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig @@ -793,3 +793,10 @@ config USER_L2_PLE help Enable userspace access to the L2 preload engine (PLE) available in Cortex-A series ARM processors. + +config USER_PMON + bool "Enable userspace access to performance counters" + depends on CPU_V7 + default n + help + Enable userpsace access to the performance monitor registers. diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S index 3a28521..fec926a 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S @@ -270,6 +270,12 @@ __v7_setup: mcr p15, 0, r5, c10, c2, 0 @ write PRRR mcr p15, 0, r6, c10, c2, 1 @ write NMRR #endif + +#ifdef CONFIG_USER_PMON + mov r0, #1 + mcr p15, 0, r0, c9, c14, 0 +#endif + adr r5, v7_crval ldmia r5, {r5, r6} #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8 -- 1.6.6.1