CycleClock: use RDTIME instead of RDCYCLE on RISC-V#1727
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Starting with Linux 6.6 [1], RDCYCLE is a privileged instruction on RISC-V and can't be used directly from userland. There is a sysctl option to change that as a transition period, but it will eventually disappear. Use RDTIME instead, which while less accurate has the advantage of being synchronized between CPU (and thus monotonic) and of constant frequency. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cc4c07c89aada16229084eeb93895c95b7eabaa3
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Starting with Linux 6.6 [1], RDCYCLE is a privileged instruction on RISC-V and can't be used directly from userland. There is a sysctl option to change that as a transition period, but it will eventually disappear.
Use RDTIME instead, which while less accurate has the advantage of being synchronized between CPU (and thus monotonic) and of constant frequency.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cc4c07c89aada16229084eeb93895c95b7eabaa3