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We used to unconditionnally expose the cycle and instret csrs to userspace, which gives rise to security concerns. So now we only allow access to hw counters from userspace through the perf framework which will handle context switches, per-task events...etc. A sysctl allows to revert the behaviour to the legacy mode so that userspace applications which are not ready for this change do not break. But the default value is to allow userspace only through perf: this will break userspace applications which rely on direct access to rdcycle. This choice was made for security reasons [1][2]: most of the applications which use rdcycle can instead use rdtime to count the elapsed time. [1] https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/g/sw-dev/c/REWcwYnzsKE?pli=1 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-c4C_L2PRQ&ab_channel=IEEESymposiumonSecurityandPrivacy Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
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.