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diff --git a/src/machine.tex b/src/machine.tex index 9189a81..8ca2059 100644 --- a/src/machine.tex +++ b/src/machine.tex @@ -1626,9 +1626,7 @@ counters to the next-lowest privileged mode. The settings in these registers only control accessibility. The act of reading or writing these registers, does not affect the underlying -counters, except for the expected side effects of any instruction -execution (i.e., {\tt instret} will be incremented after a write to -these CSRs). +counters, which continue to increment even when not accessible. When the CY, TM, IR, or HPM{\em n} bit in the {\tt mcounteren} register is clear, attempts to read the {\tt cycle}, {\tt time}, {\tt |