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diff --git a/src/machine.tex b/src/machine.tex index 4d43bae..024daca 100644 --- a/src/machine.tex +++ b/src/machine.tex @@ -1624,6 +1624,12 @@ are 32-bit registers that control the availability of the hardware performance monitoring 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). + 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 instret}, or {\tt hpmcounter{\em n}} register while executing in |