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Cycle counter: on which ARM will the code successfully run?

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On a Raspberry Pi 3b, which is ARM Cortex-A5 processor, ARMv7 architecture, I am reading the cycle counter registers from the PMU (Performance Monitor Unit):


uint32_t cycle_counter_read (void)
{
  uint32_t cc = 0;
  __asm__ volatile ("mrc p15, 0, %0, c9, c13, 0":"=r" (cc));
  return cc;
}

I'd like to understand on which ARM processors will this code run successfully, other than the one in Raspberry Pi 3B.

Which ARM info is important for this:

  • processor name (Cortex A5 only?)
  • architecture (ARMv7 only?)
  • aarch32 and/or aarch64?
  • the combination of the above?
  • something else?

Currently I have included this code only for ARMv7:

#if defined(PLATFORM_ARMV7) 

    cycle_counter_read();

#endif 

Thanks.

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