Streamline with Mali400 - There are no mali devices to create readers

Hello Forum,

I am running the Xilinx ZynqMP+ platform with Cortex-A53 and Mali-400MP2. When trying to run performance analysis with ARM Streamline 7.8.0 using gator daemon prebuild 7.8.0 I get the following error:

./gatord -d
[...]
[4605.8953405] INFO: MaliHwCntrDriver(mali_userspace/MaliHwCntrDriver.cpp:20): There are no mali devices to create readers
[...]

Root cause is that my device only has a "/dev/mali" entry, but gatord searches for "/dev/mali0" (and higher). If I create a symlink I get one step further and get this error message:

ln -s /dev/mali /dev/mali0
./gatord -d
[...]
[3240.0390221] INFO: probe(mali_userspace/MaliDeviceApi.cpp:233): MaliDeviceApi: Failed setting ABI version ioctl - may be r21p0 or later...
[3240.0393474] INFO: probe(mali_userspace/MaliDeviceApi.cpp:535): MaliDeviceApi: Failed setting ABI version ioctl for JM based ddk. Trying with CSF ioctl version
[3240.0393969] INFO: probe(mali_userspace/MaliDeviceApi.cpp:540): MaliDeviceApi: Failed setting ABI version ioctl for CSF based ddk
[3240.0399230] INFO: MaliHwCntrDriver(mali_userspace/MaliHwCntrDriver.cpp:20): There are no mali devices to create readers
[...]

Checking with lsmod the kernel module "mali" is successfully loaded, and tools like glmark2 run without troubles.

root@device:/# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
[...]
mali                  356352  0
[...]

As this Xilinx chip still uses Mali drivers DX910-SW-99002-r9p0-01rel0 from 2018, I also tried to go back in time and use gatord prebuild 6.9 (release 2019.0) and 6.8 (release 2018.0). Same problem, slightly different error messages.

Any clues what is going wrong here? Thanks!