Measuring clock cycle count on cortex m7

Question

I have been measuring clock cycle count on the cortex m4 and would now like to do it on the cortex m7. The board I use is STM32F746ZG.

For the m4 everything worked with

Answer 1

I would advise against creating your own register definitions when they are defined as part of the CMSIS - to do so requires that both the documentation and your interpretation of it are correct. In this case it appears that the documentation is indeed incorrect, but that the CMSIS headers are correct. It is a lot easier to validate the CMSIS headers automatically than it is to verify the documentation is correct, so I would trust the CMSIS every time.

I am not sure what register FP_LAR might refer to, but your address assignment refers to ITM_LAR, but it seems more likely that you intended DWT_LAR which Cortex-M4 lacks.

Despite my advice to trust it, CMSIS 4.00 omits to define masks for DWT_LSR/SWT_LAR, but I believe they are identical to the corresponding ITM masks.

Note also that the LAR is a write-only register - any attempt to read it is meaningless.

Your code using CMSIS would be:

#include "core_cm7.h"  // Applies to all Cortex-M7

void reset_cnt()
{
    CoreDebug->DEMCR |= 0x01000000;
    DWT->CYCCNT = 0; // reset the counter
    DWT->CTRL = 0; 
}

void start_cnt()
{
    DWT->CTRL |= 0x00000001 ; // enable the counter
}

void stop_cnt()
{
     DWT->CTRL &= 0xFFFFFFFE ; // disable the counter    
}

unsigned int getCycles()
{
    return DWT->CYCCNT ;
}

// Not defined in CMSIS 4.00 headers - check if defined
// to allow for possible correction in later versions
#if !defined DWT_LSR_Present_Msk 
    #define DWT_LSR_Present_Msk ITM_LSR_Present_Msk
#endif
#if !defined DWT_LSR_Access_Msk 
    #define DWT_LSR_Access_Msk ITM_LSR_Access_Msk
#endif
#define DWT_LAR_KEY 0xC5ACCE55

void dwt_access_enable( unsigned ena )
{
    uint32_t lsr = DWT->LSR;;

    if( (lsr & DWT_LSR_Present_Msk) != 0 ) 
    {
        if( ena ) 
        {
            if ((lsr & DWT_LSR_Access_Msk) != 0) //locked: access need unlock
            {    
                DWT->LAR = DWT_LAR_KEY;
            }
        } 
        else 
        {
            if ((lsr & DWT_LSR_Access_Msk) == 0) //unlocked
            {   
                DWT->LAR = 0;
            }
        }
    }
}