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Before this change, the MCYCLE CSR was just a proxy for MINSTRET. Similarly, CYCLE was a proxy for INSTRET. This models a machine where every instruction takes exactly one cycle to execute. That's not quite precise enough if you want to do cosimulation: there, you're going to want to MCYCLE to actually match the behaviour of your processor (because you need reads from the relevant CSRs to give the expected result). This commit splits the two CSRs, leaving the other proxy relationships unchanged. The code in processor_t::step() which bumps MINSTRET now bumps MCYCLE by the same amount, maintaining the previous behaviour. Of course, now a cosimulation environment can update the value of MCYCLE to fix things up for multi-cycle instructions after they run.pull/922/head
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