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As reported in MariaDB/mariadb-docker#338
and later hardkernel/linux#423.

While modern kernels support this, it seems older hardware may be
stuck at kernel versions without this initialization.
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grooverdan committed Jan 5, 2022
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ARM notes
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Userspace high precision timing on CNTVCT_EL0 requires that CNTKCTL_EL1
is set to 1 for each CPU in privileged mode.
During tests on ARMv7 Debian, perf_even_open() based cycle counter provided
too low frequency with too high overhead:
MariaDB [performance_schema]> SELECT * FROM performance_timers;
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