Perf_counters_instrctions program hanging at finished dumping memory

I am tying to run the perf_counters_instructions program in the directory $CORE_V_VERIF/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instrcutions.c

I am facing the an error where it is hanging at finishes dumping memory and it is also giving a warning %Warning: ips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.hex:0: $readmem file not found

Background: trying to run the program on cv32e40x using the verilator 5.008 version.

/home/chips/Storage/riscv/riscv_toolchain//bin/riscv32-unknown-elf-gcc

-O3 -g -static -mabi=ilp32 -march=rv32imc_zba_zbb_zbc_zbs_zicsr_zifencei -Wall -pedantic -lm

-I ../../tests/asm
-I /home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/bsp
-o /home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.elf
-nostartfiles
/home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.c
-T /home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/bsp/link.ld
-L simulation_results/perf_counters_instructions/0/test_program/bsp
-lcv-verif /home/chips/Storage/riscv/riscv_toolchain/lib/gcc/riscv32-unknown-elf/13.2.0/../../../../riscv32-unknown-elf/bin/ld: warning: /home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.elf has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions

Generating hexfile, readelf and objdump files

/home/chips/Storage/riscv/riscv_toolchain//bin/riscv32-unknown-elf-objcopy -O verilog
/home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.elf
/home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.hex /home/chips/Storage/riscv/riscv_toolchain//bin/riscv32-unknown-elf-readelf -a /home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.elf > /home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.readelf /home/chips/Storage/riscv/riscv_toolchain//bin/riscv32-unknown-elf-objdump
-d
-M no-aliases
-M numeric
-S
/home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.elf > /home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.objdump /home/chips/Storage/riscv/riscv_toolchain//bin/riscv32-unknown-elf-objdump
-d
-S
-M no-aliases
-M numeric
-l
/home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.elf | /home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/bin/objdump2itb - > /home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.itb

Running with Verilator: logfile in cobj_dir/logs/perf_counters_instructions.log

mkdir -p cobj_dir/logs ./testbench_verilator
"+firmware=/home/chips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.hex"
| tee cobj_dir/logs/perf_counters_instructions.log scopesDump: SCOPE 0x7f6c1b165e00: TOP.tb_top_verilator SCOPE 0x7f6c1b165e38: TOP.tb_top_verilator.cv32e40x_tb_wrapper_i.ram_i SCOPE 0x7f6c1b165e70: TOP.tb_top_verilator.cv32e40x_tb_wrapper_i.ram_i.dp_ram_i DPI-EXPORT 0x5603ca6408b4: read_byte DPI-EXPORT 0x5603ca6408c1: write_byte

%Warning: ips/Storage/Tuppu/profiler/core-v-verif/cv32e40x/tests/programs/custom/perf_counters_instructions/perf_counters_instructions.hex:0: $readmem file not found [tb_top_verilator] finished dumping memory

make veri-test TEST=perf_counters_instructions Would appreciate any help provided. Thanks in advance.