linaro-toolchain August 2011

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Linaro GDB 7.3 2011.08 released

by Ulrich Weigand

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro GDB 7.3. Linaro GDB 7.3 2011.08 is the first release in the 7.3 series. Based off the latest GDB 7.3, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes. This release includes all bug fixes from the latest Linaro GDB 7.2 release that were not already included in FSF GDB 7.3. In addition, this release fixes: * LP: #804401 [remote testsuite] Thread support * LP: #804387 [remote testsuite] Shared library test problems * LP: #804392 [remote testsuite] Rebuilt executables not copied * LP: #804396 [remote testsuite] Spurious failures The source tarball is available at: https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/+milestone/7.3-2011.08 More information on Linaro GDB is available at: https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro

13 years, 10 months

Linaro QEMU 2011.08 released

by Peter Maydell

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2011.08. Linaro QEMU 2011.08 is the latest monthly release of qemu-linaro. Based off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. This month's release is primarily minor improvements: - Fixes LP:816791: ARMv6 cp15 barrier instructions now work in linux-user mode as well as system mode - Support for ARM1176JZF-S core has been added (thanks to Jamie Iles <jamie(a)jamieiles.com>) - Add workaround for kernel bug LP:727781 (which has resurfaced in 3.0) to suppress warnings about bad-width omap i2c accesses Plus of course new upstream fixes and improvements. Performance: When running qemu in system mode with an SD card image we have determined that performance is best when the image is in writeback caching mode. This significantly increases the performance of the SD card (by factors of 10 or more). An example command line option is: -drive if=sd,cache=writeback,file=my-sd-card.img Note that cache=writeback may result in data not being written to disk if the host system powers down unexpectedly (guest crashes or powerdowns are not a problem). Known issues: - The beagle and beaglexm models still do not support USB networking - There may be some problems with running multithreaded programs in linux-user mode (LP:823902) The source tarball is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2011.08 Binary builds of this qemu-linaro release are being prepared and will be available shortly for users of Ubuntu. Packages will be in the linaro-maintainers tools ppa: https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/tools/ More information on Linaro QEMU is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro

13 years, 10 months

Linaro GCC 4.6 and 4.5 2011.08 released

by Michael Hope

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2011.08 release of both Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. Linaro GCC 4.6 2011.08 is the sixth release in the 4.6 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.6.1+svn177703, it focuses on fixing bugs found during the Android integration and in SMS. This is a quiet release due to Linaro Connect. Interesting changes include: * Updates to 4.6.1+r177703 Fixes: * LP: #736007 ICE immed_double_const at emit-rtl.c * LP: #809768 ICE when compiling bionic's libm * LP: #815777 Inconsistent packaging between tarball and root directory names Linaro GCC 4.5 2011.08 is the thirteenth release in the 4.5 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.5.3+svn177552, the release is focused on maintenance. Interesting changes in 4.5 include: * Updates to 4.5.3+r177552 * Now builds for PowerPC Fixes: * LP: #736007 ICE immed_double_const at emit-rtl.c * LP: #809768 ICE when compiling bionic's libm * LP: #815435 ICE: insn does not satisfy its constraints The source tarballs are available from: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2011.08 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.5-2011.08 Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro Mailing list: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/ Questions? https://ask.linaro.org/ Interested in commercial support? inquire at support(a)linaro.org -- Michael

13 years, 10 months

Improving libgmp [was: Re: Potential tools team work]

by Michael Hope

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw(a)arm.com> wrote: > I was just browsing libgmp this afternoon and noticed that it really > could do with an overhaul to support recent ARM chips. > > The ARM code seems to have been written for StrongARM; which is now > almost obsolete (for example, it loads from a cache line it is about to > write to in order to pre-allocate the line in the cache). > > It doesn't support v4T interworking. > > It doesn't make any use of v5 or later instructions. > > There is some Thumb(1) code, but again it has no support for > interworking, is pretty poor and limited in scope. > > I'm not sure overall how useful this is to gcc performance; the library > is needed to build GCC, but I think it's mostly there to support libmpfr. > > Nevertheless, there are other apps out there that make use of this > stuff, including some crypto code, IIRC. I looked at using gmp as a benchmark some time ago. The assembly version is twice as fast as the C version already, which is nice. I assume NEON would be a big improvement as well. I had a quick poke through the dependencies in Ubuntu and came up with the following popular packages that use libgmp or libmpfr: * guile * python-crypto * gch (Haskel) * maxima * darcs Nothing earth shattering but probably worthwhile. I've registered: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-misc/+spec/improve-libgmp so that we don't lose it. -- Michael

13 years, 10 months

Branch is open

by Michael Hope

Hi there. The 2011.08 release has been spun and is testing up well. The 4.5 and 4.6 branches are now open so feel free to commit any approved patches. -- Michael

13 years, 10 months

Re: What are the chances of a phone based developer image

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

> . Would you be interested in adding a Firefox-based benchmark? As a large > application it is a good testbed for LTO, FDO and other aggressive > optimizations. Sorry about the delayed response. I did notice your mail last week but I was busy with our conference and then the first couple of days this week have just disappeared with some internal training. I would be interested in hearing how you get on with LTO and FDO on ARM. Listening to Honza talking at the GCC unconference in London about the memory usage for full LTO with trunk I did wonder what would happen if we tried it on the ARM target to see what we got, but I never managed to get around to trying anything there :) . We did look at getting FDO working with Linaro GCC last cycle but there are still a couple of issues with PGO in Linaro GCC 4.5. With respect to LTO , the one problem we have currently is that the Neon intrinsics aren't streamed out and streamed back in. So you might have a few issues if your code uses arm_neon.h . https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/823548 is an example of this problem. This was fixed upstream and we probably just need to backport that into our 4.6 tree. I've tried a backport this morning and I think I have this right finally. If you could do a build and a firefox benchmark run in about 30-60 minutes by all means please do let us know how you get on and what you find. We've been steadily trying to improve the performance of the ARM toolchain and the biggest improvements you'll notice will be with the vectorizer but there will be other small improvements that you'll notice in other general areas of code generation. We would be interested in feedback about what can be done and to add to our queue of things to look at and improve for the ARM port of GCC. With respect to the images, Kiko's probably answered that bit. cheers Ramana

13 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] 8th - 12th August.

by Andrew Stubbs

* GCC Continued tracking down problems in my various broken patches. Fixed one bug, investigated two more. Re-submitted the widening multiplies for testing, and this time it returned with no problems. Yay, I can now check it in next week. Merged from upstream GCC 4.5. The launchpad import bug still exists (although should not for much longer) so I had to ask on #launchpad to get the imports done. Submitted the merged branch for testing. Tried to merge GCC 4.6 similarly, but failed. Bzr just refused to play ball, which was very frustrating. Michael Hope has now done the merge instead. * Other On leave Wednesday and Friday.

13 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Revital Eres

* libauqntum - running the SMSed version on ARM machine did not show significant improvement. Discussed it with Richard Sandiford. Apparently in the SMS phase the instructions are of DI mode due to the fact the loop contains 64 bit operations while they later been generated as 32 bit operations. This makes SMS less accurate and I'm now looking into a version which disables DI mode operations. * Started to look at the potential of SMS on libav. Initial runs of Richard's microbenchmarks with SMS show some regressions as well as improvements that I'm looking at.

13 years, 10 months

Standard GCC configurations

by Michael Hope

Hi there. I've written up the standard configurations that we use to build and test Linaro GCC: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Configurations/GCC It includes such things as flags, libraries, and sysroots. You might find it useful to see what we're testing or, if new to compilers, what a good starting point is. -- Michael

13 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] 2011-08-12

by David Gilbert

== QEMU == * Finished off a first cut of the 64bit helper patch to QEMU - Gave it to Peter and have reworked most of the things he commented on * This also lead into a bit of a rabbit hole of finding various generic QEMU threading issues * Tested Peter's 11.08 QEMU release (I used linaro-fetch-image-ui for the first time to grab the release images; quite nice, hit a couple of issues but much nicer than crawling around the site to find where the hwpacks are). == Other == * Pinged gcc patches list for more comments on 64bit atomic patch I'm on holiday the week of 22nd (i.e. the week after next). Dave

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