== Progress ==
* Buildbots (5/10)
- Some broken bots, bisecting, etc
- Helping a MIPS patch pass on ARM bot
* Maintenance (2/10)
- SciMark2 seems not to be unstable or slow any more in ARM64
- Some more investigations on Loop Load Elimination
- Profiling bigfib on APM and HiKey
* Background (3/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, general support, etc.
- Some FOSDEM fiddling
- Some power issues
== Progress ==
* Validation
- moved list of unstable tests to a separate repo, to make
maintenance easier (TCWG-425)
- Jenkins jobs maintenance & cleanup
- a few ABE reporting patches
- comparison of results between old & new lab
* GCC
- trunk monitoring, reported a few new failures.
- Send patch to fix vqtb[lx][34] intrinsics on aarch64_be
* Binutils
- Added a Jenkins job to build+check binutils on
a variety of configurations:
https://ci.linaro.org/view/tcwg-ci/job/tcwg-binutils/
- sent a small patch to fix a bug in the recent STM32L4XX erratum patch
== Next ==
* Validation:
- work on the switch to the new lab, once dev-01 is back online
- more tuning to avoid deadlocks
- re-measure build time on dev-01, to better tune other build jobs
* Two half day off. [2/10]
# Progress #
* TCWG-332, fails in gdb.threads/multiple-step-overs.exp. [1/10]
Testing the simpler approach suggested during the review.
* TCWG-387, done. [1/10] GDB patches are pushed in.
* TCWG-422, GNU vector extension support in ARM GDB. [2/10]
Patches are done, and being tested.
* TCWG-423, GNU vector extension support in AArch64 GDB. [2/10]
Writing patches. Find more issues for AArch64 that GDB doesn't
fully understand the AArch64 calling convention. Need more work here.
* Review ARM GDBserver software single step patch. [1/10]
* Misc, meeting, email, [1/10]
# Plan #
* Off on Wed afternoon.
* TCWG-422, post patches
* TCWG-423, continue.
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Yao
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the availability
of the Linaro Stable Binary Toolchain GCC 5.2-2015.11-rc1
Release-Candidate Archives.
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/5.2-2015.11-rc1/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.2-2015.11-rc1/
These archives provide cross-toolchain executables (compiler, debugger,
linker, etc.) and shared libraries (libstdc++, libc, etc.) that target ARM
or Aarch64 GNU/Linux and bare-metal environments. The cross-toolchain
binaries execute on a Linux or MS Windows (under mingw32) host
operating-system.
Please evaluate this release-candidate for correctness. Linaro will
shortly spin the Linaro GCC 5.2-2015.11 release if this release-candidate
passes stakeholder validation.
For bugs related to this release-candidate please email
linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org or file a bug at
https://bugs.linaro.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Linux%20Binary%20toolchain
NEWS
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-rc1
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-rc1 binary toolchain release-candidate is
built from the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11 release-candidate source archive.
The Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11 release source archive is derived from the same
sources as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot source archive.
--
Ryan S. Arnold
Linaro Toolchain Working Group - Engineering Manager
www.linaro.org
Dear List,
I'm new to this list and have some questions.
Looking at the created code of GCC on ARMv8, we noticed some areas where there is room for performance improvements.
I assume that these items might already be noticed by you guys.
For example:
1) We noticed that when writing typical DGEMM like code, GCC includes unnecessary DUP instruction
2) GCC seems unwilling to use LDP loads
3) For optimal FPU performance on some A57 its needed to interleave instruction working on ODD and EVEN registers
GCC seem not properly support this. Here sometimes 100% performance increase could be reached by different instruction interleaving.
4) Some work loops highly benefit of interleaving of FPU instructinons and loads.
GCC seems to likes to re-arrange the code so that most or all loads are put on top of the loop.
This can reduce the performance of a well written workloop significantly.
I have no patches to fix this.
But I can produce C- code and ASM output which will show these performance issues.
Please tell me what the next recommended step will be now.
Are all these items known already, or shall I provide code examples to further explain them?
Kind regards
Gunnar von Boehn
== Progress ==
* Validation
- comparing results and build times between the 2 labs
- tuning jobs scheduling to avoid deadlocks
* GCC trunk monitoring
- lots of validation results to check after 1 week of holidays :-)
- a few regressions/new failures/wrong tests reported
* Backports
- a few reviews
== Next ==
* Infrastructure/Validation
* GCC dev: try to fix vqtbl intrinsics for aarch64_be before e/o stage1
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the
2015.10 snapshot of the Linaro GCC 4.9 source package.
This snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 4.9.4-pre+svn229467 and includes
performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC.
This snapshot contents will be part of the 2015.11 stable [1]
quarterly release.
This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.9-2015.10/
Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:
* Updates to GCC 4.9.4-pre+svn229467
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR tree-optimization/65735
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR tree-optimization/65177
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR tree-optimization/65048
Feedback and Support
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[1]. Stable source package releases are defined as releases where the
full Linaro Toolchain validation plan is executed.
[2]. Source package snapshots are defined when the compiler is only
put through unit-testing and full validation is not performed.
== Progress ==
o Linaro GCC (9/10)
* Backports and reviews for our GCC 5 2015.11 snapshot
* FSF branch merge and needed backports for our GCC 4.9 2015.10 snapshot
o Misc (1/10)
* Various meetings
== Plan ==
o Complete 4.9 snapshot
Noise control experiments - TCWG-358 [3/10]
* Some analysis of data to date
Debian filesystem - TCWG-360 [3/10]
* Got stuck on LAVA interactions
* Now booting-to-LAVA-usability, needs some cleanup and testing with
real benchmark runs
Benchmarking-via-Jenkins - TCWG-348 [1/10]
* Picked back up on understanding that LAVA uinstance is a-coming
* Hacked pbl.py (post-build-lava) to generate suitable JSON
** As a bonus, this can work as a CLI job-submission tool
=Plan=
Holiday Friday (pending approval)
Set up crashdumping on my Juno, try to learn why it crashes
Finish Debian filesystem
Get Jenkins generating and submitting jobs suitable for uinstance
Write up noise control report (probably will get bumped to next week)
