== Progress ==
* Work on gdb testing utility [TCWG-96] [8/10]
-- Support to run native and native-gdbserver test via ssh on remote
machines like arm-linux.
-- Bug fix and test gdb testing utility by running it various configurations.
-- Update wiki page with testing utility and how to use it.
* Chromebook ubuntu re-install and fix network lag issue [2/10]
== Plan ==
* GDB reverse debugging on aarch64
-- Start implementation of reverse debugging infrastructure [TCWG-398]
-- Add support for running aarch64 gdb test suite in gdb testing utility.
== This week ==
a53 support [CARD-300][3/10]
- aarch64-none-elf target using cpu=cortex-a53 passed validation on
foundation model
- Resolved code review issues (formatting and unnecessary patches)
Backport 202663 - vectorizer bug passed validation and merge review for
4.7 and 4.8 [CARD-300][3/10]
GCC Bugzilla bug 60657 [TCWG-290][2/10]
- began fix by adding new conditions to pattern causing crash
- bug was fixed upstream by Jeffrey Law on April 4th
== Next week ==
- Transition from backports to bug fixing
- Create Wiki page for Aarch64 bug contingency bug fixes, feature and
performance improvements for partners
== Future ==
One week of vacation either the third or fourth week of April.
=== Progress ===
LP1296601 (ICE in push_minipool_fix) [5/10]
* completed a prototype fix
* submitted RFC patch to gcc-patches
* still awaiting review
PR60609 (Error: value of 256 too large for field of 1 bytes) [3/10]
* implemented fix and posted to gcc-patches
* approved, subject to further testing on Thumb-1
libvpx NEON assembler vs instrinsics performance investigation [2/10]
* looking at disassembly, code is not terribly aesthetically pleasing
* in some cases clang looks better
=== Plan ===
write up libvpx investigation
follow up/ping LP1296601
NEON scheduling TCWG-135
TCWG-156 (5/10)
* Hacked v7 memcpy into a memset
* Much fiddling with builds, targets
* Kicked off a benchmark run
Misc
* Meetings (1/10)
* Finding hardware/setting up working environments/figuring out workflows
(4/10)
== Issues ==
* none
== Progress ==
* Launchpad bugs:
o TCWG-422 : ICE in assign_by_spills building linux btrfs module (1/10)
- New failure after first fix reported.
- reduced new testcase.
- Fix committed by Vladimir as rev209038
o Backported "Internal compiler error in push_reload during
bootstrap stage 2" to GCC 4.7 (1/10)
- analysed validation results.
- re-spawned some jobs.
* Backports review: (5/10)
o cortex-a53 support backport:
- We are still not able to validate it on aarch64-linux-gnu target
with a compiler configured to default to cortex-a53, but no regressions
observed in the generic case and on bare_metal (with cortex-a53).
* Misc:
o Cbuildv1 baby-sitting (2/10)
- Toolchain64 disk was full.
o Various meetings (1/10).
== Next ==
- Mainly 4.7 and 4.8 April releases
- TCWG-413 Spec2006 (5/10)
- Analysed 456.hmmer
- In the process of opening performance bug reports
- Started looking at 453.povray
- TCWG-291 CRC (2/10)
- Not seeing performance improvement with redundant "and" instruction gone
- Analysing with perf to see the reason
- LP1301335 (3/10)
- SLP vectorizer ICEs for QT5 Webkit for Linaro 4.7
- Doesn’t occur in trunk/4.8/4.7 FSF
- Patch proposed for merge request which fixes
- I also see some FAIL -> PASS in the regression with this patch
- This patch is only relevant for Linaro 4.7 so we cant/don’t need to
upstream it (?)
== Plan ==
Continue with Spec2006 and crc
4 day week 31-Oct local holiday
Bug fix (2/10)
* Looking at a register allocation issue with ARMv7 hard float issue. (3/10)
Tried changing machine description pattern same as trunk in gcc 4.8 branch.
Issue does not occur with trunk and reason is arm64 moved to lra.
turning off lra bug occurs.
Trying to find out if it is easy to fix in reload or wait for LRA backport.
PGO - AArch64 (TCWG-179) (3/10)
* Native CPU2006 runs on V8 foundation model.
SPEC runs -O3 -mcpu=cortex-a57. INT benchmark failures seen with mcf
and h264ref.
rest benchmarks running.
* Tried to use ubuntu saucy core image on V8 foundation model and
mount NFS is failing.
* Trying to install QEMU user static for aarch64 and use them from
chroot environment
GLIBC Systemtap (2/10)
* Re spined libc systemtap probe patch to glibc. Will newton is
testing it in hardware.
Meetings (2/10)
* Attend 1-1 with Ryan discuss 2014 goal planning.
* Attend 1-1 with Maxim discuss PGO work.
== Progress ==
* Kernel (TCWG-417)
- Implementing named register global variables (D3261)
- Helping Milosz and Vinicius (LLVMLinux) to get a kernel ready
- First LLVM-compiled kernel booted on Versatile Express hardware
* Background
- Reviewing patches, etc.
- Apple merged their ARM64 back-end, fiddling bots
- Making the new TableGen docs official
- Jira farming
- Became code owner for the ARM Linux support
- LLVM Foundation announced
- Trying to run SPEC on AArch64
* Time
- CARD-124 6/10
- Others 4/10
== Plan ==
* Holiday for two and a half weeks
* Follow up the named register patch
== Progress ==
* glibc patch review (2/10)
* Helping out with aarch64 glibc setjmp/longjmp Systemtap probes testing (1/10)
* Investigated and submitted patch for gas ARM alignment issue (3/10)
* Committed library and script for malloc logging (1/10, TCWG-423)
* Rebased and tidied up malloc microbenchmark (2/10, TCWG-160)
* Various small binutils and glibc patches (1/10)
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* Submit patch for glibc malloc microbenchmark
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
