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[ACTIVITY] 2011-10-28

by David Gilbert

== 64 bit atomics == * I've been building and testing membase * Version 1.7.1.1 source builds OK (after turning off -Werror due to some of their curious type naming) * The git version fails to build - it doesn't seem consistent * 1.7.1.1 passes simple tests, but there are 3 tests in its test suite that intermittently fail on ARM and seem to be solid on x86. (There are also some that just require timeouts increased due to the relatively slow machine). * t/issue_163.t turned out to be a timing race in the test itself, made worse by being on a relatively slow machine and probably made worse by the Pandas odd idea of timing. That was reported to them with a break down of it, and upstream has fixed their test. ( http://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=230 ) * t/issue_67.t is proving tougher; once in a while memcached will lock up during init in thread_init; there is one particular point where adding a printf will make it work apparently reliably. I've got one or two ideas but I need to check my understanding of pthread_cond_wait first. * There is an assert I've seen triggered once - not looked at that yet. == String routines == * While I was off last week, my memchr and strlen were accepted into newlib * Joseph has responded to my eglibc mail, with a couple of small queries. == Other == * Wrote a more detailed test case for bug 873453 (odd timing behaviour on panda); it's quite odd - I can get > ~80ms timing discrepency so it's not a clock granularity issue. * Replicated a QEMU crash for Peter. Dave

13 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * finished changing libunwind to be more portable * tested patchset on ARM and X86_64 * now builds on Android without modifications (Android.mk, config.h and libunwind-common.h are still required) * verified that the modified debuggerd still works * discussed backtracing using libunwind on ARM with Harald from the BSC * they use libunwind in a sampling tool that generates Paraver tracefiles * started to upgrade my Linaro Android environment and ran into issues * need to check: * why building the toolchain using linaro-build.sh fails * why repo sync fails due to invalid platform/bionic SHA1 * what happened to LEB-panda.xml Regards Ken

13 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] report week 43

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || 2011-10-27 || ||upstream-omap3-cleanup || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || || Historical Milestones: ||qemu-linaro-2011-07 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-08 || 2011-08-18 || 2011-08-18 || 2011-08-18 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-09 || 2011-09-15 || 2011-09-15 || 2011-09-15 || ||add-omap3-networking || 2011-10-13 || 2011-10-13 || 2011-10-13 || ||a15-systemmode-planning || 2011-10-13 || 2011-10-13 || 2011-09-22 || == a15-usermode-support == * A15 instruction support patches committed upstream in time for upstream's 1.0 release == upstream-omap3-cleanup == * some work on restructuring the omap3 patchset -- it's now basically in the right order and the last 'touches several different bits of code' jumbo patch has been split == other == * sent some patches upstream which address the main things I want to get into qemu 1.0 (PL041 audio support and fixing a regression in handling multithreaded programs in linux-user mode) * A15 KVM planning work and other preparation for Linaro Connect * finally tracked down the qemu-on-ARM memory corruption: we mmap the code generation buffer at 0x1000000 with MAP_FIXED; unfortunately this is now in the middle of glibc's heap... (filed as LP:883133) * qemu now has a coroutine implementation which defaults to using makecontext() if it is present. Unfortunately ARM eglibc provides an implementation which always returns ENOSYS, which is a bit tricky to detect with a compile time configure check (without breaking cross-compilation support). * these two things (and some other known bugs) mean that QEMU on ARM hosts is basically broken, and will probably continue to be since we don't have the spare resource to test and fix bugs (beyond those which we need to fix for KVM-on-ARM)

13 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] w43

by Asa Sandahl

* Looked at how to configure Firefox and how to build different parts of the program. Usage of .mozconfig, myrules.mk and myconfig.mk. * Tested the Talos framework. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Buildbot/Talos. I think it would be good to use Talos for the browsing benchmarks. We can discuss it further at connect. * Preparing for connect. Best Regards Åsa

13 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] WW42

by Zhenqiang Chen

Summary: * Exercise crosstool-ng and summarize the gaps. Details: * Exercise crosstool-ng (1) Sync with lp:~linaro-toolchain-dev/crosstool-ng/linaro. (2) Try to config linux-host-baremental-target an mingw32-host-baremental-target. (3) Try to build the toolchain for both embedded toolchain and linaro-gcc-4.6-2011.10 with the config. . C compiler for linux and mingw32 hosts and c++ compiler for linux host can be built without any change. . C++ compiler for mingw32 host can be built after PCH is disabled. . GDB-cross build fail due to dependence packages. * Gaps in crosstool-ng (1) Improve GDB-cross scripts to download and build the dependence packages: expat and ncurses. Or put expat and ncurses as companion_libraries. (2) To remove dependence, embedded toolchain requires more prerequisites like zlib. New config and scripts are required to support the packages. (3) Currently, the embedded toolchain source packages are released as a tarball, which includes gcc, gmp, etc. New scripts are required to support it. (4) To make sure the toolchain can run with lower version glibc like redhat4/5, the embedded toolchain requires lower version native gcc4.3.6 to build it. To support it, . Users can build the native gcc manually, or . Enhance the scripts to add one step to build native gcc. (5) All the default package configurations are different from embedded toolchain internal build scripts. Since the configurations in embedded toolchain had been tuned and tested, we will change the configurations in crosstool-ng if they do not match and not configurable. The same rule will apply for linaro toolchain. Plans: * Write scripts to re-pack the embedded toolchain source packages. * Add the supports for all prerequisites in crosstool-ng menuconfig. Thanks! -Zhenqiang

13 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] 24th - 28th October

by Andrew Stubbs

Posted a patch upstream to fix big-endian for generic tuning. This was a simple omission from my previous patches. Merged GCC 4.6.2 to Linaro GCC. It's still in testing now, so I'll have to commit it sometime over the weekend or next week. Looked at the benchmark results from Spec2000 running on both A8 and A9 systems, with and with NEON, and with various compiler options. Posted the results in a spreadsheet (visible within Linaro only). Begun making adjustments to generic tuning and started new spec2k runs to see if they are beneficial. First, I'm trying A9 prefetch settings on A8 to see how much damage it does. Next I'll try enabling the A8 NEON tuning settings on A9 to see what happens there. Prepared for travel next week. Vacation Friday

13 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] October 23-27

by Ira Rosen

Hi, - Merged to gcc-linaro: - widening shifts - SLP features: support loads with different offsets and swap operands if necessary - Started rewriting SLP analysis to support operations with more than two operands (towards SLP of conditions) - Updated NEON presentation following Ramana's suggestions (thanks!) - Suggested to Ramana to implement vcond with mixed types, created a blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+spec/vcond-with-mixed-types - Vectorizer: - updated vectorizer's webpage - updated vectorizer's wiki page - the usual maintenance - Committed upstream two SLP data-ref analysis improvements: PR 50730 and PR 50819 Ira

13 years, 10 months

Toolchain Connect sessions

by Michael Hope

Hi there. Connect is just around the corner. Have a look at: https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/Q4.11Plans for a summary of the toolchain sessions and hacking topics. It would be great to have kernel and OCTO input in the ARM STM driver, Kernel debugging, and KVM sessions. -- Michael

13 years, 10 months

Toolchain performance call during connect.

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

Hi Folks, Draft agenda for the performance meeting next week at Connect - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+spec/linaro-toolchain-performa… Are there any topics that people would like to bring up during this meeting other than the ones listed here ? I suspect that we'll probably just have about 10-15 minutes for a topic in this case. I am not considering discussing PGO related stuff in this session given that we've got another session in which we can discuss this. Thoughts ? cheers Ramana

13 years, 10 months

Performance improvements hacking time at Connect Q4.11

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

Hi Folks, I've been trying to capture what we want to do in terms of hacking time and some of the performance related backlog that we have in the system. I have done so here. https://wiki.linaro.org/RamanaRadhakrishnan/Sandbox/Q411ConnectGCCPerfPlan I'm on vacation tomorrow but should be picking email for sometime during the day. Thoughts about what else we could be doing in this area or if there's a better way we could use our hacking time. cheers Ramana ---

13 years, 10 months

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