Hi Vijay,
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Vijay Kilari <vijay.kilari(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Dave,
>
> Thanks for this info.
>
> I have few more queries after looking at the results of memset on A9 & A8.
> I agree that externel bus speed matters in comparision across platforms.
>
> 1) Why memset is performance is good on A8 than A9?. any justification?
I've CC'd the linaro-toolchain list who have been working on this
topic and may be able to provide you with more information.
Cheers
---Dave
Hi there. I've had a think and done a write-up on the causes behind
the 2011.01 release failure and what should be changed. See:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Incidents/2011.01-X86_64
The changes involve being more explicit in the release process
document and changing the continuous build to give earlier warning.
Comments are appreciated.
-- Michael
Hello,
I have a patch for ARM that I want to test and I'm not sure what's the
procedure of testing in Linaro nor to where
it should be committed. (GCC trunk? it's currently under bug fixes mode
only).
I appreciate help with that.
Thanks,
Revital
Hello,
could you please provide some comments about the state of "-Os"
(optimising for size) in the gcc 4.5.x versions of Linaro's tool
chain?
It appears there are a number of issues with recent versions of GCC
that get triggered when optimising for size, for example
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45052http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44392
Some other projects like the Linux Foundation driven Poky (resp.
Yocto project) capitulated and stopped using -Os, see for example
here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.embedded.poky/2311/focus=2565
On the other hand, I can see that Linaro even adds improvements for
"-Os", see for example here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.linaro.toolchain/367
So I wonder what the state of these problems with "-Os" is in the
Linaro tool chain? Have these issues been solved, and is "-Os"
reliably working with the Linaro tool chain?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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The optimum committee has no members.
- Norman Augustine
I assume we're moving the toolchain calls over to the
new confcall numbers -- but just to check, are we doing
so for this Wednesday's status call? The calendar
entry still has the old numbers...
-- PMM
==GCC==
Progress:
* Got invited to the Toolchain WG and was at the sprint in Dallas.
* Worked on fixing inconsistencies in the A9 scheduler. Now fixed up
upstream and submitted merge request for that.
* Introduced to other members of the Toolchain WG and had
conversations with everyone about what was going on within the
Toolchain WG.
* Spent some time trying to set up a Pandaboard that I borrowed
(Thanks Wookey) but the Panda didn't work. Turns out both the SD cards
were broken and or the versions of the boot loader / firmware were
broken.
* Worked through the patch list with Andrew trying to understand the
patches that exist in the backend for the delta between gcc-linaro and
upstream.
* Did some patch review upstream to help ease the backlog.
* Flushed some patches out from my patch queue upstream.
* Fixed the scheduler issue upstream and submitted a merge request for
it in linaro gcc-4.5 since it really fixes the A9 scheduler.
* Some ARM internal tasks with respect to transition into Linaro.
* Worked on the divmodsi4 issue and testing my patch with trunk.
Pushed my branch into launchpad if someone wants to see the code. Does
the right thing for the case we want but won't help with the SPEC2k
case really because that's a case with Os. But a good size improvement
anyhow and something that will help with divmod cases with 2 variables
rather than where a constant is used.
* Set up a natty chroot on one of our ve2 boxes which is now running a
bootstrap for all languages we are interested in and collecting test
results from trunk upstream.
* Worked through the new starter guide and still have an issue with
accessing wiki.linaro.org
Absences:
February 1-3:ARM Internal engineering conference.
== GCC ==
* Analyzed root cause of #685352 (libplymouth2_0.8.2-2ubuntu6 and
later give ragged splash and text rendering), opened mainline
bugzilla PR rtl-optimization/47299
* Submitted backport merge request for the #685352 fix
* Successfully completed profiled-bootstrap run on ARM
* Investigated profiled pyhton package build problems
== GDB ==
* Forward-ported GDB patch to support ARM hardware watchpoints
* Determined root cause of #615978 (Failure to software single-step
into signal handler), started discussion of proposed fix
* Miscellaneous Launchpad bug maintenance
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards
Ulrich Weigand
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=A9 Qemu=
I've spent most of the week looking at QEmu emulation of SMP A9. The
model (of a realview-pbx-a9) doesn't have any working block IO;
I spent some time looking at trying to get SD working and got part
way, but I fell back to using NFS root.
It seems to work OK for basic CPU emulation, and SMP 'works' in the
sense that the guest sees multiple CPUs;
however QEmu is restricted to only using one host CPU core for
multiple guest CPUs, so it's of limited
help in debugging SMP code.
Video doesn't seem to work either.
To get to that point it does need a bunch of patches to QEmu, most of
which Peter Maydell already knows of;
I've put some notes here :
https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/People/DaveGilbert/QEMUA9SMP
Note that the realview-pbx doesn't currently have a Linaro hardware
pack; I used a kernel from ARMs website
and a 2.6.37 I built myself.
=SPEC=
SPEC ref got quite a far way through on Canis (with half-duplex
ether), however 'lbm' failed when running
in ref mode (while having worked in test and train) giving a different
output; it takes quite a long time to fail.
= Perf =
I sent an updated version of my patch for perf's thumb annotation upstream.
and apparently we have a Panda on the way.
Dave
RAG:
Red:
Amber:
Green:
Current Milestones:
| Planned | Estimate | Actual |
finish qemu-cont-integration | 2010-01-25 | 2010-01-25 | handed off |
first qemu-linaro release | 2011-01-11 | 2011-01-11 | |
Historical Milestones:
finish virtio-system | 2010-08-27 | postponed | |
finish testing PCI patches | 2010-10-01 | 2010-10-22 | 2010-10-18 |
successful ARM qemu pull req | 2010-12-16 | 2010-12-16 | 2010-12-16 |
* submitted meego patch upstream to print instruction
boundaries in TCG op-level debug dumps:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/79298/
* reviewed a couple of patches by Christophe Lyon from ST
which fix some problems with VMULL and friends
(together with a qemu-meego patch in the same area)
* lots of rebasing work to get a qemu-linaro tree into
shape. Mostly putting together my exploded set of
ARM patches from the meego tree with a rebased set
of omap patches. I have something which I think is about
right but I need to test it.
* patches submitted to qemu upstream:
+ add -version option to qemu-user:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/79635/
+ fix writing default vector address in PL190:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/79712/
+ print instruction boundaries in TCG op-level debug dumps:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/79298/
Current qemu patch status is tracked here:
https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus
Absences:
17/18 March: QEMU Users Forum, Grenoble
Holiday: 22 Apr - 2 May
I had a few spare cycles this afternoon on my A9 board so I got it to
build and run 72 variants of CoreMark with the 2011.01 compiler. The
results are here:
https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/CoreMark1
I haven't looked deeply into it and the usual disclaimer about
benchmarks applies, but there's some interesting stuff there. The ARM
to Thumb-2 drop is more than expected. Tuning for Cortex-A9 generally
makes things worse.
-- Michael
