== This Week ==
* LTO (5/10)
- TCWG-528:
a) addressed Richard's comments.
b) investigating timeout with my patch for g++.dg/torture/pr31863.C
c) using hash_map to prevent decl from getting visited more than
once prevents the issue
d) patch: http://people.linaro.org/~prathamesh.kulkarni/increase-struct-align.diff
- Slides: mostly prepared, few tidbits (and demos) remaining
- Benchmarking: couple more failures due to my silly mistakes, now in progress.
* TCWG-310 (1/10)
- started to look at loop peeling with perf
* Public Holiday (2/10)
- Shiv Jayanti
* Misc (2/10)
- Meetings
- Committed r233426
- Looked at PR69766 caused due to r232622
== Next Week ==
- LTO: TCWG-528, benchmarking, slides
- TCWG-310
# Progress #
* Support range stepping on arm-linux. TCWG-518. [4/10]
My patches causes some regressions but my patches just expose the
existing problem in GDBserver. Fix them and post patches upstream.
* Linaro connect. [2/10]
Go to London for visa application.
* GDB 7.11 release. No issues from my side. The tentative date of
release is Feb 26th.
* Fix GDB reverse debugging tests failures.
** Add more test cases, TCWG-183/TCWG-174. [2/10]
** Fix syscall handling in reverse debugging on ARM and AArch64.
TCWG-532/TCWG-167. [2/10]
# Plan #
* Support range stepping on arm-linux. Continue.
* Fix GDB reverse debugging tests failures. Continue.
* Review upstream patches.
* Go to London to collect my passport.
--
Yao
== Progress ==
* Validation
- AArch64 bare metal validation fixed. Patches waiting approval
- noticed a few failures caused by timeouts and failure to download
testcases. Maybe we are causing too much load on the builders/testers
* Connect preparation
- thoughts on extended validation
* GCC
- upstream monitoring, reported a couple a of regressions
- a few backports
- target attributes backport. Still having problems with our branch
* Misc (conf calls, meetings, emails, ....)
== Next ==
Holidays most of next week
Hi Toolchain Group,
I am trying to study the effect of loop buffer size on loop unrolling & the
way gcc (aarch64) handles this.
To my understanding, Loop Buffer is like i-cache which contains pre-decoded
instruction that can be re-used if branch instruction loopbacks to an
instruction
which is still present in the buffer. For example, in Intel’s Nehalem loop
buffer size is 28 u-ops. In LLVM compiler, it seems LoopMicroOpBufferSize
is for the same purpose.
However, I could not find any parameter/variable inside config/aarch64
representing loop buffer size. I am using Linaro gcc 5.2.1
[Question]
1. Is there any example inside aarch64 (or in general) which uses the loop
buffer size in loop unrolling decision? If yes, could you please mention
the relevant files or code section?
2. Otherwise any guidance/input on adding this support in aarch64 backend
assuming architecture has the loop buffer support.
[My Experiments/Code Browsing]
I have collected following information from code browsing. Please correct
if I missed or misunderstood something.
TARGET_LOOP_UNROLL_ADJUST - This target hook return the number of times a
loop can be unrolled.
This can be used to handle the architecture constraint such number of
memory references inside a loop e.g. ix86_loop_unroll_adjust() &
s390_loop_unroll_adjust().
On the same note, can this be used to handle loop buffer size too?
Without above hook, in loop-unroll.c parameters like
PARAM_MAX_UNROLLED_INSNS (default 200), PARAM_MAX_AVERAGE_UNROLLED_INSNS
(default 80) decides the unrolling factor. e.g. nunroll = PARAM_VALUE
(PARAM_MAX_UNROLLED_INSNS) / loop->ninsns;
In config/aarch64.c, I found align_loops variable in
aarch64_override_options_after_change() function.
I guess this an alignment done before starting the loop header in the
executable. This should not play any role in loop unrolling. Right?
So any guidance on how we can instruct aarch64 backend to utilize loop
buffer size in deciding the loop unrolling factor?
Thanks in advance for your time.
--
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Handling aggregate types return values on arm-linux-gnueabihf ABI.
Patch review and committed upstream. [TCWG-228] [1/10]
-- Debugging of stepping issues on chromebook (arm hard float ABI)
[TCWG-230] [2/10]
-- Progress on vector return values and aggregate types return values
with vector elements. [TCWG-531] [2/10]
-- Started work on complex return values and aggregate types return
values with vector elements. [TCWG-531] [2/10]
-- Started writing test cases handling complex and vector return
values and aggregate types return values with vector and complex
elements. [TCWG-531] [2/10]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Finish work on complex return values and aggregate types return
values with vector elements. [TCWG-531]
-- Finish work on vector return values and aggregate types return
values with vector elements. [TCWG-531]
-- Finish work on test cases handling complex and vector return
values. [TCWG-531]
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [2/10]
* Better reporting/error trapping in dispatch scripts
* Some back and forth with Lab about builder implementation
* Started assessing target stability
* Fixed a few bugs in reporting/bundle generation
Document benchmarking infrastructure - TCWG-496 [2/10]
* All done apart from Jenkins interface
* Need to finish Jenkins interface first...
Generate graphs for benchmarking - TCWG-268 [1/10]
* Generate a bunch of filters and charts to track Coremark-Pro
* Wrote up what I learned about LAVA's reporting interface
EEMBC benchmarks - (no ticket) [2/10]
* Checked over what we had, decided it was probably complete
* Imported to our repos
* Wrote up what I know about this
* Moved Coremark-Pro into its own repo
** Broke some code that had worked by coincidence
** Fixed it
Misc
* Usual meetings/mail/etc
* Some fun with what turned out to be a known bug in the
linaro-media-create now used in main LAVA instance
* Educated guess as to why Jenkins-triggered jobs produced no bundle
** Raised a ticket
** Think I know how to fix on my side
=Plan=
If updated builder becomes available, convert uinstance jobs to use it
Test release benchmark job
Finish backport benchmarking
Document Jenkins interface
Assess target stability
More image reports in microinstance
== This week ==
* Bugzilla 69663 - [ARM] Implement overflow arithmetic standard names (3/10)
- Successfully tested SImode add, sub, and neg overflow patterns
- Developed DImode addv and subv patterns
- Debugging failures in DImode overflow patterns
* TCWG 833 - [ARM] Exploit Wide Add operations when appropriate (2/10)
- Made changes corresponding to upstream review
- Rebased to latest trunk
- Resolved issues with new test cases
- Fixed formatting and style issues
- Resubmitted upstream for final review
- previous review gave conditional support for GCC 7
- Successfully retested
- One remaining expected failure on targets with wide add support
(including aarch64)
- Plan to file a upstream bugzilla
* Misc (1/10)
* Vacation (4/10)
== Next week ==
* Bugzilla 69663 - Debug and resolve DImode pattern failures
* Bugzilla 69008 - Restart investigation
== Progress ==
BUGS (8/10)
- PR69708:
* Posted a patch to fix.
- PR69589:
* Posted a patch to fix.
- PR66726:
* Omitted the patch bu that triggered a bootstrap failure for ppc64.
Reverted the patch and looking into it.
- Misc (2/10)
* gcc/bug list
* Undefined behaviors slides for connect
* Meetings
== Plan ==
* LTO
* bugs
== This Week ==
* LTO/IPA (8/10)
- TCWG-528: patch cross-tested on arm*-*-* and aarch64*-*-*
- Submitted patch upstream to add entry for aarch64 to target-supports.exp
- Experimenting with Kugan's ipa-vrp prototype
- Had a look at ipa-comdat
- Connect slides
* benchmarking (1/10)
- issues with deployment (TICKET-259)
- Using Bernie's workaround for the above issue
* Misc (1/10)
- Meetings
== Next Week ==
- LTO/IPA: tcwg-528, benchmarking, look at ipa-comdat enhancements.
- Investigate tcwg-310 with perf
- Finish connect slides
== Progress ==
* Conference (2/10)
- More EuroLLVM paper reviews, discussions
* Support (5/10)
- Looking at PR16275 (review D17141)
* Background (3/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, general support, etc.
- Buildbots broken, bisects, debugging
- Defining and posting Job ad (wanna work with us?)
# Progress #
* Support range stepping on arm-linux. TCWG-518. [4/10]
Preparatory patches are pushed in. Patches are being tested.
* Linaro connect. [3/10]
** Slides are done.
** Collect documents for visa application.
* GDB 7.11 release. TCWG-509. [1/10]
Release branch is created. Discuss on issue related to big endian,
but ARM is the only user of that code.
* Patch review, especially arm tracepoint support. [2/10].
# Plan #
* TCWG-518, upstream patches if tests are OK.
* TCWG-172, continue look at test parity between arm and x86_64.
* Go to London on Wed for visa application.
--
Yao
Hi Linaro Toolchain Group,
I have a question on the ldr instruction selection in the aarch64 backend.
Could someone help me in this regards, please?
I am trying to allow only type A instructions while disabling the type B.
Type A example: ldr x4, [x20,x1] ---> allow
Type B example: ldr x1, [x9,x3,lsl #3] ---> disable
Experiment/My Understanding -
aarch64_classify_address() returns true if rtx X is a valid address. If
allow_reg_index_p=true then it calls aarch64_classify_index().
aarch64_classify_index() identify the address mode of second operand (op1)
and accordingly calculate the shift.
If shift=0 then type A is generated otherwise Type B will be generated.
Thus if (shift != 0) then I am returning 'false' from
aarch64_classify_index().
-------------------------patch---------
--- a/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
+++ b/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
@@ -3586,6 +3586,9 @@ aarch64_classify_index (struct aarch64_address_info
*info, rtx x,
if (GET_CODE (index) == SUBREG)
index = SUBREG_REG (index);
+ if (shift != 0)
+ return false;
if ((shift == 0 ||
(shift > 0 && shift <= 3
&& (1 << shift) == GET_MODE_SIZE (mode)))
---------------------------------------
Result -
Before change
ldr x0, [x13,x0,lsl #3]
After Change
lsl x1, x1, #3
ldr x0, [x15,x1]
Question -
How the returning 'false' from aarch64_classify_index() is resulting in the
selection of type A versus type B?
I could not find the function which is taking the decision based on return
from aarch64_classify_address().
Could someone please explain this process or point me to the relevant files
or code?
Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.
Thanks in advance for your time and patience.
--
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the
2016.02 snapshot of the Linaro GCC 5 source package.
This monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.3+svn233233 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.05
stable [1] quarterly release.
This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.02/
Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:
* Updates to GCC 5.3+svn233233
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/69135: Mark ARMv8 vcvt
instructions as unconditional
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/69187 PR target/65624
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/69403: Bug in
thumb2_ior_scc_strict_it pattern
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR rtl-optimization/68796: Add
patterns for QImode and HImode comparison with zero
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/69176
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR target/69175
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR tree-optimization/67781
* Backport of [AArch32] Remove neon_reinterpret, use casts
* Backport of [AArch32] [RTEMS] Add Cortex-M7 multilib for FPU support
* Backport of [AArch64] Avoid emitting zero immediate as zero register
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix jit crash on aarch64
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix -mcpu/arch=native support for LSE
* Backport of [AArch64] Handle compare of zero_extract form of
TST-immediate in rtx costs
* Backport of [AArch64] Handle CSEL of zero_extended operands in rtx costs
* Backport of [AArch64] Properly reject invalid attribute strings
* Backport of [AArch64] Remove TODO (redundant type conversions) in arm_neon.h
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Fix
gcc.c-torture/execute/loop-2b.c execution failure on cortex-m0
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Fix g++.dg/pr67989.C test failure
when running with -march or -mcpu
* Backport of [Doc] Remove outdated text from lto.texi
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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.
Automated release benchmark Jenkins job - TCWG-348 [2/10]
* Drafted a job, it succeeds in dispatching to the uinstance
* Needs testing
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [5/10]
* Almost entirely fixing up the CPU2006 -> LAVA reporting
* Should now be able to report CPU2000 results as well
Misc [3/10]
* Mail/meetings/etc
* Connect slides
=Plan=
If builder is available, convert uinstance jobs to use it
Test release benchmark job
Produce image reports in microinstance
Attempt to finish backport benchmarking
Actually finish documentation
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Committed patch fixing return value handling on arm-linux-gnueabihf
[TCWG-228]
-- Finished work on handling aggregate types return values on
arm-linux-gnueabihf ABI. [TCWG-228] [5/10]
-- Submitted single and double precision handlers for upstream review.
[TCWG-228]
-- Started work on vector return values and aggregate types return
values with vector elements. [TCWG-228] [2/10]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
Public Holiday [2/10]
-- Friday 5th February 2016
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Update and commit aggregate type return values on
arm-linux-gnueabihf ABI patch.
-- Investigate issues while stepping over library functions on
arm-linux-gnueabihf
-- Further work on vector return values on arm-linux-gnueabihf ABI
== Progress ==
o Connect slides (2/10)
* Undefined behavior (slides and review)
o GCC dev. (5/10)
* Remote testing sanitizing: found a solution in dejaGNU and GCC
implementation and test ongoing
* Analysed and closed PR69590
o Misc (3/10)
* Various meetings
* internal discussions
== Plan ==
o Continue on GCC testsuite
o FSF branch merge and 2016.02 snapshot
== This Week ==
* TCWG-319 (1/10)
- Updated patch and re-posted, queued for stage-1
- Regression with armeb for -fvect-cost-model=cheap
* TCWG-528 (1/10)
- speculatively increase alignment for global structs with arrays.
* Backports (3/10)
- committed backport: 232688
- r232631 (partially?) reverts 232330
- modified script to follow git log <file>
* benchmarking (2/10)
- 464.h264ref triggered ICE for -O3 -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon,
reduced it (PR69282)
- Benchmarking tcwg-310 on SPEC2006 - +0.10%
- Benchmarking INT SPEC2k6 for aarch64 without LTO complete.
* Slides (2/10)
- Read doc and created outline for most of slides,
- expect to be mostly complete by next week
* Misc (1/10)
- Meetings
== Next Week ==
- LTO benchmarking and slides
- TCWG-528
== Progress ==
- LTO and TCWG480 (5/10)
* Started testing with the prototype patch
* Still trying to figure out what is the best way to set_range_info
based on IPA
* i.e., how to find the SSA_NAME initialized with PARM_DECL
- Misc (5/10)
* gcc/bug list
* Undefined behaviors slides for connect
* Meetings
== Plan ==
* LTO
* bugs
== This week ==
* Backports (1/10)
- 232493 - Committed to Linaro branch
- 232727 - Committed to Linaro branch
- 232414 - Committed to Linaro branch
* Bugzilla 69663 - [ARM] Implement overflow arithmetic standard names (5/10)
- Implemented SImode add, sub, and neg overflow patterns
- add overflow patterns pass testing
- debugging failures in subv overflow patterns
* Bugzilla 69008 - gcc emits unneeded memory access when passing trivial
structs by value (ARM) (3/10)
- Investigating Dead Store Elimination pass to determine if code can
be improved
* Misc (1/10)
== Next week ==
* Personal days on February 8th and 9th
* Resolve bugzilla 69663 subv issues and work on DImode patterns
* Bugzilla 69008 - continue investigation
* Investigate test case failure on backport 232600
* Off from Mon. to Wed. [6/10]
# Progress #
* TCWG-518. Support range stepping on arm-linux. Ongoing. [2/10]
First do software single step in GDBserver side.
* TCWG-509. GDB 7.11 release. [1/10]
PR 19474, review Keith's patch. The patch is OK to mainline, but we
don't want to take risk shipping this patch to 7.11 release.
* Misc, register to Linaro Connect BKK16, and get clarifications on my
visa to Thailand. [1/10]
* Monitor the discussions on kenernel awareness upstreams, and comment
on the display of CPSR register.
# Plan #
* Finish Linaro Connect slides.
* TCWG-509. Anything needed for GDB 7.11 release.
* TCWG-518.
--
Yao
== Progress ==
* Validation
- disabled Auto Backport Engine until the patch selection
is improved to avoid saturating the builders with undesirable
builds.
- AArch64 bare metal validation (bug #2011). Submitted a patch
for dejagnu aarch64-fv8.exp, and one for our builders schroots.
Will need another patch, in ABE.
- timeout issues: no progress
* Misc (conf calls, meetings, emails, ....)
- internal discussions
== Next ==
* Validation
- debug timeout issues
- cleanup
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Submitted patch fixing return value handling on arm-linux-gnueabihf
[TCWG-228] [5/10]
-- float and double types handled in above patch did some more
investigation for handling structs [TCWG-228] [2/10]
-- Collecting LLDB status data, ran testsuite on different hardware
and minor investigation of fails and xfails [2/10]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Update float/double return value patch after review and commit upstream
-- Submit a fix for handling structs as return types on arm-linux-gnueabihf
Public Holiday
-- Friday 5th February 2016
== Progress ==
- Public Holiday (2/10)
- LTO and TCWG480 (4/10)
* Started with a prototype for VRP
* Experimenting with simple test cases
- Misc (4/10)
* gcc/bug list
* LTO and Undefined behaviors slides for connect
* Meetings
== Plan ==
* LTO
* bugs
Hi,
My ARM target runs glibc 2.13 and I am having a hard time finding a
linaro toolchain for it. It seems like all the ones I have found ship with
glibc 2.15 (even old ones).
Where can I find the binaries for a linux toolchain that targets armhf
with glibc 2.13?
Thanks in advance
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [4/10]
* Went a few more rounds with the race condition, finally nailed it
* Tidied up transfer of Coremark results to LAVA
* Added metadata to LAVA results
* Sketched some charts using LAVA reporting
* Improved runtime benchmark logging
Benchmarking infrastructure documentation - TCWG-496 [2/10]
* Most everything drafted, some docs finished
Controlled image builds - TCWG-360 [2/10]
* Reached a better understanding of what a hwpack is
* Generated a few images, none of them booted
Misc [2/10]
=Plan=
Benchmarking-102 slides for Connect
Finish documentation
Backport benchmarking
If builder shows up in microinstance, evaluate stability of its Junos
o Teaching activity (3/10)
== Progress ==
o Infra/Validation (1/10)
* A couple of patches for release script.
o GCC dev. (2/10)
* Remote testing sanitizing: still digging.
o Misc (4/10)
* Various meetings (usual ones and internal ones)
* Backports reviews
== Plan ==
o Continue on GCC testsuite and opened cards.
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [2/10]
* More fallout from attempts to fix race condition
* Began cleaning job submission YAML
Controlled image builds - TCWG-360 [1/10]
* (Re)learned how to generate images from hwpack + filesystem
Struck down by flu [7/10]
== This week ==
* Backports (3/10)
- 232493 - Unrelated aarch64 failure and non-thumb asan test on
aarch32 big endian
- 232600 - All tests pass
- 232727 - unrelated non-thumb test failure
asan/deep-thread-stack-1.c asan/deep-thread-stack-1.c)
* Bugzilla 68543 - [AArch64] Implement overflow arithmetic standard
names (3/10)
- Development halted due to submission of related patch by Richard
Henderson:
- https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-01/txt0WQOxpo0_5.txt
- Began implementation of aarch32 related patch
* Bugzilla 69008 - gcc emits unneeded memory access when passing trivial
structs by value (ARM) (3/10)
- Additional code is being generated in default abi case with
structure alignment equal to 8
- Investigating Dead Store Elimination pass to determine if code can
be improved
* Misc (1/10)
== Next week ==
* Create new bugzilla for aarch32 to implement overflow standard names
and continue implementation
* Bugzilla 69008 - continue investigation
* Work on backports as necessary
== This Week ==
* PR43721 (1/10)
- Submitted upstream.
- GIMPLE parts approved by Richard, wants someone else to approve
rtl-expansion bits.
* benchmarking (1/10)
- benchmarking tcwg-310 on cortex-a53, cortex-a57, r1-a12, cortex-a17
- submitted job for INT benchmarks for SPEC2006 for aarch64
* backports (2/10)
- r232688 automated backport build failed for aarch64-linux-gnu on
tcwg-backport-gerrit:
Unrecognized macro 'GERRIT_PATCHSET_REVISION' in '#664-
${GERRIT_PATCHSET_REVISION,length=8}'
Build successful on tcwg-backport-maxim
- r232737, r232631 have at least 4 dependencies.
- wrote bare bones script to find dependencies for revision
* ccp (2/10)
- enhancement to hoist stmt thru phi with all constant args
- patch: http://people.linaro.org/~prathamesh.kulkarni/ccp-mov.diff
- rejected by Richard, since PRE handles this case when it's
trivially profitable and phiprop does similar transform. In general,
it's not profitable to have this transform included.
* Public Holiday (2/10)
* Misc (2/10)
- Meetings
- Slides: short & long term activities
== Next Week ==
- PR43721: look at using define_expand instead of hook, add test-cases
and few nits
- tcwg-319 - analyse with perf
- LTO INT benchmarking for arm, aarch64 and x86
- LTO Slides
# Progress #
In general, GDB mainline is in a good state. All known bugs are fixed,
but still have some patches pending for review. The release can be
created after these pending patches are in.
* Fix fail in gdb.base/interrupt-noterm.exp. TCWG-517. Done. [2/10]
* Fix fail in gdb.fortran/vla-value.exp. TCWG-521. Done. [1/10]
* PR 19474. [3/10]
Tried different approaches, but still cause regression.
Fortunately get the right maintainer involved. Will discuss with
him on this bug next week.
* Range stepping doesn't work on arm-linux, which slows down stepping
over a line of source. TCWG-518. [2/10]
* Prepare slides for Linaro Connect. [2/10]
# Plan #
* Off on Mon. to Wed.
* Linaro connect slides.
* Thailand visa.
* Other issues on GDB 7.11 release, if any.
--
Yao
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the availability
of the Linaro Stable Binary Toolchain GCC 5.2-2015.11-2 Release Archives.
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/5.2-2015.11-2/http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.2-2015.11-2/
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 5.2-2015.11-2 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 2015.11-2
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-2 binary toolchain release respin is built from
the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-2 release source archive. The Linaro
GCC-5.2-2015.11-2 release source archive is derived from the same sources
as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot source archive.
This release includes fixes for the issues specified in the Linaro GCC 5.2
2015.11-2-rc1 release-candidate.
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-2-rc1
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-2-rc1 binary toolchain release-candidate is
built from the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-2-rc1 release-candidate source
archive. The Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-2-rc1 release-candidate source archive
is derived from the same sources as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot
source archive.
This release-candidate includes fixes for the following issues:
Linaro bug 1995 identified a problem where the installed sysroot was not in
the place that the compiler expected the sysroot to be located by default.
This is fixed in the Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-2-rc1 binary toolchain
release-candidate.
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-1
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-1 binary toolchain release is built from the
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source archive.
This release-candidate includes fixes for the following issues:
The arm-eabi-none multi-libs are now available in the toolchain sysroot as
a fix for Linaro bug 1920 and Linaro bug 1922 .
Linaro glibc 2.21 now provides ld-linux-aarch64_be.so.1 .
Linux 32-bit host binaries for the ARMv7 Linux hard float cross-toolchain
(arm-linux-gnueabihf triple).
* GCC 5.2 2015.11
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GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot source archive.
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-rc1
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--
Ryan S. Arnold
Linaro Toolchain Working Group - Engineering Manager
www.linaro.org
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This release includes fixes for the issues specified in the Linaro GCC 5.2
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archive. The Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-1-rc1 release-candidate source archive
is derived from the same sources as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot
source archive.
This release-candidate includes fixes for the following issues:
The arm-eabi-none multi-libs are now available in the toolchain sysroot as
a fix for Linaro bug 1920 and Linaro bug 1922 .
Linaro glibc 2.21 now provides ld-linux-aarch64_be.so.1 .
Linux 32-bit host binaries for the ARMv7 Linux hard float cross-toolchain
(arm-linux-gnueabihf triple).
* GCC 5.2 2015.11
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11 binary toolchain release is built from the
Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11 release 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.
* 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-rc1 release-candidate 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
Hi!
When using the linaro-4.9-2015.05 toolchain on the Linux master and on Linux stable releases
I am seeing a build issue below when using the allyesconfig. This does not seem to occur on the 5.2 tool chain.
We cannot move to 5.2 tool chain for our releases as they are based on 4.9.
LD init/built-in.o
arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x1d4): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text.unlikely'
arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x1e0): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text.unlikely'
arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x1ec): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text.unlikely'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `combiner_handle_cascade_irq':
:(.text+0x834): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_lock' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
:(.text+0x868): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_unlock' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
drivers/built-in.o: In function `hip04_irq_set_type':
:(.text+0xad0): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_lock' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
:(.text+0xb10): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_unlock' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
drivers/built-in.o: In function `hip04_raise_softirq':
:(.text+0xc8c): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_lock_irqsave' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
:(.text+0xdc8): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
drivers/built-in.o: In function `hip04_irq_set_affinity':
:(.text+0xefc): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_lock' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
:(.text+0xf78): additional relocation overflows omitted from the output
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
Please advise to how to resolve this issue within the 4.9 Linaro tool chain
Dan
--
------------------
Dan Murphy
== Progress ==
* Support (5/10)
- Bug triage: reviewing the 300+ bugs on ARM
- remaining 220 bugs are all still pertinent
* Release (2/10)
- Woes due to GCC ABI change may delay 3.8.0 release
- Tested on both ARM and AArch64 with old environment, all green.
* Background (3/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, general support, etc.
- EuroLLVM, FOSDEM preparations, ARM sync
o Teaching activity (2/10)
== Progress ==
o Linaro GCC (2/10)
* Delivered 2016.01-1 Snapshot respin with fix for Linaro PR #2001
* Gave some support on backports
o Infra/Validation (1/10)
* Compared ABE master results.
o GCC dev. (2/10)
* Identified the way testcases are uploaded on the remote target in
cross validation as the root cause of validation instabilities. Digging
into GCC .exp files and DejaGNU to fix it cleanly.
o Misc (3/10)
* Various meetings
* Start a backport/validation document
== Plan ==
o Continue backports/validation document
o Continue on the ongoing cards opened
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Debugging of return value related issue coming up on chromebook ARM
[TCWG-228] [2/10]
-- Setup of Arm testing on AArch64 using chroot on highkey [TCWG-231] [1/10]
-- Investigation of failures when setting watchpoint on vector
variables [TCWG-231] [4/10]
Miscellaneous [3/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
-- Travel for Thailand visa application
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Try a fix of return value related issue coming up on chromebook ARM
-- Submit fix for failures when setting watchpoint on vector variables
-- Mark triaged failures with xfail decorators and bug numbers.
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Triage testsuite failures on AArch64 highkey [TCWG-231] [5/10]
-- Triage testsuite failures on chromebook (armel) [TCWG-228] [3/10]
Miscellaneous [2/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
-- Documents preparation for Thailand visa
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Create chroots for armhf and armel testing on AArch64 highkey board
-- Investigate ABI related issues when returning values on armel and armhf
-- Further bug triage and mark triaged failures with xfail decorators
and bug numbers.
Miscellaneous
-- Travel for Thailand visa application submission.
== This Week ==
* PR43721 (4/10)
- Patch review from Jim
- Bootstrapped and tested on x86, cross-tested with arm-linux-gnueabi
- Looking at regressions with arm-linux-gnueabi
- Wrote test-cases
* Benchmarking (2/10)
- lto spec2006 benchmarking
* Backport (1/10)
- Build successful for r232440 and r232442, failed for r232442
* PR24293 (1/10)
- Addressed comments by Marek and committed to trunk
* Misc (2/10)
- Meetings
- PR69133 - Fixed by Honza. Instead of gating on
lto_file_data as I did in my patch, gating on gimple_has_body_p()
was more suitable.
- Awaiting upstream response for tcwg-319
- Connect Slides outline, read doc on tree-ssa propagation and lto
plugin driver.
== Next Week ==
Continue ongoing tasks
== Progress ==
* Validation
- no progress in timeout issues: still didn't manage to access the logs
- 1st backport workshop successful in the team. We can increase
the difficulty for the next time :)
- initial prototype (naive) of an auto-backporter (using backflip)
when the patch are selected for inclusion
* GCC
- TCWG-485/PR68620: patch under review
- TCWG-484/target attributes testsuite fixes: committed.
- bug #1994: provided woraround to kernel team.
Related to GCC PR63304. Working on a further patch
for GCC.
* Misc (conf calls, meetings, emails, ....)
== Next ==
* Validation:
- debug timeout issues
- extended validation
* GCC:
- bug fixing
# Progress #
* Fix the arm software single step regression. [3/10]. Done.
* TCWG-503 Done.
* TCWG-491, have a patch to avoid GDB crash. Patch is pending for
review.
* TCWG-517. [2/10]
Fix fail in gdb.base/interrupt-noterm.exp. Patch is posted.
* TCWG-514. [3/10]
Fix new fails in foll-exec.exp and foll-vfork.exp. Patch is pending
for review.
* TCWG-509, GDB 7.11 release. [2/10]
GDB is in a good shape to create 7.11 branch except PR 19474. Go
through GDB test results and no ARM or AArch64 specific issues.
# Plan #
* TCWG-509, GDB 7.11 release.
* Upstream patch review.
--
Yao
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) announces the 2016.01-1
snapshot of the Linaro GCC 5 source package.
This package is a respin of 2016.01 source package and contains a fix
for Linaro bugzilla’s PR #2001:
* [AArch64] ICE in final_scan_insn on aarch64-linux-gnu.
This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.01-1/
Original release notes from 2016.01 source package can be find below:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the
2016.01 snapshot of the Linaro GCC 5 source package.
This monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.3+svn232321 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.02
stable [1] quarterly release.
Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:
* Updates to GCC 5.3+svn232321
* Fixes Linaro Bugzillas: #1982, #1980
* Backport of [BugFix] [AArch32] PR 68149 Fix ICE in unaligned_loaddi split
* Backport of [BugFix] [AArch32] PR target/68214: Delete
IP-reg-clobbering call-through-mem patterns
* Backport of [BugFix] [AArch32] PR target/68390
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR rtl-optimization/68796 Add
compare-of-zero_extract pattern
* Backport of [BugFix] [AArch64] PR target/68696 FAIL:
gcc.target/aarch64/vbslq_u64_1.c scan-assembler-times bif\tv 1
* Backport of [BugFix] PR rtl-optimization/68381
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Add ACLE feature macro for ARMv8.1
instructions
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Add ACLE intrinsics vqrdmlah and vqrdmlsh
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Add ACLE intrinsics vqrdmlah_lane
and vqrdmlsh_lane
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Add patterns for new instructions
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Add support for ARMv8.1
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Multilib support for ARMv8.1.
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Support ARMv8.1 ARM tests
* Backport of [AArch32] [AArch32] Fix armv8.1 support at configure time
* Backport of [AArch32] Add attribute for compatibility with ARM pipeline models
* Backport of [AArch32] Fix vector TYPE_MODE in streaming-out
* Backport of [AArch64] 1/7 Add support for ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD instructions
* Backport of [AArch64] 2/7 Add sqrdmah, sqrdmsh instructions
* Backport of [AArch64] 3/7 Add builtins for ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD instructions
* Backport of [AArch64] 4/7 Add ACLE feature macro for ARMv8.1
Adv.SIMD instructions
* Backport of [AArch64] 5/7 Dejagnu support for ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD
* Backport of [AArch64] 6/7 Add NEON intrinsics vqrdmlah and vqrdmlsh
* Backport of [AArch64] 7/7 Add NEON intrinsics vqrdmlah_lane and vqrdmlsh_lane
* Backport of [AArch64] Documentation fix for -fpic
* Backport of [AArch64] fix 3/7 Add builtins for ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD instructions
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix a few failures with LSE enabled
* Backport of [AArch64] Improve add immediate expansion
* Backport of [AArch64] Improve comparison with complex immediates
followed by branch/cset
* Backport of [AArch64] Rework ARMv8.1 command line options
* Backport of [AArch64] Update patterns to support FP zero
* Backport of [AArch64] Use aarch64_sync_memory_operand in
atomic_store<mode> pattern
* Backport of [AArch64] Use vector wide add for mixed-mode adds
* Backport of [Misc] Only restrict pure simplification in mult-extend
subst case, allow other substitutions
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Skip big-endian as well for
gcc.target/aarch64/got_mem_hoist_1.c
* Backport of [Testsuite] Make stackalign test LTO proof
* Backport of [Testsuite] Testcase for PR rtl-optimization/68381
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[1]. Stable source package releases are defined as releases where the
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put through unit-testing and full validation is not performed.
Folks,
I'd like to know the general opinion on this:
https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23529
>From past experience, and my limited point of view, it seems that the
GCC community decided to change the ABI, plotted some runes, conjured
up a broken implementation (whose bugs people will exploit and GCC
will end up keeping them) and pushed distros to follow.
I don't know how much distros were involved in the original design.
Did they request the changes? Or was that an internal change? How do
you guys get to decide when to break the world?
I also don't know how will be your policy towards the bugs that people
started "using". Are you going to force them moving to a more sane
implementation (by issuing compiler/linker errors) or are you going to
support as legacy for the decades to come?
Is there a detailed document describing all the changes, and is the
GCC implementation following that to the letter, or are there still
bugs in the current version? I'm not talking about an email thread,
but an actual document on GCC's docs pages.
All I know is that people in the Clang community waited until GCC's
implementation was stable, but somehow Debian based distros started
moving as if there was something unholy about the previous ABI, and
we've been getting segmentation faults on Hello World!
I don't know much about the changes myself, nor I was involved in the
discussion, but this is now a major pain for release 3.8.0 and I
thought it would be better if I sent an email to Linaro folks and
members (which form most of the ARM GNU developers) instead of going
on the main lists.
That also gives me a bit more freedom to be more candid. I wouldn't
send those questions as they are to the GCC/binutils lists, or people
would kill me. I don't mean any of them as an offence, they are
genuine questions from someone that is not on top of that issue.
cheers,
--renato
Hi Linaro Toochain Group,
I have few questions on glibc+libm w.r.t aarch64.
If possible, please provide some insight, otherwise kindly redirect me to
the concerned person/forum.
1.It seems from the community patches that ARM/Linaro is optimizing glibc
functions such as memcpy/memmove, string for aarch64.
However, looks like some of these (e.g. memcpy/memmov) patches are still
not merged in glibc. Any comment on their availability in glibc?
e.g. https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-12/msg00341.html
2. On the same note, is there any plan for optimizing/tuning libm functions
(e.g. trigonometric) for aarch64?
I could find any matching patches on review board. Please correct me if I
am wrong.
3. Looks like ARM have released an independent version of libm for certain
trigonometric functions.
https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines.
Any plan of these optimization going in glibc's libm? Any comment on its
performance improvement over GNU libm ?
Thanks in advance for your time.
--
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak
== Progress ==
- LTO and TCWG480 (6/10)
* Read and experimented with GCC's LTO codebase.
* Setup archlinux on chromebook and ran coremark with perf
* Read referenced publications
- PR66726 (2/10)
* Rebased the patch
* Regression tested on x86_64 and using Chritsope's setup
* getting ready to post upstream
- Misc (2/10)
* gcc/bug list
* abstract for connect presentation
* Meetings
== Plan ==
* LTO
* bugs
o Teaching activity (2/10)
== Progress ==
o Linaro GCC (4/10)
* Completed backports for 2016.01
* Merged FSF 5 branch into Linaro 5 one
* Delivered 2016.01 Snapshot
* Try to reproduce Linaro PR #1988 with 2016.01.
issue not reproducible
o GCC dev. (3/10)
* Fix armv8.1-a handling at configure time
patch committed upstream in trunk and backported in our branch.
* Investigate TCWG-128 (Thumb2 branch out of range with LTO)
o Misc (1/10)
* Various meetings
== Plan ==
o Look at diff between ABE branches in our validation context
o Continue on-going tasks
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [3/10]
* Fallout from attempts to fix race condition
* Various minor fixes - simplifications, better reporting
Backport benchmarking - TCWG-352 [1/10]
* Decoupled 'target triple' from 'toolchain' name
** Immediately, to let me benchmark with Juno-built native gcc
** But this has been causing minor pain for a while
Benchmarking infrastructure documentation - TCWG-496 [1/10]
* Finished drafts of LAVA wrapper and microinstance access docs
Unexpected 1/2 day off [1/10]
Misc [4/10]
* Unusual number of meetings
* Fiddling with my git workflow
* Some thinking about Benchmark-102 for Connect
* Figured out why our SPEC objects were disappearing
== This week ==
* Bugzilla 68543 - [AArch64] Implement overflow arithmetic standard
names (6/10)
- Re-implementing using sign/zero extends as this was not clear from
the documentation
* Bugzilla 69008 - gcc emits unneeded memory access when passing trivial
structs by value (1/10)
- Determined to be structure alignment issue
* Code review of patch posted for Bugzilla 68532 (1/10)
- Completed code review and successfully tested with my vaddw patches
* Bugzilla 67323 - Tested patch for TCWG-318 (non-unit stride loads) (1/10)
- Patch did not generated vld3 so the bug has been reopened
* TCWG-317 - No review feedback yet
* Misc (1/10)
== Next week ==
* Bugzilla 68543 - Complete re-implementation with zero/sign extends and
test
* Bugzilla 69008 - Determine where in compiler issue should be addressed
* USA Holiday (January 18th, MLK Day)
== Progress ==
* Support (5/10)
- Bug triage: reviewing the 300+ bugs on ARM
- closing fixed ones (+35)
- adding deps for meta bugs (kernel, android, ias, chromium) (~15)
- moving to ARM/AArch64 components, etc. (~30)
- Checking a few more kernel patches for Clang support with Arnd
* Plan (3/10)
- Still planning roadmap for 2016/2017
* Background (2/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, general support, etc.
# Progress #
* Estimate the effort of GDB kernel-awareness work. Give comments
on formal slides. [1/10]
* GDB inserts breakpoints on the wrong place if these files'
basename is the same. TCWG-491. At least, post a patch to avoid
GDB crash. Reproduced with a simpler case, open PR 19474. [3/10]
* Update document about input interrupt. [1/10]
Done. Patch is committed.
* TCWG-503, fix GDB test case by @progbits -> %progbits. Patch is
posted. [1/10]
* Clean up arm software single step code. [3/10]
In progress. Some patches are committed, but some are still in my
queue. The recent arm software single step change causes a
regression on stepping out of signal handler.
* Think about the GDB slides for Linaro Connect [1/10]
# Plan #
* Look into the arm software single step regression.
* Post the rest of patches for arm software single step clean up.
--
Yao
== Progress ==
* Validation
- a couple of fixes in the validation jobs
- looking at timeouts problems with buildfarm-master
* GCC
- TCWG-485/PR68620: sent patch for review
- TCWG-484/target attributes problems in the testsuite
Rebased, but need more pending updates from Christian
* Misc (conf calls, meetings, emails, ...)
== Next ==
* Validation: more debug. Hopefully start extending validation scope
* GCC:
- bug fixing
- check trunk regressions reported during the holidays
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the
2016.01 snapshot of the Linaro GCC 5 source package.
This monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.3+svn232321 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.02
stable [1] quarterly release.
This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.01/
Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:
* Updates to GCC 5.3+svn232321
* Fixes Linaro Bugzillas: #1982, #1980
* Backport of [BugFix] [AArch32] PR 68149 Fix ICE in unaligned_loaddi split
* Backport of [BugFix] [AArch32] PR target/68214: Delete
IP-reg-clobbering call-through-mem patterns
* Backport of [BugFix] [AArch32] PR target/68390
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR rtl-optimization/68796 Add
compare-of-zero_extract pattern
* Backport of [BugFix] [AArch64] PR target/68696 FAIL:
gcc.target/aarch64/vbslq_u64_1.c scan-assembler-times bif\tv 1
* Backport of [BugFix] PR rtl-optimization/68381
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Add ACLE feature macro for ARMv8.1
instructions
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Add ACLE intrinsics vqrdmlah and vqrdmlsh
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Add ACLE intrinsics vqrdmlah_lane
and vqrdmlsh_lane
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Add patterns for new instructions
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Add support for ARMv8.1
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Multilib support for ARMv8.1.
* Backport of [ARMv8.1] [AArch32] Support ARMv8.1 ARM tests
* Backport of [AArch32] [AArch32] Fix armv8.1 support at configure time
* Backport of [AArch32] Add attribute for compatibility with ARM pipeline models
* Backport of [AArch32] Fix vector TYPE_MODE in streaming-out
* Backport of [AArch64] 1/7 Add support for ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD instructions
* Backport of [AArch64] 2/7 Add sqrdmah, sqrdmsh instructions
* Backport of [AArch64] 3/7 Add builtins for ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD instructions
* Backport of [AArch64] 4/7 Add ACLE feature macro for ARMv8.1
Adv.SIMD instructions
* Backport of [AArch64] 5/7 Dejagnu support for ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD
* Backport of [AArch64] 6/7 Add NEON intrinsics vqrdmlah and vqrdmlsh
* Backport of [AArch64] 7/7 Add NEON intrinsics vqrdmlah_lane and vqrdmlsh_lane
* Backport of [AArch64] Documentation fix for -fpic
* Backport of [AArch64] fix 3/7 Add builtins for ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD instructions
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix a few failures with LSE enabled
* Backport of [AArch64] Improve add immediate expansion
* Backport of [AArch64] Improve comparison with complex immediates
followed by branch/cset
* Backport of [AArch64] Rework ARMv8.1 command line options
* Backport of [AArch64] Update patterns to support FP zero
* Backport of [AArch64] Use aarch64_sync_memory_operand in
atomic_store<mode> pattern
* Backport of [AArch64] Use vector wide add for mixed-mode adds
* Backport of [Misc] Only restrict pure simplification in mult-extend
subst case, allow other substitutions
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Skip big-endian as well for
gcc.target/aarch64/got_mem_hoist_1.c
* Backport of [Testsuite] Make stackalign test LTO proof
* Backport of [Testsuite] Testcase for PR rtl-optimization/68381
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o Teaching activity (6/10)
== Progress ==
o Linaro GCC (4/10)
* Restart validation blocked by the last infrastructure issues
* Discussed and reviewed Jenkins jobs fixes.
* Tested potential upstream fixes for linaro BZ 1980 and 1982,
but reverting the offending backports is a better solution.
== Plan ==
o Complete backports and deliver 2016.01 GCC snapshot.
Centralized benchmark source - TCWG-354 [1/10]
* Fixed some bugs in Coremark reporting
* Experimented some more with clang builds, set this aside for now
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [3/10]
* Fixed some false assumptions exposed by change to uinstance
* Worked on LAVA side of coremark reporting
Backport benchmarking - TCWG-352 [4/10]
* Fixed some bugs that appeared over the holiday
* Got job dispatching benchmark run to microinstance, with pointer to
backport-containing toolchain
* But resulting job fails
Benchmarking infra documentation - TCWG-496 [1/10]
* Started documenting LAVA wrapper
Misc [1/10]
=Plan=
LAVA side of coremark reporting
Fix backport-dispatched benchmark job
Much more documentation
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Fixed thumb mode issues if user triggers changes to PC register
[TCWG-228] [3/10]
-- Triage of testsuite failures on armel chromebook [TCWG-228] [2/10]
-- Update xfail decorators for arm-linux targets. Marked traiged as
xfail. [TCWG-494] [3/10]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
Half Day Leave [1/10]
-- Tooth extraction surgery.
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Triage more failures on armel chromebook [TCWG-228]
-- Submit an updated xfail decorator for arm-linux. [TCWG-494]
Miscellaneous
-- Connect visa follow up.
== This Week ==
* tcwg-72 (2/10)
- Following Jim's suggestions using XEXP (remainder, 0) worked to
resolve segfault
for DImode case
- Resolved ICE's due to (silly) mistakes.
* PR69133 (4/10)
- Reduced test-case following Markus's suggestions.
- I think it happens because node->lto_file_data is set to NULL in
lto_free_function_in_decl_state_for_node ().
Commenting out the following calls from get_untransformed_body():
lto_free_section_data (file_data, LTO_section_function_body, name,
data, len, decl_state->compressed);
lto_free_function_in_decl_state_for_node (this);
prevents the ICE. I suppose symbols with same name in same partition
share state (?), so setting lto_file_data = NULL
affects state of 2nd occurence of symbol and we hit the assert.
If this is true, gating on lto_file_data doesn't seem unreasonable IMO
to avoid ICE (the code anyway has undefined behavior due to violation of ODR).
I am still not sure why this "works" for partitioning enabled (one,
balanced, 1to1).
* 447.deallII bug (1/10)
- Bug not reproducible (verified with Kugan).
* TCWG-319 benchmarking (1/10)
- first job submission failed due to kernel panic
- a53: base fp run completed, with-patch in progress
* Misc (2/10)
- Meetings
- ipa
== Progress ==
* Validation
- a couple of fixes in the validation jobs
- improvements to the comparison scripts
* GCC
- investigated bugs #1980 and #1982.
Reverted the backports that introduced the problem.
- TCWG-485/PR68620: resumed
- TCWG-484: target attributes problems in the testsuite.
Sent an updated patch, but Christian has also submitted
a patch which modifies the compiler behavior. I'll have
to update mine when his patch is accepted.
* Misc (conf calls, meetings, emails, ....)
== Next ==
* Validation: more cleanup. Hopefully start extending validation scope
* GCC:
- bug fixing
- check trunk regressions reported during the holidays
== Progress ==
* Support (2/10)
- Having a go at PR25722, too hacky for a feature that can
be easily worked around.
- Reviewing some kernel issues with Arnd
* Planning (6/10)
- Drafting 2 year plans for LLVM
* Background (2/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, general support, etc.
- Catching up from long holidays
# Progress #
* Handle input interrupt in GDB. TCWG-424. Done. [3/10]
Need to update GDB manual to clarify the expected behaviour of GDB.
* Estimate the effort of GDB kernel-awareness work. Done. [1/10]
* TCWG-491. Ongoing. [2/10]. Understand symbol handling
in GDB.
* Various patch review upstream. [2/10].
* Clean up code on arm software single step after some changes from
Ericsson. Ongoing. [2/10].
# Plan #
* TCWG-491.
* Follow up of TCWG-424 to update GDB manual.
* Clean up code on arm software single step.
* Assess the ARM and AArch64 GDB test result, as 7.11 release is
coming soon.
--
Yao
Is it in the 2015.11-1 release ?
- rob -
-------- Original message --------
From: Jim Wilson <jim.wilson(a)linaro.org>
Date: 01/05/2016 19:45 (GMT-07:00)
To: Xiaofeng Ren <xiaofeng.ren(a)nxp.com>
Cc: linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org, Zhenhua Luo <zhenhua.luo(a)nxp.com>
Subject: Re: gcc-linaro-5.1 vs gcc-linaro-4.8
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Xiaofeng Ren <xiaofeng.ren(a)nxp.com> wrote:
> Hello Jim,
> Appreciate for your comments.
> I will try to manually apply that patch on my side and try it.
> BTW, may I know which released Linaro gcc version include that patch? Maybe I can download it and try it quickly.
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-10/msg00025.html
It was backported to our gcc-5 branch on Nov 24 by Yvan. This is
after the latest release 2015-11 was made. The patch is in the
December snapshot, but I think that is a source only release.
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2015.12/
You would have to build your own toolchain from that, perhaps by using abe.
Jim
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In newer toolchains that are built with ABE, libc.a contains a lot of debugging information, including the paths to the source files on the build machine. I think that's because ABE builds the libraries with -g and never strips out the debug information. I verified this with both the 4.9-2015.05 and 5.2-2015.11 binary releases with the command:
arm-linux-gnueabih-objdump -g libc.a | grep '\.c'
In older toolchains that were built with crosstool-ng, libc.a did not contain the paths to the source files. I guess crosstool-ng either didn't build the libraries with -g, or it stripped out the debug information later. I verified this with the 4.9-2014.09 binary release.
I'm not sure whether this change was intentional, or just an oversight during the switchover to ABE. Regardless, it makes the libraries a lot bigger, and it potentially affects the end user during debugging.
The source files of libc, etc. are not typically included with the binary releases. So, when a user of an ABE-built binary release chooses to step into an extern function of libc, gdb will search for the source file. It likely won't be able to access the source file along the same path that worked for the build machine, so it will search its list of source directories. Ultimately, unless the user has downloaded the source files, gdb will likely display a message like "printf.c: No such file or directory".
In contrast, when a user of a crosstool-ng-built toolchain tries to step into an extern function of libc, gdb will be unaware of the name of the source file. As a result, the user will not get a message about a missing file.
So, should the toolchains' libraries really contain debug information? I think it could be useful for a theoretical multilib folder that covers a -g option. On the other hand, for the usual release builds, isn't the debug information a waste of space and a source of confusion?
Thanks,
Fred Peterson
Engineer - Developer Tools
NXP Semiconductors
Hello All,
I found one difference between gcc-linaro-5.1 vs gcc-linaro-4.8 while I'm doing lmbench benchmark test for our LS1043 (cortex-A53).
While using gcc-linaro-4.8, gcc will generate advanced SIMD instructions (like as ld1, etc), however, gcc-linaro-5.1 will not generate advance SIMD instructions. This will cause big performance gap between gcc-4.8 and gcc-5.1 for lmbench memory bandwidth "fcp" test (bw_mem program).
My compiler flags is "-O3 -mcpu=cortex-a53". I also tried several different compiler flags ("-O3 -mcpu=cortex-a53+fp+simd", "-O2 -ftree-vectorize -mcpu=cortex-a53", "-O3 -ftree-vectorize -mcpu=cortex-a53"), all of them doesn't work.
Gcc-5.1 toolchain was downloaded from following link:
https://snapshots.linaro.org/openembedded/sources/gcc-linaro-5.1-snapshot-2…
Can I have your comments on this?
Thanks
Ron
Hello toolchain gurus,
In the course of Linaro's kernel tinification project, the ability to
compile the Linux kernel using LTO is a frequent requirement. However
the kernel makes heavy usage of 'ld -r' with .o files resulting from LTO
build of .c files as well as .o files resulting from pure assembly code.
This mix of LTO and non-LTO object files is not supported by upstream
binutils unless a patch from H.J. Lu is applied. That patch has been
available since 2013 and was last refreshed in his 2.25.51.0.4 branch
last September. It is accessible here:
https://git.linaro.org/toolchain/binutils-gdb.git/commit/6da5456971
I've attached a very simple test case demonstrating the problem. With
the binutils-lto-mixed.patch applied, this test case compiles to a
working executable. Otherwise compilation fails at the 'ld -r' step.
One question and one request:
- What, if anything, has prevented this patch from being merged in the
master branch upstream?
- In the mean time, could we include this patch in the Linaro binutils
package and releases?
Having this available in our toolchain releases would greatly simplify
the LTO related work on the kernel. It was included in all binutils
releases from H.J. Lu since 2013 and therefore has obtained significant
exposure already.
Thanks.
Nicolas
== This Week ==
* TCWG-72 (2/10)
- Trying to address segfault with DImode
* LTO ICE with 483.xalancbmk (6/10)
- fighting with benchmark scripts
- segfaults with ICE on -flto-partitions=none
on symbol _ZThn8_N10xalanc_1_819XercesParserLiaison11resetErrorsEv
demangler.com says the symbol is non-virtual thunk to:
non-virtual thunk to xalanc_1_8::XercesParserLiaison::resetErrors()
./-lm.res (resolution map file) says PREVAILING_DEF_IRONLY
- Trace: http://pastebin.com/vxzmQFHg
- Possible fix: http://pastebin.com/rwq8z1N1
Patch passes test and bootstrap, not sure if that's correct approach however.
* Target hook conversion (2/10)
- Unconditionalizing ASM_OUTPUT_DEF on SET_ASM_OP and converting
both to hooks.
NB Last _6_ working days.
Centralised benchmark source - TCWG-354 [6/10]
* Abe integration
* Wrote up some notes on collaborate
* Enabled clang build, which flushed out some bugs, now fixed
* LAVA reporting script
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [1/10]
* Investigating issues with Juno boot
** One turns out to be user error
** The other is a failed heath check, passed to the admins
Backport benchmarking - TCWG-352 [2/10]
* Difficulties with passing information from matrix children to parent
** Came up with an ugly workaround, may have thought of a better one
Misc [3/10]
=Plan=
Holidays until 4th January
# Progress #
* TCWG-156, GDB Test-Suite Parity Between Aarch64 and x86_64. Done. [4/10]
After two patches are committed, except some tests written for x86_64
unnecessarily, the test results between aarch64 and x86_64 looks no
difference.
* TCWG-424, timeout when interrupt the inferior in remote debugging. [3/10]
The fail is caused by different two problems. Two patches are ready,
and being regression tested.
* TCWG-171, Enable gdb core file tests when testing remotely. [1/10]
Write down my conclusion as it can't be fixed.
* Upstream review, [2/10]
** Review patch about handling ada aarch64 HVA array in GDB.
** Discuss target description of GDB for cortex-m device with openocd.
# Plan #
* Post patches upstream for TCWG-424,
* Patches review.
* On holiday since Wed.
--
Yao
Hi All,
I am interested in understanding Linaro LLVM activity.
I have already gone through
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/LLVM.
Could you please guide me on below questions.
1. On which LLVM & clang version, linaro is actively working now ?
2. Where can I find the latest "linaro-llvm" source code & binary? I could
not find any official git repo for "linaro-llvm" at https://git.linaro.org/.
3. Could you please explain Linaro LLVM working model? How
similar/different it is when compared with Linaro-GCC engagement.
4. Certain links (e.g Roadmap) at
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/LLVM ask for login
credentials. Any comment on how to obtain the permission?
Thanks in advance for your time.
--
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak
* 1 day off (Friday) (2/10)
== Progress ==
* Validation: (2/10)
- improvements to the comparison scripts
- updated ABE stable and staging branches
* GCC: (3/10)
- TCWG-484: sent a new version of the patch to address problems with
the testsuite and target attributes.
- TCWG-485/PR68620: WIP, trying to understand the regressions
introduced by my patch
* Misc (conf calls, meetings, emails, ...) (3/10)
== Next ==
Holidays until next year
Hi All,
As per release notes, linaro_binutils-2_25-2015_01-2_release should be
present at http://git.linaro.org/toolchain/binutils-gdb.git.
But I am not able to see any "linaro_binutils" tags on
https://git.linaro.org/toolchain/binutils-gdb.git/tags.
Am I doing any mistake? or on git it is renamed to something else (same as
FSF binutils tags?).
Apology for asking such a trivial question.
Thanks for your time.
--
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the
2015.12 snapshot of the Linaro GCC 5 source package.
This monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.3+svn231642 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/5.3-2015.12/
Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:
* Updates to GCC 5.3+svn231642
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] 1/4 PR63870 Add qualifiers for NEON builtins
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] 2/4 PR63870 Mark lane indices of
vldN/vstN with appropriate qualifier
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] 3/4 PR63870 Remove error for invalid
lane numbers
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] 4/4 PR63870 Remove xfails for ARM targets
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR67305, tighten
neon_vector_mem_operand on eliminable registers
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] remove unused variable
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR 63304 Fix issue with global state
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR63304 Handle literal pools for
functions > 1 MiB in size
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR 68088: Fix RTL checking ICE due to
subregs inside accumulator forwarding check
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR rtl-optimization/67218
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR 56036 fix typo in doc
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR rtl-optimization/68236: Exit early from
autoprefetcher lookahead if not in haifa sched
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR tree-optimization/68234 Improve range info
for loop Phi node
* Backport of [AArch32] 1/4 Change GET_MODE_INNER to always return a
non-void mode
* Backport of [AArch32] 2/3 Make if_neg_move and if_move_neg into insn_and_split
* Backport of [AArch32] 2/4 Control the FMA steering pass in tuning
structures rather than as core property
* Backport of [AArch32] 3/3 Expand mod by power of 2
* Backport of [AArch32] 3/4 Replace the pattern GET_MODE_BITSIZE
(GET_MODE_INNER (m)) with GET_MODE_UNIT_BITSIZE (m)
* Backport of [AArch32] 4/4 Fix - Introduce new inline functions for
GET_MODE_UNIT_SIZE and GET_MODE_UNIT_PRECISION
* Backport of [AArch32] 4/4 Introduce new inline functions for
GET_MODE_UNIT_SIZE and GET_MODE_UNIT_PRECISION
* Backport of [AArch32/AArch64] 2/2 Add a new Cortex-A53 scheduling model
* Backport of [AArch32] Add missing v8a cpus to the t-aprofile file
* Backport of [AArch32] Fix checking RTL error in cortex_a9_sched_adjust_cost
* Backport of [AArch32] Fix for testcase after r228661
* Backport of [AArch32] Initialise cost to COSTS_N_INSNS (1) and
increment in arm rtx costs
* Backport of [AArch32] libgcc: include crtfastmath
* Backport of [AArch32] Unified assembler in ARM state
* Backport of [AArch64] 1/2 Give AArch64 ROR (Immediate) a new type attribute
* Backport of [AArch64] 1/2 Rename SYMBOL_SMALL_GOT to SYMBOL_SMALL_GOT_4G
* Backport of [AArch64] 1/2 Rename test source file for reuse
* Backport of [AArch64] 1/3 Add the option -mtls-size
* Backport of [AArch64] 1/3 Expand signed mod by power of 2 using CSNEG
* Backport of [AArch64] 2/2 Implement -fpic for -mcmodel=small
* Backport of [AArch64] 2/2 Implement TLS IE for tiny model
* Backport of [AArch64] 2/3 Rename SYMBOL_TLSLE to SYMBOL_TLSLE24
* Backport of [AArch64] 3/3 Implement local executable mode for all memory model
* Backport of [AArch64] Add initial qualcomm support
* Backport of [AArch64] Add missing entries in iterator vwcore
* Backport of [AArch64] Cleanup whitespace in aarch64.c
* Backport of [AArch64] Cortex-A57 Choose some new branch costs
* Backport of [AArch64] Define TARGET_UNSPEC_MAY_TRAP_P
* Backport of [AArch64] Distinct costs for sign and zero extension
* Backport of [AArch64] Do not ICE after apologising for -mcmodel=large -fPIC
* Backport of [AArch64] Don't allow -mgeneral-regs-only to change the
.arch assembler directives
* Backport of [AArch64] Don't transform sign and zero extends inside mults
* Backport of [AArch64] Fall back to -fPIC if no support of -fpic in binutils
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix for branch offsets over 1 MiB
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix ICE on (const_double:HF 0.0)
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix insn types
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix output assembly bug under TLSIE ILP32
* Backport of [AArch64] Handle vector float modes properly in
aarch64_output_simd_mov_immediate
* Backport of [AArch64] Mark GOT related MEM rtx as const to help RTL loop IV
* Backport of [AArch64] Properly handle simple arith+extend ops in rtx costs
* Backport of [AArch64] Rename SYMBOL_SMALL_GOTTPREL to SYMBOL_SMALL_TLSIE
* Backport of [AArch64] Restrict pic-small.c by new test directive
* Backport of [AArch64] Tighten direct call pattern for sibcall to
repair -fno-plt
* Backport of [AArch64] Tighten direct call pattern to repair -fno-plt
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Fix thumb2-slow-flash-data.c failures
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Switch ARM to unified asm
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Add more TLS local executable testcases
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Check branch types for noplt testcases
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Fix gcc.target/aarch64/vclz.c
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Fix some target attribute inlining
tests for -fPIC
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Restrict got_mem_hoist_1.c with
small memory model
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Skip tiny and large code model on
gcc.target/aarch64/pic-small.c
* Backport of [Testsuite] Add --param
sra-max-scalarization-size-Ospeed to sra-12.c
* Backport of [Testsuite] Fix target selector in
gcc.target/i386/noplt-[1234].c testcases
* Backport of [Misc] Allow sibcalls in no-PLT PIC
* Backport of [Misc] Eliminate PLT stubs for specified external
functions via -fno-plt
* Backport of [Misc] Fix for ICE with -g on testcase with incomplete types
* Backport of [Misc] Fix memory leak and wrong invariant dependence
computation in IVOPT
* Backport of [Misc] Improve rtl loop inv cost by checking if the inv
can be propagated to address uses
* Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch32/AArch64] fix ChangeLog
* Backport of [cleanup] [AArch32] Remove uses of CONST_DOUBLE_HIGH/LOW
* Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] Delete aarch64_symbol_context which
is not used
* Backport of [cleanup] [AArch64] Move iterators from atomics.md to iterators.md
* Backport of [cleanup] [AArch64] Remove uses of CONST_DOUBLE_HIGH,
CONST_DOUBLE_LOW
* Backport of [Doc] [AArch64] Document several AArch64-specific test directives
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[2]. Source package snapshots are defined when the compiler is only
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Centralised benchmark source - TCWG-354 [6/10]
* Understood CoremarkPro run rules/behaviour better
* Experimented with shortening runs while still giving meaningful results
* Cleaned up build/run scaffolding
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [1/10]
* Got access to microinstance, learned a bit about SSL in the process
Backport benchmarking - TCWG-352 [2/10]
* Fixed 'build with sysroot' code for current deliverable shape
* Fixed a problem with multiple manifests
=Plan=
Review, test, debug build-triggers-benchmark job
Finish off Coremark Pro integration
Review security with shared uinstance/main instance code
Expose more data, benchmarks to bundles
Debug/test Jenkins job in microinstance
Create bootable image for at least 1 target, or know what the problems are
Write up noise control report (if time)
More support for SPEC-on-Android?
=Absence=
Holiday 22nd December - 1st January
== This Week ==
* TCWG-72 (2/10)
- Another iteration.
* LTO (4/10)
- Building spec with different combinations of -flto -flto-partition
-flto-compression-level
- Builds cleanly on AArch64, ICE's on ARM for 447.dealII with -flto
- Looked at segfault with 483.xalanpack
* TCWG-319 benchmarking (1/10)
- fp benchmark results on:
r1-a12: -0.04 %
cortex-a53: -0.09 %
cortex-a57: -0.14%
- int benchmarks completed running for reference revision on cortex-a15
- int benchmarks with-patch runnning on cortex-a15
* TCWG-310 benchmarking (1/10)
- r1-a12: 0.11%
- Benchmark jobs failed on a53, a57.
* Misc (2/10)
- Submitted patch to fix building 450.soplex
- Looked at how to write ipa pass, ipa-pure-const and ipa-cp.
- Meetings
== Next Week ==
- tcwg-319, tcwg-310 benchmarking
- tcwg-72
- LTO
== This week ==
* Bugzilla 68543 - [AArch64] Implement overflow arithmetic standard
names (7/10)
- Implemented signed and unsigned add, subtract, and multiply
overflow standard patterns
- Investigated testing of overflow patterns
* Misc (3/10)
- Conference calls
- Misc ARM Housekeeping
- Lost connectivity due to old ARM Unix VPN Client
== Next week ==
* TCWG-317 - Exploit wide add operations when appropriate for Aarch32
- Minor code update to address upstream comment
* Vacation until rest of year
== Progress ==
* GCC (4/10)
- pr68620 (fp16 transfers in big-endian mode)
- checking regressions observed on trunk
- had to revert my cleanup patch for target
attributes tests, not sure how to handle all
possible combinations of options/defaults
* Validation (1/10)
- small improvements in reporting
* Misc (conf calls, meetings, emails, ...) (3/10)
* Internal training (2/10)
== Next ==
* Validation
* GCC: bug fixes/cleanup
* One day off on Wed. [2/10]
# Progress #
* Enable gdb core file tests when testing remotely, TCWG-171.
I've almost had the conclusion that corefile remote testing can't be
done due to limitations in dejagnu and nfs mount testing
infrastructure. Need to write them down. [2/10]
* Mutli-arch follow-up work, teach AArch64 GDBserver understand ARM
breakpoint instructions. TCWG-460. Done. [3/10]
* Review ARM GDBserver software single step patch V7. Almost OK, except
some small things. [2/10]
* Misc, meeting, email, [1/10]
# Plan #
* TCWG-424, Draft a fix for the fail in random-signal.exp.
* TCWG-156, GDB test parity between AArch64 and X86_64.
* One day off on Wed. or Fri.
Planned absence:
* Dec 24-Jan 3.
--
Yao
== Progress ==
- PR66726 (2/10)
* Testing a patch
- PR63586 (2/10)
* Posted a patch
* Revised the patch based on testing
- LuaJIT (2/10)
* Setup nginx
* Still haven't figured out how to use mongodb with nginx (config
required).
- Misc (2/10)
* gcc/bug list
* LTO
- sick (2/10)
== Plan ==
* bug reports
* LTO
Hi,
when working with the Linaro patches I found that a particular commit
breaks our aarch64 kernel build.
The patch in question is that one:
commit be09330da9d0777c4a58568d137e3f8a3dbe0a0b
Author: Yvan Roux <yvan.roux(a)linaro.org>
Date: Tue Oct 27 21:18:19 2015 +0100
One of the things it attempts to change apparently is moving the .arch
specifiers in the assembler file from a global scope to individual
functions. What also happens though is that they seem to lose some
information after that transformation.
I observed that when building arch/arm64/crypto/aes-ce-cipher.c from
the Linux kernel. This code contains inline assembly like this:
static void aes_cipher_decrypt(struct crypto_tfm *tfm, u8 dst[], u8 const src[])
{
struct crypto_aes_ctx *ctx = crypto_tfm_ctx(tfm);
struct aes_block *out = (struct aes_block *)dst;
struct aes_block const *in = (struct aes_block *)src;
void *dummy0;
int dummy1;
kernel_neon_begin_partial(4);
__asm__(" ld1 {v0.16b}, %[in] ;"
" ld1 {v1.2d}, [%[key]], #16 ;"
" cmp %w[rounds], #10 ;"
" bmi 0f ;"
" bne 3f ;"
" mov v3.16b, v1.16b ;"
" b 2f ;"
"0: mov v2.16b, v1.16b ;"
" ld1 {v3.2d}, [%[key]], #16 ;"
"1: aesd v0.16b, v2.16b ;"
" aesimc v0.16b, v0.16b ;"
"2: ld1 {v1.2d}, [%[key]], #16 ;"
" aesd v0.16b, v3.16b ;"
" aesimc v0.16b, v0.16b ;"
"3: ld1 {v2.2d}, [%[key]], #16 ;"
" subs %w[rounds], %w[rounds], #3 ;"
" aesd v0.16b, v1.16b ;"
" aesimc v0.16b, v0.16b ;"
" ld1 {v3.2d}, [%[key]], #16 ;"
" bpl 1b ;"
" aesd v0.16b, v2.16b ;"
" eor v0.16b, v0.16b, v3.16b ;"
" st1 {v0.16b}, %[out] ;"
: [out] "=Q"(*out),
[key] "=r"(dummy0),
[rounds] "=r"(dummy1)
: [in] "Q"(*in),
"1"(ctx->key_dec),
"2"(num_rounds(ctx) - 2)
: "cc");
kernel_neon_end();
}
Now without this patch the compiler behaved like the following. It was
invoked with:
aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,arch/arm64/crypto/.aes-ce-cipher.o.d
-nostdinc -isystem
/var/fpwork/rschiele/crossbuild/builds/aarch64-linux-gnu/linux-next/srcdir/bin/../lib/gcc/aarch64-linux-gnu/5.2.1/include
-I/var/fpwork/rschiele/crossbuild/builds/aarch64-linux-gnu/linux-next/srcdir/src/linux/arch/arm64/include
-Iarch/arm64/include/generated/uapi -Iarch/arm64/include/generated
-I/var/fpwork/rschiele/crossbuild/builds/aarch64-linux-gnu/linux-next/srcdir/src/linux/include
-Iinclude -I/var/fpwork/rschiele/crossbuild/builds/aarch64-linux-gnu/linux-next/srcdir/src/linux/arch/arm64/include/uapi
-Iarch/arm64/include/generated/uapi
-I/var/fpwork/rschiele/crossbuild/builds/aarch64-linux-gnu/linux-next/srcdir/src/linux/include/uapi
-Iinclude/generated/uapi -include
/var/fpwork/rschiele/crossbuild/builds/aarch64-linux-gnu/linux-next/srcdir/src/linux/include/linux/kconfig.h
-I/var/fpwork/rschiele/crossbuild/builds/aarch64-linux-gnu/linux-next/srcdir/src/linux/arch/arm64/crypto
-Iarch/arm64/crypto -D__KERNEL__ -mlittle-endian -Wall -Wundef
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
-Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89
-mgeneral-regs-only -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -O2
--param=allow-store-data-races=0 -Wframe-larger-than=2048
-fno-stack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable
-fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
-fno-var-tracking-assignments -g -Wdeclaration-after-statement
-Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack
-Werror=implicit-int -Werror=strict-prototypes -Werror=date-time
-DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -Werror -march=armv8-a+crypto
-D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(aes_ce_cipher)"
-D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(aes_ce_cipher)" -c -o
arch/arm64/crypto/aes-ce-cipher.o
/var/fpwork/rschiele/crossbuild/builds/aarch64-linux-gnu/linux-next/srcdir/src/linux/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-ce-cipher.c
As a result it created a file for the assembler with the global
.arch armv8-a+fp+simd+crypto
at the beginning of the file.
After the patch it created individual
.arch armv8-a
at individual places.
It is not clear to me, why the extensions (fp+simd+crypto) got lost.
Is that intended, such that the code needs special adaption for inline
assembly using those extensions or is that loss of extensions a bug of
that patch?
Greetings!
Robert
== Progress ==
o Linaro GCC (6/10)
* More backports
* Compared our various flavor of validation results
* Looked at bug reports and mailing list questions on our last snapshot.
o Upstream work (2/10)
* Continue on sanitizing gfortran testsuite
o Misc (2/10)
* Various meetings
* Discussed benchmarking infra with Bernie
== Plan ==
o GCC 5.3 branch merge
o Continue on-going tasks
o Tuesday Off
Holiday [2/10]
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [1/10]
* Set up reporting for CPU2006
* Learned how to generate metadata, but not how to use it
Trigger benchmarks on backports - TCWG-352 [2/10]
* Figured out the rough shape
* Created, didn't test, rough implementation
TCWG-354 [3/10]
* Build/run scaffolding for CoreMark Pro
* Working for manual runs
Misc [2/10]
* Input validation for dispatcher script
* Meeting with Ade on LAVA benchmarking
* Meetings/mail/etc
=Plan=
Review, test, debug build-triggers-benchmark job
Check CoreMark Pro run configuration, enable for automatic runs
Review security with shared uinstance/main instance code
Expose more data, benchmarks to bundles
Debug/test Jenkins job in microinstance
Create bootable image for at least 1 target, or know what the problems are
Write up noise control report (if time)
More support for SPEC-on-Android?
* TCWG-72 (2/10)
- Added new target hook to generate target-specific divmod libfunc
- Builds cleanly now on x86_64, arm and arm-linux-gnueabihf
- Sent to tcwg list for review
* LTO spec2k6 build (2/10)
- Built speck26 with LTO
* Target hook (4/10)
- Completed with ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL_REF
- In progress - SIZE_ASM_OP to data hook, ASM_OUTPUT_SIZE_DIRECTIVE,
ASM_OUTPUT_MEASURED_SIZE
* Benchmarking (1/10)
- tcwg-319: Job in progress for fp benchmarks with patch
- tcwg-310 (loop peeling): Submitted job for running 252.eon
- Both the jobs failed due to lab downtime, need to be re-run.
- Received job template from Bernie for running benchmarks on cortex-a15.
* Misc (1/10)
- Meetings
== Next Week ==
- Continue benchmarking spec2k6 with LTO
- Look at bugs exposed by speck2k6 LTO build
- Benchmarking tcwg-319, tcwg-310
== This week ==
* TCWG-317 - Exploit wide add operations when appropriate for Aarch32 (0/10)
- No comments/review upstream will ping for update
* TCWG-316 - Exploit vector multiply by scalar instructions (4/10)
- Code improvements will require standard name for vectorizer and new
patterns
- On hold until GCC 6 is released
* Bugzilla 68543 - [AArch64] Implement overflow arithmetic standard
names (3/10)
- Initial investigation
* Bugzilla 68532 - [ARM] Incorrect code result on arm big endian (2/10)
- Investigation into understanding how vectorizer represents lanes vs
arm big endian back end
- Solution suspended until I can coordinate with Charlie
* Misc (1/10)
- Conference calls
== Next week ==
* Bugzilla 68543 - Implement add and subtract overflow operations and test
* TCWG-317 - Ping upstream and respond to upstream feedback
* Bugzilla 68532 - Coordinate with Charlie
== Progress ==
* Ill (4/10)
* Support (1/10)
- Bugzilla issues (PR20490, PR24635, PR24350, PR20025, PR25720, PR25722)
* Benchmarks (1/10)
- Checking some previous benchmark results on A57
* Buildbots (2/10)
- Getting AArch64 full bot back to rotation, since it's stable now
- Re-enabling libc++ prototypes on local master
- Bisecting broken test-suite
- Another power cut in the office sent all the bots down... :(
* Background (2/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, general support, etc.
- Validating some old sanitizer bugs
- FOSDEM admin
* One day off on Monday.
# Progress #
* Answer ST questions about supporting multi-arch with ST jtag probe.
[1/10]
* TCWG-171, Enable gdb core file tests when testing remotely, [3/10].
Ongoing.
* Run gdb.base/sizeof.exp with board having gdb,noinferiorio. Done.
[1/10]
* TCWG-460, mutli-arch follow-up work, teach AArch64 GDBserver
understand ARM breakpoint instructions. Patch is approved. [2/10].
* TCWG-424, fail in gdb.base/random-signal.exp. [1/10] Root cause is
identified, need to figure out how to fix it in next step.
* Review ARM GDBserver software single step patch V4.
# Plan #
* TCWG-171, TCWG-156, TCWG-424.
* Review ARM GDBserver software single step patch V5, which should be
the final version, I hope.
--
Yao
== Progress ==
* Validation
- a few cleanup patches in the comparison scripts
- contribute to debug of ptys allocation problems:
the tests pass when executed outside of our schroots.
- improvements in the reports from the validation
done in the ST Compute Farm
- reported a few regressions
* GCC
- cleanup patch for target attributes tests,
- pr68620 (fp16 transfers in big-endian mode)
* Misc (conf calls, meetings, emails, ....)
== Next ==
* Validation: monitoring, improvements
* GCC: bug fixes, cleanup
Hi Linaro Toolchian Group,
I am new to GCC development and have some basic question on its development
process.
Could you please give some insight on below questions. (Apology if they are
very trivial).
I have read https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html
If I am correct, gcc trunk is on gcc 6.0.0 (stage 3) at present and will
becomes 6.0.1 (regression fix only) in January 2016.
gcc 6.0.1 will be released as gcc 6.1.0 in April, 2016 and from there
onwards gcc 6 release branch will start.
However, There is also a gcc 5 branch in parallel whose current version is
5.2.1 and will be released as gcc 5.3 soon.
Hopefully gcc 5.3 would be the last release in gcc 5 series. (Please
correct me if I am wrong).
[Questions]
1. What is the difference between experimental(gcc 6.0.0 stage 3) & gcc
release branch (gcc 5.2.1)?
Is there any rule which decides which changes will go where?
In case, I have some patches for new aarch64 processor at present, in
which branch these changes would be merged (assuming they passes reviews)?
2. How is the subversion of release branches are decided? Is it correct to
say that there will be always 3 subversion of any release branch (e.g. gcc
5.1, gcc 5.2 & gcc 5.3)?
3. What is the working model between GNU GCC and Linaro GCC? Does Linaro
directly accept patches? or they need to go to GNU GCC first?
Thanks in advance for your time.
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak
--
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak
Keeping linaro-toolchain in the loop.
Robert
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Schiele <rschiele(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: Lost upstream patch in merge from gcc-5-branch to
linaro/gcc-5-branch
To: Yvan Roux <yvan.roux(a)linaro.org>
Hi Yvan,
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Yvan Roux <yvan.roux(a)linaro.org> wrote:
> This fix on gcc-5-branch doesn't apply on Linaro 5 branch, because we
> have backported trunk revision 222624 (which renames maybe_fma to
> coumpound_p) into it. So, our branch as the same code as trunk one
> regarding aarch64_rtx_costs. Do you experiment any issues related to
> this change ?
No issues. This was just a theoretical thought and through our CI
build I learned exactly what you just told me the hard way now.
Sorry for the noise.
Robert
abe.sh in the ABE framework accepts a parameter to set the wget timeout
when it fetches snapshots (default 10s); however that parameter has an
upper threshold of 10 seconds (condition at line 996 only sets timeout
to specified value if < 11). Is this intentional? It seems like it would
make more sense to give it a floor instead of a ceiling or perhaps not
limit the range of potential values at all.
Best regards,
Chris Roberts
hi guys,
sorry maybe my question is stupid as i am not a toolchain guy.
i have no idea why ld.so search so many paths. for example, put
"-rpath" with /home/cnb1szh/test in a simple test program. then during
dynamic linking at runtime, we get the below linking debug
information:
30693: find library=libmytest.so [0]; searching
30693: search path=/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/v7l/neon/vfp:/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/v7l/neon:/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/v7l/vfp:/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/v7l:/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/neon/vfp:/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/neon:/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/vfp:/home/cnb1szh/test/tls:/home/cnb1szh/test/v7l/neon/vfp:/home/cnb1szh/test/v7l/neon:/home/cnb1szh/test/v7l/vfp:/home/cnb1szh/test/v7l:/home/cnb1szh/test/neon/vfp:/home/cnb1szh/test/neon:/home/cnb1szh/test/vfp:/home/cnb1szh/test
(RPATH from file ./hello)
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/v7l/neon/vfp/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/v7l/neon/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/v7l/vfp/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/v7l/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/neon/vfp/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/neon/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/vfp/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/tls/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/v7l/neon/vfp/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/v7l/neon/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/v7l/vfp/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/v7l/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/neon/vfp/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/neon/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/vfp/libmytest.so
30693: trying file=/home/cnb1szh/test/libmytest.so
but we don't have /home/cnb1szh/test/tls/, /home/cnb1szh/test/v7l/,
/home/cnb1szh/test/vfp/, /home/cnb1szh/test/neon/, why does the ld.so
search so many paths?
-barry
Hi,
I found that with the merge
commit ac19ac6481a3f326d9f41403f5dadab548b2c8a6
Author: Yvan Roux <yvan.roux(a)linaro.org>
Date: Wed Sep 16 10:57:42 2015 +0200
Merge branches/gcc-5-branch rev 227732.
Change-Id: I2f59904b28323b1c72a8cf1bd62c9e460d95bcea
the following branch that was within merge range on gcc-5-branch was
lost on the linaro branch:
commit b45a5cf7c1544f95578e823e25402b58fb3fbedd
Author: nsz <nsz@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>
Date: Tue Aug 4 16:49:54 2015 +0000
Fix broken backport patch.
gcc:
Backport from mainline:
2015-08-04 Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy(a)arm.com>
PR target/66731
* config/aarch64/aarch64.c (aarch64_rtx_costs): Fix NEG cost for FNMUL.
(aarch64_rtx_mult_cost): Fix MULT cost with -frounding-math.
git-svn-id:
svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcc-5-branch@226588
138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
diff --git a/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c b/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
index 691874b..eebc9c3 100644
--- a/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
+++ b/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
@@ -5250,7 +5250,7 @@ aarch64_rtx_mult_cost (rtx x, int code, int
outer, bool speed)
which case FNMUL is different than FMUL with operand negation. */
bool neg0 = GET_CODE (op0) == NEG;
bool neg1 = GET_CODE (op1) == NEG;
- if (compound_p || !flag_rounding_math || (neg0 && neg1))
+ if (maybe_fma || !flag_rounding_math || (neg0 && neg1))
{
if (neg0)
op0 = XEXP (op0, 0);
Since this was a fix to the patch one commit ahead and also merged in
the same operation and there is no further comment on why this fix was
skipped, may I assume that this happened by accident and you probably
want to fix that merge flaw by reapplying the missing patch? Or is
there an information detail I don't have that requires this fix to be
skipped on the Linaro branch?
Robert
Controlled image builds - TCWG-360 [1/10]
* Tried, failed to generate bootable images
Jenkins benchmarking job - TCWG-348 [5/10]
* Jenkins job functional on kvms in main instance
* Wrote job-dispatch script for non-Jenkins use cases
Juno crashdump [1/10]
* Struggled with, worked around network problems
* Juno running, waiting for it to crash
SPEC-on-Android [1/10]
* Helped Qian to find root cause of a problem
Misc [2/10]
=Plan=
Review security with shared uinstance/main instance code
Expose more data, benchmarks to bundles
Debug/test Jenkins job in microinstance
Create bootable image for at least 1 target, or know what the problems are
Write up noise control report (if time)
Probably more support for SPEC-on-Android