- linaro-toolchain - lists.linaro.org

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

==Progress=== * Finished off PGO patch - sent upstream. * Finished off the ABI tests - sent upstream. * Investigated fixes for LP 942307 - a problem with kernel builds for android. Backported a fix from Uli last year. * Upstream patch review. * Small configury done for SPEC2k as far as HC partitioning goes. * Some Android benchmark investigations. * Recovered from a broken upgrade on my laptop from natty to oneiric on my laptop and then went all the way to Precise. It works reasonably ! === Plans === * Commit all approved and tested patches. * Check on hc partitioning results from SPEC2k and make sure there is an improvement and the feature works ! * Investigate https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/924726 in a little more detail. * Get back to partial-partial PRE. Absences. * 1 week holiday sometime before that - to be booked. * Linaro Connect Q2.12 - May 28 - June 1 - travel booked - hotel to be booked.

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Agenda for next performance call

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

is now here https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2012-03-06 Please add any topics that you might consider interesting for next time. Ramana

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[ACTIVITY] report week 09

by Peter Maydell

Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||cp15-rework || 2012-01-06 || 2012-??-?? || || (new blueprints & reestimate for this one pending) Historical Milestones: ||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || 2011-10-27 || ||upstream-omap3-cleanup || 2011-11-10 || 2011-12-15 || 2011-12-12 || ||initial-a15-system-model || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-17 || ||qemu-kvm-getting-started || 2012-03-04?|| 2012-03-04?|| 2012-02-01 || == cp15-rework == * ploughing through conversion of cp15 registers to new design: patchset now 20 patches long, still TODO crn={0,1,6,7,9} == other == * reviewed more Xilinx Zynq model patches * looking at BE8 support: Paul Brook has posted some patches to support this in user mode * LP:944645: fixed bug where we weren't clearing the IT bits when entering an M profile exception handler * sent out an arm-devs.next pullreq * trying to track down why linux-user is failing brk() and thus causing bash segfaults

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[RFC] NEON vs. ARM register selection

by Andrew Stubbs

Hi All, As you know, the compiler currently has difficulties choosing between whether to do an operation in NEON or not. As I see it there are three problems: 1. Simply, is it profitable? NEON can do many DImode operations in one or two instructions where 2 to 10 normal ARM/Thumb instructions would be required (not to mention the added register pressure), but there is a cost associated with moving the inputs to NEON, and the results back. If the data can stay in NEON for more than one operation, then that's even better. If the data must be loaded from memory, and the result stored back to memory, then it's only a question of whether the register space is available, or not. Currently these decisions are made in the IRA/reload passes. 2. Values that originate in hard-registers stay there. This applies to function parameters, mostly, but also in general where the result of an operation is allocated first. If there is no instruction that can use the value there then the value is 'reloaded' to a more suitable register. If there is any alternative that avoids the move then the register allocator will use it, regardless of the relatives costs of the other alternatives. This problem is reduced where an operation and move can happen in one instruction, but NEON instructions do not do this much. We can write insns that appear to do it, but these output multiple instructions (see my recent core-SI=>NEON-DI extend patch). 3. It all happens too late. The decision whether to use NEON or not is not made until register allocation time. Naturally this means that most of the optimization passes are already completed. Part of the problem is that the operation almost certainly needs splitting (into whatever form was chosen) and this might not be straight forward, post-reload. (However, the split1 pass is already quite late, so perhaps this isn't such a big deal.) Another part of the problem is that passes such as the two lower-subreg passes make assumptions about the register width which are not accurate if the operation is to end up in NEON. There are other, lesser problems, such as it being hard to adjust the costs for different cores (A8 in particular) and the cost of generating an immediate constant can't be known until it's known what instructions will be used to generate it. These problems are not specific to NEON, of course. I believe IWMMXT suffers from the same issues. Likewise the C6X port, and also the i386 MMX to some degree. Anything that has instructions that only operate on a subset of registers, basically. So, Bernd has suggested an outline of a solution. I've quizzed him on this, added a few of my own ideas, and probably a good selection of misunderstandings, bad assumptions, and general cock ups, and come up with something I can write here for comment. I can post something to upstream later if it doesn't get totally shot down now. The basic idea is that we add a new RTL optimization pass (or two) that assesses the usage of pseudo registers, and makes recommendations about what register class each should end up in, if there's a choice. These recommendations would then be used by later passes to get a better use of NEON. I might call this the "prealloc" pass, or something. Firstly, for each pseudo-register in a function, the pass would look at the insn constraints for each "def" and "use", and see how the registers relate to one another. This might determine things like "if rN is in class A, then rM must be also in class A". E.g. if you have two registers with constraints like this: "r,w" "r,w" .. (and 'r' and 'w' do not overlap) then you know that there is a choice between one mode or another, whereas this: "r,w,r,w" "r,w,w,r" .. would impose no restrictions and we can carry on as normal. Having done that we'd end up with sets of pseudo-registers that must make a decision one way or the other, and we'd know where the operations are that would force a move from one class to the other. There's a fair amount of handwavium in there at present, because I've not worked out what to do with overlapping register classes (think VFP_LO_REGS) and all the other complications. Secondly, the pass would consider the costs of each alternative, and store a recommended register class for each pseudo-register in a table somewhere. It would also create new pseudos and insert extra move instructions at the register file boundaries where an existing register would have had split recommendations (this would solve problem 2 above). Again, there's handwavium in "consider the costs". This isn't too hard for size-optimization (assuming the "length" attributes on the insn is correct), but more difficult for speed optimization. Factors to include would be the move costs (here the A8 issues would be addresses) and the relative speeds of the operations in both alternatives. Also, the various possible transition points between the two modes might need some comparisons. Thirdly, the subsequent passes would need to be modified, as would some of the back-end bits and bobs. 1. Lower-subreg would need to detect 'word_mode' based on the recommended register class, not the global value. 2. The many split patterns in the machine description could be adjusted so that, instead of simply conditionalizing on "reload_completed", they split at split1 if that's the best option. (Maybe it would be profitable to insert a new, earlier split pass specifically for this case to take advantage of the likes of combine? I mean, ideally this decision would have been made at expand time, if it could have been?) It might be useful to *not* split too soon, in some cases, so that the register allocator can still make the final decision based on register pressure, and whatever other factors it uses. Of course, the existing late-split option would need to be retained in case the prealloc pass is disabled, in any case. 3. Various passes would have to be taught not to remove seemingly superfluous register moves where they actually move between register classes. 4. Pretty much nothing would need doing to register allocation! The extra moves should make allocation a register pressure management issue, rather than a question of making it work. DImode operations preallocated to core-registers may already have been lowered, one way or the other (by split1) so there's no decision left there, and if no lowering was necessary then that option ought to be obviously cheaper. If it insists on making contrary decisions then it can be taught to use the recommendation as a hint, perhaps? In specific problem cases it would also be possible to use instruction attributes to disable (or strongly discourage) certain alternatives based on the recommended class. 5. The existing 'onlya8'/'nota8' nonsense can be removed. 6. The register move cost can be set correctly for each core. 7. If a constant is destined for a NEON register, most likely, arm_gen_constant can use the NEON immediate rules to determine the cost. There's clearly a lot of thought that needs to go into the pseudo-register scan and decision making logic, but the whole thing doesn't look like it'll boil down to very much code in the end. There's also the question of where to put the pass? Too early and you'd need to put a second one in to reassess the much changed RTL later, and too late and lower-subreg won't be able to use it. It's possible that it might be better to treat it more like the data-flow analysis where it's not actually a stand-alone pass, but rather a tool other passes can use? That might depend how computationally expensive it is. Any thoughts anyone? Might something like this actually work? Would it be worth spending the time on this? Andrew

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lp:gcc/4.7

by Andrew Stubbs

Hi Matthias, GCC 4.7.0 has branched upstream. SVN trunk is now 4.8. Could you please create lp:gcc/4.7 from the release branch. Thanks Andrew

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Please pull upstream rev. 184603 into gcc-linaro 4.7

by Bernhard Rosenkränzer

Hi, 184603 fixes an ICE we're running into with Android test builds. Please pull it in ASAP so I don't have to mess with the CFLAGS as a workaround. ttyl bero

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Cross toolchain for lucid updated

by Marcin Juszkiewicz

Linaro cross toolchain backport PPA [1] got updated to recent Ubuntu 12.04 versions: - gcc 4.5.3 - gcc 4.6.2 - binutils 2.22 - eglibc 2.15 - linux 3.2 I tested both compiler versions against few packages, U-Boot and Linux 2.6.32. Those packages may also work under Ubuntu 10.10 'maverick' and 11.04 'natty' but it was not tested. Users of Ubuntu 11.10 'oneiric' may install libmpfr1ldbl package [2] and then use 'lucid' repository to install cross compiler while I will prepare packages for their version of Ubuntu. Please report any problems with those backported packages in launchpad [3][4][5]. 1. https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/toolchain 2. http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libmpfr1ldbl 3. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.5-armel-cross/+bugs 4. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.5-armel-cross/+bugs 5. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/armel-cross-toolchain-base/+bugs

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Status call number is unchanged

by Michael Hope

No news yet on the new conference call numbers. Let's see if the old numbers still work. -- Michael

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Spec 2000 broken?

by Andrew Stubbs

Hi Michael, I ran the benchmark tests on GCC 4.7, but the spec2000 run seems to have failed. This is both on the baseline, and on my patch. See here: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/benchmarks/gcc-linaro-4.7%2bbzr114968~ams-codesou… Andrew

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Saturated operations

by Michael Hope

Hi Ulrich. The saturated work you're doing at the moment - is it the saturated add/subtract QADD/QSUB/QDADD/QDSUB or the ARMv6 saturate-word-with-shift SSAT/USAT? I've updated the old blueprint and added a new one for SSAT/USAT: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+spec/armv6-saturation-instruct… https://blueprints.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+spec/armv5-saturated-ops and was wondering which to put against your name. -- Michael

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Fleshing out the QEMU blueprints

by Michael Hope

Hi Peter, Rusty. I've fleshed out the KVM blueprints a bit more at: https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/Q1.12ToDo Notable is adding validation and de-PENDING a few things. I need to know the following things before talking to Validation and Platforms about things that are in their queue: * What's the host kernel? Christoffers, or a linux-linaro-kvm based off his plus work in progress? * What's the guest kernel? * Anything special that needs to be in the host rootfs outside qemu and libvirt? Do you have a host and guest kernel .config that I can pass on to Platforms? -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] Feb 20 - Feb 24

by Thiago Jung Bauermann

Hi, GDB on Android: * Set up cross compiling environment using both the Android toolchain and the Linaro toolchain. * Tested Android and Mozilla GDB running as a native binary on the Linaro Android image on qemu. None of them were able to see all threads in a multi-threaded process. The same happens with a native binary on Android talking to a gdbserver on localhost. * I was able to produce an Android GDB 7.1.x binary which when running on an i386 host talking to the Android SDK emulator sees all threads. It is not able to generate a backtrace though. * Carnival holidays. -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann Linaro Toolchain Working Group

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[ACTIVITY] 20th - 24th February

by Andrew Stubbs

Investigated and produced and patch for bug lp936863. Continued work on 64-bit shifts. I updated my neon shifts patch twice: once to take -Os optimization into account, and once because I noticed that the CC clobbers were being retained even after they were known to be not required, and presumably this could be a bad thing. Posted a patch to improve SI->DImode sign- and zero-extends that also move values from core registers to neon registers. Wrote a patch to implement negation in neon register, albeit at the cost of a scratch register to hold the constant zero. This worked, but insisted on loading the zero from memory, despite the fact that NEON has a suitable instruction for loading zero. Attempted to get "vmov dN, #0" to work. The problem appears to be that DImode loads are handled by the VFP load pattern in vfp.md and that that doesn't seem to DTRT for integer constants. I've got as far as trying to figure out what it does do, but there's more to be done to get to the bottom of the problem. Tried to get the benchmarking going for 64-bit shifts. Unfortunately ursa1 has been experiencing outages. Michael has been trying to fix it, but so far I've not been able to run anything there. Instead, I've launched benchmark runs via Michael's normal test infrastructure. Hopefully this can replace the manual ones anyway. That would be more convenient.

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Running pre-built linaro toolchain failed on Ubuntu 11.04, 64bit server

by Lv Terry-R65388

Hi, I'm trying to use pre-built version of linaro toolchain for cross-compiler in Ubuntu 11.04 on our 64bit server. I got it from http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/incoming/binaries/. When I run arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc to compile a c source, it says "No such file or directory". The steps are as below: 1. Unpack gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabi-2011.12-20111219+bzr2309~linux.tar.bz2. 2. Rename gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabi-2011.12-20111219+bzr2309~linux to arm-fsl-linux-gnueabi. 3. Copy to ~/toolchain_ltib/gcc-linaro-4.6.3-glibc-2.13-singlelib-2011.12/ 2. Use arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc to compile my code. The output is: r65388@shlinux3:~/MEMCPYBM$ ~/toolchain_ltib/gcc-linaro-4.6.3-glibc-2.13-singlelib-2011.12/arm-fsl-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -bash: /home/r65388/toolchain_ltib/gcc-linaro-4.6.3-glibc-2.13-singlelib-2011.12/arm-fsl-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc: No such file or directory I have installed lsb 4.0 and libc6 2.13. r65388@shlinux3:~/MEMCPYBM$ dpkg -s lsb Package: lsb Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: misc Installed-Size: 48 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss(a)lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: all Version: 4.0-0ubuntu16 ... r65388@shlinux3:~/MEMCPYBM$ dpkg -s libc6-dev Package: libc6-dev Status: install ok installed Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libdevel Installed-Size: 11888 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss(a)lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: amd64 Source: eglibc Version: 2.13-20ubuntu5 Provides: libc-dev Depends: libc6 (= 2.13-20ubuntu5), libc-dev-bin (= 2.13-20ubuntu5), linux-libc-dev Recommends: gcc | c-compiler Suggests: glibc-doc, manpages-dev Breaks: binutils (<< 2.20.1-1), binutils-gold (<< 2.20.1-11), cmake (<< 2.8.4+dfsg.1-5), gcc-4.4 (<< 4.4.6-3ubuntu1), gcc-4.4-base (<< 4.4.6-3ubuntu1), gcc-4.5 (<< 4.5.3-1ubuntu2), gcc-4.5-base (<< 4.5.3-1ubuntu2), gcc-4.6 (<< 4.6.0-12), gcj-4.4-base (<< 4.4.6-2ubuntu2), gcj-4.5-base (<< 4.5.3-1ubuntu2), gnat-4.4-base (<< 4.4.6-1ubuntu3), libhwloc-dev (<< 1.2-3), libjna-java (<< 3.2.7-4), liblouis-dev (<< 2.3.0-2), liblouisxml-dev (<< 2.4.0-2), make (<< 3.81-8.1), pkg-config (<< 0.26-1) ... Do you know why? How can I fix this issue? Thanks~~ Yours Terry

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[Activity] Week 8

by Zhenqiang Chen

Summary: * Linaro binary toolchain 2012.02 release. * Try the Multilib patch on linaro toolchain. Details: 1. Linaro binary toolchain 2012.02 release. * Create linaro license file based on embedded toolchain, add crosstool-ng and sysroot (eglibc) license. * Tests on win7, oneiric and RHEL5. 2. Try to apply the multilib patch used in embedded toolchain to linaro toolchain. * The multilib solution can not work together with the multiarch patch. (1) With both patches, "gcc -print-multi-lib" can only print one option. (2) With only multilib patch, "gcc -print-multi-lib" can print the multilib list. * Successfully build a multilib toolchain (Based on the prebuilt oneiric-sysroot with directory structure change for include and lib.) without the multiarch patch and c++ support. Plans: 1. Try crosstool-ng 1.14 to build multilib eglibc. 2. Investigate how to make multiarch and multilib work together. Planed leaves: * Mar. 1-2. Best regards! -Zhenqiang

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KVM blueprints

by Michael Hope

Hi Peter, Rusty. I've written down my notes from Connect and drafted the blueprints at: https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/Q1.12ToDo I've put my priories on things and sorted them by relative importance. I'll check tomorrow if there's a good match between this, the KVMEpic spec, and the older task spreadsheet. Most of these are too short. I don't know what's involved with the CP15 work. Some still have big PENDINGS. Please edit and correct. There's a lot of work there. Some is on other teams but I'm concerned. -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] Feb 20 - Feb 24

by Ulrich Weigand

== GCC == * Merged Ira's remaining vectorizer patches into Linaro GCC 4.7. * Merged Richard's sched-pressure patch (enabled by default on ARM) into Linaro GCC 4.7. Asked IBM colleagues for benchmark results on s390 and rs6000 as well. * Committed patch to enable vect_condition tests in FSF mainline, FSF 4.6, and Linaro GCC 4.7. * Verified that Linaro GCC 4.7 now contains every feature that was present in Linaro GCC 4.6. * Rebased and re-benchmarked fwprop-subreg patch. * Ongoing work on a patch to generate usat/ssat instructions where appropriate. * Worked on improving end-of-loop value computation. * Fixed mainline .init_array/.fini_array regression on certain newlib targets. * Reviewed several merge requests. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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[Activity] Week 8

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

On holiday last week and at connect week before that. ==Progress=== * Recovered from jet-lag and started to catch up on email. * Patch review week. * Cleared out a bit of my patch backlog. * Helped Asa with some bug triaging. * Read up a bit about ssat and usat and what we should be doing with other tuning for them. * Looked up some performance profiles with v8 benchmarks . Reviewed the Android benchmark numbers. * Booked tickets for connect 2012.q2 * Wrote up connect week discussions on libav regressions . === Plans === * Clear out more pending patches ( PGO next on the hit list and the vmla investigation) * Investigate partial-partial PRE results. * Finish off the ABI tests. Absences. * 1 week holiday sometime before that - to be booked. * Linaro Connect Q2.12 - May 28 - June 1

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, OpenEmbedded: * added initial support for the Linaro GCC 4.6 based toolchain to the meta-linaro layer. * allows to build the Linaro toolchain the OE way * successfully built the core-image-sato but when running inside QEMU the GUI isn't usable (needs investigation) glibc: * built glibc+glibc-ports natively on ARM * the upstream glibc testsuite isn't aware of the multiarch paths and therefore it won't find some libs (libgcc_s, libstdc++) * workaround using symlinks; wiki updated: https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/HowToBuildToolchainComponents#gli… Regards, Ken

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Re: gcc: Thumb interworking and weakly linked functions

by V, Aneesh

+ linaro-toolchain Hello Ulrich, I want to revisit this old thread. Sorry for the sloppy follow-up. But, this time around I have more data. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand(a)de.ibm.com> wrote: > Aneesh V <aneesh(a)ti.com> wrote: > >> I was trying to build u-boot in Thumb2 for OMAP4. Everything was fine >> until I added some patches recently. One of these patches introduced an >> API (let's say foo()) that has a weakly linked alias(let's say >> __foo()) and a strongly linked implementation(the real foo()) in an >> assembly file. >> >> Although I give -mthumb and -mthumb-interwork for all the files, >> apparently GCC generates ARM code for assembly files. In the final >> image foobar() calls foo() using a BL. Since foobar() is in Thumb and >> foo() in ARM, it ends up crashing. Looks like foobar() assumed foo() >> to be Thumb because __foo() is Thumb. > > I'm unable to reproduce this. Do you have a complete test case? > > I've tried with the following small example: > > foo1.c: > > extern void foo (void) __attribute__ ((weak, alias ("__foo"))); > > void __foo (void) > { > } > > int main (void) > { > foo (); > } > > foo2.S: > .text > .align 2 > .global foo > .type foo, %function > foo: > push {r7} > add r7, sp, #0 > mov sp, r7 > pop {r7} > bx lr > .size foo, .-foo > > When building just "gcc foo1.c", I get: > > 0000835c <__foo>: > 835c: b480 push {r7} > 835e: af00 add r7, sp, #0 > 8360: 46bd mov sp, r7 > 8362: bc80 pop {r7} > 8364: 4770 bx lr > 8366: bf00 nop > > 00008368 <main>: > 8368: b580 push {r7, lr} > 836a: af00 add r7, sp, #0 > 836c: f7ff fff6 bl 835c <__foo> > 8370: 4618 mov r0, r3 > 8372: bd80 pop {r7, pc} > > When building both files "gcc foo1.c foo2.S", I get instead: > > 00008368 <main>: > 8368: b580 push {r7, lr} > 836a: af00 add r7, sp, #0 > 836c: f000 e802 blx 8374 <foo> > 8370: 4618 mov r0, r3 > 8372: bd80 pop {r7, pc} > > 00008374 <foo>: > 8374: e92d0080 push {r7} > 8378: e28d7000 add r7, sp, #0 > 837c: e1a0d007 mov sp, r7 > 8380: e8bd0080 pop {r7} > 8384: e12fff1e bx lr > > > So it seems to me the linker is handling this correctly ... > > (This is on Ubuntu Natty using system gcc and binutils.) I could reproduce the problem on older tool-chain(Sourcery G++ Lite 2010q1-202) [1] with a modified version of your sample code: a.c: ==== extern void foo (void) __attribute__ ((weak, alias ("__foo"))); void __foo (void) { } extern void call_foo(void); int main (void) { call_foo (); } b.S: ==== .text .align 2 .global foo foo: push {r7} add r7, sp, #0 mov sp, r7 pop {r7} bx lr .size foo, .-foo c.S .text .align 2 .global call_foo call_foo: bl foo bx lr .global __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0 __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0: bx lr Now, I build them using the following commands, which is similar to what U-Boot does: arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc -mthumb -mthumb-interwork -c a.c arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc -mthumb -mthumb-interwork -c b.S arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc -mthumb -mthumb-interwork -c c.S arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld -r a.o -o alib.o arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld -r b.o -o blib.o arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld -r c.o -o clib.o arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld --start-group clib.o alib.o blib.o --end-group -o a.out armobjdump -S --reloc a.out You will get something like: 00008094 <call_foo>: 8094: fa000006 blx 80b4 <foo> 8098: e12fff1e bx lr Please note that that the 'blx' is not correct. Now, do the following change: diff --git a/b.S b/b.S index e0f2de9..96dba1f 100644 --- a/b.S +++ b/b.S @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ .text .align 2 +.type foo, %function .global foo foo: push {r7} And build it again the same way and you will see: 00008094 <call_foo>: 8094: eb000006 bl 80b4 <foo> 8098: e12fff1e bx lr I can't reproduce this on Linaro GCC 2012.01, so looks like the problem is solved in recent tool-chains. However, sadly I could reproduce a different but similar problem with Linaro GCC 2012.01. This time the call is from C(Thumb) to assembly(ARM) and no weakly linked symbols are involved. a.c: ==== int main (void) { foo (); } b.S: ==== .text .align 2 .global foo foo: push {r7} add r7, sp, #0 mov sp, r7 pop {r7} bx lr .size foo, .-foo .global __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0 __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0: bx lr arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -mthumb -mthumb-interwork -c a.c arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -mthumb -mthumb-interwork -c b.S arm-linux-gnueabi-ld -r a.o -o alib.o arm-linux-gnueabi-ld -r b.o -o blib.o arm-linux-gnueabi-ld --start-group alib.o blib.o --end-group -o a.out arm-linux-gnueabi-objdump -S --reloc a.out gives: 8076: af00 add r7, sp, #0 8078: f000 f802 bl 8080 <foo> 807c: 4618 mov r0, r3 It should have been "blx 8080 <foo>", isn't it? Again, %function solves it. I agree that not marking the assembly functions ' %function' is a problem in the code, so it's not a critical bug. But I would've been happier if the linker refused to link it rather than branching with the wrong instruction. Isn't that a problem? Problem No:2 ************* Linaro GCC 2012.01 is giving a new problem w.r.to Thumb build that is not existing in Sourcery G++ Lite 2010q1-202. However, I couldn't reproduce this problem with a small program like above. So, let me give you reference to the original u-boot code that shows the problem and steps to reproduce it. tree: git://github.com/aneeshv/u-boot.git branch: thumb The above branch has mainline u-boot with 4 additional patches from me for enabling Thumb build. You can build it like this: make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- ARCH=arm distclean make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- ARCH=arm omap4_sdp4430 This builds two images u-boot and u-boot-spl. SPL is a tiny u-boot that runs from internal RAM and loads the u-boot to SDRAM. Now, please have a look at the map file of u-boot-spl which is at: spl/u-boot-spl.map I see the following in my map file: /spl/u-boot-spl.map: ================= .rodata.wkup_padconf_array_essential_4460 0x40309583 0x4 board/ti/sdp4430/libsdp4430.o 0x40309583 wkup_padconf_array_essential_4460 .rodata.wkup_padconf_array_essential 0x40309587 0xc board/ti/sdp4430/libsdp4430.o 0x40309587 wkup_padconf_array_essential .rodata.core_padconf_array_essential 0x40309593 0x60 board/ti/sdp4430/libsdp4430.o 0x40309593 core_padconf_array_essential Please note that the .rodata symbols have odd addresses. These arrays actually need to be aligned at least to half-word boundary. In fact, in the image I verified that they are put at even addresses. So, the symbols have been kept as real address +1. I understand that this is the convention for Thumb functions. I guess the tool-chain did it for data too?? And I am getting unaligned access aborts on accessing them. I notice that this doesn't happen with all .rodata. symbols in the image. I couldn't see any difference between working and non-working files nor any difference in the command used to build them! Well, this doesn't happen if I don't use "-fdata-sections" in gcc options. So, apply the following patch and you will see that those symbols have even addresses now. diff --git a/config.mk b/config.mk index ddaa477..723286a 100644 --- a/config.mk +++ b/config.mk @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ CPPFLAGS := $(DBGFLAGS) $(OPTFLAGS) $(RELFLAGS) \ # Enable garbage collection of un-used sections for SPL ifeq ($(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD),y) -CPPFLAGS += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections +CPPFLAGS += -ffunction-sections LDFLAGS_FINAL += --gc-sections endif /spl/u-boot-spl.map: ================= .rodata 0x40309204 0x38c board/ti/sdp4430/libsdp4430.o 0x40309204 core_padconf_array_essential 0x40309264 wkup_padconf_array_essential 0x40309270 wkup_padconf_array_essential_4460 0x40309274 core_padconf_array_non_essential 0x40309540 wkup_padconf_array_non_essential 0x40309588 wkup_padconf_array_non_essential_4430 Will you be able to look into these? Thanks, Aneesh [1] Sourcery G++ Lite 2010q1-202 arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Sourcery G++ Lite 2010q1-202) 4.4.1 GNU ld (Sourcery G++ Lite 2010q1-202) - binutils 2.19.51.20090709 [2] Linaro 4.6-2012.01 arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-2012.01-20120125 - Linaro GCC 2012.01) 4.6.3 20120105 (prerelease) GNU ld (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-2012.01-20120125 - Linaro GCC 2012.01) 2.22

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[ACTIVITY] w08

by Asa Sandahl

Hi! * Development benchmarks: Focused on the implementation of development benchmarks in the cbuild system. Discussed with Michael about how the comments should look. I am now testing my solution in the launchpad staging area. You can see a link to an example of a benchmark result comment below. (Should not be a double comment of course, and the actual result files are only stored on my machine for now.) https://code.staging.launchpad.net/~ramana/gcc-linaro/partial_partial_pre_t… The real benchmark names are not mentioned, since that might be sensitive. * Bug reports I got an action on Monday's meeting to investigate if https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.6/+bug/926855 is the same as PR52294. Investigated with help from Ramana and updated the ticket. Regards Åsa

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[ACTIVITY] report week 08

by Peter Maydell

Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||cp15-rework || 2012-01-06 || 2012-??-?? || || (new blueprints & reestimate for this one pending Michael H's writeup/etc) Historical Milestones: ||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || 2011-10-27 || ||upstream-omap3-cleanup || 2011-11-10 || 2011-12-15 || 2011-12-12 || ||initial-a15-system-model || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-17 || ||qemu-kvm-getting-started || 2012-03-04?|| 2012-03-04?|| 2012-02-01 || == cp15-rework == * figuring out how various suggestions/conversations on this from Connect ought to fit together == other == * LP:928580 recent u-boot not booting on QEMU beagle: tracked this down to a u-boot bug and passed to John Rigby * investigated a linux-user segfault deadlock which turns out to be because the guest program is using setrlimit to restrict memory usage and one of qemu's internal memory allocations then fails. Not clear how best to fix but was able to nack the suggested patch... * most of the patches for passing a device tree to the kernel from qemu (via -dtb option) are now upstream; rebased the final patch which should now go in soon I think * LP885239 qemu-linaro broke booting of zaurus models: fixed a bug where a trustzone support patch had broken some cp15 registers for xscale cpus * minor patch: fixed formatting of list of supported machines help text * fix an embarrassing segfault bug in a patch of mine committed last week * it turns out that we can detect at compile time whether glibc's makecontext() is an always-fails stub : sent configure patch to do this * travel mostly set up for connect Q2.12 * lots of meetings/training: toolchain call; standup; 1-2-1; project management training; comms meeting

14 years, 8 months

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Cortex-A8 benchmark machine

by Michael Hope

I've added a Cortex-A8 benchmark machine to my home office. The machine is called 'nova1' and is part of the cbuild a8-ref queue. Feel free to give it jobs: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/scheduler/spawn -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] Feb 13 - Feb 17

by Thiago Jung Bauermann

Hi, GDB on Android exploration: * Familiarizing myself with the Android SDK and NDK, and the Android runtime environment. * Set up a Linaro Android Versatile Express image running on Linaro qemu. Updated the wiki page [1] with instructions on how to prepare its initrd to make it palatable to qemu. * Trying to figure out if there's a way to get the SDK and NDK to talk to that image. * Studied AOSP's patches to gdbserver, and also Mozilla's patches to AOSP's GDB and gdbserver. -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann Linaro Toolchain Working Group [1] https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuVersatileExpress

14 years, 8 months

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Bounce host changes

by Michael Hope

I've changed the bounce host used to gain access to the boards at my home office. The ports and configuration are the same but you will get a scary error due to the SSH host key changing. Let me know if there are any problems, -- Michael

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Agenda for tomorrow's performance call.

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

Hi , This is now at : https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2012-02-07 Please add any topics that need to be added in the wiki page. Thanks, Ramana

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[ACTIVITY] 13th - 19th February

by Andrew Stubbs

* Linaro GCC Discovered that part of my conditional execution problems were caused by some over-zealous peephole optimizations adding CC register clobbers to arithmetic operations in order to take advantage of the 16-bit encoding. This is a problem because they can't be converted to conditional execution so freely because overwriting the CC register prevents any further conditional execution (and forces a 32-bit encoding unnecessarily). I wrote a patch to help ifcvt unpick all this and DTRT, and posted it upstream. It turns out that Benrd (I think) already reimplemented the peephole optimization in the reorg pass, so all that is really needed is to delete the now obsolete peepholes. Richard E has approved the revised patch. Unfortunately I've now discovered that that exposed a bug in the machine description, so that'll have to be fixed also. Tried to update the gcc-linaro/4.7 branch, but found the build broken. In fact, Matthias had already reported it to Bugzilla. I did a binary search, identified the problem commit, posted the info to bugzilla, and pushed a merge request for the last working commit for testing. This tested ok, so I've merged it to the Linaro 4.7 trunk. Brought the Linaro GCC patch tracker up to date to aid identification of patches we will need to forward port to 4.7. The remaining 'red' patches are either not committed upstream, or I wasn't sure. Attempted to benchmark the 64-bit shift improvements, but the target board (ursa1) has developed an I/O error. * Other Joe Seymour and I went to HP Bristol to attend one of their science lectures. Professor Jim Al-Khalili gave a talk about the recent "faster-than-light" neutrinos experiments, and explained why it can't possibly be true. http://www.jimal-khalili.com/blog/faster-than-the-speed-of-light.html

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[ACTIVITY] Week 07

by Zhenqiang Chen

Summary: * crosstool-ng patches for linaro 2012.02 binary toolchain release Details: 1. Revise the gdb lsb build patches based on gdb-7.4. 2. Clean up old patches and only keep the latest version, since we only keep the latest version in config for linaro. 3. Window installer patch. * Scripts to use installjammer to create the win32 install package. * Apply linaro logo to the install package. * Sync up the install directory and Start-menu layout with embedded toolchain. * Test the package on win7. Plans: * Finalize 2012.02 binary toolchain release. Best regards! -Zhenqiang

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, libunwind * discussions about local unwinding on Android * problem: dl_iterate_phdr isn't available * idea: parse proc/<pid>/maps but to find the ELF file for a given IP and get to the ARM specific unwind info from there * assisted an Android game developer who is using clang to compile the native parts of the app, the ndk to link it and wondered why the debuggerd doesn't catch any crashes OpenEmbedded * mainly worked on the linaro meta layer * got the external binary toolchain recipe working * added the Linaro 3.1 Kernel to the layer * updated documentation: https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/OpenEmbedded-Core Regards, Ken

14 years, 9 months

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[ACTIVITY] report week 07

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||cp15-rework || 2012-01-06 || 2012-02-20 || || (for blueprint definitions: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuKVM) Historical Milestones: ||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || 2011-10-27 || ||upstream-omap3-cleanup || 2011-11-10 || 2011-12-15 || 2011-12-12 || ||initial-a15-system-model || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-17 || ||qemu-kvm-getting-started || 2012-03-04?|| 2012-03-04?|| 2012-02-01 || == other == * post-Connect miscellany: * got boot-wrapper into an official location in linaro git repo * Exynos4 patchset finally made it through a review and is upstream * vexpress-a15 model also now upstream * put together arm-devs pullreq and got it committed * LP:932856 : fix broken omap3 bootrom emulation of raw boot mode * LP:931940 : fix failure to raise interrupts in PL031 realtime clock model * reviewed some qemu gdbstub patches that should fix a problem with semihosting-via-gdb * rebased qemu-linaro: another nasty one after upstream QOM patches landing * spent some time finishing up cleanup of the omap_i2c patches in qemu-linaro (a job started and left unfinished a few months back)

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[ACTIVITY] Feb 14 - Feb 17

by Ulrich Weigand

== GCC == * Verified status of patches in Linaro 4.6 that might not yet be in mainline / Linaro 4.7. Ported two of Ira's vectorizer patches and created merge request. * Successfully tested and benchmarked 4.7 version of Richard's sched-pressure patch, with similar results as seen on 4.6. Rebased branch due to conflicts with recent mainline merge; will commit after retesting. * Investigated LP #923397 (Broken alignment attribute). Now fixed in FSF mainline and 4.6 branch, will get merged into Linaro GCC 4.6 automatically for next release. * Ongoing work on a patch to allow memory operands with vec_set and vec_extract to avoid excessive vmov generation in the PR 51819 test case. * Started working on a patch to generate usat/ssat instructions where appropriate. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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Status of Linaro GCC 4.7 patches

by Ulrich Weigand

Hi Andrew, thanks for bringing the 4.6 patch tracker up to date. I've had a look over everything that's marked red to see what we need to do to bring Linaro 4.7 up to date: 106869 Add -fsched-pressure-algorithm=model and enable it by default on ARM. My recent commit of Richard's patch. I've tested a forward-port to the Linaro 4.7 branch already, but had to rebase it due to merge conflicts with the recent upstream merge, so I'll commit after retesting: lp:~uweigand/gcc-linaro/sched-pressure-v2-4.7 106846 Handle non-constants in mixed size condition 106844 Support pattern detection for basic blocks. Two of Ira's patches that have not yet landed upstream due to stage 3. I've created a forward-port branch and will merge into Linaro 4.7: lp:~uweigand/gcc-linaro/vect-patches-4.7 106789 Fix rs6000 vector expansion. 106768 Merge fix for lp721513. These are actually already upstream (modulo minor cosmetic changes) and present in Linaro 4.7. All in all, once the two branches mentioned above are merged, Linaro 4.7 will have everything that's today in Linaro 4.6. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Martina Koederitz | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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[ACTIVITY] w07

by Asa Sandahl

Hi! * Finished gcc-4.7 benchmarking: https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain/Benchmarks/gcc-4.7_benchmarking Results uploaded to lp:~linaro-toolchain-wg/linaro-toolchain-benchmarks/private-runs * Development benchmarks: Continued the work started at connect. Got stuck for a while with a problem with the launchpad staging area. I could no longer log in. Seems the staging area is reset at weekends. The user credentials has to be given again, but you first have to remove them manually from the GNOME keyring (or whatever place they are stored). * Bug triaging: Triaged these bugs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/926855, https://launchpad.net/bugs/925991, https://launchpad.net/bugs/924726. Regards Åsa

14 years, 9 months

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No meetings except standup

by Michael Hope

Hi there. I've cancelled the Monday and stand up calls for this week. Andrew, could you run the standup call on Thursday please? The moderator details are at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] 6th - 10th February

by Andrew Stubbs

* Linaro GCC Continued work on 64-bit shifts. My patch for shifts in core registers was rejected because I used conditional-execution before it's safe, apparently, so I've spent some time looking at the alternatives. First, conditional move instructions were unsatisfactory - the final instruction sequence was longer and therefore less efficient. Second, if_then_else instructions (basically conditional execution expressed a different way) was to limited - there were no patterns compatible with "or with shifted input" available in ARM mode, and no patterns available at all in Thumb mode. I solved that easily enough, of course, but the result was still unsatisfactory. In Thumb mode the result was roughly equivalent (conditional-execution is constrained by IT blocks), but in ARM mode it uses patterns that output two opposing instructions at once, without allowing for the possibility of scheduling or other optimization. Third, I've tried putting in ordinary branches and relying on the if-conversion pass to transform that to conditional execution. I had not done this initially, partially because I didn't know how, but mostly because the original implementation I was trying to replace resulted in branches in the output code, and I was trying to improve on that. Anyway, I've now figured out how to do that, and initial testing suggests that the if-conversion really is working this time. Even if it doesn't always, the other improvements to the shift sequence should still give a boost. My other patch, to do 64-bits shifts in NEON (and fall back to the above code when register allocation sees fit) has not yet been reviewed. * Linaro Connect This week was Linaro Connect week. I could not attend the event in San Francisco in person this time, so I took part in some of the morning sessions remotely. Linaro have switched to using Google Hangouts for the remote participation, and it went really rather well. In the old system there was an audio stream to listen to (on a 20 second delay or so, usually), and an IRC room projected onto a large screen for remote attendees to respond. The new Hangout system is effectively a simple in-browser video-conference system that allowed us to not only see the room, but also respond verbally in real time. The only disadvantage is the 10-person limit, but I never saw any room get near that all week. I successfully attended several sessions and one regular meeting remotely by these means. And no jet lag or eating so much!

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[ACTIVITY] Feb 6 - Feb 10

by Thiago Jung Bauermann

Hi, Made the GDB 7.4-2012.02 release: * Learned about cbuild and how to use its services. * Prepared a GDB Linaro 7.4-2012.02~rc1 tarball and ran on cbuild. * Compared test results on ARM and i686 with the ones from 7.3-2011.12. Investigated new failures, determining that all come from new testcases added since the last release. One seemed important but when investigated it turned out to be a bug in the hand-written debug info for the testcase, which is wrong on ARM. I opened bug reports on Launchpad for the new failures which are worth being investigated for future releases. There are no regressions in 7.4-2012.02 compared to 7.3-2011.12. * Executed the release process for Linaro GDB. * Started exploring GDB on Android. -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann Linaro Toolchain Working Group

14 years, 9 months

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, OpenEmbedded-Core: * tested the external-toolchain branch from C. Larson * changes now upstream * rebased my changes to the current oe-core trunk * startet to setup a proper external layer at: git://git.linaro.org/people/kwerner/meta-linaro.git * got the minimal, sato and Qt image built again (only two patches required on the oe-core tree) Misc: * remotely attended some Linaro Connect sessions Regards, Ken

14 years, 9 months

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Linaro GDB 7.4 2012.02 released

by Thiago Jung Bauermann

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro GDB 7.4 2012.02. Linaro GDB 7.4 2012.02 is the first release in the 7.4 series. Based off the latest GDB 7.4, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. Interesting changes include: * Update to GDB 7.4 code base. * The "info proc" and "generate-core-file" commands will now also work on remote targets connected to GDBserver on Linux. The source tarball is available at: https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/+milestone/7.4-2012.02 More information on Linaro GDB is available at: https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann Linaro Toolchain Working Group

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Linaro QEMU 2012-02 released

by Rusty Russell

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2012-02. Linaro QEMU 2012.02 is the latest monthly release of qemu-linaro. Based off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. New in this month's release: - A simplified A15 model (non-LPAE) which is sufficent to boot a carefully-configured Linux kernel. Known issues: - Graphics do not work for OMAP3 based models (beagle, overo) with 11.10 Linaro images. The source tarball is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2012.02 More information on Linaro QEMU is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro

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Linaro GCC 4.5 and Linaro GCC 4.6 2012.02 released.

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2012.02 release of Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. Linaro GCC 4.6 2012.02 is the twelfth release in the 4.6 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.6.2+svn183786, it contains a few bug fixes and backports Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15 support from FSF trunk. Interesting changes include: * Updates to 4.6.2+svn183786. * Add initial Cortex-A7 support. * Backport Cortex-A15 tuning improvements from upstream. * Backport improvements to 64 bit unsigned comparisons. Fixes: * LP: #917967 Backport the fix for PR51799. * LP: #836588 armel FTBFS with gcc 4.5 org 4.6 O2 and fPIC. * LP: #879725 ICE in int_mode_for_mode, at stor-layout.c:490. Linaro GCC 4.5 2012.02 is the eighteenth release in the 4.5 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.5.3+svn183785, it is a maintenance only release. Interesting changes include: * Updates to 4.5.3+svn183785. The source tarballs are available from: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2012.02 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.5-2012.02 Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro More information on the features and issues are available from the release page: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.6/4.6-2012.02 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.5/4.5-2012.02 Mailing list: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/ Questions? https://ask.linaro.org/ Interested in commercial support? inquire at support at linaro.org -- Ramana

14 years, 9 months

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Qemu atags passing in register.

by dpc＠ucore.info

Hi, I'm doing some tricks with Linux kernel and I'm dependent on bootloader atags passing. On PandaBoard the u-boot is always passing DTF/Atags pointer in r2 register, and I'm kind of depending on it. I need to emulate this behavior by -initrd qemu's argument. However it seems that qemu-system-arm zeros the registers on the start, and places atags in some hardcoded memory address no matter what. Is this behaviour really OK? Isn't r2 register a proper way to pass atags on ARM platform? If so, would you merge into mainline a patch that implement this? I could write it, but I don't want end-users of my work to have to patch and compile Qemu manually. Please CC me, I'm not following actively these mailinglists. Regards, -- Dawid Ciężarkiewicz

14 years, 9 months

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Fwd: [RFC] Upcoming work view for individual engineers

by Mounir Bsaibes

Please take the time to comment on this mockup, would it be useful for you? what other info you like to see to make your job easier, know what you have on your plate, your WIs progress, what is next in priority .... BR, Mounir ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Guilherme Salgado <guilherme.salgado(a)linaro.org> Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:54 AM Subject: [RFC] Upcoming work view for individual engineers To: linaro-dev(a)lists.linaro.org Hi folks, We're trying to make status.l.o more useful to engineers and the first thing we're planning to do is a new page listing the upcoming work assigned to a given person. I'm attaching a mockup of that view here and we'd like to know what you think of it... Do you think that would be useful to you? Is there any other information you'd like to see there, or maybe a different way to present/group them? Cheers, -- Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado> _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev(a)lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev -- Mounir Bsaibes Project Manager Follow Linaro.org: facebook.com/pages/Linaro/155974581091106 http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog <http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog>

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[ACTIVITY] 30th January - 3rd February

by Andrew Stubbs

Adjusted my 64-bit shifts patch to address Richard Earnshaw's concerns, tested it, and posted the new one upstream. Continued trying to figure out how ira-costs.c works, and in particular, why it doesn't choose to do 64-bit stuff in NEON when I think it should. Basically, the problem seems to be that when hard regs are *already* assigned, prior to IRA (say because they are function parameters or return values), then the allocator does not even consider the possibility of moving that value to another register unless it absolutely has to. It will merrily choose the worst possible option just because it's the easiest decision. Merged FSF GCC 4.5 into Linaro GCC 4.5. Likewise for 4.6. Pushed the branches to Launchpad for testing. The 4.5 testing did not come back totally clear, so this may delay the release a little. Hmmm. Updated my FSF GCC 4.7 checkout and rebuilt it. This time the build succeeded, so I've used it as the basis for a shiny new launchpad branch "lp:gcc-linaro/4.7". I've created the release series to go with it. Applied my new 64-bit shifts patch to the new GCC 4.7 Linaro branch and submitted a merge request. This is mostly for the purposes of getting the test results at this point.

14 years, 9 months

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native gdb for Android

by Barry Song

Hi guys, I compile a native gdb using linaro 2011.10 by “./configure --host=arm-none-linux-gnueabi --target=arm-none-linux-gnueabi”, and the gdb runs on arm target boards directly. # gdb GNU gdb (Linaro GDB) 7.3-2011.10 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "arm-none-linux-gnueabi". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/>. (gdb) I can use it to debug native programs on target boards directly. For example, attach process, set breakpoints, check registers and memory. One issue is I can't see multi-threads, for example: PID 646 is system_server by ps "646 1000 159m S system_server" Then I use gdb to attach it: # gdb attach 646 (gdb) info threads Id Target Id Frame * 1 process 646 "system_server" __ioctl () at bionic/libc/arch-arm/syscalls/__ioctl.S:15 as you see, “info threads” only shows one thread but there are several threads in system_server. But if I compile a new program based on glibc and gnu libthread, I can see multi-threads by the gdb. So my questions are: 1. Should I compile the native gdb using android toolchain and android bionic/libthread libraries? 2. Why can’t the current gdb capture multithreads for android processes? This question is actually about the theory for gdb to know multi-threads. In my opinion, both gnu and android use clone() to fork threads and threads in one process have same tgid in kernel and all threads return same getpid() value. Why not gdb just travel process lists to find multi-threads? Thanks Barry

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[ACTIVITY] Jan 30 - Feb 3

by Thiago Jung Bauermann

Hi, * Learned the basics of bzr and examined the gdb-linaro repository. * Went through Michael Hope's steps to import upstream's 7.4 branch into bzr. * Explored gdb-linaro bugs and blueprints in Launchpad to familiarize myself with what has been done and is planned or proposed to be done. * Went through the gdb-linaro/7.3 branch to verify what needs to be forward-ported to gdb-linaro/7.4. Forward-ported 10 patches. * Checked which Linaro Connect sessions would be of interest for me to attend remotely, but found out that only one will be available for remote participation. * Worked very little on Wednesday since my laptop refused to turn on again after I hibernated it. I found out on the next day that plugging in an external monitor makes it happy again (I didn't have a monitor on Wed to try this out so I was stuck). Apparently the LCD screen died. -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann Linaro Toolchain Working Group

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, libunwind * reviewed small patch from T. R. of Nokia who provided a bugfix when searching for unwind table entry for an IP OpenEmbedded * build the OE-core images (minimal, sato and qt4e) with -O1 and -O0 * collected the ELF size and memory footprint and updated the charts * encountered an issue when compiling Qt 4.8.0 using -O0. It causes qdbusviewer fail to link because an .LTHUNK symbol survives * tested various compilers and optimization levels and noticed that the .LTHUNK symbols do also survive with higher optimization levels * only the Linaro and ARM CSL toolchains seem to be affected (FSF trunk, 46branch and 46release seem to work) * provided a reduced testcase and opened lp #924726 * Linaro cc1 emits undefined label when using -fPIC -Os (lp #924889) * already fixed upstream, Ramana is backporting to Linaro GCC * look into the external-toolchain branch from C. Larson: https://github.com/kergoth/oe-core/tree/external-toolchain and tested it against CSL 2011.03 -> works fine * started to document: https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/OpenEmbedded-Core Regards, Ken

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[ACTIVITY] Jan 30 - Feb 3

by Ulrich Weigand

== GCC == * Benchmarking the 4.6 backport of subreg forward-propagation confirmed that this is a net loss. On 4.7, microbenchmarks suggest a different outcome (due to register allocator enhancements), so I've created a 4.7 Bazaar branch including the patch and submitted it for benchmarking. * Implemented a patch to allow memory operands with vec_set and vec_extract to avoid excessive vmov generation in the PR 51819 test case. Patch shows no regression on microbenchmarks; full testing and benchmarking still outstanding. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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[ACTIVITY] report week 05

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||cp15-rework || 2012-01-06 || 2012-02-20 || || ||qemu-kvm-getting-started || 2012-03-04?|| 2012-03-04?||2012-02-01 || (for blueprint definitions: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuKVM) Historical Milestones: ||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || 2011-10-27 || ||upstream-omap3-cleanup || 2011-11-10 || 2011-12-15 || 2011-12-12 || ||initial-a15-system-model || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-17 || == cp15-rework == * Since this isn't in the critical path any more we'll work on it next quarter, and adjust its priority/due dates post Connect. == qemu-kvm-getting-started == * finished writing up HowTo documents for reproducing the KVM prototype and running it on a Fast Model: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/KVM/HowTo * did the last bits of testing enough to be able to say we've done the initial prototype work for TCWG2011-A15-KVM, which means we can close out the qemu-kvm-getting-started blueprint. == other == * more upstream patch review, etc * LP:926012: patches to support prctl(PR_SET_NAME, ...) in linux-user mode, for the benefit of perl 5.14.

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[ACTIVITY] w05

by Asa Sandahl

Hi! * -o2/-o3 benchmarking: Did some final work on the charts for the -O3 write up. * gcc-4.7 benchmarking: Worked on the charts for gcc-4.7 benchmarking. The Fortran tests in Spec2000 were missing from my runs. The reason was that I had mixed with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the cbuild make file on a previous occasion. :-( Created an internal wiki page for the results, modeled after Michael's page about -O3: https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain/Benchmarks/gcc-4.7_benchmarking * v8: No progress for JavaScript benchmarks this weak. https://wiki.linaro.org/AsaSandahl/Sandbox/JavaScriptBenchmarks * Bug triaging: Had a look at this bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/923397 Regards Åsa

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[Activity] Week 05

by Zhenqiang Chen

Summary: * Analyze PATH issues for win32 binary toolchain. Details: 1. Analyze PATH issues for win32 binary toolchain. * gcc can not find the install dir if user set PATH="INSTALL_DIR\bin" in dos cmdline, which leads to compile fail since gcc can not find ../lib, ../libexec, etc. * Root cause: in dos, " is taken as part of dirs during set PATH, which is different from cygwin or linux. And dir with " is invalid in dos. * Work out a patch to filter " in function make_relative_prefix_1 and discuss it with Michael. * Create an windows install package, so users do not need to set PATH. Will discuss more detail with Michael for the following releases. 2. Read document to ramp-up on gcc. Plans: * Feb 6-10: Linaro Connect Q1.12 Best regards! -Zhenqiang

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Benchmark investigation at Connect

by Michael Hope

I've set up a new user on my laptop that we can use for experimenting with benchmarks during Connect. Here's what we've got: * A user called 'connect' * Ramana, Ulrich, Åsa, and myself can log in via SSH * bzr repo for trunk, 4.6, and gcc-linaro 4.6 * Tarballs of all gcc-linaro 4.4, 4.5, and 4.6 releases * Tarballs of the recent CSL, Google 4.6, and Android 4.4 compilers * A sysroot in ~/sysroot * Cross-binutils etch in ~/cross * A shared ccache in ~/ccache primed with these * A ~/env.sh that sets up the right paths etc * A ~/builds/doconfigure.sh that configures for our standard ARMv7-A C/C++/Fortran configuration * EEMBC, DENBench, and SPEC 2000 under ~/benchmarks The trees under build/ build into build/$ver/build and install into build/$ver/install. The benchmarks are set up to cross build and cross run. I've pulled ursa2 out of the farm and nuked it, so we can do something like: make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- RUN="$PWD/sshrun ursa2" to run the benchmarks. I'll see about perf. We still need to re-baseline the benchmarks and get perf traces. Anything else needed? You can log in and try things if you want. Go through the bounce host and try connecting as connect@crucis. -- Michael

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Improved use of vst1 via vec_extract (PR 51819 test case)

by Ulrich Weigand

Hi Ramana, as you pointed out, in the gcc.dg/vect/vect-double-reduc-6.c test case, using compiler options as described in PR 51819, we see the following inefficient code generation: vmov.32 r2, d28[0] @ 57 vec_extractv4si [length = 4] vmov.32 r1, d22[0] @ 84 vec_extractv4si [length = 4] str r2, [r0, #4] @ 58 *thumb2_movsi_vfp/7 [length = 4] vmov.32 r3, d0[0] @ 111 vec_extractv4si [length = 4] str r1, [r0, #8] @ 85 *thumb2_movsi_vfp/7 [length = 4] vst1.32 {d2[0]}, [r0:64] @ 31 neon_vst1_lanev4si [length = 4] str r3, [r0, #12] @ 112 *thumb2_movsi_vfp/7 [length = 4] bx lr @ 120 *thumb2_return [length = 12] (The :64 alignment in vst1.32 is incorrect; that is that actual problem in PR 51819, which is now fixed.) The reason for this particular code sequence turns out to be as follows: The middle end tries to store the LSB vector lane to memory, and uses the vec_extract named pattern to do so. This pattern currently only supports an "s_register_operand" destination, and is implemented via vmov to a core register. The contents of that register are then stored to memory. Now why does any vst1 instruction show up? This is because combine is able to merge the vec_extract back into the store pattern and ends up with a pattern that matches neon_vst1_lanev4si. Note that the latter pattern is actually intended to implement NEON built-ins (vst1_lane_... etc). Now there seem to be two problems with this scenario: First of all, the neon_vst1_lane<mode> patterns seem to be actually incorrect on big-endian systems due to lane-numbering problems. As I understand it, all NEON intrinsics are supposed to take lane numbers according to the NEON ordering scheme, while the vec_select RTX pattern is defined to take lane numbers according to the in-memory order. Those disagree in the big-endian case. All other patterns implementing NEON intrinsics therefore avoid using vec_select, and instead resort to using special UNSPEC codes -- the sole exception to this happens to be neon_vst1_lane<mode>. It would appear that this is actually incorrect, and the pattern ought to use a UNSPEC_VST1_LANE unspec instead (that UNSPEC code is already defined, but nowhere used). Now if we make that change, then the above code sequence will contain no vst1 any more. But in any case, expanding first into a vec_extract followed by a store pattern, only to rely on combine to merge them back together, is a suboptimal approach. One obvious drawback is that the auto-inc-dec pass runs before reload, and therefore only sees plain stores -- with no reason whatsoever to attempt to introduce post-inc operations. Also, just in general it normally works out best to allow the final choice between register and memory operands to be make in reload ... Therefore, I think the vec_extract patterns ought to support *both* register and memory destination operands, and implement those via vmov or vst1 in final code generation, as appropriate. This means that we can make the choice in reload, guided as usual by alternative ordering and/or penalties -- for example, we can choose to reload the address and still use vst1 over reloading the contents to a core register and then using an offsetted store. Finally, this sequence will also allow the auto-inc-dec pass to do a better job. The current in-tree pass doesn't manage unfortunately, but with Richard's proposed replacement, assisted by a tweak to the cost function to make sure the (future) address reload is "priced in" correctly, I'm now seeing what appears to be the optimal code sequence: vst1.32 {d6[0]}, [r0:64]! @ 30 vec_extractv4si/1 [length = 4] vst1.32 {d22[0]}, [r0]! @ 56 vec_extractv4si/1 [length = 4] vst1.32 {d2[0]}, [r0:64]! @ 82 vec_extractv4si/1 [length = 4] vst1.32 {d4[0]}, [r0] @ 108 vec_extractv4si/1 [length = 4] bx lr @ 116 *thumb2_return [length = 12] (Again the :64 is wrong; it's already fixed on mainline but I haven't pulled that change in yet.) The attached patch implements the above-mentioned changes. Any comments? I'll try to get some performance numbers as well before moving forward with the patch ... (As an aside, it might likewise be helpful to update the vec_set patterns to allow for memory operands, implemented via vld1.) (See attached file: diff-gcc-arm-vecextractmem) B.t.w. I'm wondering how I can properly test: - that the NEON intrinsics still work - that everything works on big-endian Any suggestions would be appreciated! Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Martina Koederitz | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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Building at -O3 write up

by Michael Hope

One of our cards this quarter was -O3 as a performance theme which included doing a write up on the advantages and usability of -O3. This write up is at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain/BuildingAtO3 A sanitised version with non-sharable benchmark data is at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain/BuildingAtO3 Could someone review it for me please? Both facts and style. Peter, care to nit it? -- Michael

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Android SMP Session - request for participation

by Mounir Bsaibes

The Linaro Android team has scheduled an SMP session and is requesting some participation from the Toolchain WG. The session's blueprint to subscribe to: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-platforms-q112… Zach, If this is not the correct session, please let the team know. Thanks, Mounir -- Mounir Bsaibes Project Manager Follow Linaro.org: facebook.com/pages/Linaro/155974581091106 http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog <http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog>

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GCC 4.7 import

by Michael Hope

Hi Andrew. gcc-4.7~svn183693 just finished running through the auto builders and builds and tests in the ARM, Cortex-A9, i686, and x86_64 configurations. You could base the Linaro 4.7 branch off that. It's r114897 in bzr and, suitably, Sandra is the author. -- Michael

14 years, 9 months

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bzr, quick pulls, and new branches

by Michael Hope

For your records: Loïc wrote a script that pushes the revisions from a GCC branch into the current development focus. This makes branching on a shared repository much faster. The script is here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~linaro-toolchain-dev/cbuild/tools/view/head:/e… and it runs daily on a cronjob as the cbuild user on the 'apus' EC2 instance (phew). We'll need to update this when 4.7 comes along. -- Michael

14 years, 9 months

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KVM/Fast Models howto wiki pages updated

by Peter Maydell

I've gone through the documentation on the wiki about how to get going with KVM on Fast Models, to clean it up and reorganise it and add some of the missing bits (notably how to set up a KVM guest kernel and filesystem). It's now at: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/KVM/HowTo The only minor point I'd still like to address is that at the moment we document the old-style "build your kernel and arguments into an .axf file" boot-wrapper, because my changes to support specifying them at model runtime haven't yet gone into the boot-wrapper git repo. When they do land I'll update the wiki. (Yes, technically TCWG2011-A15-KVM says "one page summary" but I thought splitting it into four pages was much clearer :-)) -- PMM

14 years, 9 months

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Adding lower optimisations into the mix

by Michael Hope

Ken, Åsa: could you add a -O0 and -O1 build to the size and benchmark results? I'm looking at the writeup and it would be interesting to contrast the speed/size of -O0 with -O2. Ta, -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] January 23rd-27th

by Andrew Stubbs

Continued work on 64-bit shifts in core registers. This has now been posted to gcc-patches, and is awaiting review. 64-bit shifts in NEON are also working correctly, but the register allocator chooses not to use them most of the time. I've begun trying to work out why, but it's quite involved in ira-costs.c and will take some unpicking, I think. Attempted to create a Linaro GCC 4.7 branch, but my test build failed, so that'll have to wait until it's stabilized a little.

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sysroots for the next binary toolchain release

by Michael Hope

Hi Marcin, Ricardo. How is the work on pre-built sysroots coming along? I'd like to use/reference them in the next binary toolchain release. I'm looking for: * Scripts that produce the sysroots * A README that covers what they contain and how to reproduce them * Test plan * An official tagged branch holding the above * A tarball release of the above * A tarball release of the different sysroots * Done in a way so they easily integrate with the binary builds[1] and are useful to others as a sysroot * Relocatable * Usable on win32 and Linux all hosted somewhere. Zhenqiang and I can test and give you feedback. For reference, here's the README for the binary builds: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/90998258/README.txt Here's the simple script I used to make a libc only sysroot: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~linaro-toolchain-dev/crosstool-ng/linaro/view/… I used chdist as I don't know multistrap. I guessed and added build-dep support to download the build dependencies. It also fixes up the absolute symlinks to relative. -- Michael [1] https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries

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[Activity] Week 4 - W/e 27th January

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

==Progress=== * Fixed PR48308 on FSF trunk. Needs backporting to FSF GCC 4.6 branch * Fixed a number of failing testcases on trunk. * Read up on Partial-partial PRE . Slow progress but getting a handle on the theory now. A couple of approaches being benchmarked . Still slow progress. * Debugged Andrew's issues with 64 bit shifts. Nice that skype screen sharing works well on Ubuntu. * Started notes for Connect 2012.q1. * Looked into the strd / strexd failure on the testcase in trunk. Looked at a small patch to implement sync_lock_releasedi for ARM but needs some more time and effort. Filed issue https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/922474 === Plans === * Finish 1x AFDS * Continue with partial-partial PRE . * Finish backport of fix for PR50313 to appropriate branches * Start preparing for Connect 2012.q1 * Do something about the PGO and ABI patches next week. Absences. * Feb 6-10 : Linaro Connect Q1.12. * Feb 13- 18 : Holiday.

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * libunwind * reviewed small patch from T. R. of Nokia who provided a bugfix in case unwind instructions are popping VFP registers * exchanged mails with P. W. from Bosch who encountered a crash in case DWARF info is involved * OpenEmbedded * changed Qt build to respect the optimization flags * wrote a script around QEMU to measure the memory footprint using named pipes to communicate with the serial console of the guest * rebuilt the minimal, sato and qt4e images using the gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabi-2012.01-20120125_linux (optimization levels: -O2, -O3 -fno-tree-vectorize and -O3) * collected/updated the ELF size and memory footprint results: * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmsCLxCMnnISdDNQSEM2ZHIxd3dVNj… * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmsCLxCMnnISdHFtZll0OWdiTlhpdj… * uploaded the image packs to: http://people.linaro.org/~kwerner/oe-core/ * prepared the environment to build the images using -O1 Regards, Ken

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[ACTIVITY] Jan 23 - Jan 27

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Committed follow-on patch to fix cosmetic issues resulting from the remote "info proc" patch set. == GCC == * Created 4.6 backport branch including Richard's subreg forward- propagation branch, the modes-tieable patch, and the combine.c regression fix, and evaluated for correctness and performance. Investigation of performance regressions uncovered a problem in the register allocator: tied subregs (validly) cause somewhat larger register pressure in certain cases, and this caused the 4.6 IRA to generate spills. Note that the 4.7 IRA is still able to allocate every pseudo in the very same code; this is a result of Vladmir's significant IRA rewrite in 4.7 ... * Investigated Ramana's vld1 patches, and a problem with excessive vmov's in the PR 51819 test case pointed out by Ramana. It turns out that when we extract a lane from a vector to memory using an offsetted address, we move the value through a core register instead of simply computing the address and using vst1. I'm working on a patch to address this. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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[ACTIVITY] report week 04

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||cp15-rework || 2012-01-06 || 2012-02-20 || || ||qemu-kvm-getting-started || 2012-03-04?|| 2012-03-04?|| || (for blueprint definitions: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuKVM) Historical Milestones: ||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || 2011-10-27 || ||upstream-omap3-cleanup || 2011-11-10 || 2011-12-15 || 2011-12-12 || ||initial-a15-system-model || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-17 || == cp15-rework == * discussions with Rusty == qemu-kvm-getting-started == * wrote patches for the A15 Fast Models boot-wrapper that allow you to pass the kernel/initrd/kernel command line via a parameter to the model rather than having to hard code them into an ELF file along with the boot-wrapper. This should make life a lot easier for the validation folk. * various discussions with validation/etc about what you can and can't do with a model and what the best setup is going to be * sorted out a Debian fs to use for KVM guest : this is needed because the kernel module doesn't do Thumb or VFP yet. * started on rearranging and improving the writeup/HOWTO on the wiki == other == * target-arm/arm-devs queues pushed upstream [Calxeda Highbank model is now in upstream QEMU] * helping Will Deacon track down what looks like a race condition in Linux's handling of VFP on SMP where signal handlers are involved * a QEMU Object Model patch series has landed upstream -- this will be a nasty rebase for qemu-linaro next week I think

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[ACTIVITY] w04

by Asa Sandahl

Hi! * -o2/-o3 benchmarking: Worked on and shared charts for the -o2/-o3 benchmark runs with gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.01. I have created charts for both the score of the benchmarks and the sizes (text segment) of the executables. Making improvements continuously as I get feedback from the team. The charts are stored in GoogleDocs: https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/leaf?id=0B1IP4dZWVaxZOGZlM2UwMGQtOGQyZ… * gcc4.7 benchmarking: Did benchmark runs on a late revision of gcc4.7. Next week I will process the data and list regressions/improvements against gcc4.6.2 and gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.01. * v8: Investigated possibility of running SunSpider stand-alone on the v8 engine. Found out that there is a stand-alone driver included in WebKit. Have built v8 on x86 and ARM (on ARM it takes ~18 min) and run SunSpider and the v8 benchmark suite. Next step I will try to build with another toolchain. It is not Make but SCons that controls the build, so I am not sure how to do that. https://wiki.linaro.org/AsaSandahl/Sandbox/JavaScriptBenchmarks * Bug triaging: I have triaged all "easy" ones in the list of new tickets. Michael will help me look through the rest of new and incomplete bugs which are mostly old ones (waiting for someone to take some action) or very tricky ones. Regards Åsa

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Re: GDB 7.4 released

by Michael Hope

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand(a)de.ibm.com> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > GDB 7.4 has finally been released. What do we need to do to get the > 7.4-branch imported into Launchpad? I think last time (for 7.3) you did > that somehow ... Done as: lp:~linaro-toolchain-dev/gdb/7.4 and documented at: https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/GDBImport -- Michael

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QEMU A15 guest writeup

by Michael Hope

Peter, could you review: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/QEMUARMGuestQ411 please? I'm interesting in anything I've missed or exaggerated. The audience is the TSC or people outside Linaro who are interested in a summary of the changes. -- Michael

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Fwd: [cbuild] qemu-linaro-0~20120118+gitcc8661e armv7l completed

by Michael Hope

Hi Zygmunt. I've enabled the ARM native build on the QEMU auto builders. These are built in the validation lab on the Natty based tcpanda boards and end up on control under ~cbuild/cbuild/build/qemu-$version/qemu-$something.tar.xz. I've uploaded this build to http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/incoming/qemu-armv7l-natty-cbuild236-tcp…. There's something wrong with embedding of the version number into the name. A quick 'does it run' test passes. Peter, could you check the configure log at: http://builds.linaro.org/toolchain/qemu-linaro-0~20120118+gitcc8661e/logs/a… and see if there's anything missing. The auto builders fire with each commit so there's always something up to date. You can list the builds at: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/buildlog/qemu and see the raw results at: http://builds.linaro.org/toolchain/qemu-linaro-0~20120118+gitcc8661e/logs/a… (after a lag) -- Michael ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Linaro Toolchain Builder <michael.hope+cbuild(a)linaro.org> Date: Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:14 AM Subject: [cbuild] qemu-linaro-0~20120118+gitcc8661e armv7l completed To: "linaro-toolchain-builds(a)lists.launchpad.net" <linaro-toolchain-builds(a)lists.launchpad.net> tcpanda05 finished running job qemu-linaro-0~20120118+gitcc8661e on armv7l-natty-cbuild236-tcpanda05-cortexa9r1. The results are here: http://builds.linaro.org/toolchain/qemu-linaro-0~20120118+gitcc8661e 9 PASS 9 TEST This email is sent from a cbuild (https://launchpad.net/cbuild) based bot which is administered by Michael Hope <michael.hope(a)linaro.org>.

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2012.01 released

by Michael Hope

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of the Linaro Toolchain Binaries, a pre-built version of Linaro GCC and Linaro GDB that runs on generic Linux or Windows and targets the glibc Linaro Evaluation Build. This is the first release. Releases will be made each month shortly after the corresponding source release. Uses include: * Cross compiling ARM applications from your laptop * Remote debugging * Build the Linux kernel for your board What's included: * Linaro GCC 2012.01 * Linaro GDB 2011.12 * A statically linked gdbserver * A system root * Manuals under share/doc/ The system root contains the basic header files and libraries to link your programs against. The Linux version is supported on Ubuntu 10.04.3 and 11.10, Debian 6.0.2, Fedora 16, openSUSE 12.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5.7 and later, and should run on any Linux Standard Base 3.0 compatible distribution. Please see the README about running on x86_64 hosts. The Windows version is supported on Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Vista Business SP2, and Windows 7 Pro SP1. The binaries and build scripts are available from: https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries/trunk/2012.01 Need help? Ask a question on https://ask.linaro.org/ Already on Launchpad? Submit a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries On IRC? See us on #linaro on Freenode. Other ways that you can contact us or get involved are listed at https://wiki.linaro.org/GettingInvolved. -- Michael

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Re: -fsched-pressure options

by Michael Hope

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand(a)de.ibm.com> wrote: > > Michael, Åsa, > > as discussed in today's performance call, the 4.6 backport of Richard's > sched-pressure enhancements is available here: > https://code.launchpad.net/~rsandifo/gcc-linaro/alt-sched-pressure-4.6 > > To activate the feature, you need to use the options: > > -fsched-pressure -fsched-pressure-algorithm=model Åsa, I think we're ready to spawn benchmark jobs through the build farm. I've made a front end: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/scheduler/spawn to make it a little easier to use. To spawn a benchmark run, enter a job called benchmarks-<buildname> such as benchmarks-gcc-linaro-4.6+bzr106857~rsandifo~alt-sched-pressure-4.6 and spawn it into the 'test' queue. See the page for how to change the flags and benchmarks that are run. The results end up at: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/benchmarks/ which needs the password from: https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain I've spawned Ulrich's job into the queue as a test run. Let's see how it goes. If it works, you can spawn the ancestor (benchmarks-gcc-linaro-4.6+bzr106856) and later do a diffbench on the results. -- Michael

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Bug triaging: 739305 "[armhf] libffi variadic support"

by Asa Sandahl

Hi, I am looking at ticket 739305 "[armhf] libffi variadic support" which still has status "New" for Linaro gcc. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libffi/+bug/739305 If I understand correctly, David's patch is included in libffi in Oneiric, but not yet backported to Linaro gcc? What is the correct thing to do with this ticket for Linaro GCC? I was thinking it could be set to "Triaged", waiting for an appropriate time to backport. Regards Åsa

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Linaro GCC mentioned in Phoronix article

by Christian Robottom Reis

Spotted this in a Phoronix article today: Overall it seems that most of the computational tests are performing better with the newer Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 user-space packages, which upgrades the GNU Compiler Collection to the 4.6 series over the 4.5 release found in Ubuntu 11.04. The 4.6 compiler upgrade with greater ARMv7 architecture enhancements is likely what can be attributed to most of the performance improvements found in this article. [...] See the results for yourself at: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_tegra2_ubuntu&num… Good job, -- Christian Robottom Reis, Engineering VP Brazil (GMT-3) | [+55] 16 9112 6430 | [+1] 612 216 4935 Linaro.org: Open Source Software for ARM SoCs

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agenda for tomorrow's call.

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2012-01-24 do folks have anything to add to this ? Ramana

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[ACTIVITY] 16th - 20th January

by Andrew Stubbs

* Linaro Continued work on 64-bit multiplies. Cleaned up the patches a lot. Started testing work to check for correctness. Ironed out a few bugs. My turn for patch review week. * Other Spent most of the week in San Diego attending the formerly-known-as CodeSourcery annual meeting, now Mentor Graphics' ESD TOOLS team annual meeting.

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[Activity] Week 3

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

Mostly bug hunting week with some time on Partial partial PRE. ==Progress=== * Fixed PR50313 - backport submitted to Linaro 4.6 branch for testing - Testing on FSF GCC 4.6 branch as well currently. * Followed up on PR48308 fix . No reply yet. * Triaged some of the test failures that we are currently seeing on FSF trunk. Reported a few bugs upstream which I think are now fixed. There are still too many vect failures for my liking ( nearly 30 odd unique) . Some of them are testisms and some of them probably need a bit of knowledge in the vectoriser. So could do with a hand here in case someone has some free time and needs things to look at . * Read up on Partial-partial PRE . Slow progress but getting a handle on the theory now. * Handed over the vld1 / vldm work to Uli - found another case where the compiler could do better while fixing up PR51819. Essentially in loop end code where we have cleanup code involving single elements from the vector, the backend prefers to move this to an integer register and store the value to memory which is just silly - See https://pastebin.linaro.org/385 * Fixed PR51819. Backported fix to Linaro 4.6 branch - The FSF 4.6 branch *doesn't* show this particular problem. === Plans === * Continue with partial-partial PRE . * Finish submitting PGO patch and ABI tests patch * Finish backporting PR50313 fix to the correct repositories. * Follow up on PR48308 and investigate this a bit further. * Start preparing for Connect 2012.q1 Absences. * Feb 6-10 : Linaro Connect Q1.12. * Feb 13- 18 : Holiday.

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KVM tasks draft

by Michael Hope

I've taken the KVM Epic spec: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Specs/KVMEpic and split this into a list of tasks: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap7fWLePADFVdHA3cTg1R3R2U2pzZ0… Mouse over the little orange triangle to see notes on what an item means.. There's a '1' in the column of each group that a task affects. I haven't put durations down. Some things are already under way outside Linaro. Comments? Feel free to edit directly. -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] Jan 16 - Jan 20

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Fixed some final minor issues with remote "info proc". Committed patch set to implement remote "info proc" (LP #804411) and remote core file generation (LP #804406) to mainline. Backported to Linaro GDB 7.3. == GCC == * Created patch to fix optimization failures on x86_64 exposed by Richard's subreg forward-propagation patch. * Set up Richard's loop-microbenchmarks suite and verified that the subreg forward-propagation patch causes no regression anywhere, and shows measurable improvements on some cases in GCC mainline. With the Linaro GCC 4.6 backport, results don't look as good; still investigating the cause. * Started looking into Ramana's vld1 patches. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * hacked the external toolchain recipe to use the latest version of the binary toolchain this kind of reverts the multiarch changes since oe doesn't support it yet * built the minimal, sato and qt images for armv7-a in three different flavors (-O2, -O3 -fno-tree-vectorize, -O3) using gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabi-2012.01-20120112+bzr2318~linux see: http://people.linaro.org/~kwerner/oe-core/ * encountered that binutils 2.22 (the gas) fails to build with -O3 due to a warning about an unitialized variable I'm not convinced this is a real bug, I'll look at it as time permits workaround: --disable-werror * all nine of them (the images) are booting within qemu using vexpress_defconfig! There is one glitche with the mouse pointer: it doesn't match to the one of the SDL/VNC window as the guest pointer sometime accelerates faster that the host pointer I can hardly imagine this is due to miscompiled code * Extracted size informations about the generated ELF files: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmsCLxCMnnISdDNQSEM2ZHIxd3dVNj… Regards, Ken

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[ACTIVITY] report week 03

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: A15 vexpress system model sufficient for KVM guest now done Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||cp15-rework || 2012-01-06 || 2012-02-20 || || ||initial-a15-system-model || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-17 || ||qemu-kvm-getting-started || 2012-03-04?|| 2012-03-04?|| || (for blueprint definitions: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuKVM) Historical Milestones: ||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || 2011-10-27 || ||upstream-omap3-cleanup || 2011-11-10 || 2011-12-15 || 2011-12-12 || == cp15-rework == * some (slow) progress on this * made a list of the missing pieces in my current patchset and knocked off a few of the easier ones * fortunately this blueprint isn't really a critical blocker for KVM work any more == initial-a15-system-model == * vexpress-a15 now submitted upstream (in review) and in qemu-linaro * ...so this blueprint is complete * NB: doesn't boot in KVM but this is a trivial kernel-side issue == other == * this category seems to take most of my time :-( * patch review: still Calxeda, Samsung * patch review: softfloat type fixes * identified some bugs in softfloat and arm code that surface if a softfloat type is 64 bits (at the moment it is 32 bits in practice but it is being proposed to widen it) * wrote up the issues to be solved so somebody else can do qemu-linaro releases * got qemu-jeos building for ARM [an attempt at making qemu testing easier by having an automated "build toolchain/kernel/initrd" setup] * retested QEMU fused-multiply-accumulate against an A15 FPGA

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Narrowing down regressions on trunk

by Michael Hope

Hi Åsa. The GCC 4.7 release is coming up and the ARM testsuite shows a lot of regressions: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/testlog/gcc-4.7~svn183205/logs/armv7l-nat… We've been running three builds a week: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/buildlog/gcc-4.7~svn and can use the result to track down the range of commits where a fault was introduced or exposed. Could you please look through the results and narrow down where each failure appeared? I've uploaded all of the results to: http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/incoming/trunks.tar.xz One way is to look at the testsuite-diff.txt in each build as it should show the change in test results between one build and the next but might be incomplete. Another way is to pull the failures out of gcc-testsuite.txt and do a diff against the previous version. The output should be a revision range for each of the current failures. Script it up. Don't do it by hand. I'm not that mean. Ta, -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] w03

by Asa Sandahl

* Started with bug triaging, looked at four different bugs (including Michael's example). Challenging, but interesting. Got great help from Ramana and Andrew. * -o2/-o3 benchmark runs with gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.01 done. coremark, eembc, denbench, pybench and spec2000. Uploaded all results ~linaro-toolchain-wg/linaro-toolchain-benchmarks/private-runs. Posted results for -o2-neon vs -o3-neon-novect. Working on charts including also -o3-neon and -os. Got a bit too occupied with making the matplotlib charts look pretty. I will try to get all results posted next week. * Started the add-sunspider-as-a-benchmark blueprint in the background. Built the v8-engine stand alone on x86 (just with default options). It has a sample shell included. You can feed it with .js-files. Tried the v8 benchmark, which also comes with the engine. Regards Åsa

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Absence next week (Jan 21-29, 2012)

by Zhenqiang Chen

Hi all, I will be out for vacation during Chinese Spring Festival (Jan 21-29, 2012). For emergency, call me at +86-13817948562. Best regards! -Zhenqiang

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[ACTIVITY] Week 03

by Zhenqiang Chen

Summary: * Enhance crosstool-ng build process. Details: 1. Linaro crosstool-ng patches: * Update and commit the patch to strip debug sections. * rm *-cc.exe symblink for win32. * enable gdb for win32 (lp:918479) * Update README to add flip dependence for build. 2. Verify the following bugs and change status to "Fix Committed" * lp:906729 baremetal libc headers and libraries are in inconsistent places * lP:906077 binaries: baremetal include files are in the wrong place * lP:894527 binaries: remove all symlinks from the Windows build * lp:889984 binaries: should step across helper functions * lp:906662 binaries: pgversion can get out of sync with product 3. Analyzed bugs * lp:915137 Link failure due to absolute paths: Need more information to reproduce. * lp:p18478 wind32 doesn't have pkg-config: Try to build pkg-config for mingw32 host. But failed since it required preinstalled glib2. And configure error if cross building the glib. * lp:894528 binaries: can't run if the patch contains whitespace. Can not reproduce it on cygwin, but still have issue in DOS cmdline 4. Verify the prerelease binary package on windows. And find and workaround a gdb document name issue since filename on windows is case insensitive (lp:909195). 5. Raise the gcc trunk build fail issue to crosstool-ng mail-list. But not confirm "-EL" is the final root cause. Need more investigation. Planned Absence: * Jan 21-29, 2012 Chinese Spring Festival Best regards! -Zhenqiang

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cross compiling eglibc with Linaro toolchain

by shyamalan sivan

Hello experts, I don't know whether this is the place to ask this question.Please forgive if i am wrong. I am trying to cross-compile Eglibc,(which i thought is similar to the glibc) library with Linaro tool chain.My aim is to cross-compile the library and add it with the tool-chain( i assumed that Linaro doesn't ahve the eglibc libraries by itself). . I referred to the link http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00078.html (README.cross-compiling of the libc) and did the following. I thought that binutils is not required as the tool chain itself contains the loader, assembler etc.(which are the most important in the binutils).So i skipped that step.(i am not sure whether this is right.please correct me if i am wrong). I did the below steps as in the above link. 1) Copied the Linux Kernel Headers 2) EGLIBC Headers and Preliminary Objects 2.1) configuring the Eglibc headers by the below steps. appan@oplt$ ~/cross_compile_eglibc/ppc/obj/eglibc-headers$ BUILD_CC=gcc CC=/home/appan/cross_compile_eglibc/ppc/tools/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc CXX=/home/appan/cross_compile_eglibc/ppc/tools/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-cpp AR=/home/appan/cross_compile_eglibc/ppc/tools/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-ar RANLIB=/home/appaan/cross_compile_eglibc/ppc/tools/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-ranlib /home/appan/cross_compile_eglibc/src/libc/configure --prefix=/home/appan/CC_EGLIBC --with-headers=/home/appan/cross_compile_eglibc/ppc/sysroot/usr/include/ --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=arm-unknown-linux-gnu --enable-add-ons --with-tls --with-__thread 2.2) compilation make install-headers install_root=$sysroot install-bootstrap-headers=yes But following is the error i get. > /home/appan/cross_compile_eglibc/ppc/obj/eglibc-headers/Versions.v.iT<http://versions.v.it/> In file included from <stdin>:1:0: ports/sysdeps/arm/nptl/tls.h:48:3: error: #*error "TLS support is required.* " make[1]: *** No rule to make target `headers_install'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/appan/cross_compile_eglibc/src/libc' make: *** [headers_install] Error 2 I tried googling, but i did not get the solution for this.. please provide me with some suggestions and that will be of great help to me... thanks and regards appan

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Automatically save preprocessed source on ICE

by Asa Sandahl

Hi there! I need some help with how to handle this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/873977 It looks like an improvement suggestion more than a bug. Regards Åsa *Automatically save preprocessed source on ICE*In order to help with bug reporting, gcc could save the preprocessed source of the unit that caused the ICE, so one can just pick it up and attach it to bug reports instead of trying to reproduce it manually.

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KVM and OpenStack integration

by Michael Hope

Hi Peter. I've had a poke about in qemu-linaro, OpenStack, and libvirt to get a feel for the KVM integration work. My scratch notes are here: https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/QEMUA15GuestNotes I'm feeling happy about the integration. The parts that I've seen have good separation, are architecture neutral, and have some ARM support. We can prototype using virtual x86 based masters and QEMU TCG based compute instances. I've seen a few bugs and assumptions: OpenStack defaults to virtio, boot=hda, and fixed kernel args; and libvirt can't parse the the qemu-linaro version string. There will be more. I'll feed this into the KVM 1.0 task list and share it. -- Michael

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New conference call number

by Michael Hope

Hi there. Starting next week we'll switch to the Zip conference line. See: https://wiki.linaro.org/Resources/ZipConferenceLine under 1-719-457-1414 for a list of numbers. A selected few are: UK 0 808 101 1146 Germany 0 800 181 9019 Sweden 02 079 7556 Brazil, Sao Paulo Local +55 11 5582 6534 Australia 1 800 105 680 China +400 148 5400 NZ 0800 451 015 The code is 763 804 0680. I've updated the meeting calendar and will update the wiki page once Monday comes around. The moderator code is on the toolchain internal page. Amber, could you update the public event please? Ramana, could you update the performance call for two weeks time? Maybe move it to linaro-events so I can edit it. -- Michael

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Cross-compiling Eglibc library with Linaro toolchain

by Amber Graner

Hi all, In my search for Linaro related news this morning, I saw a tweet from Linuxquestions.org referencing a cross-compiling questions. Here is the link to the post on Linuxquestions.org - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-embedded-78/cross-compiling-e… Thanks, I'll answer from the Linaro Tweeter account that it's been past to the Linaro Developers. Cheers, Amber -- Amber Graner User Experience and Community Specialist Linaro.org <http://www.linaro.org/>* **│ *Open source software for ARM SoCs* *** Follow *Linaro: *Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/#%21/linaroorg> | Blog <http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/> *+1.828.582.9469* cell *+1.828.395.1049* office irc: akgraner amber.graner(a)linaro.org (email and Google chat)

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Triage of #914703

by Asa Sandahl

Hi Michael, So, I gave my best shot at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/914703 Kind of similar to the one in your walk-through, but I couldn't actually reproduce on the version reported. Could you please check if this looks OK? Regards Åsa

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Bug triage run-through

by Michael Hope

Hi Åsa. I've triaged a bug and written down my notes on the way. See: https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/TriageRunThrough This one turned out to be easy but at least you have the basics. Could you triage the bug for real and see what I've missed? I'm unsatisfied with the result on that bug. The fault is in the Ubuntu Natty compiler which we've long since fixed in Linaro GCC. It would be nice if we could point the bug reporter to an updated GCC. Ask Marcin and Matthias what they think. -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] Week 02

by Zhenqiang Chen

Summary: * Enhance crosstool-ng build process. Details: 1. crosstool-ng patches: * Reproduce the build process by following the README and enhance the document. * Update .config to strip all toolchain executables * Replace harded-coded VERSION by reading config file. * Remove host libiberty.a * Patch on how to strip debug sections is in discussion. 2. Update the crosstool-ng based embedded toolchain build scripts according to the review comments. And replace most of hard-coded config by reading them from .config. 3. Unexpected build fail for gcc 4.7/trunk from crosstool-ng due to unsupported ENDIAN_LDFLAG "-EL", which is used in "LDFLAGS_FOR_TARGET" to build libstdc++. (LDFLAGS_FOR_TARGET seams not used in gcc 4.6). Need more investigation. Plan: * Fix the binary build related bugs. * Ramp-up on gcc. Planned Absence: * Jan 21-29, 2012 Chinese Spring Festival Best regards! -Zhenqiang

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uImage built with pre-built linaro toolchain failed to start

by Lv Terry-R65388

Hi, I use pre-built version of linaro toolchain (got from http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/incoming/binaries/) to build a uImage. The build succeeded, but the uImage couldn't start. The console hangs at: Using FEC0 device TFTP from server 10.193.100.158; our IP address is 10.193.102.233 Filename 'uImage_linaro'. Load address: 0x70800000 Loading: ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ####################### done Bytes transferred = 3193292 (30b9cc hex) ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 70800000 ... Image Name: Linux-2.6.38-01026-gc9c8ead Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 3193228 Bytes = 3 MB Load Address: 10008000 Entry Point: 10008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Loading Kernel Image ... OK OK Starting kernel ... Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. Does anyone meet this before? How can I fix it? Thanks~~ Yours Terry

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[ACTIVITY] w02

by Asa Sandahl

* Started with some day-to-day activities in the team. Looking after the proposals and the cbuild scheduler. Will start Created problem log for scheduler problems, there is a link to it from the jobs page. https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/SchedulerProblems * Worked on producing graphs for benchmark results using matplotlib. Michael: Would it be ok to put my script in linaro-toolchain-benchmarks/scripts? * Kicked off some benchmarks with gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.01. To start with coremark, eembc, denbench, pybench and spec2000. We will see what's there after the weekend. Variants: os-neon, o2-neon, o3-neon-novect and o3-neon. /Regards Åsa

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[ACTIVITY] Jan 09 - Jan 13

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Implemented, tested, and posted for discussion yet another version of remote support for "info proc" and core file generation, this time via accessing /proc files via generic file I/O primitives. == GCC == * Tested and merged Revital's fix for LP #879725. * Tested Richard's patch to help code generation for NEON strided loads by enabled forward-propagation of subreg expressions. This caused optimization failures on x86_64; investigated the root cause and engaged in discussion on mailing list on potential fixes. * Helped Ramana look into PR 43808 and PR 50313. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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[ACTIVITY] 9th - 13th January

by Andrew Stubbs

Continued work on 64-bit shifts. I've tidied up most of the nastiness I had in my first attempt at this work, unified the logic into fewer places, and fixed the one logic error that I knew about. I had a mysterious reload bug that just wouldn't go away, but having stared at it for some time I've decided that what I was doing wasn't the best option in any case, and the new way seems to work. I still have the problem that register-allocation prefers to allocate the values in core-registers, even when it would seem to me to work better in NEON. This maybe because the shift amount must be negated in some cases, and there isn't a neon instruction for that. Continued trying to use LAVA to do builds. Unfortunately this seems to have hit against a lava-test bug. Filed as lp:915915.

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * built linaro binary toolchain using Michaels crosstool-ng environment: * disabled multiarch and pkg-config * uses eglibc 2.13 (due to RPC headers) * using Linux kernel version 2.6.32.48 (longterm) * debugged why /sbin/init fails when using the linaro binary toolchain: * the loader and libc of the binary toolchain is build for armv7 * the binaries (init, busybox, ...) are linked against this glibc and using the libdl-2.13.so of the binary toolchain * it causes the boot to fails due to illegal insn caused by the dl * built the minimal image for armv7-a: * use the vexpress_defconfig of linaro 3.1 tree linux-linaro-3.1.git (instead of the OE vesatilebp kernel) * boots fine using the vexpress-a9 QEMU system model * sato image (X and gtk+ apps) for armv7-a: * Tremor (vorbis): inline assembly only supports ARM mode quick workaround: undefine _ARM_ASSEM_ to fall back to C * pulseaudio/libatomics-ops: inline asm that only supports ARM mode quick workaround: use the latest version from upstream * gtk+_2.24.8 fails due to the libstdc++ libtool archive easy fix: delete the *la files (just like most of the distributors) the *la files prevent the the binary toolchain from being "relocatable" * sato image boots and shows the gui but the X resolution is higher and the X cursor behaves strange (probably not a miscompile but a difference of the linaro kernel) Regards, Ken

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[ACTIVITY] report week 02

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: good progress on A15 vexpress system model Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||cp15-rework || 2012-01-06 || 2012-02-20 || || ||initial-a15-system-model || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-27 || || ||qemu-kvm-getting-started || 2012-03-04?|| 2012-03-04?|| || (for blueprint definitions: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuKVM) Historical Milestones: ||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || 2011-10-27 || ||upstream-omap3-cleanup || 2011-11-10 || 2011-12-15 || 2011-12-12 || == cp15-rework == * estimate shifted back since it turns out we can do something useful in initial-a15-system-model without this as a prerequisite, so that's a better order to do things in == initial-a15-system-model == * I now have a working vexpress-a15 board model, and enough of the a15 private peripheral region and CPU definition that we can boot a kernel compiled for A15-without-LPAE * patchseries mostly looks ok to upstream but there are some loose ends to fix up involving SMP secondary boot CPU protocol and making sure the right one of the two graphics controllers gets to display things; also it depends on some patches in the Calxeda/Samsung patchseries == other == * patch review: Calxeda now basically ready to commit, another round with Samsung * made qemu-linaro 2012.01 release * usual round of meetings etc

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[ACTIVITY] Week 2

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

==Progress=== * Backported one part of the partial-partial PRE patch . Still looking into it. * Investigate PR48308 - a bug where combine was generating incorrect transformations. * Reopened PR50313 - a bug which I originally thought was a dup of PR48308. * Looked at upstream bugzilla for sometime and triaged a few bugs. * Linaro patch review. === Plans === * Continue looking at partial-partial PRE and try and understand it further. * Look at PR50313 further * Upstream patch review. * Finish submitting PGO patch and ABI tests patch * Look at Andrew's patches for neon shifts - Absences. * Feb 6-10 : Linaro Connect Q1.12. * Feb 13- 18 : Holiday.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 1

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

==Progress=== * Short week - 4 days only after the bank holiday monday. * Investigated PR48308 for a bit. * Caught up with emails after vacation. * Looked at fate an automatic tester for libav to validate my fixed to fp conversions . Need to finish that off. * 1 more bug with output_move_double ICE looked at briefly. Appears to be memory corruption but valgrinding didn't find the issue. Prioritizing PR48308 above this. === Plans === * Look at PR48308 a bit more seriously. * Finish my long standing patches. Absences. * Feb 6-10 : Linaro Connect Q1.12. * Feb 13- 18 : Holiday.

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Microkernel based virtualisation

by Michael Hope

Amber noticed this on her Twitter feed: a L4 microkernel based para-virtualisation that runs on the A9: http://l4dev.org/ They're currently running the 11.12 LEB on a Versatile Express. The project overview: http://l4dev.org/codezero_overview talks about their 'hyperswitch' method to reduce the para-virtualisation overhead and reduce the number of changes to the Linux kernel. -- Michael

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