- linaro-toolchain - lists.linaro.org

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Committed mainline patch to fix re-built executable remote test problems (#804392). * Committed two more mainline patches to fix remote test issues. == GCC == * Patch review. * Determined root cause of bug #809768 (ICE in bionic libm). 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 ending 22 July 2011.

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

== GCC == === Progress === * ivopts patch to minimise the amount of VFP moves to integer registers because of auto-inc - sent out for review. It appears to test fine and reduces the number of FP to integer moves in certain SPEC2k6 benchmarks by about 20% * More cases with vfp moves identified and some more patches coming out soonish. one-case where we have moves from VFP regs to integer regs because we allow POST_MODIFY_DISP. and another case from scimark where we have a case with moves from integer registers to VFP registers because I suspect the order of constraints in movdf_vfp has integer registers before fp registers while the movsf_vfp doesn't . * Panda died a couple of times again because of power glitches in the office - restarted runs for BRANCH_COST. * Sorted out travel plans for UDS orlando. Need to book tickets. * Sometime spent on getting the Eagle boards working. * Bug triage and some patch review. === Plans === * Benchmark the ivopts patch to see what happens. * Some issues with my last patch on movdi_vfp . I think I've missed a set of ce_count and was thinking of why there was an Ada failure with things outside IT blocks There appears to be an ubuntu bug for that. * Disable POST_MODIFY for VFP mode values and see what happens and change the order of the constraints to have loads to VFP registers before loads to core registers for movdf_vfp and thumb2_movdf_vfp. * Look at effects of auto-inc-dec with the VFP mode stuff. * Look at EPILOGUE_USES and clear more of my patch queue. Meetings: * 1-1s * TCWG calls Absences. * 1st Aug - 5th August - Linaro sprint. * 8th - 9th August - Internal training. * 29th Aug - Sept. 2 - Holiday booked and approved. * 31st Oct - 4th Nov - Linaro Summit Orlando - Travel to be booked.

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[ACTIVITY] report week 28

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: OMAP3 patch upstreaming is slower progress than hoped Green: various outstanding patches accepted upstream in time for 0.15 Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||qemu-linaro-2011-07 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 || Historical Milestones: ||qemu-linaro 2011-04 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-05 || 2011-05-19 || 2011-05-19 || n/a || ||close out 1105 blueprints || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-19 || ||complete 1111 planning || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-27 || ||qemu-linaro-2011-06 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || == linaro-qemu-11.11 == * tracking down a problem with very recent beagle snapshots not booting in qemu; this turns out to be an x-loader bug (LP:813407) * made the release == other == * upstream are planning to branch for 0.15 release today * most of the outstanding ARM patches have now been pulled * reviewed a patch adding ARM1176 support * wrote a patch fixing the feature flags for ARM1136r1 so it includes the TLS registers (needed as newer kernels now try to use them) * submitted some patches fixing a few VFP UNDEF/UNPREDICTABLE cases so they don't crash qemu * submitted patch to make v6 cp15 barrier insns work in linux-user mode * looked at a reported problem where linux kernel versions 2.6.39+ display graphics wrongly. This turns out to be that 2.6.39 (or 38) changed (inadvertently?) from programming the versatilepb CLCD as RGB565 to setting it to BGR565; qemu wasn't implementing the latter. Dusted off some PL111 support patches, added the mux control support for PL110 and submitted them. Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: 1-5 August: Linaro sprint 1111 15-19 August: KVM Forum and LinuxCon NA, Vancouver

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Richard Sandiford

== This week == * Wrote a fix for 809768. Accepted upstream. * Looked at upstream PR 49742 (the failures seen with predictive commoning). Accepted upstream. * More shrink-wrap review. * Sent auto-inc-dec changes out for comments. Got some good private feedback (in the sense of being positive, and having good suggestions). * Sent a related define_bypass patch out for review. * Started looking at sms-and-memory-dependencies. == Next week == * Deal with auto-inc-dec suggestions. * More SMS.

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eglibc bug, multiple regressions on oneiric

by Mounir Bsaibes

Is there anyone handling this bug? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/775849 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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Linaro GCC 4.6 and 4.5 2011.07 released

by Michael Hope

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of both Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. Linaro GCC 4.6 is the fifth release in the 4.6 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.6.1+svn175677, it adds new optimisations and vectoriser improvements. Interesting changes include: * Updates to 4.6.1+r175677 * Improves support for vector shifts by a constant * Improves handling of memory dependencies in the SMS optimisation * Improved vectorisation of widening multiplies by keeping the operands smaller for longer * Improves the peeling of potentially misaligned vectorised loops * Improved vectorisation of signed and unsigned widening multiplies by a constant * Merges the new upstream Cortex-A5 tuning Fixes: * LP: #721531: Don't optimise out testing of the Thumb mode bit on function pointers * LP: #723185: ICE in reload_cse_simplify_operands when compiling with -marm -mfpu=neon * LP: #744754: ICE in *neon_movoi when using NEON intrinsics * LP: #791327: ICE due to using the stack pointer in RSB instructions * LP: #797748: ICE building SPEC2006 403.gcc emit-rtl.c * LP: #803232: ICE on code that uses vld4q_s16() NEON intrinsic * LP: #809435: Omit building the target libiberty when building a cross compiler * LP: #807573: ICE in *truncsisf2_vfp: Could not find a spill register * PR 49385: Ensure at least one of the operands is a register in thumb2_movhi_insn * Fixes an EABI unwinding bug that improves interoperability with armcc * Fixes a DWARF 2 problem exposed through shrinkwrap. * Fixes a bug in __builtin_isgreaterequal Known issues: * Building Python 2.7 with -mfpu=neon exposes a bug in vmov.i64 in binutils 2.20.51. Please use 2.21 or later. Linaro GCC 4.5 2011.07 is the twelfth release in the 4.5 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.5.3+svn175676, the release is focused on maintenance. Interesting changes in 4.5 include: * Updates to 4.5.3+r175676 Fixes: * LP: #721531: Don't optimise out testing of the Thumb mode bit on function pointers * LP: #723185: ICE in reload_cse_simplify_operands when compiling with -marm -mfpu=neon * LP: #744754: ICE in *neon_movoi when using NEON intrinsics * LP: #797748: ICE building SPEC2006 403.gcc emit-rtl.c * LP: #803232: ICE on code that uses vld4q_s16() NEON intrinsic * Fixes a DWARF 2 problem exposed through shrinkwrap. The source tarball is available from: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2011.07 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.5-2011.07 Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro 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(a)linaro.org -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] July 17-21

by Ira Rosen

Hi, - I finally submitted the over-widening patch, but Richard Guenther thought that this optimization should be done for scalars as well, and he is now working on this himself. - Some auto-vectorizer fixes Ira

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Returned mail: see transcript for details

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Linaro QEMU 2011.07 released

by Peter Maydell

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2011.07. Linaro QEMU 2011.07-0 is the latest monthly release of qemu-linaro. Based off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. This month's release is primarily minor improvements: - Fixes a compile failure on ia64 hosts - syscall 369 (prlimit64) implemented in linux-user mode - Fixes an ELF loader bug that caused problems with binaries generated by the Google Go compiler Plus of course new upstream fixes and improvements. Known issues: - The beagle and beaglexm models still do not support USB networking - Very recent Linaro omap3 hwpacks (20110716 and later) do not boot on the beagle model; this is caused by an x-loader bug (LP:813407) The source tarball is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2011.07 Binary builds of this qemu-linaro release are being prepared and will be available shortly for users of Ubuntu. Packages will be in the linaro-maintainers tools ppa: https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/tools/ More information on Linaro QEMU is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro

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Appologies

by Andrew Stubbs

Hi All, Apologies for missing the stand-up call today. I've been having technical difficulties at my end. :( I think they're resolved now ... maybe. Andrew

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * continued to look into #809768 (ICE when building bionic's libm) * created some toolchain and android builds for verification purposes * libunwind * discussions with Michael and Uli on how to proceed (thanks!) * started to work on libunwind-ptrace * also look for .debug_frame info if there is no .eh_frame info for the given IP * mimics the behaviour of the reworked local unwinding * Attended an IBM internal class on Wednesday Note: I'm off for two days (21-22) and back on Monday. Regards Ken

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Branch is open

by Michael Hope

Hi there. The 2011.07 release has been spun and is testing up well. The 4.5 and 4.6 branches are now open so feel free to commit any approved patches. -- Michael

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[Activity] Week ending July 15th 2011

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

== GCC == === Progress === * Identified particular patterns that have issues with scheduler descriptions in A8 and A9 . Fixes to be benchmarked next. * Spent sometime on the new tree-reassoc work but SPEC2k failed for some of the neon configurations. Needs investigation. * T2 perf call. * Looked at libquantum bits with Revital. * BRANCH_COST benchmarking now complete for T2 . Same is running for ARM state. * Some patch review and bugzilla triaging upstream. === Plans === * ivopts patch for RichardS to try out - related to the excessive moves between integer and VFP unit. * BRANCH_COST further results. * Submit scheduler patches upstream after benchmarking. Meetings: * 1-1s * TCWG calls Absences. * 1st Aug - 5th August - Linaro sprint. * 8th - 9th August -Internal training. * 29th Aug - Sept. 2 - Holiday booked and approved. * 31st Oct - 4th Nov - Linaro Summit Orlando - Travel to be booked.

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[ACTIVITY] 11th - 17th July

by Andrew Stubbs

Continued responding to review comments on my widening multiply patches. Wrote large parts of most of the patches to fix bugs and tidy them up. The result is that all but patch 1 are now approved. Pushed the patches to Launchpad for final testing. Monitored the test status of my thumb2 constants patch, but it still hasn't returned any results. It seems Michael has been having some problems with his systems. Went back to looking at merging patches to 4.6. It's only really the hard ones left. Many are blocked on work that needs to be done by somebody else. Pinged Tom and Bernd to find out the status of their ones - all are stuck on the back burner. ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html * Widening Multiplies 1/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08721.html

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Revital Eres

- Tracked the problematic file which contains the loop that causing bootstrap failure with SMS flags on ARM machine. It is not caused by SMS but rather due to doloop optimization which is applied when SMS flags are set. Now working on locating the exact loop and producing a testcase to reproduce the error. - Looking into Spec2006/libquantum benchmark - it has hot loop with conditional store which suppress SMS as it is only applied on single basic-block loops. If-conversion can not be done (replacing the store with conditional move and then a store) because in order to do that we need to prove that there is a store to the same location in each iteration of the loop; and it is not the case in this loop. Apparently, when running with crotex-a8 flag cond_exe statement is generated for the store but that's happening only after register allocation pass which is applied after SMS (IIUC,moving the generation of cond_exe before RA is not trivial http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-05/msg00079.html) So, I'm looking into teaching SMS to handle conditional statements based on technique presented in [1]. This change is not trivial so I'm going to estimate the potential of applying SMS on the loop at first stage. [1] M. Lam, "Software pipelining: an effective scheduling technique for VLIW machines"

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[ACTIVITY] Jul 11 - Jul 14

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Tested GDB 7.2.91 prerelease on ARM; everything looking good. * Created a set of patches to prepare for Linaro GDB 7.3 series; verified release process on top of a current 7.3 snapshot. * Committed three mainline patches to fix shared library remote test problems (#804387). * Reviewed Yao's latest Thumb-2 displaced stepping patch. 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} 2011-07-15

by David Gilbert

== String routines == * Sent a patch to libc-ports with modified configure scripts to add subdirectories for architecture specific ARM code, and the memchr.S from cortex-strings. == 64 bit atomics == * Working through comments on my patches and the set of discussions about the kernel interface for the helper case - not really sure which way that's going to go. == QEmu == * Looking at how tracing works, considering adding tracing to sd card code to help track down some of the sd card issues. Dave

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[ACTIVITY] report week 28

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: OMAP3 patch upstreaming is slower progress than hoped Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||qemu-linaro-2011-07 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 || || Historical Milestones: ||qemu-linaro 2011-04 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-05 || 2011-05-19 || 2011-05-19 || n/a || ||close out 1105 blueprints || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-19 || ||complete 1111 planning || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-27 || ||qemu-linaro-2011-06 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || == linaro-qemu-11.11 == * initial testing of linaro-qemu preparatory to next week's release == upstream-omap3-patches == * finished nand and onenand cleanup, sent 12-patch series upstream == gsoc-support == * mid-term evaluations == other == * discussion with other qemu developers about shortcomings / improvements to the device/bus model (qdev) * sent patch to fix compile error on ia64 hosts * patch review, etc Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: 1-5 August: Linaro sprint 1111 15-19 August: KVM Forum and LinuxCon NA, Vancouver

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Richard Sandiford

== This week == * Fixed the unnecessary union initialisers that were causing ICEs with -g. This turned out to be a lot more work than Richard's one-liner suggested. :-) * Backported Chung-Lin's arm_legitimize_reload_address patch to 4.5. * Backported the smallest_mode_for_size patch to 4.5 and 4.6. * Patch review. * Found an off-by-one error in the vectoriser that caused it to think that contiguous memory regions overlapped. Unfortunately, this meant that a lot of my microbenchmarks were using the fallback ARM code instead of the nice-looking NEON code that I could see in the asm. * A bit more work on auto inc/dec. It tested regression-free for all default languages. Ran some more benchmarks and posted the results. == Next week == * Bugs and auto inc/dec. Richard

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * analyzed/tested toolchain issues the Linaro Android folks are facing * libquadmath disabled due to configure test fail of the target libiberty (#809435) * fix will be in 11.07 release * ICE when building bionic's libm (#809768) * not reproducible with a "plain" Linaro GCC * non upstreamable workaround in place (prevents the ICE but degrades the DWARF quality) * binary toolchain at http://people.linaro.org/~kwerner/ * libunwind * localunwrework branch now on git.linaro.org Note: I'll take two days off at the end of next week (21-22). Regards Ken

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[ACTIVITY] 11th - 15th July

by Asa Sandahl

Achieved: * Set up networking on the Panda board, ssh to the board from my laptop works fine. * Downloaded the benchmarks (SPEC2000 and EEMBC) and built them for x86. I now have a basic understanding of what the benchmarks do and how to run them. * For EEMBC I used the -m32 flag for building on my 64 bit installation. * For the SPEC2000 I used the Linaro configuration file and enabled the portability flags for a 64-bit host. Played around with different "runspec" actions and options. Building and running individual test cases as well as the full test suites. Finally I did a reportable run for all benchmarks. It took several hours and in the end I got a result for my laptop. Next step: * Cross-compile EEMBC and SPEC2000. I will try linaro-gcc and the cross compiler that comes with Natty. Best Regards Åsa

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[ACTIVITY] July 11-14

by Ira Rosen

Hi, - merged over-widened multiply patch to gcc-linaro-4.6 (now vectorized rgbyiqv should be about as good as its scalar version) - continued working on over-widened shifts and bit operations Ira

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Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register

by mins.lin＠globalunichip.com

Hi, I used Linaro cross-toolchain version 4.5 (gcc-4.5-arm-linux-gnueabi) to compile linux-linaro-11.05 for beagle board, but got the following error messages: ---- AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.o arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S: Assembler messages: arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:127: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `mrs r2,cpsr' arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:134: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `mrs r2,cpsr' arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:136: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `msr cpsr_c,r2' make[2]: *** [arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 make: *** [uImage] Error 2 ---- The .config file I used for kernel build is "config-2.6.38-1003-linaro-omap" which is from hwpack_linaro-omap3-x11-base_20110526-5_armel_supported.tar.gz My host development platform is 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS (Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-32-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20 21:52:38 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux). Is this a known bug, or did I miss anything else ? Thanks. --------------------------------- Email Confidentiality Notice ------------------------------------------ If you are not the intended recipient for this CONFIDENTIAL E-mail, please delete it immediately without keeping or distributing any copy and notify the sender. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Activity] Week ending July 8th .

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

== GCC == === Progress === * Panda board up again with apparently no change with software on it. Not sure what caused the difference today ! Now chugging along with SPEC2k. * Back on to BRANCH_COST . SPEC2k now running fully whence panda board was restored. * Submitted cleaned up neon shift immediates patch for merging. * On merge request review in Linaro this week. * Backported arith_shiftsi patch to 4.6 branch upstream. (done) * Identified particular patterns that have issues with scheduler descriptions in A8 and A9 . Working on fixes. === Plans === * Submit one_cmpldi2 patch for neon upstream. * Finish the scheduler patches. * Investigate A8 vs A9 regressions. * Look at EPILOGUE_USES and coremark . not sure why it regresses in performance yet. Meetings: * 1-1s * TCWG calls Absences. * 1st Aug - 5th August - Linaro sprint. * 8th - 9th August - Internal training. * 29th Aug - Sept. 2 - Vacation.

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[ACTIVITY] 4th - 8th July

by Andrew Stubbs

Completed the merge of FSF GCC 4.5 & 4.6 to Linaro GCC. There were a few extra test failure in the i686 testing for both toolchains, but x86_64 and arm were clean, so it seems likely to be an environmental issue (in particular, some of the failures were linker crashes). Posted an update to my widening multiplies patch 3. This one hopefully addressed the issues found by Richard Guenther. Also tested an posted updates to my other patches that had their context changed. Richard picked more holes in my patch, and also reviewed patches 4, 5 and 6. 4 & 5 only have minor issues so far, and 6 has actually been approved! :) Rewrote patch 3 yet again following review. Richard has now modified the VRP pass to make the widening pass's job simpler, so I don't need it to do as much. Also rebaslined the whole patch set; Bernd's recent patch has introduced some conflicts. Found (some of?) the bugs that broke my thumb2 constants patch. Pushed the updated patch to Launchpad for testing. Updated a lot of the patch tracker data. Half day Thursday. ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html * Widening Multiplies 1/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08721.html * Widening Multiplies 2/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08723.html * Widening Multiplies 3/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08724.html * Widening Multiplies 4/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08725.html * Widening Multiplies 5/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08726.html * Widening Multiplies 7/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08728.html

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * fixed a bug where libunwind could segfault when unwinding through a shared library using the ARM specific unwind tables * discussed the libuwind internals with Uli (thanks!) and concluded that the best way to implement remote unwinding for ARM is to integrate the support for the ARM.exidx* directly into the DWARF code * otherwise the user visible remote API needs to be extended for ARM only which seems to be a bad idea * requires to re-implement the existent ARM code (both local and remote) * will also benefit from libunwind's (dwarf) caching mechanism * started to re-implement the ARM code Regards Ken

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Revital Eres

- Continue Spec2006 analysis: Looking into SMS opportunities in SPEC2006/462.libquantum. - Looking into recent bootstrap failure with SMS flags on ARM -- it seems to be related to do-loop optimization.

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Generating ancilliary sections with gas (fwd)

by Nicolas Pitre

Hello Michael, We do have more and more instances of the following issues turning up in the kernel requiring toolchain assistance to solve the problem properly. Could you or someone from your team follow this up please? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:16:48 +0000 From: Dave Martin <dave.martin(a)linaro.org> To: binutils(a)sourceware.org Cc: linaro-toolchain <linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org> Subject: Generating ancilliary sections with gas Hi all, Every now and again I come across a situation where it would be really useful to be able to query the assembler state during assembly: for example, to query and do something based on the current section name. This makes it possible to write generic macros to do certain things which otherwise require manual maintenance, or complex and fragile external preprocessing. Below, I give a real-world example of the problem, and sketch out a possible solution. What do people think of this approach? Does anyone have any better ideas on how to solve this? Cheers ---Dave EXAMPLE An example is the generation of custom ancilliary sections. Suppose you want to write macros which record fixup information. Currently, there's no way to put each fixup in an appropriately named section automatically within gas. Tellingly, gas has had to grow the ability to do this internally at least for ARM, since the exception handling information in .ARM.ex{idx,tab}* must go in sections with names based on the associated section name. However, this ancillary section generation support is neither flexible nor exposed to the user. By putting fixups in sections whose names are based on the name of the section they refer to, selective link-time discard of the fixups (and hence the code referenced by the fixups) will work; otherwise it doesn't. This would help avoid a situation where we have to keep dead code in the kernel because custom fixups are applied to it: at run-time, the code gets fixed up, then is thrown away. The fixups can't be selectively discarded because they are all in the same section: we seem have to no good way to separate them out into separate sections appropriately. For context, see: http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg112268.html PROPOSAL To solve the problem of generating custom ancillary sections during assembly, here's a simple proposal: introducing a new kind of macro argument can make aspects of the assembler state available to macros in a flexible way, with only minimal implementation required. Basically, the macro qualifier field could be used to identify arguments which are filled in by the assembler with information about the assembly state, rather than being filled in by the invoker of the macro: e.g.: .macro mymacro name:req, flags, secname:current_section /* ... */ .pushsection "\secname\name", "\flags" /* ... */ .popsection .endm /* ... */ mymacro .ancillary, "a" During expansion, \name and \flags are expanded as normal. But \secname is substituted instead with the current section name, so the macro expansion would look like this: /* ... */ .pushsection ".text.ancillary", "a" /* ... */ .popsection Without the special :current_section argument, it doesn't appear possible to implement a macro such as mymacro in a generic way. This surely isn't the only way to achieve the goal, and it's probably not the best way, but it does have some desirable features. Principally, while a new pseudo-op(s) could have been defined to append text to the current section name, etc., allowing the current section name to be appear as a macro parameter avoids prejudicing the way the text is used. So there should never be a need to introduce additional pseudo-ops to do things with the current section name: with this patch, the user can always implement their own macro to do the desired thing. This gets the desired behaviour and maximum flexibility, while keeping the implementation in gas very simple. Also, using the macro expansion system in this way allows the caller a free choice of macro parameter names, and so pretty much guarantees that existing code won't get broken by the change. Because my hack is currently simplistic, it has shortcomings: in particular, it's not desirable to parse an argument from the invocation line at all to fill a :current_section argument. Currently, an argument is read in if present, but its value is ignored and the current section name pasted in at macro expansion time instead. However, that should be straightforward to fix with a bit more code. Of course, there's no reason only to expose the current section name in this way. Any aspect of the the assembler state (current subsection, current section flags, current instruction set, current macro mode, etc.) could be made available in a similar way. USAGE EXAMPLE AND PATCH Note that the specific implementation described here is intended to be illustrative, rather than complete or final. binutils$ cat <<EOF >tst.s .macro push_ancillary_section name:req, flags, csec:current_section .pushsection "\name\csec", "\flags" .endm .macro register_fixup _register_fixup 100\@ .endm .macro _register_fixup label:req \label : push_ancillary_section .fixup, "a" .long \label\(b) .popsection .endm .long 1 register_fixup .long 2 .data .long 3 register_fixup .long 4 .long 5 register_fixup .long 6 EOF binutils$ gas/as-new -ahlms -o tst.o tst.s ARM GAS tst.s page 1 1 .macro push_ancillary_section name:req, flags, csec:current_section 2 .pushsection "\name\csec", "\flags" 3 .endm 4 5 .macro register_fixup 6 _register_fixup 100\@ 7 .endm 8 9 .macro _register_fixup label:req 10 \label : 11 push_ancillary_section .fixup, "a" 12 .long \label\(b) 13 .popsection 14 .endm 15 16 0000 01000000 .long 1 17 register_fixup 17 > _register_fixup 1000 17 >> 1000: 17 >> push_ancillary_section .fixup,"a" 17 >>> .pushsection ".fixup.text","a" 17 0000 04000000 >> .long 1000b 17 >> .popsection 18 0004 02000000 .long 2 19 20 .data 21 0000 03000000 .long 3 22 register_fixup 22 > _register_fixup 1003 22 >> 1003: 22 >> push_ancillary_section .fixup,"a" 22 >>> .pushsection ".fixup.data","a" 22 0000 04000000 >> .long 1003b 22 >> .popsection 23 0004 04000000 .long 4 24 0008 05000000 .long 5 25 register_fixup 25 > _register_fixup 1006 25 >> 1006: 25 >> push_ancillary_section .fixup,"a" 25 >>> .pushsection ".fixup.data","a" 25 0004 0C000000 >> .long 1006b 25 >> .popsection 26 000c 06000000 .long 6 ARM GAS tst.s page 2 NO DEFINED SYMBOLS NO UNDEFINED SYMBOLS binutils$ arm-linux-gnueabi-objdump -rs tst.o tst.o: file format elf32-littlearm RELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.fixup.text]: OFFSET TYPE VALUE 00000000 R_ARM_ABS32 .text RELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.fixup.data]: OFFSET TYPE VALUE 00000000 R_ARM_ABS32 .data 00000004 R_ARM_ABS32 .data Contents of section .text: 0000 01000000 02000000 ........ Contents of section .data: 0000 03000000 04000000 05000000 06000000 ................ Contents of section .fixup.text: 0000 04000000 .... Contents of section .fixup.data: 0000 04000000 0c000000 ........ Contents of section .ARM.attributes: 0000 41150000 00616561 62690001 0b000000 A....aeabi...... 0010 08010901 2c01 ....,. diff --git a/gas/macro.c b/gas/macro.c index e392883..95c4de1 100644 --- a/gas/macro.c +++ b/gas/macro.c @@ -516,6 +516,8 @@ do_formals (macro_entry *macro, int idx, sb *in) formal->type = FORMAL_REQUIRED; else if (strcmp (qual.ptr, "vararg") == 0) formal->type = FORMAL_VARARG; + else if (strcmp (qual.ptr, "current_section") == 0) + formal->type = FORMAL_CURRENT_SECTION; else as_bad_where (macro->file, macro->line, @@ -540,6 +542,15 @@ do_formals (macro_entry *macro, int idx, sb *in) name, macro->name); } + else if (formal->type == FORMAL_CURRENT_SECTION) + { + sb_reset (&formal->def); + as_warn_where (macro->file, + macro->line, + _("Pointless default value for current_section parameter `%s' in macro `%s'"), + name, + macro->name); + } } /* Add to macro's hash table. */ @@ -734,7 +745,11 @@ sub_actual (int start, sb *in, sb *t, struct hash_control *formal_hash, ptr = (formal_entry *) hash_find (formal_hash, sb_terminate (t)); if (ptr) { - if (ptr->actual.len) + if (ptr->type == FORMAL_CURRENT_SECTION) + { + sb_add_string (out, segment_name (now_seg)); + } + else if (ptr->actual.len) { sb_add_sb (out, &ptr->actual); } diff --git a/gas/macro.h b/gas/macro.h index edc1b6b..ea6cabb 100644 --- a/gas/macro.h +++ b/gas/macro.h @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ enum formal_type { FORMAL_OPTIONAL, FORMAL_REQUIRED, - FORMAL_VARARG + FORMAL_VARARG, + FORMAL_CURRENT_SECTION, }; /* Describe the formal arguments to a macro. */ _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain

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by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: OMAP3 patch upstreaming is slower progress than hoped Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||qemu-linaro-2011-07 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 || || Historical Milestones: ||qemu-linaro 2011-04 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-05 || 2011-05-19 || 2011-05-19 || n/a || ||close out 1105 blueprints || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-19 || ||complete 1111 planning || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-27 || ||qemu-linaro-2011-06 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || == upstream-omap3-patches == * split and did most of the cleanup of 'overhaul onenand support' patch * updated the omap gpio qdev patchset in response to review comments, just about ready to send v2 * this is going more slowly than I had anticipated == other == * patch review, etc * confirmed attendance at KVM Forum and LinuxCon NA Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: 1-5 August: Linaro sprint 1111 15-19 August: KVM Forum and LinuxCon NA, Vancouver

13 years, 11 months

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Updated armel cross toolchains for lucid/maverick/natty releases

by Marcin Juszkiewicz

Hi Linaro backport PPA [1] got updated to latest versions of armel cross toolchains -- oneiric packages were used as a base. What got changed: - gcc 4.4 was updated to 4.4.6-3ubuntu1 - gcc 4.5 was updated to 4.5.3-1ubuntu2 - binutils was updated to 2.21.52.20110606-1ubuntu1 - eglibc was updated to 2.13-6ubuntu2 - gcc 4.6 was provided as 4.6.0-14ubuntu1 in Maverick, Natty - gcc-defaults-armel-cross was updated to 1.6 in Maverick, Natty (uses gcc-4.6 as default) There is no gcc-4.6 for Lucid currently as it requires newer versions of few libraries (mpfr, mpc) and one of rule of this PPA is "do not update packages which may affect other packages". Please test them and report any bugs found. 1. https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/toolchain/

13 years, 11 months

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[ACTIVITY] Jul 4 - Jul 8

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Posted patch to fix shared library remote test problems (#804387). * Started reviewing Yao's latest Thumb-2 displaced stepping patch. == GCC == * Reviewed and approved Richard's mainline reload patch to fix #803232 (ICE on code that uses vld4q_s16() NEON intrinsic). * Followed up on gcc-patches to address concerns about Julian's unaligned access patch. 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

13 years, 11 months

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Richard Sandiford

== This week == * Looked at why the fix for #721531 wasn't working on the Linaro branches. Wrote follow-up patches for both. Fix now committed to 4.5 and 4.6. * Looked at #736007. Submitted and committed patch upstream. * Looked at some "odd" ivopts behaviour. It turned out that this was working mostly as expected. I'm still wondering about a couple of tweaks. * Looked briefly at a miscompilation of vector code that turned out to occur during predictive commoning. I haven't yet checked whether the bug is there or not. For the time being, I'm using -fno-predictive-commoning so that I can get on with other stuff. * Looked at why the auto-inc-dec stuff wasn't as effective with current mainline. It turns out that the new misaligned load/store patterns are using overly weak predicates, so it appears to the RTL optimisers as though we support reg+offset addresses. * Reviewed the shrink-wrap patch. * More auto inc/dec. == Next week == * Backport the fix for #736007. * More loop stuff. Richard

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[ACTIVITY] 4th - 8th July

by Asa Sandahl

Achieved: * HW in place. Borrowed another Panda board that I can use permanently. * linaro-media-create installed and working. Flashed sd-card with 11.05 for Panda board. * Played around with the Panda board. Networking is on the way. I can ssh to my computer from the Panda but not the other way around yet. Issues: * Serial log from Panda board not working yet. Mike suggested I try a straight-through cable instead in of a null-modem cable. (Have not done this yet.) * The ST-E firewall (proxy) is causing me some headache. But at least everyone here is facing the same issues, so there are people to talk to about the problems. Good to know: * I will be on vacation 18th July - 15 August Best Regards Åsa

13 years, 11 months

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[ACTIVITY] July 3-6

by Ira Rosen

Hi, - continued working on prevention of over-widening in vectorization - finalizing the patch - improvement of vectorizer peeling heuristic - merged to gcc-linaro-4.6 - vectorization of widen-mult with over-promoted operands - proposed for merge to gcc-linaro-4.6 - fixed PR 49610 - patch reviews I am on vacation tomorrow and on Sunday. Ira

13 years, 12 months

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LLVM on ARM testing.

by Karel Gardas

Hello, I'm interested in LLVM correct performance on ARM hardware and it looks like LLVM is kind of sensitive to what GCC version is used for its compilation. I tested LLVM 2.9 as a reference point and LLVM HEAD as of June 29 on ARMv7 (two boards with two different Ubuntu versions) compiled by GCC 4.3.4, 4.4.1, 4.4.5, 4.5.2, 4.6.1 Linaro 2011.05 and 4.6.1 Linaro 2011.06. Please see http://ghcarm.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/llvm-on-arm-testing/ It looks like LLVM HEAD does have about 28 regressions in comparison with LLVM 2.9. But also Linaro's GCC 4.6.1s do have some regressions in comparison with older GCC 4.3.4 and 4.4.1. Also what is really interesting with LLVM is how much tests fails when compiled with -O2 or default -O3 compilation option. I don't know if the culprit here is LLVM code or just GCC miscompilation/overoptimization? Is there any testing I may do to help you fix those regressions? Thanks, Karel

13 years, 12 months

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[ACTIVITY] 27th June - 1st July

by Andrew Stubbs

Worked on updates to the widening multiplies patches following upstream review. This was never going to be as easy as it first looked, so I've spent much of the week trying to figure out how make annoying type casts go away. Merged both FSF GCC 4.5 and 4.6 to Linaro GCC. Pushed the new tree to Launchpad for testing. ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html * Widening Multiplies 1/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08721.html * Widening Multiplies 2/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08723.html * Widening Multiplies 3/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08724.html * Widening Multiplies 4/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08725.html * Widening Multiplies 5/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08726.html * Widening Multiplies 6/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08727.html * Widening Multiplies 7/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08728.html

13 years, 12 months

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * continued to look into how to add remote support for libunwind using ptrace * reworked the lookup of the ARM specific unwind tables for local unwinding * re-use the existent (dwarf related) infrastructure to find the ARM specific unwind tables rather than doing it on our own * removes some code and the limitation of only supporting a certain amount of unw tables * (hopefully) smooths the way for remote unwinding via ptrace * submitted a patch that fixes the syntax of inline assemblies for some GCC versions Regards Ken

13 years, 12 months

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[Activity] June 23 - July 1

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

(This is a combined report having realized that I didn't manage to send this out on Monday because of some power issues). == GCC == == Progress == * Cleared out some backlog of backports from mainline. * Investigating some of the BRANCH_COST results. * Small patches to fix VFP constraints being tested and fixed on trunk upstream. * Upstream bugzilla triaging. * Upstream bugzilla triaging. * Looked at Neon 64 bit arithmetic and sent out report. * Reviewed the unaligned access patch and the EPILOGUE_USES regression with coremark. * Issues with my panda board means my benchmark runs aren't happening. Need to urgently find a way of running them. The panda board dies mysteriously once a while. Playing around with the kernel to get something going . Will look at it again next week. * Merged neon shift immediates patch into linaro-4.6 but needs some rework. * Merged the fix for LP744754 into linaro 4.5 and 4.6 == Plans == * Back on to BRANCH_COST . * Resubmit neon shift immediates patch for merging. * Look at some of the perf regressions between a8 and A9. * Get a working panda board again. ! * Backport arith_shiftsi patch to 4.6 branch upstream. Meetings: * 1-1s * TCWG calls.

14 years

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Richard Sandiford

== This week == * More on the address-of-main() bug. The original patch caused regressions on x86_64, so I submitted a different approach, which has now been applied upstream. * Worked on the libnih bug. It turned out to be a problem in the libc start routine. * A bit of patch review. * More on auto inc/dec. == Next week == * General bug-fixing. * More auto inc/dec. Richard

14 years

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[ACTIVITY] 2011-07-01

by David Gilbert

== 64 bit atomics == * Submitted patches to gcc patch list - One comment back already asking if we should really change ARM to have a VDSO to make checks of the user helper version easier * Added thumb ldrexd/strexd to valgrind; patch added to bug in their bugtracker (KDE bug 266035) * Came to the conclusion eglibc doesn't actually need any changes - It's got a place holder for a 64bit routine, but it's unused and isn't exposed to the libc users - Note that neither eglibc or glibc built cleanly from the trunk on ARM. * Started digging into QEmu a bit more to find out how to solve the helper problem == String routines == * Added SPEC2k6 string routine results to my charts; while most stuff is in the noise it seems the bionic routine is a bit slower overall than everything else, and my absolutely trivially simple ~5 instruction loop is a tie for the fastest with my smarter 4 byte/loop using uadd. == Next week == * Sleep, Rest, Relaxation, getting older * (Will be polling email for any more follow ups on my gcc patches) Dave

14 years

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[ACTIVITY] Jun 27 - Jul 1

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Analyzed all failures and skipped tests in remote gdb testsuite. Opened bug reports to track problems and missing features: 804387 [remote testsuite] Shared library test problems 804392 [remote testsuite] Rebuilt executables not copied 804396 [remote testsuite] Spurious failures 804400 [remote testsuite] Unnecessarily disabled tests 804401 [remote testsuite] Thread support 804403 [remote testsuite] Support for "attach" tests 804405 [remote testsuite] Core file tests 804406 [remote feature] Generate core files 804407 [remote feature] fork/vfork/exec events 804408 [remote feature] Address space randomization 804409 [remote feature] Checkpoints 804411 [remote feature] "info proc" == GCC == * Reviewed several Linaro GCC merge requests. * Fixed mainline reload bug PR rtl-optimization/49114 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

14 years

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[ACTIVITY] report week 26

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||qemu-linaro-2011-07 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 || || Historical Milestones: (q1 milestones deleted) ||qemu-linaro 2011-04 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-05 || 2011-05-19 || 2011-05-19 || n/a || ||close out 1105 blueprints || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-19 || ||complete 1111 planning || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-27 || ||qemu-linaro-2011-06 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || == upstream-omap3-patches * analysed omap3 patchstack and identified some initial parts to pull out * extracted and submitted upstream a 3-patch set to qdevify omap gpio * disentangled a cluster of patches for fixing and qdevifying NAND, ONENAND and the OMAP GPMC model; started on the cleanup process * spotted and fixed a bug where n810 segfaults if a key is pressed (this was already fixed in qemu-linaro but not very cleanly) == other == * submitted patch for proper implementation of prlimit64 syscall for qemu usermode * sent a patch to fix the final gcc 4.6 write-only-variable warning * patch review, etc Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: 1-5 August: Linaro sprint 1111 (maybe) 15-16 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver [LinuxCon proper follows on 17-19th]

14 years

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[ACTIVITY] 27th June - 1st July

by Asa Sandahl

* Got introduced to most of the team members - great! * My manager fixed a linaro laptop for med which I have installed with Natty. (This is very good since I cannot run as root on my STEricsson laptop. There are also other security restrictions that makes it very hard to work in Linaro.) * Started working a little bit with the Snowball board. I have managed to flash it using the "riff" tool. * Read through the material about SPEC2000. * I have borrowed a Panda board that I can use for the next two weeks. A question that popped up is how to get one from Linaro? * I will be on vacation 18th July - 15 August Best regards Åsa

14 years

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No usb on omap3: 4.6 toolchain issue?

by Paolo Pisati

It all started with this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/791552 basically, switching toolchain from 4.5 to 4.6, somehow broke usb on omap3. This morning i tested with linux-linaro-natty: [flag@newluxor linux-linaro-natty]$ git log --oneline -1 f15fd8f LINARO: Linux-linaro-2.6.38-1002.3 and i can reproduce the problem there too. Here is some more info (dmesg, toolchain, lsusb, etcetc): http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/620786/ -- bye, p.

14 years

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[ACTIVITY] June 26-30

by Ira Rosen

Hi, - support of multiple uses of original pattern statements (needed for over-promotion work) - committed upstream - support of widen-mult of unsigned types and constants - merged to gcc-linaro-4.6 - vectorizer peeling heuristic improvement - proposed to merge to gcc-linaro-4.6 Ira

14 years

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Fwd: [Bug gas/12931] ARM: gas fails to set the proper alignment on code sections, causing broken output

by Dave Martin

See the following commit in binutils trunk. If this is causing problems in other places, it could be worth considering for backport into the linaro tools. Cheers ---Dave http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12931 --- Comment #3 from cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org <cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-06-29 16:29:43 UTC --- CVSROOT: /cvs/src Module name: src Changes by: nickc(a)sourceware.org 2011-06-29 16:29:38 Modified files: gas : ChangeLog gas/config : tc-arm.c Log message: PR gas/12931 * config/tc-arm.c (mapping_state): When changing to ARM or THUMB state set the minimum required alignment of the section. Patches: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/gas/ChangeLog.diff?cvsroot=src… http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/gas/config/tc-arm.c.diff?cvsro…

14 years

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iDCT implementation in GCC NEON intrinsics, for your perusal

by Michael K. Edwards

Here's an implementation of an 8x8 integer DCT done with NEON intrinsics -- essentially a translation of the assembly version in libjpeg-turbo trunk: https://github.com/mkedwards/crosstool-ng/blob/master/patches/libjpeg-turbo… It is in a compilable (on Linaro 2011.05 GCC 4.5, anyway; a recent Linaro 4.6 snapshot ICEs) but otherwise untested state. Still, it's interesting to compare the assembly that it generates against the hand-written version. I thought I'd give linaro-toolchain a heads-up in case y'all could use a test case that generates plenty of pressure on the VFP/NEON register bank. (I intend to use it to see how much performance difference there really is, on the A8 and A9, between NEON code compiled for 16 vs. 32 registers.) Cheers, - Michael

14 years

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Added an ARMv5E board

by Michael Hope

I've added a pico-SAM9G45 board to my home office setup. It's called libra1 and runs Debian 6.0. The nice thing about this board is it has 256 MB of RAM and should be able to run SPEC 2000. I'll start using it to check that our GCC changes don't cause significant performance regressions on earlier architectures. Dave, you could use it to test the 64 bit primitives if you want. There's more information on the configuration at: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~michaelh1/+junk/hardware/view/head:/libra/r1/R… -- Michael

14 years

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GCC cross compilation help: [cannot compute suffix of object files]

by mins.lin＠globalunichip.com

Hello, I tried to build the gcc-linaro cross compiler tool on the x86_64 ubuntu-10.04 machine. The build and host machine is the x86_64 ubuntu-10.04, the target is arm-eabi. But failed and got the following error messages: ----- checking host system type... arm-unknown-eabi checking for arm-eabi-ar... arm-eabi-ar checking for arm-eabi-lipo... arm-eabi-lipo checking for arm-eabi-nm... /home/minslin/ET0001A/build-gcc/./gcc/nm checking for arm-eabi-ranlib... arm-eabi-ranlib checking for arm-eabi-strip... arm-eabi-strip checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for arm-eabi-gcc... /home/minslin/ET0001A/build-gcc/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/minslin/ET0001A/build-gcc/./gcc/ -B/home/minslin/linaro-gcc/arm-eabi/bin/ -B/home/minslin/linaro-gcc/arm-eabi/lib/ -isystem /home/minslin/linaro-gcc/arm-eabi/include -isystem /home/minslin/linaro-gcc/arm-eabi/sys-include checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/minslin/ET0001A/build-gcc/arm-eabi/libgcc': configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details. make[1]: *** [configure-target-libgcc] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/minslin/ET0001A/build-gcc' make: *** [all] Error 2 ----- The configure options I used were: ----- ../gcc-linaro-4.5-2011.06-0/configure --target=arm-eabi --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-shared --prefix=/home/minslin/linaro-gcc --with-gmp=/home/minslin/gmp --with-mpfr=/home/minslin/mpfr --with-mpc=/home/minslin/mpc ----- I downloaded and built the GMP, MPFR and MPC packages. The versions I used are: gmp-5.0.2 mpfr-3.0.1 mpc-0.8.2 Please help me solving this problem. Thanks. Best regards, ------------------------------------------------------------ Min-Shong Lin (林敏雄) Engineering Division Global UniChip Corp. (創意電子) EMAIL : mins.lin(a)globalunichip.com TEL : +886-3-5646600 ext. 6937 --------------------------------- Email Confidentiality Notice ------------------------------------------ If you are not the intended recipient for this CONFIDENTIAL E-mail, please delete it immediately without keeping or distributing any copy and notify the sender. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[ACTIVITY] 20th - 24th June

by Andrew Stubbs

Continued work on widening multiplies. Finally got a point where I have something I'm happy to post upstream! Posted here: http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08720.html Richard Guenther reviewed one of the patches, and found a flaw, so I've been working on addresssing that. Booked hotel for August sprint. ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html * Widening Multiplies 1/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08721.html * Widening Multiplies 2/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08723.html * Widening Multiplies 3/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08724.html * Widening Multiplies 4/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08725.html * Widening Multiplies 5/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08726.html * Widening Multiplies 6/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08727.html * Widening Multiplies 7/7 http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg08728.html

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[ACTIVITY] 2011-06-24

by David Gilbert

== Atomics == * Testing the libgcc fallback code with Nicholas's kernel patch - and then fixing my initialisation code to use init_array's (thanks Richard for the hint) * Tidying stuff up after a review of my patch by Richard - the sync.md is now smaller than the original before I started. * Discussing sync semantics with Michael Edwards - he's spotted that the gcc ARM sync routines need to move their final memory barrier for the compare-exchange case where the compare fails. * Looking at valgrind; it looks like it should be OK with the commpage changes; but it doesn't currently support ldrexd and strexd; there is a patch for it to do ARM mode but not thumb yet. Dave

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by Richard Sandiford

== This week == * Catching up on email. * More experiementation with the auto inc/dec stuff. TBH, this has taken longer than expected, but I think it's close now. * Wrote a dejagnu testcase for PR 49196. Tested it on trunk and submitted it upstream. == Next week == * Backport fix for PR 49196. * Look at NEON reload failure. * More auto inc/dec. Richard

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[ACTIVITY] report week 24

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||qemu-linaro-2011-07 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 || || Historical Milestones: ||finish qemu-cont-integn || 2011-01-25 || 2011-01-25 || handed off || ||first qemu-linaro release || 2011-02-08 || 2011-02-08 || 2011-02-08 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-03 || 2011-03-08 || 2011-03-08 || 2011-03-08 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-04 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-05 || 2011-05-19 || 2011-05-19 || n/a || ||close out 1105 blueprints || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-19 || ||complete 1111 planning || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-27 || ||qemu-linaro-2011-06 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || == other == * wrote a number of patches fixing issues identified by exhaustive testing of the ARM decoder. Still some parts of the Thumb decoder to deal with. * discussion about 1176 (somebody has some patches to add support for it) and what set of feature switches are needed to support this and the 1136r1 (they have most but not all of the v6K feature set) * sent some patches which deal with the "VLDM/VSTM generate too many TCG ops" bug by raising the limit on number of TCG ops * sent a pull request for some ARM patches that had been languishing on the mailing list * tracked down a regression making vexpress crash when run on upstream QEMU to a recent Xen-related patch * working on AFDS (annual review) paperwork Meetings: toolchain, standup Lots of interrupts/bugfixing/review recently means I'm drifting slightly behind schedule on blueprints. Need to refocus on those next week. Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: 1-5 August: Linaro sprint 1111 (maybe) 15-16 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver [LinuxCon proper follows on 17-19th]

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[ACTIVITY] Jun 20 - Jun 24

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Completed setup and baseline run for remote gdb testsuite. This involved tracking down and working around a variety of problems including: - issues with the cross-compiler packages - board files and sysroot for the debugger to use - timing problems in the dejagnu harness - multiple problems in the GDB testsuite itself At this point, I'm down to about a dozen extra FAILs and about 2000 tests (out of 16000) tests that are not executed in the remote testsuite for one reason or the other. Next step will be to analyze those and create bug reports. 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] June 19-23

by Ira Rosen

Hi, - investigating detection of general over-widening cases in the vectorizer - improvements of widen-mult - proposed for merge to gcc-linaro-4.6 - fixed PRs 49443 and 49478 Ira

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * in order to have the android's debuggerd use libunwind I looked at libunwind's remote interface and especially the libunwind-ptrace lib that sits on top of that. * the remote interface seems a bit awkward to me. The user provides a set of callbacks to access the inferior memory or registers. Instead of using these callbacks to obtain the actual unwind information (eh_frame fro example) it requires the user implement another callback (find_proc_info) to lookup the unwind info himself. * the libunwind-ptrace currently deos not support the ARM specific unwind tables * started to look into how to improve the situation * not straight forward as it's tightly bound to eh_frame unw info and libunwinds DWARF parsing mechanism * attending a class this afternoon * Note: I'm on vacation starting in a few hours and I'll be back on Tuesday next week. Regards Ken

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[Activity] Week ending 2011-06-17

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

== Progress == * Backported A5 / A15 tuning to Linaro GCC. Waiting for test results. * T2 perf. meeting. * Backported the neon length patch back. * Patch for PR49385 being tested. * Bootstraps broken yet again / upstream maintenance / test regressions. * Waiting on Branch_cost results . * Minor binutils patches as a result of upstream maintenance. == Plans == * Finish BRANCH_COST tuning * Look at VFP moves for some more . * Backport some of the upstream bug fixes that need to be done. Meetings: * 1-1s * TCWG call. * At Google unconference 17-19 June

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[ACTIVITY] 13th - 18th June

by Andrew Stubbs

Chaired the Toolchain Working group call. Michael H was unavailable (but OK) following yet another earthquake in Christchurch. Continued working on my widening multiplies patches. I did think for a while there must be a logic flaw because it's using the wrong sized inputs to instructions, but on closer inspection that was taken care of in the RTL transformations. The changes I already had seem good in all the test cases I could generate. I've also identified a number of additional optimization opportunities, so I've been tweaking the patch for those. Continued trying to figure out why my Thumb2 constants patches break the native bootstrap build. The stage2 compiler enters an infinite loop, but I couldn't easily identify why, as yet. Backported Julian's unaligned access patches to a Linaro test branch. ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Richard Sandiford

== This week == * Experimented more with A8 and A9 tuning for auto inc/dec addresses. * More work on the auto inc/dec pass itself. * Compared the assembly output in the GCC testsuite for a range of targets (avr, bfin, h8300, ia64, m32c, m32r, m68k, am33, pa, pdp11, powerpc, rx, score, sh, xstormy16 and vax). * Looked at a few bug reports. Will submit patches when I get back. == Next week == * Holiday! Richard

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[ACTIVITY] 2011-06-17

by David Gilbert

== 64 bit Atomics == * Wrote more test cases; now have a nice 3 thread test that passes - and more importantly, it fails if I replace one of the atomic ops by a non-atomic equivalent. * Modified existing atomic helper code in libgcc to do 64bit * Added init function to 64bit atomic helper to detect presence of new kernel and fail if an old one is present. That last one is a bit of a pain; it now correctly exits on existing kernels and aborts; qemu user space seg faults because access to the kernel helper version address is uncaught. So first thing I need to do is try the early kernel patch Nicolas sent around, and then I really need to see if qemu can be firmly persuaded to run it. == String routines == * Ran denbench with sets of strlen; started running some spec as well. == QEmu == * Tested Peter's prelease tarball in user space and a bunch of system emulations - successfully managed to say hello to #linaro from an emulated overo board using USB keyboard. == Other == * Booked 4th July week off. Dave

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * short week (Monday -> public holiday, Wednesday -> attended a class) * tested the gcc-linaro-4.5-2011.06 with linaro-android on my panda * works! no noticeable differences to 4.5-2011.05 for me * libgui.so apriori prelink issue remains: * realized that apriori works quite different from GNU prelink * checked the prelink map against LOAD segment size - looks good * build with -DLINKER_DEBUG=1 - still doesn't give hints * give up for know and moving on * made a patchset to be able to build whole android with -DDEBUG * except of v8 and webkit * zygote segfaults for unknown reason * understood the basics of the current backtracing mechanism on android * the bionic linker registers signal handlers on SIGSEGV that opens a socket * the debuggerd listens on that socket and gets its regs etc. using ptrace * Note: I'll be on vacation starting on Thursday next week Regards Ken

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[ACTIVITY] Jun 14 - Jun 17

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Committed support for NEON registers in core dumps (bug #615972) to mainline GDB and binutils repositories. * Added support to readelf (mainline binutils) to correctly display NEON register core file notes. * Started looking into remote gdb testsuite. == GCC == * Investigated reload failure when building kernel with Linaro GCC 4.5 (discovered by Arnd). * Investigated stray function references due to partial inlining breaking kernel build with Linaro GCC 4.6 (discovered by Arnd). 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 24

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||qemu-linaro-2011-06 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || ||qemu-linaro-2011-07 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 || || Historical Milestones: ||finish qemu-cont-integn || 2011-01-25 || 2011-01-25 || handed off || ||first qemu-linaro release || 2011-02-08 || 2011-02-08 || 2011-02-08 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-03 || 2011-03-08 || 2011-03-08 || 2011-03-08 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-04 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-05 || 2011-05-19 || 2011-05-19 || n/a || ||close out 1105 blueprints || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-19 || ||complete 1111 planning || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-27 || == omap3-usb-model == * fixed some corner case bugs revealed by Dave Gilbert's testing == linaro-qemu-11.11 == * qemu-linaro-2011.06 tested, uploaded and released on schedule == other == * pushed some patches fixing warnings on gcc 4.6 * exhaustive testing of the ARM decoder revealed that vfp load/store multiple with an overlarge immediate would try to store 256 regs and overrun the tcg buffer * set up an armv5 box and repro'd lp:739785 * working on AFDS (annual review) paperwork Meetings: toolchain, standup, GSoC student, 1-2-1, divisional comms. Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: 1-5 August: Linaro sprint 1111 (maybe) 15-16 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver [LinuxCon proper follows on 17-19th]

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Generating ancillary sections with gas

by Dave Martin

Hi Michael, This thread about how to generate ancillary sections using gas has resurfaced again. Do you know who might be available from the toolchain group to take a look at this? It appears that this issue can best be solved by a change to gas (or, possibly, to gcc). Cheers ---Dave References: Dynamic patching in discarded sections <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1152142> Generating ancilliary sections with gas <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.linaro.toolchain/686>

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Interesting failure of vasprintf test from postler

by Marcin Juszkiewicz

There is a ftbfs on armel bug for postler: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postler/+bug/791319 Attached test compiles fine on amd64 but fails on armel: 20:16 hrw@malenstwo:postler-0.1.1$ gcc _build_/.conf_check_0/test.c _build_/.conf_check_0/test.c: In function ‘main’: _build_/.conf_check_0/test.c:5:1: error: incompatible type for argument 3 of ‘vasprintf’ /usr/include/stdio.h:396:12: note: expected ‘__gnuc_va_list’ but argument is of type ‘char *’ Can someone explain me why this happens? Ubuntu armel and armhf cross compilers, CSL 2011.03-42 have same problem.

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Chromium browser FTBFS on armel

by Marcin Juszkiewicz

Hi Yesterday I looked at bug [1] in chromium-browser but checked oneiric version: 12.0.742.91~r87961. It failed on linking to CUPS libraries so I looked at upstream repository and found fix [2]. With patch applied it failed on same place: LINK(target) out/Release/chrome [keep-alive] czw, 16 cze 2011, 18:21:39 CEST (441 min) /usr/bin/ld.bfd.real: out/Release/obj.target/third_party/cacheinvalidation/../../cacheinvalidation_proto_cpp/gen/protoc_out/google/cacheinvalidation/internal.pb.o(.text._ZN12invalidation21ClientToServerMessage27MergePartialFromCodedStreamEPN6google8protobuf2io16CodedInputStreamE+0x7d2): unresolvable R_ARM_THM_CALL relocation against symbol `operator new(unsigned int)@@GLIBCXX_3.4' /usr/bin/ld.bfd.real: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [out/Release/chrome] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hrw/devel/porting-jam/chromium-browser-12.0.742.91~r87961/build-tree/src' make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 According to bugs [3][4] package may work when built without -fPIE but (as Loic wrote in [3]) "-fPIE is needed for some security features and web browsers are a critical piece of software that we want to protect". May someone take a look at this issue? One warning: this fail happens after 440 minutes of build on PandaBoard with usb hdd (took 1.8GB of space). If needed I can provide account on my panda with access to build directory (but this rather tomorrow then today) - IPv6 address only. 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/791283 2. http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git;a=patch;h=c2b99f3fe… 3. https://bugs.launchpad.net/binutils-linaro/+bug/641126 4. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55439

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[ACTIVITY] June 12-16

by Ira Rosen

Hi, - fix vectorizer testsuite failures on ARM - committed - committed a fix of a bug in the vectorizer revealed by the widen-mult patch - committed an improvement of peeling heuristic - reduce over-widening in case of multiplication by a constant (improves vectorized rgbyiq by almost 2x) - committed - started backporting to gcc-linaro-4.6 Ira

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Revital Eres

- Opened PR49385. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49385 - Committed SMS patch to fix recent bootstrap fail on ARM with SMS flags http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-06/msg00960.html - Committed SMS patch to Fix calculation of row_rest_count http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-06/msg01008.html Continue with Spec2006 analysis https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain/Benchmarks - Next two weeks (17 Jun to 2 July) --- vacation.

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Linaro QEMU 2011.06 released

by Peter Maydell

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2011.06. Linaro QEMU 2011.06 is the latest monthly release of qemu-linaro. Based off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. This release introduces two new features; these are still experimental so please report any issues: - A model of the Gumstix Overo board; this is an OMAP3 based system similar to Beagle but with the advantage of having supported onboard ethernet. - USB keyboard and mouse support, if your kernel includes support for the OMAP3 OHCI controller (not just EHCI). Try adding "-device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse" to your QEMU command line for Beagle or Overo models. Other interesting changes include: - A fix for the lack of graphics output on the Beagle model when running the Linaro 11.05 final release image - Suppression of the "Bad register 0x000000f8" warnings provoked by the Linaro 11.05 final release kernels - As usual, various minor correctness fixes and other upstream changes Known issues: - The beagle and beaglexm models still do not support USB networking - There are some gcc 4.6 warnings about "variable set but not used" which have not yet been resolved; Ubuntu Oneiric's gcc makes these non-fatal, but if you're building with an upstream gcc 4.6 you may need to add the "--disable-werror" option to configure The source tarball is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2011.06 Binary builds of this qemu-linaro release are being prepared and will be available shortly for users of Ubuntu. Packages will be in the linaro-maintainers tools ppa: https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/tools/ More information on Linaro QEMU is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro

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Linaro GCC 4.6 and 4.5 2011.06 released

by Michael Hope

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of both Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. Linaro GCC 4.6 is the fourth release in the 4.6 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.6.0+svn174261, it adds new optimisations and vectoriser improvements. Interesting changes include: * Updates to 4.6.0+r174261 * Blocks can now vectorise into ORN and BIC instructions * Support for half word to double word multiply and accumulate operations * Better support for other widening multiply operations * Further performance improvements in NEON strided loads and stores * Performance improvements targeted at EEMBC CoreMark Fixes: * PR target/48454: Set the lengths correctly for the case with Quad vectors. Known issues: * Building Python 2.7 with -mfpu=neon exposes a bug in vmov.i64 in binutils 2.20.51. Please use 2.21 or later. The strided load/store improvements allow the vectoriser to efficiently access values that occur at every n'th address, such as all of the red values in a RGB image or all of the left channel samples in a interleaved audio array. For example, a plain C function that converts between RGB and CYMK now runs 7.3 x faster on an A9. Linaro GCC 4.5 2011.06 is the eleventh release in the 4.5 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.5.3+svn174250, it is a maintenance focused release. Interesting changes in 4.5 include: * Updates to 4.5.3+r174250 Fixes: * LP: #744754: ICE in reload_cse_simplify_operands, at postreload.c:402 with neon optimized code * LP: #748138: ICE in redirect_jump, at jump.c:1443 The source tarball is available from: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2011.06-0 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.5-2011.06-0 Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro 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(a)linaro.org -- Michael

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Android 2.3.3 build failed using android preview toolchain

by Richard Zhao

Hi there, I tried to use android-toolchain-eabi-4.5-2011.05-0-linux-x86.tar.bz2 to enable hard float ABI. But it built failed on Android 2.3.3. Most errors are like address alignment issues. Did you have any patch for that? Successfully tested? Thanks Richard

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[ACTIVITY] 6th - 10th June

by Andrew Stubbs

My testing for the widening multiplies patches came back clean. I've committed it upstream, and merged it to Linaro GCC 4.6. The testing for my Thumb2 constants patches failed (bootstrap failure on ARM), so can't commit that right away. The failure is a SIGSEGV in the stage 2 compiler building it's own libgcc. This is going to be tricky to pin down! Continued work on widening operations in the GCC middle-end. I now have it doing all the arbitrary width widening operations that I want. I've tested that it didn't do the wrong thing for just about all permutations of input and output types, but I've yet to do anything like a bootstrap test or anything. There's still quite a lot more work to do in tidying it up. ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html

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binutils-gold ld segfault when compiling chromium-browser

by Riku Voipio

Hi, binutils-gold is crashing while compiling chromium[1]. This was originally found on Debian[2], but affects ubuntu[3] as well. Also, regular, non-gold ld will segfault with null pointer reference on the same linking commands. testcase: # wget http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=10;filename=allcodecs.o.xz… # unxz allcodecs.o.xz # sha1sum allcodecs.o f7c93a9132e4d02a651ade8db9f7b3f76918d236 allcodecs.o # ld.gold allcodecs.o ld.gold: internal error in value_from_output_section, at ../../gold/reloc.cc:1516 according to report, not reproducible inside qemu. [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12771 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616715 [3] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/72379090/buildlog_ubuntu-oneiric-armel.chrom…

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Revital Eres

Tracked a bootstrap failure with SMS flags on ARM machine exposed in recent trunk. Fixed and tested a patch for that. Tested another SMS patch following comments received from gcc ml@ (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-05/msg02294.html) Following conversation with Micheal, added SPEC2006 analysis info to the benchmarks wiki page -https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain/Benchmarks Discussed with Ramana weird RTL pattern generated for thumb2_movhi_insn with -march=armv7-a -mthumb using trunk. Probably will open a PR for that.

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * learning more on andoid (repo tool, some branches, the basics of the android build system) * finished to setup my environment to build the android sources * sucessfully build linaro-android using linaro gcc 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6 * tracked down the libgui.so linaro android issue to the apriori prelinker * workaround: disable prelinking for this module (patch -> linaro-dev) * I still don't understand what exactly is supposed to be prelinked and what's exactly causing the fail * Note: next Monday is a public holiday in Germany Regards Ken

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[ACTIVITY] 2011-06-10

by David Gilbert

== String Routines == * Completed gathering the SPEC2k6 memcpy results, graphed them, sent them out * Gathered SPEC2k6 memset results, graphed them, sent them out == 64bit Atomics == * Modified gcc backend to do 64bit Atomic ops - the code looks good, but I've not done much testing yet. == Other == * Upstreamed a small ltrace patch Next week: Plan is to get gcc tests done and attack libgcc for the pre-v7 fallbacks (the tricky bit there is runtime deciding what to use) Also run spec and denbench for strlen and some other string routines

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[Activity] Week 23 - week ending 10th June 2011.

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

== Progress == * Spent some time on the VFP moves and look at ivopts for a bit. Analysing a couple of options here. * Committed the DImode moves patch upstream. * Fixed PR49335 where GCC was generating rsb ip, sp, ip lsl #2 * Proposed a fix for PR48454 (finally being able to reproduce it) - was a case of a missing length attribute for vec_pack_trunc. * Investigated some regressions in v1 of a popular embedded benchmark - leads to BRANCH_COST tuning. * Merged by neon-vorn-vbic patch into linaro-gcc :4.6 == Plans == * Spend some time on the VFP moves and look at ivopts for a bit. * Merge the fix for lengths to linaro-gcc:4.6 and 4.5 if applicable. * Merge fix for PR49335 to linaro-gcc:4.5 and 4.6 . * Find some time for some upstream patch review. * T2 performance review meeting/ Meetings: * 1-1s * TCWG call.

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[ACTIVITY] report week 23

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: USB kbd+mouse finally working on QEMU beagle model Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||qemu-linaro-2011-06 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || || Historical Milestones: ||finish qemu-cont-integn || 2011-01-25 || 2011-01-25 || handed off || ||first qemu-linaro release || 2011-02-08 || 2011-02-08 || 2011-02-08 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-03 || 2011-03-08 || 2011-03-08 || 2011-03-08 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-04 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-05 || 2011-05-19 || 2011-05-19 || n/a || ||close out 1105 blueprints || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-19 || ||complete 1111 planning || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-27 || == upstream-omap3-patches == * started on disentangling the patchstack: submitted patches upstream for a few standalone fixes. First few steps in a big job... == omap3-usb-model == * added QEMU's USB OHCI model to the omap3/beagle, and (after some debugging and submitting a couple of OHCI bugfixes upstream) got USB keyboard and mouse working == linaro-qemu-11.11 == * rebased on master and identified gcc 4.6 compiler patches we need == other == * added and tested patches for an overo board model * added Beagle board support for returning EDID data from a fake monitor so the kernel will actually turn the display on * discussions about Android emulator (which looks likely to take the upstreamed ARMv7 translator with the fixes we've worked on over the last six months) * office move * QEMU 0.15 is not too far in the future: need to make sure all the ARM stuff we want is in it Meetings: standup, GSoC student, Christoffer Dall (working on KVM for ARM) Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: 1-5 August: Linaro sprint 1111 (maybe) 15-16 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver [LinuxCon proper follows on 17-19th]

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[ACTIVITY] June 5-9

by Ira Rosen

Hi, - vectorization of widening multiplication of unsigned types and constants - committed to mainline - fix vectorizer testsuite failures on ARM - submitted - testing a patch to fix a bug in the vectorizer revealed by the widen-mult patch - testing a patch to fix bad peeling heuristic that causes gcc.dg/vect/vect-72.c to fail on ARM Ira

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Toolchain continious build write-up

by Michael Hope

I've done a quick write-up on the (almost) continious builds done in the toolchain group: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Builds It's high level and includes things like what branches we watch, how often they get built, where the results go, and how things like testsuite results are shared. This is in follow up to the email on testsuite diffs yesterday. -- Michael

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Android emulator with latest QEMU support

by Bahadır Balban

Hello, The Android emulator supplied by Google: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulator.html is based on a very old version of QEMU (0.8.2?). AFAIK it only supports an ARMv5 platform. It would be very useful to run later kernels and ARMv7 platforms such as versatile express on the same emulator. We can help with part of this work if anyone is willing to initiate and project-manage it. Regards, Bahadir

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Testsuite diffs between builds

by Michael Hope

The toolchain build system now records the change in testsuite results between builds. For example: Current trunk and the one built a week ago on x86_64: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/build/gcc-4.7~svn174684/logs/x86_64-maverick-cbui… GDB trunk and the one built a week ago on ARM: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/build/gdb-7.3~20110527+git3b12013/logs/armv7l-mav… The changes in Chung-Lin's CoreMark commit: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/build/gcc-linaro-4.6+bzr106751/logs/armv7l-maveri… The same between the feature branch and branch point: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/build/gcc-linaro-4.6+bzr106751~cltang~coremark-pa… I'll change the email that goes to gcc-testresults to include the diff which should make it easier to pick out regressions. I'll start sending the same to the GDB and binutils guys as well. -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] 30th May - 5th June.

by Andrew Stubbs

Public Holiday on Monday. Learned that Linaro are reducing their funding to just one CodeSourcery engineer, myself. Spoke to Chung-Lin to break the news and reassign him to other work. Chung-Lin will now be working on MIPS16 Eglibc porting. Pinged my ADDW/SUBW patch, again. Ramana finally reviewed it, so I've addresses his concerns and reposted. The corrected patch was approved, so I've set it to test before committing. Continued work on widening multiplies tree optimizations in GCC. Bernd made it sound quite easy, but changing the type of some operations means quite a lot of tweaking and reworking in the rest of the compiler expand routines. In particular, the widening stuff needs to be broken out of expand_binop, and recast. Merged, tested and committed the latest patches from FSF 4.5. Merged, tested and committed the latest patches from FSF 4.6. Richard Earnshaw approved my widening multiply RTL patch, so I've set that to test in the Linaro test system. Richard also approved my SMLALTB/SMLALTT patch. Set that testing also. Responded to a question on ask.linaro.org. ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html

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[Activity] Weekly status

by Revital Eres

Fixed an SMS patch following comments received in the gcc@ ml. While testing the fix I discovered another issue-- latest mainline ICEs with SMS flags while building libgcc on ARM configured with --with-arch=armv7-a. This new failure does not seem to be related to the above fix and I'm now investigating it. Looked at code generated for spec2006's libquantum, hmmer and cactusADM_base benchmarks.

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[ACTIVITY] 2011-06-03

by David Gilbert

== String routines == * Wrote a hybrid ARM/Neon memcpy - it uses Neon for non-aligned cases or large (>=128k) cases * polished up and sent out write up of workload analysis of denbench and spec * Ran denbench with all memcpy and memset varients, graphed up results - SPEC 2k6 is now cooking with the memcpy set - it'll take all weekend. == 64 bit atomics == * Started looking through the Gcc code at the existing non-64bit atomic code; I need to understand how registers work in DI mode and what's going to be needed in terms of temporaries. Dave

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[Activity] Weekly status for w/e 2011-06-03

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

== Progress == * Finished breaking down the Thumb2 performance blueprint * Some patch review and bugzilla maintenance. * Canonicalized vorn and vbic. Bootstrap failure reported . Fixed upstream * Rewrote parts of the DImode expanders and combined them to two patterns with alternatives that get enabled based on the architecture variant. While looking at the bug with adr's possibly going out of range, it looks like there is a bug in const_ok_for_op with respect to how it attempts to generate code for a DImode move of 0xffffffff which can be implemented as a simple mvn but gets split into 3 instructions More explanations in the patch when it comes out. * Thumb2 performance meeting this week. * Talked to RichardS about A8 and Neon / auto-increment issues he was seeing with scheduler descriptions and looked again at the A8 TRMs and the examples. * Looked at lrint and lrintf which are C99 functions for rounding and created a prototype lrint and lrintf patch for GCC that now appears to generate the vcvtr instructions. == Plans == * Spend some time on the VFP moves and look at ivopts for a bit. * Finish testing and submit upstream my other patch with DImode moves and cases where we are splitting more than necessary. * Start looking at some of the T2 performance work items. * Patch review. Finish TLS patch review . * Try to get vcvtr working and tested with eglibc. * Look at RichardS's comments and testcase for the A8. Meetings: * 1-1s * Linaro calls.

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[ACTIVITY] report week 22

by Peter Maydell

[Short week: bank holiday] RAG: Red: Amber: Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||qemu-linaro-2011-06 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || || Historical Milestones: ||finish qemu-cont-integn || 2011-01-25 || 2011-01-25 || handed off || ||first qemu-linaro release || 2011-02-08 || 2011-02-08 || 2011-02-08 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-03 || 2011-03-08 || 2011-03-08 || 2011-03-08 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-04 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || ||qemu-linaro 2011-05 || 2011-05-19 || 2011-05-19 || n/a || ||close out 1105 blueprints || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-19 || ||complete 1111 planning || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-27 || == upstream-omap3-patches == * started on disentangling the patchstack: submitted patches upstream for a few standalone fixes. First few steps in a big job... == omap3-usb-model == * added QEMU's USB OHCI model to the omap3/beagle; the kernel detects the USB controller and hub but not any attached devices; more debugging required == other == * discussions about Android emulator * office move * QEMU 0.15 is not too far in the future: need to make sure all the ARM stuff we want is in it Meetings: standup, GSoC student Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: 1-5 August: Linaro sprint 1111 (maybe) 15-16 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver [LinuxCon proper follows on 17-19th]

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Richard Sandiford

== This week == * Spent about half of the week on auto increment/decrement. There are two execution failures left. * Looked at assembly comparisons between the old pass and various forms of the new pass. The results look reasonable. * Ran DENbench and my libav microbenchmarks to measure the difference in performance. Saw that some tests were repeatably worse. * Looked into those tests and realised that they were being hit by the lack of an address writeback model in the scheduler (a known limitation). Dependent stores were being scheduled in a block at the end of the loop because we said that the dependencies had 0 latency. * Spent most of the rest of the week on fixing that limitation. One of the difficulties is that define_bypass currently requires a complete list of instruction reservations. This is difficult for things like writeback because the result could in principle be used by many different instructions. Decided to generalise define_bypass so that it can handle filename-style globs. * Wrote a patch to model writeback in NEON. * Wrote a patch to model writeback in core instructions. However, while doing this, I noticed that the behaviour I'm seeing on our Cortex-A8 doesn't match what I'd expected from GCC's A8 scheduler description (or the documentation). Talked with Ramana about it. Distilled a benchmark. * These scheduler changes didn't improve the DENbench and libav scores much by themselves, but the combination of the scheduler and auto inc/dec changes did produce noticeable improvements in some libav benchmarks and rather smaller improvements in some DENbench ones. == Next week == * Finish scheduler work, in light of observed behaviour. * More testing prior to submission. I'm away the week of 13th June. Richard

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[ACTIVITY] May 29 - June 2

by Ira Rosen

Hi, - bug fixes: PRs 49222, 49199, 49239, 49093 - widening multiplication: submitted a patch to support widen-mul for unsigned types and constants in the vectorizer's pattern recognizer. Now considering to move optimize_widening_mul pass before loop optimizations and improve it to support unsigned and constants Next week: holiday on Tuesday (half day) and Wednesday. Ira

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Re: Linaro 11.05 released

by Barry Song

2011/5/29 Fathi Boudra <fathi.boudra(a)linaro.org>: > Hi, > > The Linaro Team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.05. > > 11.05 is the second public release that brings together the huge amount of > engineering effort that has occurred within Linaro over the past 6 months. > > This is the first release delivering Android, Ubuntu and the Working Group > components nicely bundled into one release. We will continue to pick up more > Working Group and Landing Team outputs in the upcoming monthly releases. > > We encourage everybody to use the 11.05 release. The download links for all > images and components are available on our release page: > > http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1105/Final > > Highlights of this release: > > * Linaro GCC 4.5, GCC 4.6 and GDB 7.2 2011.05, recently released components i have been wondering why always two versions are released at the same time. what kind of users are expected to use 4.5, and what kind of users are expected to use 4.6? my another question is whether we have a policy to maintain old realease. for example, in case1105 has some bugs, is it possible linato toolchain team fix those bugs in the old version later. many users are using old version with bugs, if they move to new version directly, new feature maybe import new bugs. so people maybe want to use old version with bug fixes, but without new features. > created by the Toolchain Working Group. > * Linaro Kernel 2011.05-2.6.38, the first source tarball release of Linux > Linaro done by the Kernel Working Group. > * Linaro Evaluation Builds (LEBs) for Android and Ubuntu on PandaBoard with > 3D graphics acceleration. > * Android cross toolchain based on latest gcc-linaro and gdb-linaro > * Host development tools (cross compiler, image builders) readily integrated > for the Ubuntu distribution users (Lucid, Maverick and Natty support). > * And many more... > > Using the Android-based images > ============================== > > The Android-based images come in three parts: system, userdata and boot. > These need to be combined to form a complete Android install. For an > explanation of how to do this please see: > > http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/ImageInstallation > > If you are interested in getting the source and building these images > yourself please see the following pages: > > http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/GetSource > http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/BuildSource > > Using the Ubuntu-based images > ============================= > > The Ubuntu-based images consist of two parts. The first part is a hardware > pack, which can be found under the hwpacks directory and contains hardware > specific packages (such as the kernel and bootloader). The second part is > the rootfs, which is combined with the hardware pack to create a complete > image. For more information on how to create an image please see: > > http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation > > Getting involved > ================ > > More information on Linaro can be found on our websites: > > * Homepage: http://www.linaro.org > * Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org > > Also subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC > channels to stay on top of Linaro developments: > > * Announcements: > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-announce > * Development: > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > * IRC: > #linaro on irc.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net > #linaro-android irc.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net > > Known issues with this release > ============================== > > For any errata issues, please see: > > http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1105/Final#Known_Issues > > Bug reports for this release should be filed in Launchpad against the > individual packages that are affected. If a suitable package cannot be > identified, feel free to assign them to: > > http://www.launchpad.net/linaro > > Cheers, > > Fathi Boudra > -- > Linaro Release Manager | Platform Project Manager > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-announce mailing list > linaro-announce(a)lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-announce >

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * finished the measuring of the overhead of the ARM specific unwind tables https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/libunwind#overhead_of_the_ARM_spe… * started to get an environment up and running in order to build the linaro-android sources * encountered some build issues (I'm in the process to sort out some issue with pfalcon of the android team) * finshed 11.11 cycle planning * I'll be out of office for the rest of the week (public holiday + vacation) Regards Ken

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[Activity] May 17-21

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

Progress: * Some trouble building the SPEC2k tools in the new multiarch world in natty. Perl refuses to link libm and a number of other things also end up failing . Appears to be a real pain with the new multiarch world and SPEC2k's curious build system for its' tools . Will fall back to an older chroot and get the tools built natively. * Tried breaking down the T2 performance blueprint - initial breakdown now available. * Looked at the binutils vmov.i64 issue again. Looks like natty-updates will now pick this up. * Some patch review and bugzilla maintenance. Plans: * Get SPEC tools building. * Look more at the T2 performance blueprint * Spend some time on the VFP moves and look at ivopts for a bit. * Merge review duty. Meetings: * 1-1s * Linaro calls.

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gcc-4.7~svn174320 fails to bootstrap

by Michael Hope

Hi Richard, Ramana. FYI, trunk currently fails to bootstrap on ARM: ../../../gcc-4.7~/libcpp/expr.c: In function 'cpp_num_sign_extend': ../../../gcc-4.7~/libcpp/expr.c:1321:1: error: could not split insn (insn:TI 53 49 92 6 (set (reg:DI 10 sl [orig:151 num$high ] [151]) (ior:DI (not:DI (reg:DI 2 r2 [171])) (reg:DI 10 sl [orig:151 num$high ] [151]))) ../../../gcc-4.7~/libcpp/expr.c:1310 869 {orndi3_neon} (nil)) ../../../gcc-4.7~/libcpp/expr.c:1321:1: internal compiler error: in final_scan_insn, at final.c:2723 See: http://builds.linaro.org/toolchain/gcc-4.7~svn174320/logs/armv7l-maverick-c… -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] 23rd - 27th May

by Andrew Stubbs

Posted a new patch for canonicalization of widening multiplies. This was rejected, so I submitted another one. And another .... and another. Finally I have one that nobody has complained about ... yet, but still nobody has approved it either. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg06546.html Add support for SMLALTB/SMLALTT/SMLATB/SMLATT to the machine description. This depends on the canonicalization patch working. Posted this upstream also. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg06692.html [I had to spend quite a bit of time on internal CodeSourcery work this week, hence the shorter than usual status report. Normal service will resume shortly.] ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html * ARM Thumb2 addw/subw support. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03783.html * Multiply and accumulate: http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg06546.html * SMLALTB/SMLALTT/SMLATB/SMLATT http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg06692.html

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[ACTIVITY] May.23 -- May.29

by Chung-Lin Tang

== Last week == * Investigated the CoreMark numbers posted by Michael Hope, mainly the oddities of a significant Linaro 4.6 regression versus FSF 4.6. Later verified to be a false alarm. * Pushed a merge of some of my upstream CoreMark patches to Linaro 4.6. * Did archeology for PR42017. Traced some history of the ARM prologue from 2000 to 2007 (DF branch), posted upstream. Hope this clarification gets my patch an approval soon. * Tried the above PR42017 patch (which is supposed to release the use of LR as a general register in leaf functions) on CoreMark, using Linaro 4.6, and was surprised to find that despite many reductions in spill code and epilogue (now more often directly return by ldmfd), the generated code still regresses in performance (!). * Continuing above, suspecting something from experience (cough) added -falign-functions=8 to the CoreMark compile options. Finally produced a small improvement, while causing a regression for the without-PR42017-patch case (victory?). * Worked on PR48808, PR48792 over the weekend, which are cases where paradoxical subregs caused ICE in reload. Posted an ARM backend patch upstream, though now mostly taken over by Richard Sandiford :) == This week == * Some other PRs, ideas, still work in progress. * Started using the porter boards, will try to get LP:689887 over with this week.

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Revital Eres

* Set-up SPEC2006 profile runs on PowerPC with trunk. * Looked at SPEC2006's 462.libquantum. * PR745743 - compared different versions mentioned in the PR. * Wrote a patch to fix another issue related to how SMS handles debug_insn.

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[ACTIVITY] 2011-05-27

by David Gilbert

== String routines == * Finally finished the ltrace analysis of the whole of SPEC 2k6 and have written it up - I'll proof read it next week and then send it out to the benchmark list. * Ran memset and memcpy benchmarks of larger than cache sizes on A9 * memcpy on larger than cache sizes (or probably mainly cache miss data) does come back to Neon winning over ARM; my suspicion is that with cache hits we run out of bandwidth on Neon, but that doesn't happen in the cache miss case; why it's faster in that case I'm not sure yet. * memset is still not faster for Neon even on large sizes where the destination isn't in the cache. == Other == * Started looking at 64 bit atomics * Looking at the pot of QEmu work with Peter. Dave

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * the overhead of the ARM specific unwind tables for some binaries: https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/libunwind#overhead_of_the_ARM_spe… * sometimes the size of the .text section differs which worries me a bit (not necessarily a GCC issue, could be related to the build system) * tested a couple of linaro-android images on my panda board * ran into a l-i-t issue (now fixed) and discussed with asac and friends * and finally got the network up and running :) * some 11.11 cycle planning (libunwind work items, "in distributions" spec) Regards Ken

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[ACTIVITY] report week 21

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: 1111 QEMU planning complete Current Milestones: | Planned | Estimate | Actual | complete 1111 planning | 2011-05-28 | 2011-05-28 | 2011-05-27 | qemu-linaro-2011-06 | 2011-06-16 | 2011-06-16 | | Historical Milestones: finish qemu-cont-integration | 2011-01-25 | 2011-01-25 | handed off | first qemu-linaro release | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | qemu-linaro 2011-03 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 | qemu-linaro 2011-04 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | qemu-linaro 2011-05 | 2011-05-19 | 2011-05-19 | n/a | close out 1105 blueprints | 2011-05-28 | 2011-05-28 | 2011-05-19 | == other == * Completed planning work for 1111; all blueprints now created, fleshed out with work items and assigned: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/qemu-linaro [Note that as expected some items under consideration have not made the list; this includes the trustzone work] * Some interesting upstream QEMU discussions (list and IRC) on (a) performance improvements [good to see general interest in this] and (b) overhauling the memory API [very long thread but I think the proposed API should be OK for ARM system emulation purposes] * LP:768650: QEMU warnings on recent Linaro OMAP3 kernels: tracked down to the kernel deliberately reading a register it knows doesn't exist on OMAP2/3. Sent a query via Arnd about whether we can get this changed. * rebased linaro-qemu to current master * Sent patchset which starts ARM QEMU moving towards getting rid of the implicit global CPUState pointer * sent patch fixing a configure bug causing it to create recursive symlinks * sent a patchset which tightens up the compile time TCG value type checking; this would have detected the build-breaking patch I sent earlier this week... * sent patch adding support for active-low interrupts to the LAN9118 model; this is needed when it is used in the Overo OMAP3 board model Meetings: toolchain, standup, GSoC student, doughnuts Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: 1-5 August: Linaro sprint 1111 (maybe) 15-16 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver [LinuxCon proper follows on 17-19th]

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[ACTIVITY] May 22-26

by Ira Rosen

Hi, * PR 49087 - fixed * PR 49038 - opened by Richard - fixed on 4.7, to be backported to 4.5 and 4.6 * working on widening multiplication for unsigned types and constants (the signed case works fine) Ira

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