== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Committed patch fixing return value handling on arm-linux-gnueabihf
[TCWG-228]
-- Finished work on handling aggregate types return values on
arm-linux-gnueabihf ABI. [TCWG-228] [5/10]
-- Submitted single and double precision handlers for upstream review.
[TCWG-228]
-- Started work on vector return values and aggregate types return
values with vector elements. [TCWG-228] [2/10]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
Public Holiday [2/10]
-- Friday 5th February 2016
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Update and commit aggregate type return values on
arm-linux-gnueabihf ABI patch.
-- Investigate issues while stepping over library functions on
arm-linux-gnueabihf
-- Further work on vector return values on arm-linux-gnueabihf ABI
== Progress ==
o Connect slides (2/10)
* Undefined behavior (slides and review)
o GCC dev. (5/10)
* Remote testing sanitizing: found a solution in dejaGNU and GCC
implementation and test ongoing
* Analysed and closed PR69590
o Misc (3/10)
* Various meetings
* internal discussions
== Plan ==
o Continue on GCC testsuite
o FSF branch merge and 2016.02 snapshot
== This Week ==
* TCWG-319 (1/10)
- Updated patch and re-posted, queued for stage-1
- Regression with armeb for -fvect-cost-model=cheap
* TCWG-528 (1/10)
- speculatively increase alignment for global structs with arrays.
* Backports (3/10)
- committed backport: 232688
- r232631 (partially?) reverts 232330
- modified script to follow git log <file>
* benchmarking (2/10)
- 464.h264ref triggered ICE for -O3 -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon,
reduced it (PR69282)
- Benchmarking tcwg-310 on SPEC2006 - +0.10%
- Benchmarking INT SPEC2k6 for aarch64 without LTO complete.
* Slides (2/10)
- Read doc and created outline for most of slides,
- expect to be mostly complete by next week
* Misc (1/10)
- Meetings
== Next Week ==
- LTO benchmarking and slides
- TCWG-528
== Progress ==
- LTO and TCWG480 (5/10)
* Started testing with the prototype patch
* Still trying to figure out what is the best way to set_range_info
based on IPA
* i.e., how to find the SSA_NAME initialized with PARM_DECL
- Misc (5/10)
* gcc/bug list
* Undefined behaviors slides for connect
* Meetings
== Plan ==
* LTO
* bugs
== This week ==
* Backports (1/10)
- 232493 - Committed to Linaro branch
- 232727 - Committed to Linaro branch
- 232414 - Committed to Linaro branch
* Bugzilla 69663 - [ARM] Implement overflow arithmetic standard names (5/10)
- Implemented SImode add, sub, and neg overflow patterns
- add overflow patterns pass testing
- debugging failures in subv overflow patterns
* Bugzilla 69008 - gcc emits unneeded memory access when passing trivial
structs by value (ARM) (3/10)
- Investigating Dead Store Elimination pass to determine if code can
be improved
* Misc (1/10)
== Next week ==
* Personal days on February 8th and 9th
* Resolve bugzilla 69663 subv issues and work on DImode patterns
* Bugzilla 69008 - continue investigation
* Investigate test case failure on backport 232600
* Off from Mon. to Wed. [6/10]
# Progress #
* TCWG-518. Support range stepping on arm-linux. Ongoing. [2/10]
First do software single step in GDBserver side.
* TCWG-509. GDB 7.11 release. [1/10]
PR 19474, review Keith's patch. The patch is OK to mainline, but we
don't want to take risk shipping this patch to 7.11 release.
* Misc, register to Linaro Connect BKK16, and get clarifications on my
visa to Thailand. [1/10]
* Monitor the discussions on kenernel awareness upstreams, and comment
on the display of CPSR register.
# Plan #
* Finish Linaro Connect slides.
* TCWG-509. Anything needed for GDB 7.11 release.
* TCWG-518.
--
Yao
== Progress ==
* Validation
- disabled Auto Backport Engine until the patch selection
is improved to avoid saturating the builders with undesirable
builds.
- AArch64 bare metal validation (bug #2011). Submitted a patch
for dejagnu aarch64-fv8.exp, and one for our builders schroots.
Will need another patch, in ABE.
- timeout issues: no progress
* Misc (conf calls, meetings, emails, ....)
- internal discussions
== Next ==
* Validation
- debug timeout issues
- cleanup
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Submitted patch fixing return value handling on arm-linux-gnueabihf
[TCWG-228] [5/10]
-- float and double types handled in above patch did some more
investigation for handling structs [TCWG-228] [2/10]
-- Collecting LLDB status data, ran testsuite on different hardware
and minor investigation of fails and xfails [2/10]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Update float/double return value patch after review and commit upstream
-- Submit a fix for handling structs as return types on arm-linux-gnueabihf
Public Holiday
-- Friday 5th February 2016
== Progress ==
- Public Holiday (2/10)
- LTO and TCWG480 (4/10)
* Started with a prototype for VRP
* Experimenting with simple test cases
- Misc (4/10)
* gcc/bug list
* LTO and Undefined behaviors slides for connect
* Meetings
== Plan ==
* LTO
* bugs
Hi,
My ARM target runs glibc 2.13 and I am having a hard time finding a
linaro toolchain for it. It seems like all the ones I have found ship with
glibc 2.15 (even old ones).
Where can I find the binaries for a linux toolchain that targets armhf
with glibc 2.13?
Thanks in advance
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [4/10]
* Went a few more rounds with the race condition, finally nailed it
* Tidied up transfer of Coremark results to LAVA
* Added metadata to LAVA results
* Sketched some charts using LAVA reporting
* Improved runtime benchmark logging
Benchmarking infrastructure documentation - TCWG-496 [2/10]
* Most everything drafted, some docs finished
Controlled image builds - TCWG-360 [2/10]
* Reached a better understanding of what a hwpack is
* Generated a few images, none of them booted
Misc [2/10]
=Plan=
Benchmarking-102 slides for Connect
Finish documentation
Backport benchmarking
If builder shows up in microinstance, evaluate stability of its Junos
o Teaching activity (3/10)
== Progress ==
o Infra/Validation (1/10)
* A couple of patches for release script.
o GCC dev. (2/10)
* Remote testing sanitizing: still digging.
o Misc (4/10)
* Various meetings (usual ones and internal ones)
* Backports reviews
== Plan ==
o Continue on GCC testsuite and opened cards.
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [2/10]
* More fallout from attempts to fix race condition
* Began cleaning job submission YAML
Controlled image builds - TCWG-360 [1/10]
* (Re)learned how to generate images from hwpack + filesystem
Struck down by flu [7/10]
== This week ==
* Backports (3/10)
- 232493 - Unrelated aarch64 failure and non-thumb asan test on
aarch32 big endian
- 232600 - All tests pass
- 232727 - unrelated non-thumb test failure
asan/deep-thread-stack-1.c asan/deep-thread-stack-1.c)
* Bugzilla 68543 - [AArch64] Implement overflow arithmetic standard
names (3/10)
- Development halted due to submission of related patch by Richard
Henderson:
- https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-01/txt0WQOxpo0_5.txt
- Began implementation of aarch32 related patch
* Bugzilla 69008 - gcc emits unneeded memory access when passing trivial
structs by value (ARM) (3/10)
- Additional code is being generated in default abi case with
structure alignment equal to 8
- Investigating Dead Store Elimination pass to determine if code can
be improved
* Misc (1/10)
== Next week ==
* Create new bugzilla for aarch32 to implement overflow standard names
and continue implementation
* Bugzilla 69008 - continue investigation
* Work on backports as necessary
== This Week ==
* PR43721 (1/10)
- Submitted upstream.
- GIMPLE parts approved by Richard, wants someone else to approve
rtl-expansion bits.
* benchmarking (1/10)
- benchmarking tcwg-310 on cortex-a53, cortex-a57, r1-a12, cortex-a17
- submitted job for INT benchmarks for SPEC2006 for aarch64
* backports (2/10)
- r232688 automated backport build failed for aarch64-linux-gnu on
tcwg-backport-gerrit:
Unrecognized macro 'GERRIT_PATCHSET_REVISION' in '#664-
${GERRIT_PATCHSET_REVISION,length=8}'
Build successful on tcwg-backport-maxim
- r232737, r232631 have at least 4 dependencies.
- wrote bare bones script to find dependencies for revision
* ccp (2/10)
- enhancement to hoist stmt thru phi with all constant args
- patch: http://people.linaro.org/~prathamesh.kulkarni/ccp-mov.diff
- rejected by Richard, since PRE handles this case when it's
trivially profitable and phiprop does similar transform. In general,
it's not profitable to have this transform included.
* Public Holiday (2/10)
* Misc (2/10)
- Meetings
- Slides: short & long term activities
== Next Week ==
- PR43721: look at using define_expand instead of hook, add test-cases
and few nits
- tcwg-319 - analyse with perf
- LTO INT benchmarking for arm, aarch64 and x86
- LTO Slides
# Progress #
In general, GDB mainline is in a good state. All known bugs are fixed,
but still have some patches pending for review. The release can be
created after these pending patches are in.
* Fix fail in gdb.base/interrupt-noterm.exp. TCWG-517. Done. [2/10]
* Fix fail in gdb.fortran/vla-value.exp. TCWG-521. Done. [1/10]
* PR 19474. [3/10]
Tried different approaches, but still cause regression.
Fortunately get the right maintainer involved. Will discuss with
him on this bug next week.
* Range stepping doesn't work on arm-linux, which slows down stepping
over a line of source. TCWG-518. [2/10]
* Prepare slides for Linaro Connect. [2/10]
# Plan #
* Off on Mon. to Wed.
* Linaro connect slides.
* Thailand visa.
* Other issues on GDB 7.11 release, if any.
--
Yao
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the availability
of the Linaro Stable Binary Toolchain GCC 5.2-2015.11-2 Release Archives.
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/5.2-2015.11-2/http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.2-2015.11-2/
These archives provide cross-toolchain executables (compiler, debugger,
linker, etc.) and shared libraries (libstdc++, libc, etc.) that target ARM
or Aarch64 GNU/Linux and bare-metal environments. The cross-toolchain
binaries execute on a Linux or MS Windows (under mingw32) host
operating-system.
Please evaluate this release-candidate for correctness. Linaro will shortly
spin the Linaro GCC 5.2-2015.11-2 release if this release-candidate passes
stakeholder validation.
For bugs related to this release-candidate please email
linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org or file a bug at
https://bugs.linaro.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Linux%20Binary%20toolchain
NEWS
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-2
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-2 binary toolchain release respin is built from
the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-2 release source archive. The Linaro
GCC-5.2-2015.11-2 release source archive is derived from the same sources
as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot source archive.
This release includes fixes for the issues specified in the Linaro GCC 5.2
2015.11-2-rc1 release-candidate.
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-2-rc1
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-2-rc1 binary toolchain release-candidate is
built from the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-2-rc1 release-candidate source
archive. The Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-2-rc1 release-candidate source archive
is derived from the same sources as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot
source archive.
This release-candidate includes fixes for the following issues:
Linaro bug 1995 identified a problem where the installed sysroot was not in
the place that the compiler expected the sysroot to be located by default.
This is fixed in the Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-2-rc1 binary toolchain
release-candidate.
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-1
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-1 binary toolchain release is built from the
Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-1 release source archive. The Linaro
GCC-5.2-2015.11-1 release source archive is derived from the same sources
as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot source archive.
This release includes fixes for the issues specified in the Linaro GCC 5.2
2015.11-1-rc1 release-candidate.
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-1-rc1
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-1-rc1 binary toolchain release-candidate is
built from the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-1-rc1 release-candidate source
archive. The Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-1-rc1 release-candidate source archive
is derived from the same sources as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot
source archive.
This release-candidate includes fixes for the following issues:
The arm-eabi-none multi-libs are now available in the toolchain sysroot as
a fix for Linaro bug 1920 and Linaro bug 1922 .
Linaro glibc 2.21 now provides ld-linux-aarch64_be.so.1 .
Linux 32-bit host binaries for the ARMv7 Linux hard float cross-toolchain
(arm-linux-gnueabihf triple).
* GCC 5.2 2015.11
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11 binary toolchain release is built from the
Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11 release source archive. The Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11
release source archive is derived from the same sources as the Linaro
GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot source archive.
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-rc1
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-rc1 binary toolchain release-candidate is built
from the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11 release-candidate source archive. The
Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-rc1 release-candidate source archive is derived from
the same sources as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot source archive.
--
Ryan S. Arnold
Linaro Toolchain Working Group - Engineering Manager
www.linaro.org
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the availability
of the Linaro Stable Binary Toolchain GCC 5.2-2015.11-2-rc1
Release-Candidate Archives.
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/5.2-2015.11-2-rc1/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.2-2015.11-2-r…
These archives provide cross-toolchain executables (compiler, debugger,
linker, etc.) and shared libraries (libstdc++, libc, etc.) that target ARM
or Aarch64 GNU/Linux and bare-metal environments. The cross-toolchain
binaries execute on a Linux or MS Windows (under mingw32) host
operating-system.
Please evaluate this release-candidate for correctness. Linaro will shortly
spin the Linaro GCC 5.2-2015.11-2 release if this release-candidate passes
stakeholder validation.
For bugs related to this release-candidate please email
linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org or file a bug at http://
https://bugs.linaro.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Linux%20Binary%20toolchain
NEWS
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-2-rc1
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-2-rc1 binary toolchain release-candidate is
built from the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-2-rc1 release-candidate source
archive. The Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-2-rc1 release-candidate source archive
is derived from the same sources as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot
source archive.
This release-candidate includes fixes for the following issues:
Linaro bug 1995 identified a problem where the installed sysroot was not in
the place that the compiler expected the sysroot to be located by default.
This is fixed in the Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-2-rc1 binary toolchain
release-candidate.
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-1
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-1 binary toolchain release is built from the
Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-1 release source archive. The Linaro
GCC-5.2-2015.11-1 release source archive is derived from the same sources
as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot source archive.
This release includes fixes for the issues specified in the Linaro GCC 5.2
2015.11-1-rc1 release-candidate.
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-1-rc1
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-1-rc1 binary toolchain release-candidate is
built from the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-1-rc1 release-candidate source
archive. The Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-1-rc1 release-candidate source archive
is derived from the same sources as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot
source archive.
This release-candidate includes fixes for the following issues:
The arm-eabi-none multi-libs are now available in the toolchain sysroot as
a fix for Linaro bug 1920 and Linaro bug 1922 .
Linaro glibc 2.21 now provides ld-linux-aarch64_be.so.1 .
Linux 32-bit host binaries for the ARMv7 Linux hard float cross-toolchain
(arm-linux-gnueabihf triple).
* GCC 5.2 2015.11
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11 binary toolchain release is built from the
Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11 release source archive. The Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11
release source archive is derived from the same sources as the Linaro
GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot source archive.
* GCC 5.2 2015.11-rc1
The Linaro GCC 5.2 2015.11-rc1 binary toolchain release-candidate is built
from the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11 release-candidate source archive. The
Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.11-rc1 release-candidate source archive is derived from
the same sources as the Linaro GCC-5.2-2015.10 snapshot source archive.
--
Ryan S. Arnold
Linaro Toolchain Working Group - Engineering Manager
www.linaro.org
Hi!
When using the linaro-4.9-2015.05 toolchain on the Linux master and on Linux stable releases
I am seeing a build issue below when using the allyesconfig. This does not seem to occur on the 5.2 tool chain.
We cannot move to 5.2 tool chain for our releases as they are based on 4.9.
LD init/built-in.o
arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x1d4): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text.unlikely'
arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x1e0): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text.unlikely'
arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x1ec): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text.unlikely'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `combiner_handle_cascade_irq':
:(.text+0x834): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_lock' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
:(.text+0x868): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_unlock' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
drivers/built-in.o: In function `hip04_irq_set_type':
:(.text+0xad0): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_lock' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
:(.text+0xb10): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_unlock' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
drivers/built-in.o: In function `hip04_raise_softirq':
:(.text+0xc8c): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_lock_irqsave' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
:(.text+0xdc8): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
drivers/built-in.o: In function `hip04_irq_set_affinity':
:(.text+0xefc): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `_raw_spin_lock' defined in .spinlock.text section in kernel/built-in.o
:(.text+0xf78): additional relocation overflows omitted from the output
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
Please advise to how to resolve this issue within the 4.9 Linaro tool chain
Dan
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Dan Murphy
== Progress ==
* Support (5/10)
- Bug triage: reviewing the 300+ bugs on ARM
- remaining 220 bugs are all still pertinent
* Release (2/10)
- Woes due to GCC ABI change may delay 3.8.0 release
- Tested on both ARM and AArch64 with old environment, all green.
* Background (3/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, general support, etc.
- EuroLLVM, FOSDEM preparations, ARM sync
o Teaching activity (2/10)
== Progress ==
o Linaro GCC (2/10)
* Delivered 2016.01-1 Snapshot respin with fix for Linaro PR #2001
* Gave some support on backports
o Infra/Validation (1/10)
* Compared ABE master results.
o GCC dev. (2/10)
* Identified the way testcases are uploaded on the remote target in
cross validation as the root cause of validation instabilities. Digging
into GCC .exp files and DejaGNU to fix it cleanly.
o Misc (3/10)
* Various meetings
* Start a backport/validation document
== Plan ==
o Continue backports/validation document
o Continue on the ongoing cards opened
