=Progress=
lowlevellock performance bugs - TCWG-435 [1/10]
* All ready to go
cbuild benchmarking - TCWG-360 [4/10]
* Completed a draft implementation for spec2k
* Parked pending review
Meetings/mail/etc [5/10]
=Plan=
Send lowlevellock patches to list
Get back to benchmarking/improving cortex-strings memset
== This week ==
Backported Launchpad 1234146 - Bad Neon intrinsics code gen when using
ld4/st4 on AArch64 (2/10)
Bug Investigations (4/10)
Launchpad Bug 640521 - Incorrect function prologue with Thumb-1
high register variable
Launchpad Bug 1318831 - Invalid unpoisoning of stack redzones on ARM
Launchpad bug 771832 - bogus reference to unused symbols
Launchpad cleanup (4/10)
- 1305042 - Changed status to invalid
- 634731 - Marked as won't fix for older releases. Improved code
generated for 4.8 and 4.9
- 637882 - Marked as won't fix for older releases. Improved code
generated for 4.8 and 4.9
- 638687 - Changed status to invalid. Code for alloca is correct
and alignment is necessary
- 1312931 - Could not verify.
- 772085 - Marked as won't fix for older releases. Fixed in 4.8 and 4.9
- 1225317 - Marked as incomplete due to lack of test case
== Next week ==
Vacation
== Future ==
No Plans.
== Issues ==
* None
== Progress ==
* CARD-1162 : Linaro GCC 4.9 and CARD-1355 : stabilization and
optimization effort for ARMv8-a (8/10)
- Put the backporting script on https://git.linaro.org/toolchain/backflip.git
(documentation still needed)
- FSF branch merges for 4.9 and 4.8
- Backported requested fixes in 4.9
- Validate merges and some backports in cbuildv1
- Looked at the different results we have in cbuildv2 and cbuildv1
- Still some issues in Jenkins (build crash or are stuck)
- 40 backports stiil need validation
* Misc: (2/10)
o Various meetings.
== Next ==
* Complete FSF branch merges and release 4.9-2014.06
* Document backporting script usage
* Continue feedback and help with the validation
== Issues ==
* None.
== Progress ==
* One day off.
* Clean up and test loop2-invariant heuristic tune patches (TCWG-469, 6/10).
* Rebase conditional compare patches and split them into smaller ones
(TCWG-488, 2/10).
== Plans ==
* Send out loop2-invariant heuristic tuning patches for review.
* Rework on the conditional compare patches.
== Progress ==
* Toolchain (CARD-862 0/10)
- Some investigations on LLVM Linkers
* Background (10/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- Cleaned up the rack, drown a map
- Jenkins Chromebooks with native Arch Linux
- Failures and problems ensued...
- More time wasted on APMs, but some progress was made
- All Chromebooks had I/O errors on SD cards, starting over
== Plan ==
Spend the weekend and the next week re-flashing Chromebooks
== Progress ==
* GCC trunk cross-validation (CARD-647) (6/10)
- recent LRA change to fix AArch64 compiler causes huge memory consumption.
- this has caused my validations to crash several servers, and I had
to stop them
until I could restart reliably.
- so far unable to restore them
- trying to test LRA tentative fix separately, but results are unreliable too
- tested Thomas Preud'homme patch (bswap-2.c), luckily before
everything became unstable.
* GCC 4.9 branch cross-validation (CARD-647) (1/10)
- validation scripts needed some adaptations to handle the 4.9-branch
- not running yet, until the trunk problems are solved
* Neon intrinsic tests (CARD-????) (1/10)
- submitted patch series containing 40 test files (total will be 136)
* AArch64 libsanitizer support (TCGW-58)
- qemu still needs a patch of mine which I thought had been
committed since February..
- once patched, the sanitizer tests now start executing but lead to
SEGV+timeout
* Misc (meetings, conf-calls, ...) (2/10)
== Next ==
* short week (Monday off, lots of external constraints)
* GCC cross-validation:
- hopefully fix unstability and restore the automatic validations of
trunk + start those of 4.9 branch
- try to actually start mail-driven robot to validate patches
* Neon intrinsics tests: handle feedback
* AArch64 libsanitizer support: look at why tests fail
== Progress ==
* Holiday Monday and Tuesday (4/10)
* Write some scripts to graph malloc app benchmark results (1/10, TCWG-418)
* Patch review and testing (2/10)
* Released eglibc 2.19 2014.06, binutils 2.24.0 2014.06 and gdb 7.7.1
2014.06 (3/10)
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* Get wg boards running for validation
* More malloc benchmarking
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Week of June 2nd ==
- Toolchain testing improvements (CARD-1378, 8/10)
-- Implemented schroot testing inside cbuild2. This will allow both Jenkins automation and developers to use schroot testing approach.
-- Automated board configuration for schroot testing.
-- Started cleaning up and committing my testing changes to cbuild2 and dejagnu.
- Various discussions (1/10)
- NZ public holiday (2/10)
- Celebrated! My! Happy! Birthday!
--
Maxim Kuvyrkov
www.linaro.org
== Week of May 26th ==
- Toolchain testing improvements (CARD-1378, 8/10)
-- Prototyped parallelization of testing across several ARM board. Turns out that striping tests across target boards does not give much as host is the bottleneck in our setups.
-- Prototyped testing using GCC's shared libraries and newly-built sysroot (instead of using system libraries on the target).
-- Prototyped testing using schroots -- this appears the way to go about our toolchain testing. For each test run a schroot session is started on the board, complete with a dedicated SSH server and freshly-built sysroot. After testing is done schroot session is closed and everything is cleaned up including disk files and stray processes.
- Various discussions (2/10)
--
Maxim Kuvyrkov
www.linaro.org
== Week of May 19th ==
- TCWG development environment (TCWG-483, 2/10)
-- Followed up on various package requests and backup settings.
- STREAM performance regression (TCWG-388, 3/10)
-- Tested, posted upstream and committed first batch of patches.
- Toolchain testing improvements (CARD-1378, 4/10)
-- Discussed testing design and approaches with the team.
-- Prototyped various approaches to testing.
- Various discussions and bits of administrivia.
--
Maxim Kuvyrkov
www.linaro.org
Hi,
I'm trying to follow
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Using/GCCNative but it
looks like it is outdated? Can someone confirm?
E.g.:
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-bootstrap,
--with-mode, --with-arch, --with-tune, --with-fpu, --with-float
--
João M. S. Silva
== Issue ==
* None.
== Progress ==
* Commit the fixes for pr61220, 61278 and part of 61225. The patch to
fix other part of 61225 is still in review (2/10).
* Loop invariant heuristics tuning. Tests are ongoing. (7/10, TCWG-763)
* Rebase conditional compare patches. Tests are ongoing.
* Prepare UK visa.
== Plans ==
* Send out loop-invariant heuristic tuning patches for review.
* Rework on the conditional compare patches.
== Leaves ==
* June 2.
== This week ==
- Memorial day holiday Monday (2/10)
- Investigated launchpad 1295738 - [4.8 Regression] unable to find a
register to spill in class 'LO_REGS' [CARD-300](2/10)
- Will mark as unlikely to fix (reload error); works with LRA and/or
with -fomit-frame-pointer
- Investigated launchpad 757427 - gconftool-2 segfaults on arm
[shrinkwrap] [CARD-300](2/10)
- Segfault not reproducible in linaro 4.8 or 4.9
- Shrinkwrap bug not reproducible in linaro 4.8 or 4.9
- Investigating launchpad 1225317 - gcc mis-compiles (large-value) jump
tables with -fPIC or thumb2 [CARD-300](1/10)
- Investigating launchpad 1234146 - Bad Neon intrinsics code gen when
using ld4/st4 on AArch64 [CARD-300] (2/10)
== Next week ==
- Resolve Launchpad bugs 1225317 and 1234146
== Future ==
No Plans.
== Planned holidays ==
Possible vacation June 16th - June 20th
== Progress ==
* Meetings and Misc (3/10)
- Upgraded my Samsung Chromebook to boot Ubuntu trusty instead of
using crouton. Works much better for native builds now.
* Worked on perfecting building binary tarballs in a 32bit chroot
that run on any platform. (TCWG 383 - 7/10)
- Added zlib to infrastructure so libz.so.1 can be found at runtime.
- Force libgloss to build for bare metal.
- Fixed minor issues with Canadian cross builds.
== Plan ==
* Figure out why Canadian cross builds fail on the TCWG build farm,
but work on my local machines.
* Continue improving building binary releases.
* Get D01 board setup and working.
* Get back to test result verification automation.
- rob -
== Progress ==
* GDB arm v8 record/replay
-- Support for recording advance SIMD load store instructions.
[TCWG-403] [4/10]
-- Code cleanup and patch creation. [2/10]
-- Investigation of patches failing in native configuration. [TCWG-484] [2/10]
* Miscellaneous
-- Sick day off on Monday [2/10]
== Plan ==
* GDB arm v8 record/replay
-- Bug fix issues stalling patch submission upstream.
-- Submission of patches upstream.
-- Bug fixing to reduce failures.
* Run gdb testsuites on arm/x86 in native/remote for latest feature parity.
* Day out of office on Thursday to collect passport from UK visa office.
Short week (2 days off) (4/10)
== Progress ==
* GCC trunk cross-validation (CARD-647) (2/10)
- reported 2 new compiler build failures and 2 regressions
- tested one proposed patch, which did not fix the regression
- trunk now builds OK again
* Neon intrinsics tests (1/10)
- cleaned branch to prepare submission
- working on Cumulative Saturation Neon flag support for AArch64
* aarch64 libsanitizer support
- resumed work: libsanitizer no longer builds with recent glibc,
will need to patch it upstream before bringing it back to GCC.
- testing will be difficult using qemu since libsanitizer reserves a
huge chunk of memory at startup (8GB) which may not be available on
the host machine
* Misc (meetings, conf-calls, ....) (3/10)
- 1:1 calls, weekly calls
- backports review
== Next ==
* GCC trunk cross-validation:
- test Kugan's patch before submission
- evaluate effort to develop a mail-driven support for testing
patches vs trunk befiore submission
- add support for validation of FSF-4.9 branch
* Neon intrinsics tests
- add support for Cumulative Saturation Neon flags on AArch64
* AArch64 libsanitizer
- discuss how to make cross-testing more practical
Short week (3 days)
== Issues ==
* None
== Progress ==
* CARD-1162 : Linaro GCC 4.9 and CARD-1355 : stabilization and
optimization effort for ARMv8-a (4/10)
- Enhanced my backporting script
- Looked at the merge process (4.9, 4.8 and 4.7 merge are comming)
- 40 backports stiil need validation
* Misc: (2/10)
o Various meetings.
o Discussed schroot testing
== Next ==
* FSF branch merges
* Document backporting script usage
* Continue feedback and help with the validation
== Progress ==
* Zero/sign extension elimination (TCWG-15) (7/10)
- regression tested and fixed all the issues
- final bootstrap and regression testing for arm and x86_64 are ongoing
- will post the patch for comment after checking the results
* benchmarking (TCWG-468) (1/10)
- Set-up chrome-book for a15 release benchmarking
* SAH1 performance (TCWG-413) (2/10)
- Christophe noted regression for aarch64_be due to clean-up patch.
- register_move_cost hook in aarch64 does not handle all the cases
(CORE_REGS and POINTER_REGS) and due to this, it calculates FP2FP cost
for these classes . With CORE_REGS gone, costs for register classes are
now different. Cost table needs adjustment.
* FENV for C11 TCWG-447
- Committed ARM part.
== Plan ==
* Benchmarking.
* Upstream zero/sign extension elimination activities.
* sha1 performance.
== Progress ==
* Kernel (CARD-1246 2/8)
- Fixed edge cases for named registers
- http://llvm.org/PR19841
- http://llvm.org/PR19837
* Background (6/8)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- TCWG Rack re-org
- Trying to set up native Chromebooks
- Trying to set up APM
- Trying to add Compiler-RT to our buildbots
== Plan ==
* Continue rack re-org
* Continue RT support on current bots
* Try libc++ bot
* Have a look at sanitizer bot
== Progress ==
* Bank Holiday Monday (2/10)
* Got a postgresql malloc benchmark running (4/10, TCWG-441)
* Started refactoring malloc microbenchmark based on review (2/10, TCWG-160)
* Patch review and testing (2/10)
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* Holiday Tuesday and Wednesday
* Finish refactoring malloc microbenchmark
* Work on results plotting code for benchmarks
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
Hi,
I've been having this issue with latest binary Linaro 2014.04 toolchain from
http://releases.linaro.org/14.04/components/toolchain/binaries/gcc-linaro-a…
It comes with own sysroot, but linker fails to locate /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
$ make
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -I/tmp/include/libnl3/ -DCONFIG_LIBNL32 -c -o nvs.o nvs.c
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -I/tmp/include/libnl3/ -DCONFIG_LIBNL32 -c -o misc_cmds.o misc_cmds.c
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -I/tmp/include/libnl3/ -DCONFIG_LIBNL32 -c -o calibrator.o calibrator.c
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -I/tmp/include/libnl3/ -DCONFIG_LIBNL32 -c -o plt.o plt.c
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -I/tmp/include/libnl3/ -DCONFIG_LIBNL32 -c -o wl18xx_plt.o wl18xx_plt.c
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -I/tmp/include/libnl3/ -DCONFIG_LIBNL32 -c -o ini.o ini.c
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -L/tmp/lib/ nvs.o misc_cmds.o calibrator.o plt.o wl18xx_plt.o ini.o -lm -lnl-3 -lnl-genl-3 -o calibrator
/opt/linaro-2014.04/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.8.3/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld: cannot find /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:26: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 1
And when I pass my own sysroot, it works fine.
Is it supposed to work as a standalone toolchain with its own bundled sysroot?
Thanks.
--
Denys
I've been digging through test logs, and for gcc 4.9.1 native x86_64
tests, all the libsanitizer test cases fail to link due to unresolved
symbols from libpthread and libdl. Does anybody know more about this
bug, or care to fix it ? :-) It still exists in gcc trunk.
- rob -
== This week ==
- Completed GCC Launchpad bug dispositions [CARD-300][2/10]
- Backported PR61202 - gcc generated invalid sqdmulh instruction
[TCWG-485](2/10)
- Triaged and investigated Launchpad bug 1295738- Unable to find a
register to spill in class 'LO_REGS' [Card 300](3/10)
- Triaged and investigated Launchpad bug 1248752 - ARM assembly
instruction compile error [Card-300](3/10)
== Next week ==
- Resolve Launhpad bugs 1295738 and 1248752
- Triage and investigate other bugs as time warrants
== Future ==
No Plans.
== Planned holidays ==
No Plan