== This week ==
- Resolved Launchpad bug 1305042 as user error and provided proper asm
coding [TCWG-290] [2/10]
- Investigated infinite loop bug [TCWG-290][6/10]
- Determined the infinite loop is occurring in function
vt_find_locations in the variable tracking pass
- Still debugging to determine cause of infinite loop
- Absent due to illness on April 14th
== Next week ==
Vacation
== Future ==
Getting the following cross compiling for RPi on Debian Wheezy x64 using
the gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian toolchain within Eclipse
Kepler. Compilation works fine using native Debian x64 GCC and native
GCC compiler on the RPi.
out of dynamic memory in yy_create_buffer()
collect2: error: ld returned 2 exit status
make: * [cwebsocket] Error 1
I'm stumped. Can't find much info on the issue. Any ideas?
== Progress ==
* One bank holiday, half day childcare (3/10)
* Submit two iterations of malloc microbenchmark for glibc (4/10, TCWG-160)
* Submitted a patch for aarch64 ld bug with SystemTap notes (1/10)
* Investigated strcmp implementations for ARM (1/10, TCWG-153)
* Patch review, bugs, support, etc. (1/10)
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* malloc benchmarking/implementation work
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Progress ==
TCWG-156 cortex-strings memset (3/10)
* Got a full set of benchmarks (for my 2 targets)
* Cleaned up code
* Sped up small memsets (for A9, A15 results pending)
glibc performance bug in lowlevellock.c (1/10 - I'll make a card next week)
* Learned to build and test glibc
* Understood the bug and worked out how to fix
Misc
* Meetings/mail (1/10)
* Infrastructure/workflow fiddling (1/10)
* 2 days holiday
== Plan ==
More TCWG-156
Finish off glibc performance bug
Public holidays Friday & Monday
== Week of April 7th ==
- Made a how-to wiki page/script on how to use QEMU and schroot for system emulation (TCWG-179, 2/10).
-- This allows you to get armhf or armel or aarch64 Ubuntu or Debian system within minutes, e.g., for PGO or LTO bootstraps of GCC.
-- https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/TCWG/ARM+ubuntu+chroot+with+QEMU+use…
-- I can move this page into public wiki if get enough interest from non-Linaro people.
- Fixed various bugs in instruction scheduling patch set (TCWG-388, 5/10).
- Scripted running SPEC2000 for reproducible benchmarking (TCWG-238, 3/10).
-- The scripts are now at http://git.linaro.org/toolchain/spec2xxx-utils.git
-- Scripts support both local (native) and remote (cross) benchmarking.
== Week of April 14th ==
- Document spec2xxx-utils scripts and see how they fare in LAVA environment. Add support for SPEC2006. (TCWG-238)
- Post autoprefetcher patch set upstream (TCWG-388)
--
Maxim Kuvyrkov
www.linaro.org
== Week of March 31st ==
- Investigated and scripted how to reproducibly run benchmarks (TCWG-238, 7/10)
-- Stop all services on target board
-- Use local disk
-- Stop networking
-- Bind benchmark to a specific CPU. Bind all other processes to a different CPU.
-- Disable frequency scaling.
- Various discussions (3/10)
--
Maxim Kuvyrkov
www.linaro.org
PGO - AArch64 (TCWG-179) (4/10)
* Installed QEMU user static for aarch64 and use them from
chroot environment in ubuntiu 13.10
* Tried installing chroot + qemu arm64-saucy in another ubuntu 12.04
machine. Issue with binfmts. looks to be corrupted.
* Bootstrap GCC with PGO with --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran
completed under arm64-chroot.
* Built GCC and binutils in native mode under chroot + qemu arm64-saucy .
* SPEC runs -O3 -mcpu=cortex-a57 in chroot + qemu arm64-saucy with
linaro release source (4.8).
Calculix did not finish under chroot + qemu arm64-saucy
GLIBC Systemtap (4/10)
* Built systemtap under chroot + qemu arm64-saucy. Built glibc with
the patch and used --enable-systemtap.
* Able to see setjmp probe in gdb, but longjmp probes not loading.
Tried debugging in gdb. gdb debugging support not available yet under
qemu.
* Discussed with Will newton on my observation.
Bug fix (1/10)
* Not much progress continued looking at reload dumps.
Misc (1/10)
* Tested cbuildv2 to build gcc natively under qemu-arm64-chroot-ubuntu-saucy.
cbuildv2 reports configure error for gcc and g++multilibs. But they
are not needed for native builds. Sent note to Rob for fixing it.
* Attend 1-1 with Ryan
* Attend 1-1 with Maxim discuss PGO work.
== Plan ==
PGO runs for SPEC2006 on chroot + qemu arm64-saucy
Upstream /testing for systemtap probes in glibc
Reload bug fix.
Leave: 17-Apr local state election.
== Progress ==
* GDB reverse debugging on aarch64 [6/10] [TCWG-398]
-- Setup development tree and debug environment.
-- Verified generic reverse debugging implementation aarch64.
-- Implemented main function stubs to catch instruction for decoding
and recording.
* Work on gdb testing utility [TCWG-96] [1/10]
-- Some tweaks to scripts and wiki updates.
* Experimented gdb testing/debugging with Aarch64 QEMU + Chroot [3/10]
== Plan ==
* GDB reverse debugging on aarch64 [TCWG-398]
-- Implement main instruction decoding handler and write function
stubs for different types of instructions.
-- Dig deeper into aarch32 for handling it through armv7
implementation if possible.
== Progress ==
TCWG-156 cortex-strings memset (5/10)
* Fixed a couple of bugs in the no-VFP case
* Ran benchmarks, discarded broken benchmarks, ran more benchmarks
* Explored benchmarking scripts
* Took a hard look at the memset tests
* Experimented with ARM-internal cortex-strings benchmark (not useful right now)
Misc
* Meetings (1/10)
* Kicked an A15 target until it worked (1/10)
* 1/2 day holiday
== Plan ==
More TCWG-156
Maxim's glibc starter issue
Holiday Tuesday
Public Holidays Friday & next Monday
1 day off (Child care)
== Issues ==
* Toolchain64 disk full
== Progress ==
* Released Linaro GCC 4.7 and 4.8 2014.04 (5/10)
* Launchpad bugs: (1/10)
o LP #1169164 : including signal.h exposes various PSR_MODE #defines
- rebased and rework patch
* Misc:
o Cbuildv1 baby-sitting (1/10)
o Various meetings (1/10).
== Next ==
- Continue on LP #1169164
- Linaro GCC 4.9 release
== Issue ==
* None
== Progress ==
* 2 day off.
* Investigate lp:1304267 and close it as invalid.
* Investigate shrink-wrap bootstrap issues [4/10, TCWG-133]
- Re-implement the copy propagate part by referring cprop_hardreg pass.
- Other tests are ongoing.
* Document cross-native build on wiki:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/cross-native
== Plans ==
* Send the shrink-wrap related patches for review.
* PING the pending patches.
== Planed leaves ==
* April 21: Team event.
* May 1-3: Labour day holiday.
== Progress ==
* TCWG-413 Spec2006 (6/10)
- Setup chroot for aarch64
- Created rootfs with 4.8/trunk and spec2006
- booted created rootfs on foundation model with ubuntu kernel
* TCWG-291 CRC (3/10)
- posted vrp patch upstream
- with that seeing expected performance improvement
- analysing crc complete and up-streaming activities pending
* LP1301335 and PR59695 back-porting (1/10)
== Plan ==
Benchmarking and FENV support
Dear Sir,
Thanks for you page. it is really very helpful to us.
We are facing a problem during compiling GCC for our ARMv7-a Cortex-a9.
We are using following option:
1.
../gcc-linaro*/configure --disable-bootstrap --enable-languages=c,c++
--with-mode=thumb --with-arch=armv7-a --with-tune=cortex-a9
--with-float=hard --with-fpu=vpfv3-d16 --prefix=$home/gcc/gcc-linaro
2.
make -j`getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN`
after 2 step we are getting following error:
checking whether putc_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether getrlimit is declared... yes
checking whether setrlimit is declared... yes
checking whether getrusage is declared... yes
checking whether ldgetname is declared... no
checking whether times is declared... yes
checking whether sigaltstack is declared... yes
checking whether madvise is declared... yes
checking for struct tms... yes
checking for clock_t... yes
checking for F_SETLKW... yes
checking if mkdir takes one argument... no
Unknown CPU given in --with-arch=armv7-a.
make[1]: *** [configure-gcc] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/anwej/src/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Please suggest the solution. where is the problem and what will be our next
steps.
Thanks in advance.
-best regards
Anwej Alam
Ph: +91.995.833.3456
Hi,
The preprocessed file:
http://people.linaro.org/~rikuvoipio/qmltextgenerator.ii.gz
With compile command line:
g++ -save-temps -c -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4
-Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fvisibility=hidden
-fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -o x.o
qmltextgenerator.ii
Will take apparently forever (north of 1600min) on a debian native gcc. -O
compiles instantly. Some bisecting for gcc optimization flags later,
disabling strict aliasing allows instant build as well:
g++ -save-temps -c -g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wall
-W -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -o x.o qmltextgenerator.ii
Happens with:
gcc version 4.8.2 (Debian 4.8.2-19)
and
gcc version 4.9.0 20140405 (experimental) [trunk revision 209146] (Debian
20140405-1)
Linaro binary cross-compilers are compile the file fine with -O2.
do we do native gcc testing, or should it be just submitted upstream
bugzilla?
Riku
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2014.04
release of both Linaro GCC 4.8 and Linaro GCC 4.7.
As announced at Linaro Connect USA 2013 Linaro GCC moved to a pattern of
quarterly stable releases, with engineering releases in the intervening
months. This is the second stable release, and contains no known regressions
compared to the 2014.01 release.
The next stable release of GCC 4.8 will be the 2014.08 release. There will be
no engineering releases of GCC 4.8 until this release, as it enters in
maintenance.
No more releases of GCC 4.7 are planned.
Next month's release - 2014.05 - will be based off GCC 4.9 and be an
engineering build.
Linaro GCC 4.8 2014.04 is the thirteenth and last development release in the
4.8 series before entering maintenance. Based off the latest GCC 4.8.3+svn208968
release, it includes performance improvements and bug fixes.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to GCC 4.8.3+svn208968
* Cortex-a53 support
* A fix for LP #1292489: Buggy vectorization of dot products
* A fix for LP #1268893: ICE when building kernel raid6 neon code
* A fix for LP #1273511: ICE APCS Frame & optimize-sibling-calls
Linaro GCC 4.7 2014.04 is the twenty third release in the 4.7 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.7.4+svn209005 release, this is the tenth release after
entering maintenance and the final one.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to GCC 4.7.4+svn209005
* A fix for LP #1129013: Internal compiler error in push_reload during
bootstrap stage 2
* A fix for LP #1292489: Buggy vectorization of dot products
* A fix for LP #1301335: Compiler segmentation fault while cross-compiling QT5
Webkit
The source tarball is available from:
http://releases.linaro.org/14.04/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.8http://releases.linaro.org/14.04/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.7
Downloads are available from the Linaro Releases website:
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/
More information on the features and issues are available from the
release page:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.8/4.8-2014.04https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.7/4.7-2014.04
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
I compiled my code with debug symbols on an BeagleBoneBlack using Debian
gcc-4.7. If I use objdump -S on my object file, I see both source lines
and disassembly. On my Ubuntu 13.10 host, using
gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.7-2013.04-20130415_linux, I do
arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -S on the same object file, I see disassembly
lines, but the source lines are not displayed. I¹m attempting to debug my
code with a Lauterbach JTAG debugger, but no source code is available
which makes debugging very difficult.
Is there some compatibility issue here or am I doing something wrong?
Regards,
John
== Progress ==
* Work on gdb testing utility [TCWG-96] [8/10]
-- Support to run native and native-gdbserver test via ssh on remote
machines like arm-linux.
-- Bug fix and test gdb testing utility by running it various configurations.
-- Update wiki page with testing utility and how to use it.
* Chromebook ubuntu re-install and fix network lag issue [2/10]
== Plan ==
* GDB reverse debugging on aarch64
-- Start implementation of reverse debugging infrastructure [TCWG-398]
-- Add support for running aarch64 gdb test suite in gdb testing utility.
== This week ==
a53 support [CARD-300][3/10]
- aarch64-none-elf target using cpu=cortex-a53 passed validation on
foundation model
- Resolved code review issues (formatting and unnecessary patches)
Backport 202663 - vectorizer bug passed validation and merge review for
4.7 and 4.8 [CARD-300][3/10]
GCC Bugzilla bug 60657 [TCWG-290][2/10]
- began fix by adding new conditions to pattern causing crash
- bug was fixed upstream by Jeffrey Law on April 4th
== Next week ==
- Transition from backports to bug fixing
- Create Wiki page for Aarch64 bug contingency bug fixes, feature and
performance improvements for partners
== Future ==
One week of vacation either the third or fourth week of April.
=== Progress ===
LP1296601 (ICE in push_minipool_fix) [5/10]
* completed a prototype fix
* submitted RFC patch to gcc-patches
* still awaiting review
PR60609 (Error: value of 256 too large for field of 1 bytes) [3/10]
* implemented fix and posted to gcc-patches
* approved, subject to further testing on Thumb-1
libvpx NEON assembler vs instrinsics performance investigation [2/10]
* looking at disassembly, code is not terribly aesthetically pleasing
* in some cases clang looks better
=== Plan ===
write up libvpx investigation
follow up/ping LP1296601
NEON scheduling TCWG-135
TCWG-156 (5/10)
* Hacked v7 memcpy into a memset
* Much fiddling with builds, targets
* Kicked off a benchmark run
Misc
* Meetings (1/10)
* Finding hardware/setting up working environments/figuring out workflows
(4/10)
== Issues ==
* none
== Progress ==
* Launchpad bugs:
o TCWG-422 : ICE in assign_by_spills building linux btrfs module (1/10)
- New failure after first fix reported.
- reduced new testcase.
- Fix committed by Vladimir as rev209038
o Backported "Internal compiler error in push_reload during
bootstrap stage 2" to GCC 4.7 (1/10)
- analysed validation results.
- re-spawned some jobs.
* Backports review: (5/10)
o cortex-a53 support backport:
- We are still not able to validate it on aarch64-linux-gnu target
with a compiler configured to default to cortex-a53, but no regressions
observed in the generic case and on bare_metal (with cortex-a53).
* Misc:
o Cbuildv1 baby-sitting (2/10)
- Toolchain64 disk was full.
o Various meetings (1/10).
== Next ==
- Mainly 4.7 and 4.8 April releases
- TCWG-413 Spec2006 (5/10)
- Analysed 456.hmmer
- In the process of opening performance bug reports
- Started looking at 453.povray
- TCWG-291 CRC (2/10)
- Not seeing performance improvement with redundant "and" instruction gone
- Analysing with perf to see the reason
- LP1301335 (3/10)
- SLP vectorizer ICEs for QT5 Webkit for Linaro 4.7
- Doesn’t occur in trunk/4.8/4.7 FSF
- Patch proposed for merge request which fixes
- I also see some FAIL -> PASS in the regression with this patch
- This patch is only relevant for Linaro 4.7 so we cant/don’t need to
upstream it (?)
== Plan ==
Continue with Spec2006 and crc
4 day week 31-Oct local holiday
Bug fix (2/10)
* Looking at a register allocation issue with ARMv7 hard float issue. (3/10)
Tried changing machine description pattern same as trunk in gcc 4.8 branch.
Issue does not occur with trunk and reason is arm64 moved to lra.
turning off lra bug occurs.
Trying to find out if it is easy to fix in reload or wait for LRA backport.
PGO - AArch64 (TCWG-179) (3/10)
* Native CPU2006 runs on V8 foundation model.
SPEC runs -O3 -mcpu=cortex-a57. INT benchmark failures seen with mcf
and h264ref.
rest benchmarks running.
* Tried to use ubuntu saucy core image on V8 foundation model and
mount NFS is failing.
* Trying to install QEMU user static for aarch64 and use them from
chroot environment
GLIBC Systemtap (2/10)
* Re spined libc systemtap probe patch to glibc. Will newton is
testing it in hardware.
Meetings (2/10)
* Attend 1-1 with Ryan discuss 2014 goal planning.
* Attend 1-1 with Maxim discuss PGO work.
