- linaro-toolchain - lists.linaro.org

by Maxim Kuvyrkov

== Week of March 24th == - STREAM regression (TCWG-388, 5/10) -- Finished prototype patch. The patch adds modeling of ARM L2 auto-prefetcher hardware to GCC scheduler (the model is very simple as auto-prefetcher is very lightly documented). Half of the patch cleans up and improves GCC scheduler, and the other half implements the auto-prefetcher model. -- While looking into ARM scheduling support noticed that ARM doesn't use multipass lookahead scheduling, which surprised me. Enabled it (multipass scheduling) in my patches. - Looked into lll_timed_wait Glibc/uClibc bug upstream (1/10) -- https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00905.html - Various discussions and reviews (4/10) == Week of March 30th == - STREAM regression (TCWG-388) -- Benchmark patches on SPEC2k and find/confirm best values for tuning parameters: --- dfa_lookahead: should normally be issue_rate-1. --- L2 auto-prefetcher queue depth: new tuning knob. -- Investigate any performance regressions from the patches. - lll_timed_wait Glibc/uClibc bug -- Make sure it is fixed upstream. Possibly backport to Linaro branches. -- Maxim Kuvyrkov www.linaro.org

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[ACTIVITY] Week 13

by Yvan Roux

== Issues == * none == Progress == * Launchpad bugs: o TCWG-422 : ICE in assign_by_spills building linux btrfs module (1/10) - created blueprint for : https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/1296676 - Reported upstream as : http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60650 - Reduced testcase - Fix committed by Vladimir as rev208876 - still ICE when configured for arm-none-linux-gnueabihf o Backported "Internal compiler error in push_reload during bootstrap stage 2" to GCC 4.7 (1/10) - https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/1129013 - some testsuite regressions observed. will investigate. * Backports review: (5/10) o reviewed backport for pr60264 and rev202663 o cortex-a53 support backport: - Analysed testsuite regression - 22K Loc patch under review * LRA on AArch32: o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (1/10) - looked at the perf tool results * Misc: o Various meetings (1/10). o Various support to team members (1/10) o Cbuildv1 baby-sitting (Calxedas nodes have to be restarted after each upgrades !) == Next == - continue cortex-a53 review - continue on backports. - continue on TCWG-345.

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[ACTIVITY] 24 - 28 March 2014

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Short Week -- Monday Day Off: Pakistan Day 23rd March public holiday roll over. [2/10] -- Short leave on Thursday [1/10] * Work on gdb testing utility [TCWG-96] [7/10] -- Writing a new gdb testing utility script that automates gdb testing in various configurations and compares testsuite results. -- Support for all kind of native, native-gdbserver and remote-gdbserver gdb configurations has been added. -- Interactive and configuration file based user input mode has been added. -- Testing configurations host alive, ssh possible, board file found and ability to build sources using user defined configure flags has been added. == Plan == * Work on gdb testing utility [TCWG-96]. -- Add 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.

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[Weekly] 24-28 MAR 2014

by Michael Collison

== This week == a53 support - Fixed regression found in arm testing and resubmitted build and merge requests - arrch64 testing passed with no regressions. Testing with a53 support enabled still required Merged 202663 (vectorizer bug) into 4.7 and 4.8 branches. Submitted merge and build requests == Next week == - Test aarch64 with a53 support enabled on qemu64 - Work on bug 60657 - [4.9 Regresssion] ICE: error: insn does not satisfy its constraints == Future ==

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[ACTIVITY] Week 13

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * Create prebuilt sysroot based on Linaro eglibc 2014.04 release (https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries/support/01/+download/linaro…) (1/10). * Enable shrink-wrap for apcs. Patch was out for community review. (1/10) * Reinvestigate shrink-wrap enhancement (4/10, TCWG-133) - There was improvement in ira to split_live_ranges_for_shrink_wrap (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10474). But it still can not handle the case in 453.povray. - Investigate to do a simple copy-forward when prepare_shrink_wrap. * Investigate lp:1296942 (pr60663). Patch is sent out for community review. (4/10) * Backporting the fix for pr60264 to Linaro 4..8. == Plans == * Continue on shrink-wrap enhancement. == Planned leaves == * April 7: Qingming holiday.

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[ACTIVITY] 24 - 28 March 2014

by Kugan

== Progress == - TCWG-413 Spec2006 (7/10) - Investigated compiler error for 481.wrf with FSF 4.8.2. Issue is due to aarch64_cm<cmp><mode> pattern (fcmle and fcmlt supports only #0 as third val). This is already fixed in trunk and Linaro 4.8. - Ran profiling to analyse 4.9 regressions. Started looking into P7Vitterbui which is one of the functions that performs badly. - TCWG-291 CRC (3/10) Came up with a patch for improving vrp for test-case. Some c++ test cases are failing in regression testing with this patch. Looking into it. - TCWG-394 / PR60034 Patch committed and card closed. http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?rev=208949&root=gcc&view=rev == Plan == Continue with Spec2006 and crc

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[ACTIVITY] Week 13

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * Android (no card, 10 minutes. ;) - Implemented __builtin___clear_cache in Clang * Kernel (TCWG-417) 6/10 - VLAIS in crypto (last place in kernel) - __builtin__stack_pointer (new builtin) - Discussion in GCC list, named registers might be a better option - Discussion in LLVM list about implementing named registers - Implementing named register variables... - Planning on LAVA testing LLVM kernels with LLVMLinux - __aeabi_memset/cpy/move (both Android and Kernel) will have to be fixed * Libraries (TCWG-125) 2/10 - libc++abi's unwind routines assume (ARM == SjLj) - libc++ doesn't work without them - We'll need to teach it about EHABI (later) * Background 2/10 - Installed ArchLinux on my laptop, took some time to setup - Re-org of LLVM Jira Cards (TCWG-417) - Reviewing some GSoC proposals == Plan == * implement named register variables in LLVM, then Clang * Continue helping LLVMLinux and Milosz to test the LLVM kernel * Time allowing, check CBuild2 for an LLVM build * Two long weeks of holidays...

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[ACTIVITY] 24 - 28 March 2014

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Bugfix aarch64 setcontext patch (2/10, TCWG-410) * malloc requirements wiki page (2/10, TCWG-414) * Lots of creating and updating and updating JIRA cards (1/10) * glibc patch review (1/10) * Assorted small patches - ld relasz, gnulib obstack, glibc strtod benchmark (2/10) * Investigate a couple of issues raised by member services and on lists (2/10) == Issues == * None == Plan == * Resurrect glibc malloc benchtest * More glibc benchmark infrastructure work * Check status of glibc ARM port build warnings -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ACTIVITY] March 17-23

by Maxim Kuvyrkov

== Week of March 17th == - STREAM regression (TCWG-388, 4/10) -- Investigated how to prioritize memory references instructions in GCC scheduler to take full advantage of L2 autopretch hardware in certain ARM cores. -- Fixed -fdbg-cnt=sched_insn debug counter along the way. It appear to have been broken since GCC 4.7. - Discussed reg_pressure instruction scheduling with Charlie. (TCWG-135, 1/10) - Various discussions about instruction scheduling in GCC. (1/10) - Together with Michael prepared patch list for GCC contingency plan. (3/10) - Made first-in-series video about tips-and-trick of GCC development. Your critiques are welcome! -- Using GCC debug counters (7m34s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWRYCOkgL04 == Week of March 24th == - STREAM regression (TCWG-388) -- Get a prototype patch. - Other expected and unexpected tasks that come up. -- Maxim Kuvyrkov www.linaro.org

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[Activity] 17-21 March 2014

by Charles Baylis

Last week * one day off [2/10] * NEON scheduling investigation - TCWG-135 [3/10] . investigated scheduler register pressure heuristics . call with Maxim about scheduling algorithm . still more investigation required * NEON intrinsics vs assembler libvpx performance difference investigation [5/10] . GCC seems to generate poor code for address generation in NEON loads/stores . maybe some improvements to the intrinsics code would also be possible Plan: . write down some conclusions about libvpx performance . investigate PR60609 . more on TCWG-135 . investigate LP1296676 & LP1296601 ICEs when building the kernel

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[Activity] March 17-21 (2014)

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == Machine descriptions for stack smashing in Aarch64 - TCWG-23 (5/10) * Completed building QEMU for Aarch64 on Ubuntu 13.10. Ran regression tests on it. * Submitted patches for libssp as per Marcus suggestions and got it approved. PGO support for Aarch64 -TCWG- 179 (2/10) * Installed "CPU2006" tools in foundation model running open embedded image and started running benchmarks. Plan is to build it with -PGO next. Bug fix (2/10) * Working on reproducing and fixing PR60617. Misc (1/10) * AMD Internal meeting and work. == Plan == * Bug fix PR60617. * Build CPU006 benchmarks with -PGO flag * Restart PGO bootstrap failure investigations

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Compatiblity of armv7 GCC produced binary on AArch32 on armv8

by Karlsson, Magnus

Hi, I read in the armv8 architecture reference manual that a number of AArch32 instructions have been obsoleted. Do the current armv7 version of GCC ever generate code containing any of these, without me explicitly writing inline assembly? If it can, how can this be turned off? Just would like to make sure that a C-program (without inline assembly) compiled today for armv7 will run in AArch32 mode when armv8 boards come out. The following are obsoleted in ARMv8:  A32 SWP and SWPB instructions.  Jazelle (only trivial implementations are supported).  VFP short vectors and asynchronous bounces.  Fast Context Switch Extension (FCSE). Thanks: Magnus Magnus Karlsson Software Development Engineering Manager LSI Corporation Box 1024, Knarrarnäsgatan 15 SE-164 21 Kista, Sweden TEL +46 8 594 607 09 FAX +46 8 594 607 10 CELL +46 73 80 444 88 magnus.karlsson(a)lsi.com

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[ACTIVITY] Week 12

by Yvan Roux

== Issues == * none == Progress == * LRA on AArch32: o TCWG-343 : Make LRA the default for the ARM backend (0/10) - Stop progress on this card, will close it when FSF 4.9 will be released. o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (4/10) - Spec2K figures on Cortex-a15 Analysis. - re-run benchs in console mode chrubuntu without ASLR + perf tool * Backports review: (2/10) o Start to prepare cortex-a53 backports review * Misc: o Various meetings and slideware (4/10). - Linaro and internal ones. == Next == - continue cortex-a53 review - some backports to do. - continue on TCWG-345

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[ACTIVITY] 17 - 21 March 2014

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Worked on getting eglibc git mirror back up and running * Released eglibc 2.19 2014.04 * Respin of glibc aarch64 setcontext patches * Respin of ld aarch64 RELASZ patch * Tidied up, rebased and committed ARM ld pointer equality patch * Work on resurrecting glibc benchmark result graphing script * Holiday on Friday == Issues == * Couple of hours power outage on Monday == Plan == * Get outstanding glibc and binutils patches committed * Reorganise JIRA cards for malloc work * glibc benchmarking -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ACTIVITY] 17 - 21 March 2014

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Add support for fork/vfork/exec events/catchpoints in remote gdbserver [TCWG-263] [4/10] -- Debugged catchpoint code and reviewed gdbserver implementation for events. -- Still require a lot of code understanding before actual implementation can start. * Wrote a script that takes two gdb build trees and configuration arguments to test them in native, remote-native and remote-target configurations [TCWG-96] [3/10] * Laptop OS re-install [1/10] * GDB open cards issues review [1/10] * Sick half day off on Friday [1/10] == Plan == * Complete work on TCWG-96. -- Write a script that tests gdb in remote-native configuration using ssh. -- Integrate all testing scripts and test them. -- Update wiki page with updated scripts and how to use them. * Monday Day Off: Pakistan Day 23rd March public holiday roll over.

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[Weekly] 17-21 MAR 2014

by Kugan

== Progress == CARD-1210 - optimizing prologue/epilogue With -fomit-frame-pointer (4/10) - regression tested the patch and fixed issues - Dropping the patch and closing the card as it has been worked on at arm. TCWG-15 - zero/sign extension elimination for crc (3/10) - Looked at crc and looked at the other optimizations listed in card 440. - Improved the local patch to remove the missing optimization TCWG-413 - Running spec2006 with aarch64 (3/10) - Built and set-up spec2006. - Ran into to some compile time and run time errors == Plan == Continue with zero/sign extension elimination Start looking at literal pool merging

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Subject: [Weekly] 17-21 MAR 2014

by Michael Collison

== This week == Merged all backports related to a53 support and successfully built arm and aarch64 cross compilers: 202333 - [AArch64, ARM] Introduce "mrs" type attribute. 202334 - [AArch64] Use neon_<ldm,stm>_2 where appropriate as "type". 202448 - [AArch64] Prevent generic pipeline description from dominating other pipeline descriptions. 202560 - set "type" attribute properly in arm_cmpsi_insn, cleanup 203241 - Cortex-a53 use Cortex tuning 203611 – 203621 – Neon types Parts 1 to 10 204575 - [ARM, AArch64] Make aarch-common.c files more robust. 205050 - [ARM] Add missing type attribute to zero_extend on arm 204782 - [AArch64] [-mtune cleanup 2/5] Tune for Cortex-A53 by default. 204784 - [AArch64] [-mtune cleanup 4/5] Remove "example-1", "example-2" tuning options. 204852 - [AArch64] Remove simd_type 205014 - [AArch64] Remove v8type attribute. 205105 - [AArch64] Remove "mode", "mode2" attributes 204783 - [AArch64] [-mtune cleanup 3/5] [Temporary] When asked to tune for Cortex-A57, tune for Cortex-A15 == Next week == Test a53 support Backport vectorization bug == Future ==

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[ACTIVITY] Week 12

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * Identify a missing instruction pattern which blocks fcsel optimization. A patch was sent out for community review. [2/10, TCWG-309] * Identify a ICE when handling dwarf-info in ARM backend when testing shrink-wrap. A fix was committed to trunk. [2/10] * Rebase and test the shrink-wrap codes for APCS_FRAME. [5/10] * Prepare Linaro toolchain 2014.03 binaries release [1/10]. * Investigate CRC improvement chances. == Plans == * Create a prebuilt sysroot based on Linaro eglibc-2014.04. * Continue on shrink-wrap.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 12

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * AArch64 (TCWG-387) - Implemented simple C sin/cos functions for sphereflake - AArch64 builds, passes check-all and test-suite - Closed Jira task * IAS (TCWG-377) - Updated release notes - IAS build, passes check-all, test-suite and compiles other large codebases - Closed Jira task * EHABI (TCWG-124) - Updated release notes - EHABI builds, passes check-all, test-suite - Waiting for last patch to go to close the Jira task * Compiler-RT (TCWG-125) - Re-testing with current trunk+RT, all pass - Next step, libunwind (not ready yet) * Background - Patch review, etc - Studying TableGen, writing some docs (http://llvm.org/docs/TableGen/) - Proposing changes to debug/EH unwind function attributes in IR - Changing Zorg to not submit LNT reports by default (avoids bot breakage) - Planning LLVM+Linux involvement as next big task * Time - CARD-862 8/10 - Others 2/10 == Plan == * Continue pushing __builtin___clear_cache and -fno-unwind-tables upstream * Implement the Clang part of __builtin___clear_cache and update the docs * Try to add LLVM/Clang to cbuildv2 * Start merging libunwind from libc++ to Compiler-RT and test it on ARM * Get the kernel task started with the LLVMLinux guys

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New -fstack-protector-strong flag

by Diane Holt

Are there plans to offer this flag in an upcoming version of the Linaro toolchain? Thanks, Diane

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-Bsymbolic breaks PMF comparison under ARM

by Giuseppe D'Angelo

Hello, the attached program changes the output from "true" to "false" when the -Bsymbolic / -Bsymbolic-functions options are passed to GCC. This happens on ARM -- on x86-64 output is always "true". The program involves a comparison, within a shared library, of a PMF defined inside the shared library itself with the same PMF passed by the application. At this stage I still don't know if it's a GCC problem, a ld.so problem, ABI constraints, undefined behaviour, or whatnot; but any help is appreciated. Compile with: > g++ -fPIC -shared -Wall -o libshared.so -Wl,-Bsymbolic shared.cpp > g++ -fPIE -Wall -o main main.cpp -L. -lshared (The long story is that Qt 5 is taking PMFs in its public API, and the comparison failing inside of Qt shared libraries is breaking code on ARM, as -Bsymbolic is set by default there.) Thanks, -- Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo(a)kdab.com | Software Engineer KDAB (UK) Ltd., a KDAB Group company Tel. UK +44-1738-450410, Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions

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[ACTIVITY] Week 11

by Yvan Roux

On vacation the whole week == Issues == * none == Progress == * Released Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.03 * Raised loop optimization regression on 4.9 - http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60482 - quickly fixed by Jakub == Next == * Backports reviews * AArch32 LRA

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[ACTIVITY] 10 - 14 March 2014

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Off Monday after travelling back from Connect * Catching up on email and post-Connect admin * Released Linaro binutils 2.24.0 2014.03 * Submitted aarch64 setcontext patches upstream * Submitted a patch for ld RELASZ issue * Looked into eglibc svn mirroring == Issues == * None == Plan == * Resolve eglibc mirror situation -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ACTIVITY] 10 - 14 March 2014

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Get started with Aarch64 GDB testing and development process using foundation model. [6/10] [CARD-1115] -- Figured out steps for running gdb in remote mode using foundation model. -- Wrote a wiki page with steps on development process, still in progress. -- Completed a gdb testsuite run and made a comparison with arm gdb. -- All new testsuite results will be available on gdb wiki page. -- Setup aarch64 gdb remote debugging. * Updates to GDB pages on wiki.linaro.org [TCWG-96] [2/10] -- Added pages containing test scripts and gdb testing tips -- Added page containing current gdb testsuite results in various configurations * Add support for fork/vfork/exec events/catchpoints in remote gdbserver [TCWG-263] [1/10] -- GDB code review for task break down, still in progress. * Fix network and internet problems [1/10] == Plan == * Arm v8 reverse debugging support.[CARD-1115] -- Provide card update and deliverable list. -- Implement reverse debugging infrastructure for aarch64 gdb. * Add support for fork/vfork/exec events/catchpoints in remote gdbserver [TCWG-263] -- GDB code review for task break down, still in progress. * Update and cleanup gdb wiki pages on wiki.linaro.org * All open gdb card review and update.

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[Activity] March 10-14 (2014)

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * Went through few Linaro Connect - LCA14 slides and videos . * Restarted upstream discussions on writing machine descriptions for stack smashing. Working on submitting patches again as per Marcus suggestions. * Installed "CPU2006" in foundation model running open embedded image and tried running 403.gcc benchmark. * Tried buiding QEMU for aarch64 on ubuntu 12.04,2. I am getting segment fault on using -L <library path >. Need to debug further. * PGO runs: GCC boot strap failed when libjava building at stage3. Need to have re-look further. Issue may be missing package in opembedded image on foundation model. Misc ------ Attended some Internal meetings. == Plan == * Continue machine descriptions for stack smashing work. * Work on using QEMU for running gcc test suites * Restart PGO bootstrap failure investigations

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