== Progress ==
* Ongoing refactoring of malloc to improve performance
* Preparation for Connect
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* Linaro Connect US
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Progress ==
* Getting ready for Connect & LLVM US
* Stride Vectorization
- Added some logic to detect read/write reduction, possibly not the best
solution
- Consolidating all discussion into a single document for easy referral
- Creating several bugs (PR17673,PR17677,PR17678,PR17679,PR17680,PR17681)
* Re-Vectorizing
- A bug was passing the vectorizer again on an already vectorized loop
(PR17662)
- http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2011, commit r193349
* Odroid XU
- Running more stable now, self-hosting doing well (more than a week on
24/7)
* Background
- Lots of patch reviews
- Lots of discussions about stride vectorization and others
== Plan ==
* Connect US next week
* US LLVM Dev Meeting the following
* Will be back in 2 weeks
== Issue ==
* Can not attend LCU'13 due to slow US Visa process.
== Progress ==
* Investigate lp:1243022:
- Root cause: REG_INC note is lost in subreg2 pass, so ira gets
wrong result in function validate_equiv_mem.
- Work out a patch for community review.
* Send conditional compare (CCMP) patch for community review.
- Benchmark testing is ongoing.
* Investigate heuristics to control ifcombine. Basically it will take
branch taken probability, frequency, branch-cost and basic block
reorder into account.
== Plan ==
* Performance tuning for CCMP.
== Issues ==
* None.
== Progress ==
* 2013-10 release.
- Backports and branch merges reviews.
* LRA on AArch32:
- Committed patch to enable LRA with the -mlra flag (disabled by default).
- Created 2 bugzilla entries for Thumb and address issues.
- Thumb issue work still ongoing.
* Launchpad bugs:
- Cleaned up a couple of them.
* Misc:
- Internal meetings.
== Next ==
* Short week (2 days off and 1 travelling)
* LRA
Hi,
may you think I'm on the wrong list, no not :-)
I currently build my u-boot loader using the linaro tool chain 2013.09
and run into a problem with the support for JFFS2 where the linker report
VFP usage where u-boot using softfp for build.
compiler options: -ffixed-r9 -msoft-float
arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd: error:
/opt/armhf/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2013.09_linux/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.8.2/libgcc.a(bpabi.o)
uses VFP register arguments, u-boot does not
when I use
make USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC=yes
the problem shows up at an undefined reference
fs/jffs2/libjffs2.o: In function `jffs2_1pass_build_lists':
/opt/cross_build/uboot.d/u-boot-git/fs/jffs2/jffs2_1pass.c:1441: undefined
reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd: BFD (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.8-2013.09 - Linaro
GCC 2013.09) 2.23.2.20130610 Linaro 2013.06 assertion fail
/cbuild/slaves/oorts/crosstool-ng/builds/arm-linux-gnueabihf-linux/.build/src/binutils-linaro-2.23.2-2013.06/bfd/elf32-arm.c:7687
may someone have a closer look into it?
thanks
Chris
Hi,
On 4 October 2013 19:01, Maxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov(a)linaro.org> wrote:
> On 10/04/2013 07:40 PM, Victor Kamensky wrote:
>>
>> Hi Maxim,
>>
>> readl and writel are stronger version of readl_realxed and
>> writel_relaxed:
>>
>> #define readl(c) ({ u32 __v = readl_relaxed(c); __iormb(); __v; })
>> #define writel(v,c) ({ __iowmb(); writel_relaxed(v,c); })
>>
>> They just add __iormb and __iowmb, I think it is very
>> dangerous thing to drop those memory barriers. I don't
>> think your change is correct and/or it requires way
>> better explanation.
>>
>> I've run into the same crash while working on 3.12-rc3 BE
>> issues. In fact I saw this failure on both BE and LE and on
>> old versions of BE kernels when I tried to use 4.8 gcc version
>> from 13.09 release. When I fall back to 4.7 (i.e 13.04) it
>> works fine
>>
>> I would think it is compiler issue or preexisting issue
>> in the code uncovered by compiler change. Personally
>> I think it is the first. Since I am chasing another problem
>> I did not have time to look more deeply into the issue.
>> IMHO it definitely require more digging. In mean time you
>> can quickly check your current version and try another one
>> if your looks as one described in this email.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Victor
>
> Ah, yes, it __raw_write has direct access and writel swaps bits.
>
> If it's compiler issue then it has to be simple to compare objdump disasm
> output for that function.
I think I've hit this issue. We use latest Linaro GCC 4.8 in the CI
loop to build Arndale BE kernel.
Is there a bug reported to TCWG? If not, please create one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+filebug
FYI, I'm using Linaro GCC 4.8-2013.09 (pre-built) and latest
linaro-linaro (based on 3.12-rc5 with Victor's topic branch). Boot log
attached.
Cheers,
Fathi
---
Hi,
Can you review this patch for me and help me get it upstream?
This is an official request for help from LEG to the TCWG, if that
matters :-)
Cheers,
mwh
libatomic/configure.tgt | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libatomic/configure.tgt b/libatomic/configure.tgt
index b9e5d6c..7eaab38 100644
--- a/libatomic/configure.tgt
+++ b/libatomic/configure.tgt
@@ -95,11 +95,6 @@ fi
# Other system configury
case "${target}" in
- aarch64*)
- # This is currently not supported in AArch64.
- UNSUPPORTED=1
- ;;
-
arm*-*-linux*)
# OS support for atomic primitives.
config_path="${config_path} linux/arm posix"
--
1.8.1.2
== Progress ==
* Releases 4.7 and 4.8 2013.10
* Tried cbuildv2: difficult because of our company proxy, making some
changes necessary to cbuildv2. Tutorial sessions in Connect will be
welcome.
* Started chasing a regression in armv5 targets, handed over to Kugan.
* Noticed regressions in some cases with Charles' testsuite patch.
== Next ==
Short week: Monday/Tuesday off; Friday: travelling to Connect
* Look at trunks' new vectorizer cost model.
* Prepare Connect
== Progress ==
* Short week Hujj and Eid-Al-Adha Public Holidays in Pakistan 15-17
October 2013.
(TCWG-280)
ARM GDB Process Record Syscall support:
* Performed testing with all fixes incorporated and debugged failures
in remote configuration.
== Plan ==
(TCWG-266), (TCWG-270), (TCWG-250), (TCWG-280) and (TCWG-288)
* Arm process record: Submit all fixes and updates in three patches.
* Prepare for connect and travel to Santa Clara.
Very short week was on leave 14th and 16th October (India Holidays).
== Progress ==
* libssp glibc
Glibc tests are Segmenting at dl_close_worker, when I set pointer
guard. Debuging shows segfaults while expanding THREAD_GSCOPE_WAIT.
My assumption is thread pointer points to TCB and after allocating 16
Bytes before that, we can set pointer gaurd at tp -16. But not sure,
why it affects the pthread structure header which holds gscope_flag.
Also looked at TLS_MULTIPLE_THREADS_IN_TCB, enabling it lead to
__libc_multiple_threads undefined errors.
== Plan ==
* Continue libssp support.
* PGO for aarch64
== Progress ==
* 64bit division for targets without 32bit div instructions
- Finished the implementation
- Benchmarked it
- Getting ready to post RFC patch
* Connect Slides
- Worked on slides for connect
* Vector regression in 4.8-2013.09
- Started bisecting to find the issue
== Plan ==
* post RFC patch for 64bit division
* Vector regression in 4.8-2013.09
* Connect preparation
== Progress ==
* Improved the format of the emails that get sent to the cbuildv2
list from commits.
* Get Odroid U2 running stably, did native build on an external
USB disk. Upgraded to saucy. Did full toolchain build and test
run. 65 minutes per build.
* Got Odroid XU board to boot, then upgraded to saucy, not very
stable yet. Unlike the XU, it has a horrible lag when typing to
it via ssh.
* Updated chromebook to saucy, did native build and test run on
external USB drive. The U2 was faster, even with an older USB 2
only drive. 192 minutes for a build.
* Worked at verifying Cbuildv2 produced tarballs again since there
have been many little tweaks. The few differences between
Cbuildv2 produced tarballs and the official Linaro releases is
documentation related. For example, Cbuildv2 doesn't build the java
docs.
* Did slides for Connect presentation.
* Sat bagged an 900 foot ice route at over 13,000 feet. 8 mile
approach.
== Plan ==
* Try to work around problem with importing test results. (need to
work with LAVA team for this one)
* Copy tarballs to snapshots.linaro.org. (need to work with LAVA
team for this one)
* Get remote toolchain testing working on the newly functioning
Odroid board(s).
* Continued improvements to Cbuildv2.
== Issues ==
* My network and landline was down to upstream repairs for a day
and a half, bad timing during release week... :-(
Hi Bharath. Have a look under contrib/linaro/sysroot - there's a
script in there that you can fiddle with to pick a later distro.
-- Michael
On 16 October 2013 17:52, bhs <bharath.vegito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I see that linaro's build system is using pre-built sysroot as an input
> to build cross-toolchain for ARM. I have a use case were we want
> eglibc-2.17(sysroot from raring) along with gcc-4.7.3 crosstoolchain. I
> could not any reference to the method in README file.
>
> How is the precise-sysroot used in building linaro toolchain binaries
> created?
> Thanks
> Bharath
> --
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I accidentally sent without completing my 'Progress' section.
== Progress ==
eglibc -> glibc transition:
* Investigated upstream plan to retire eglibc and the implication of
losing options groups.
Cbuildv2 - Random patches
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 17/17] lib/common.sh: get_source - Fix
for partial match in snapshots with <package>.conf:latest set.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 16/17] testsuite/test.sh: Add get_URL
test for <repo>.git@revision.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 15/17] lib/common.sh: Fix so that
get_URL works for <repo>.git@revision.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 14/17]
testsuite:test_sources.conf|test.sh: reserve nomatch.git for testing.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 13/17] testsuite/test.sh: Add tests
for user git repos not ending in .git.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 12/17] [test_]sources.conf: Unify
behind <label>.git identifiers for all git repos.
* [PATCH][Cbuildb2/get_source 11/17] New variable ${sources_conf} to
replace hardcoded config/sources.conf.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 10/17] testsuite/test.sh: Add test for
tag matching an svn repo in sources.conf.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 09/17] lib/common.sh: echo ${url} in
leg that processes direct non .git repositories.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 08/17] lib/common.sh: Fix for
unknown/unmatched get_source request.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 07/17] lib/common.sh: echo ${url} in
get_source when finding a successful snapshot match.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 06/17] lib/common.sh: find_snapshot
should return list of found snapshots even on error.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 05/17] lib/common.sh: Invoke
find_snapshot as a subshell in get_source.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 04/17] lib/common.sh: Suppress
extraneous trailing whitespace in get_URL and get_source output.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 03/17] testsuite/test.sh: Suppress
stderr noise and add new failing get_source tests.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 02/17] lib/checkout.sh: checkout
should use get_srcdir to reuse code.
* [PATCH][Cbuilv2/get_source 01/17] lib/make.sh: Don't continue with
build if source isn't found.
* [PATCH][Cbuildv2/get_source 00/17] Patchset to exhaustively test
get_source code legs and fix corner cases.
* [PATCH] cbuild2/lib/common.sh: redirect trace/error/warning, etc. to stderr.
* [PATCH] cbuild/lib/configure.sh: Fix stamp-configure* to prevent
spurious configure running.
* [COMMITTED][PATCH] cbuild/lib/make.sh: Add ${builddir}/install.log
from make install output.
* [COMMITTED][PATCH] lib/common.sh (list_URL): correct bash keyword
"locals" -> "local".
* [COMMITTED][PATCH] config/gcc.conf: Add --disable-shared to stage
1 default_configure_flags.
* [PATCH][test_fetch_md5sums_fix] testsuite/test.sh: Add second
fetch md5sums test and always use wget -q in testsuite.
* [PATCH][test_fetch_md5sums_fix] testsuite/test.sh: Always override
${local_snapshots} for tests.
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
Objective before Linaro Connect:
* Wiki/README on using cbuildv2 sources.conf and <package>.conf:latest=
* git workflow document: collaborative use of git in Linaro
* wiki/README on using cbuildv2 local_snapshots for
specific/non-remote archives or git repositories.
General Cbuildv2:
* Audit usage of "local foo=`bar`; if test $?". Change to: "local
foo; foo=`bar`; if test $?".
- This is a known issue and very nefarious.
* Investigate dryrun to use stderr 2>&1?
* Port get_URL, get_source, and find_snapshot to unique behind
<repo>/<branch>@<revision> return type.
* Test local_snapshot overrides
== Progress ==
eglibc -> glibc transition:
* Investigated upstream plan to retire eglibc and the implication of
losing options groups.
Cbuildv2
*
[PATCH][test_fetch_md5sums_fix] testsuite/test.sh: Always override
${local_snapshots} for tests.
[PATCH][test_fetch_md5sums_fix] testsuite/test.sh: Add second fetch
md5sums test and always use wget -q in testsuite.
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
Objective before Linaro Connect:
* Wiki/README on using cbuildv2 sources.conf and <package>.conf:latest=
* git workflow document: collaborative use of git in Linaro
* wiki/README on using cbuildv2 local_snapshots for
specific/non-remote archives or git repositories.
General Cbuildv2:
* Audit usage of "local foo=`bar`; if test $?". Change to: "local
foo; foo=`bar`; if test $?".
- This is a known issue and very nefarious.
* Investigate dryrun to use stderr 2>&1?
* Port get_URL, get_source, and find_snapshot to unique behind
<repo>/<branch>@<revision> return type.
* Test local_snapshot overrides
Hi,
We are working on userspace aarch64 and aarch32 apps and we are trying
to run 32/64 mode app simultaneously.
Is there any multi-arch support for mixed rootfs (has linkers/libs of
both arm and arm64)?
--
Thanks,
-Zhou
Progress:
* back from sabbatical!
* caught up on admin, email, etc
* code review: Christoffer's GIC related patches; VSEL support in 32 bit v8;
support for VBAR; integrator bugfixes; others
* working on a pullreq for ARM stuff to go into QEMU 1.7
(we're now in softfreeze)
Plans:
* attend KVM Forum, Connect
* review the SuSE aarch64-linux-user patches
-- PMM
== Issues ==
* None
== Progress ==
* Prepare Linaro toolchain binaries 2013.10 release
- Update EGLIBC version to 2013.10 and enable-profile for AARCH64.
- Generate Linaro prebuilt sysroot for arm-linux-gnueabihf.
* Commit patch to Reassociate X == CST1 || X == CST2 if popcount (CST2
- CST1) == 1 into ((X - CST1) & ~(CST2 - CST1)) == 0
* Send ifcombine patch (to generate more conditional compare) for review.
* Root cause pr58775.
* Test conditional compare changes.
- Bootstrap and no make check regression on THUMB mode.
- ARM mode test is ongoing.
== Plan ==
* Send out the CCMP patch for review.
== Issues ==
* Short week
- school closed on Thursday
- holiday Friday
- several visits to the dentist
- feeling poorly, I think I have shellfish allergy
== Progress ==
* EEMBC
- Identified the problem on test not vectorizing
- Some ways to fix it: SLP, stride-access, unrolling
- Started implementation of GEP-PHI detection for reduction variables
* Odroid XU
- Bot died after a few hours, not really stable
- Trying again, at home, both odroids in parallel, they seem ok
* Background
- General reviews, etc.
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the
release of both Linaro GCC 4.8 and Linaro GCC 4.7.
Linaro GCC 4.7 2013.10 is the nineteenth release in the 4.7
series. Based off the latest GCC 4.7.4+svn203509 release, this is the
sixth release after entering maintenance.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to GCC 4.7.4+svn203509
* Fix for LP #1229170
Linaro GCC 4.8 2013.10 is the seventh release in the 4.8 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.8.1+svn203510 release, it includes performance
improvements and bug fixes.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to GCC 4.8.1+svn203510
* Improved AArch64 support (CRC extension, improved intrinsics, gprof
support)
* Improved Aarch32 support (bug fixes, better code generation,
improved multilib)
* Backports for bug fixes (PR58578
We are aware that FSF GCC 4.8.2 was released earlier this week.
However, this release happened too late in our cycle for us to use it
as the basis for Linaro GCC 4.8 2013.10. The only functional
difference contained in FSF GCC 4.8.2 that is not in Linaro GCC 4.8
2013.10 is a correction to a x86 test case.
The source tarballs are available from:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.7-2013.10https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.8-2013.10
Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro
More information on the features and issues are available from the
release pages:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.7/4.7-2013.10https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.8/4.8-2013.10
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
### About Linaro binutils
Linaro binutils is a release of the GNU binutils with bug fixes and
enhancements for ARM platforms. GNU binutils is a collection of tools
including the `ld` linker and `as` assembler.
### Linaro binutils 2.23.2 2013.10-4
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2013.10-4
release of Linaro binutils 2.23.2, the third release in the 2.23 series.
This release is based on the latest GNU binutils 2.23 stable branch, but
with additional features and bug fixes.
#### Additional Features
* AArch64 GC sections support
* Support passing -mcpu=cortex-a53 and -mcpu=cortex-a57 to AArch64 gas
* Support passing -mcpu=cortex-a53 and -mcpu=cortex-a57 to ARM gas
* Support passing -mcpu=cortex-a12 to ARM gas
* Support AArch64 CRC instructions
* Support ARM CRC instructions
#### Bug Fixes
* Bug fix for AArch64 GOT layout
* Fixed source tarball structure
### Source
#### Release Tarball
* https://releases.linaro.org/13.10/components/toolchain/binutils-linaro
#### Development Tree
* git://git.linaro.org/toolchain/binutils.git
This release was built from the `linaro_binutils-2_23_2-2013_10-4_release`
tag.
### Feedback and Support
Subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC channels to
stay on top of Linaro development.
* Linaro Toolchain Development [mailing
list](http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain)
* Linaro Toolchain IRC channel on irc.freenode.net at `#linaro-tcwg`
* Questions? [ask Linaro](http://ask.linaro.org/).
* Interested in commercial support? inquire at [Linaro
support](mailto:support@linaro.org)
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
### About Linaro eglibc
Linaro eglibc is a release of the eglibc C library with bug fixes and
enhancements for ARM platforms. eglibc is a variant of the GNU libc
designed to work well on embedded systems.
### Linaro eglibc 2.18 2013.10
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2013.10
release of Linaro eglibc 2.18, the second release in the 2.18 series.
This release is based on the latest upstream eglibc 2.18 stable branch,
but with additional features and bug fixes.
#### Additional Features
* AArch64 profiling support
* Optimized strlen for ARMv6T2
* Small enhancement to memcpy performance
* ARM pointer encryption support
#### Bug Fixes
* Fix for integer overflows in memalign/pvalloc/valloc
### Source
#### Release Tarball
* https://releases.linaro.org/13.10/components/toolchain/eglibc-linaro
#### Development Tree
* git://git.linaro.org/toolchain/eglibc.git
This release was built from the `linaro_eglibc-2_18-2013_10_release` tag.
### Feedback and Support
Subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC channels to
stay on top of Linaro development.
* Linaro Toolchain Development [mailing
list](http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain)
* Linaro Toolchain IRC channel on irc.freenode.net at `#linaro-tcwg`
* Questions? [ask Linaro](http://ask.linaro.org/).
* Interested in commercial support? inquire at [Linaro
support](mailto:support@linaro.org)
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Issue ==
* AArch64 frame grows downward: no feedback yet.
== Progress ==
* Disable-peeling: Vectorizer cost model has been changed upstream,
quick look at benchmark results show little difference between before
and after the change. Need to analyze further, since I expected the
regressions previously identified with my patch to appear here too.
* AArch64 bootstrap failure: succesfully bootstrapped in the model.
* GCC trunk validation:
- improved configurability (default cpu, fpu, mode, testsuite flags
are selectable)
- requested feedback to build the list of desirable combinations to validate
* Backports/release 2013.10
- a few more backports completed
- re-trying to backport the ILP32 and refactoring series proves
again to be tricky, but helped identify backports which had escaped
from the list.
- cbuild has disk full again
* GCC Neon intrinsics testsuite:
-- posted a proposition to add my executable tests to the existing
framework. No feedback yet.
== Next ==
* Make 2013.10 releases, both with the historical process and using
cbuildv2, in parallel
* Disable-peeling/new vectorizer cost model: analyze bench results
