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by Yvan Roux

== Issues == * None. == Progress == * Misc: - Installed Saucy on Chromebook. * LRA on AArch64: - Committed RTL analyser patch. - Committed patch which switch on LRA on AArch64. * LRA on AArch32: - Committed patch which fix failing assembly scan test with LRA. - Committed LRA register notes DEAD and UNSUSED handling in LRA. - Bootstrapped GCC with LRA on Chromebook. - Analysis of testsuite results ongoing. == Next == * Continue on LRA.

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[ACTIVITY] 23-27 September 2013

by Venkataramanan Kumar

Short week (Tuesday and Wednesday went to US consulate Chennai for VISA interview and document processing). == Progress == * gprof support for aarch64 Re-based and tested. Asked permission for upstreaming in trunk. Gibc patches are upstreamed. Thanks to Marcus. * Aarch64 Boot strap failure. Tried to reproduce it in V8 model. Build failing in stage 1 for me. * 1-1 Meet with Christophe. == Plan == * Back to libssp support. * Aarch64 boot strap issue. == Issues == * LTO/PGO work stopped now since libssp support priority is more. Misc ------ October 2 India Holiday.

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[ACTIVITY] 23 - 27 September 2013

by Kugan

== Progress == * MPFR and GMP Build error with Latest 4.8 Release - Reproduced MPFR error with a simplified testcase - Found the buggy codesequence and the patch that introduced it. - Looking at solution for this - Reprdouced GMP error with -march=armv7-a and -mthumb - continuing with the invetigation * 64bit division - Looked at current libgcc implementaion and studied the alorithm. * Addressing patch review - Posted second patch for zero/sign extension * spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 - Ran spec2k with various options to validate code analysis == Plan == * Continue with spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 * Continue 64bit division * Fix GMP and MPFR build error

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[ACTIVITY] 23 - 27 September 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == (TCWG-270) * Tested GDB Process Record/Replay and reverse debug feature for arm. * Thumb32 support patch along with a couple of bug fixes made huge improvement in testsuite results. (TCWG-267) and (TCWG-269) * Reviewed all previous submitted patches and wrote response patch updates. * Implemented gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwaf2/dw2-error.exp using dwarf assembler. (TCWG-268) * Submitted patch for failing gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwaf2/dw2-case-insensitive.exp (TCWG-272) * Re-viewed and verified gdb bugs reported on launchpad and created JIRA cards where required. (TCWG-265) * Generated Test data to test instruction decoding in arm specific code of gdb process record/replay. (TCWG-280) * Reviewed previously submitted patches related to gdb process record syscall support for arm targets. * Submitted US Visa application for processing and got appointment for Visa Interview. * Reviewed all open JIRA cards and created new ones for future progress on GDB == Plan == (TCWG-270) * Submitt patch for bug fixes and show testsuite improvement with bug fixes and thumb32 patch. * Do more testing and analyse failures and try to fix them if possible. * Verify issues reported by maintainers in old arm instruction decoding code. (TCWG-267), (TCWG-268) and (TCWG-269) * Update gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwaf2/dw2-error.exp as asked by gdb maintainers. * Ping or Send response to comments. (TCWG-280) * Test syscall support with old patch and make changes if required. * Travel to Islamabad on Tuesday to attend US visa interview early morning Wednesday.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 39

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * Update Conditional compare (CCMP) patch according to community comments. * Investigate how to generate CCMP to support more than two compares. - Investigate ifcombine to create more CCMP opportunities. - Enhancing phiopt to handle CCMP case like: if (a == 0 && b > c) return 0 return a; == Plan == * Continue on CCMP to support more than two compares. == Panned leaves == * Oct. 1-7: National Day of China holiday

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[ACTIVITY] Week 39

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * Profiling ImageMagick - Clang 3.4-svn is around 10% less performing than GCC 4.7.3 - Mainly due to recursive octree-style map/reduce of most functions, spending a lot of time before/after branches - Any optimization on that front won't fit the "Incubation" tag * Profiling EEMBC - Found 2 cases where Clang is *a lot* better than GCC 4.7.3 (pruning bmark.c, producing much smaller objects, and vectorizing telecom/autcor, which GCC can't) - Most of the time, GCC is slightly better (~5% faster, ~10% smaller, geomean) - Wrote some scripts to run any two compilers against each other, compare the results and dump the ratios in a TSV file. == Plans == * Update EEMBC Linaro image with Clang toolchain changes * Look for low-hanging fruits in EEMBC * Try comparison with GCC 4.8 and 4.9, too * Find a way to extract Phoronix results in TSV format

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[ACTIVITY] Week 39

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Checked testsuite for glibc and gcc bootstrap on aarch64 native * Released Linaro gdb 7.6.1 2013.09-1 * Submitted glibc pointer guard patch using TLS * Submitted respin of pointer guard patch using a global variable * Submitted binutils aarch64 ifunc patches for a second time * A little bit of time on malloc * Built office furniture! == Issues == * None == Plan == * Finish off pointer guard * Hopefully back to malloc -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2013.09 released

by Bernhard Rosenkränzer

The Linaro Toolchain and Platform Working Groups are pleased to announce the 2013.09 release of the Linaro Toolchain Binaries, a pre-built version of Linaro GCC and Linaro GDB that runs on generic Linux or Windows and targets the glibc Linaro Evaluation Build. This release introduces a set of experimental (pre-alpha) crosscompilers to big-endian ARM architectures. Uses include: * Cross compiling ARM applications from your laptop * Remote debugging * Build the Linux kernel for your board What's included: * Linaro GCC 4.8 2013.09 * Linaro Newlib 2.0 2013.06 * Linaro Binutils 2.23 2013.06 * Linaro Eglibc 2.17-2013.07-2 * Linaro GDB 7.6 2013.05 * A statically linked gdbserver * A system root * Manuals under share/doc/ The system root contains the basic header files and libraries to link your programs against. Interesting changes include: * gcc updated to 4.8-2013.09 * Initial big-endian pre-alpha versions added The Linux version is supported on Ubuntu 10.04.3 and 12.04, Debian 6.0.2, Fedora 16, openSUSE 12.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5.7 and later, and should run on any Linux Standard Base 3.0 compatible distribution. Please see the README about running on x86_64 hosts. The Windows version is supported on Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Vista Business SP2, and Windows 7 Pro SP1. The binaries and build scripts are available from: http://releases.linaro.org/13.09/components/toolchain/binaries Need help? Ask a question on https://ask.linaro.org/ Already on Launchpad? Submit a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries On IRC? See us on #linaro on Freenode. Other ways that you can contact us or get involved are listed at https://wiki.linaro.org/GettingInvolved.

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro gdb 7.6.1 2013.09-1 released

by Will Newton

### About Linaro gdb Linaro gdb is a release of the GNU debugger with bug fixes and enhancements for ARM platforms. gdb allows interactive debugging of C and C++ programs natively and remotely. ### Linaro gdb 7.6.1 2013.09-1 The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2013.09-1 release of Linaro gdb 7.6.1, the first release in the 7.6.1 series. This release is based on the latest upstream gdb 7.6 stable branch, but with additional features and bug fixes. #### Additional Features * None #### Bug Fixes * Fixes for debugging on AArch64 with hardware breakpoints. ### Source #### Release Tarball * https://releases.linaro.org/13.09/components/toolchain/gdb-linaro #### Development Tree * git://git.linaro.org/toolchain/gdb.git This release was built from the `linaro_gdb-7_6_1-2013_09-1_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

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[Activity] Sept 16-22

by Rob Savoye

== Progress == * Finally got GCC 4.7 automatic updates working from launchpad. * Continuing with Jenkins/Cbuildv2/Git integration. * Added support for using specific commit IDs with Git and Cbuildv2. Also many improvements to how git branches and revisions are handled. * Worked on importing testing results from Jenkins builds, there seems to be a problem finding the .sum files when the build is complete. * Started getting new Odroid boards online running Ubuntu. == Plan == * Work on getting Canadian Cross builds working in Cbuildv2. * Finish getting Odroid boards setup. * Compare automated tarballs with the current release tarballs. * Continuing with Jenkins/Cbuildv2/Git integration. * Try to work around problem with importing test results. == Issues == * Phone and network access has been randomly down for extended periods. I assume it's flood repairs related.

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[ACTIVITY] 16-20 Sept 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * GCC trunk cross-validation: - stabilizing reporting (dealing with thread tests giving unstable results when run under qemu, timeouts caused by overload of the compute farm, ....) - adding aarch64 * Backports: - updated list (57 candidates for 4.8-2013.03), discussed prioritization and collaboration with ARM. - sent 1st branch-merge candidate for testing, as a preparation to partially backport a bug fix from Richard. * Aarch64 frame grows downward: - modified test-case shows that code can be better with frame grows downward than upward, depending on variables order and layout. == Next == * Backports - start backporting to prepare 2013.10 release * AArch64 frame grows downward: continue * Disable-peeling: resume work

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[ACTIVITY] Week 38

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Visit to Cambridge (Tue - Thu) and annual leave (Fri). * Applied gas fix for neon vector load/store constraints. * Applied glibc memcpy performance tweak. * Applied gdbserver AArch64 fix to trunk and branch. * Updated gdb release process and built a release candidate. * Started glibc ARM pointer guard work == Issues == * None == Plan == * gdb 2013.09 release * Various small items arising out of meetings last week * Complete glibc ARM pointer guard -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ACTIVITY] Week 38

by Yvan Roux

== Issues == * None. == Progress == * LRA on AArch64: - Validate Vladimir's patch to support HARD_REGNO_CALL_PART_CLOBBERED macro in LRA. - Reduced and analysed libstdc++ failures : they were due to PCH usage, but the issue was fixed with a rebase on trunk's head. - Testsuite is now clean. - Waiting for my rtl analyser patch to be accepted. * LRA on AArch32: - No more libstdc++ failures, they were PCH related too. - One more issue in ARM mode testsuite, related bad REG_NOTES info after LRA pass. - Reduced failing Thumb testcase. == Next == * Continue on LRA.

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[ACTIVITY] 16 - 20 September 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Spent week in Linaro's Cambridge office, had meetings with team mates. * Visited ARM office in Cambridge and met toolchain team there. * Submitted patch for GDB Record and Replay thumb32 support upstream. * Reviewed and reproduced gdb bugs reported on launchpad and changed their status according. * Reviewed previously submitted gdb patches and replied to comments if required. * Reviewed x86 record syscall code in GDB for adding support for recording ARM syscall record. * Updated JIRA cards or added new issues against bugs or features. == Plan == * Progress on record and replay feature by testing instruction set support. * Review all open JIRA cards for GDB * Work on getting previous patches committed or resubmit new ones. * Submit US visa application for LCU13.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 38

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * 2 day off on Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival * Update conditional compare (CCMP) patch according to community comments. * Work out a patch to fix PR 58423. * Prepare LCU'13 Visa and hotel. == Plan == * Continue on CCMP. == Panned leaves == * Sept. 24 AM: US Visa. * Oct. 1-7: National Day of China holiday

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[ACTIVITY] 16 -20 September 2013

by Kugan

== Progress == * Addressing patch review - zero/sign extension preparation patch accepted. - Christophe is helping to commit. * spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 - Looked at conditional code generation related code in gcc - looked at ifcvt and code in arm.md and arm.c to understand the heuristics that dictate how much to conditionalize and what is causing some of the problems I am seeing. == Plan == * Continue with spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 * Start looking at 64bit division

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[ACTIVITY] 16 -20 September 2013

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * gprof mcount support in glibc Tested the patch and posted in libcports. * Fix signal handler issue in glibc for profiling Found issue with time profiling. Time profiling is obtained by setting up SIG_PROF interrupt and kernal calls signal handler with interrupted pc address. But in glibc, aarch64 port does not register the signal handler properly. Fixed and sent a patch to team for review. Tested the patch and posted in libcports. * Linaro connect - VISA application. Applied VISA online and scheduled interview with US consulate. * Libssp support for AArch64 TCWG 23: Timeout issues disappears after increasing TIMEOUTFACTOR Base glibc test results are captured in wiki https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/ReleaseAndInfrastructure/Cr… * 1-1 meeting with Matt and Christophe. == Plan == * Post RFC patch for Libssp support for AArch64 in GCC * Continue testing the patch for Libssp support for AArch64 in GCC and glibc TCWG-23. == Issues == * LTO/PGO work stopped now since libssp support priority is more. Misc ------ Tuesday and Wednesday in Chennai to attend US VISA interview.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 38

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * Trying to profile ImageMagick on A9 - perf is broken on Exynos 4, used Panda - Linaro image doesn't have all PPAs - Clang code 10% worse than GCC on some operations - Code doesn't look that bad, but Clang on x86 is faster - Will look into that next week Background - Meetings at ARM, Linaro - Omair in Cambridge - Patch review, fixing bots, discussions, etc - Moved from Ubuntu to Mint 15, using Gnome Shell == Plan == * Finally look into the profiler output * Increase the profiling to other image operations * Profile Phoronix results?

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arm-linux-gnueabihf kernel headers out of date?

by Christopher Covington

Hi, In building some code (CRIU) that includes linux/if_packet.h for x86_64-linux-gnu, arm-linux-gnueabihf, and aarch64-linux-gnu, some discrepancies popped up relating to whether the TPACKET_V3 structures were defined. It looks like the headers shipped with the 13.08 arm-linux-gnueabihf toolchain do not define them, implying kernel headers older than October 2012. The aarch64-linux-gnu toolchain on the other hand does have them defined. If this analysis is correct, can I expect the kernel headers in the 32-bit toolchain to be updated in the near future or should I really be generating and referencing my own kernel headers? Thanks, Christopher -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation.

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[ACTIVITY] 9-13 Sept 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * Releases 4.7 and 4.8 2013.09 after finished a few backports * GCC trunk cross-validation: - improving reporting * First attempts at using cbuildv2 * Aarch64: Analyse code generation when frame grows downward. * LCU13: Booked plane and hotel. == Next == * Aarch64: continue 'frame grows downward' 'analysis * Disable-peeling: resume investigation

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[ACTIVITY] 9 - 13 September 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * GDB Record and Replay (TCWG-197) Debugged code for an exception coming up in gdb code after applying Thumb32 patch. * Travel to UK on Wednesday night stopped in UAE for Thursday and Friday. * Holiday on Thursday and Friday. == Plan == * Working from Linaro Cambridge from Monday till Friday * GDB Record and Replay (TCWG-197) Fix issues Submit patch upstream. * Meetings with team mates in Cambridge and visit to ARM.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 37

by Yvan Roux

== Progress == * 4.8 2013.09 backports: - Finished ongoing reviews. * LRA: - Fixed and refactored rtl analyser patch, waiting fro upstream green light - Reduced AArch64 testcase, and find the root cause of the issue: Only 64 bits of callee saved registered v8-v15 are preserved, larger values has to be handle by the caller, which not the case with LRA. Working on the issue with LRA maintainer. * LCU'13 - Hotel and flight booked == Next == * Continue on LRA

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[ACTIVITY] Week 37

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * Prepare Linaro toolchain binary 2013.09 release - Create linaro-prebuilt-sysroot-2013.09. - Update local patches and all Linaro samples to use eglibc-linaro-2.18-2013.09. * Update Conditional compare (CCMP) according to community comments. Current method is: - In fold-const, if HAVE_conditional_compare, set LOGICAL_OP_NON_SHORT_CIRCUIT to true. - Identify CCMP during expanding. A CCMP candidate is a BIT_AND_EXPR or BIT_IOR_EXPR, whose operators are compares. - Add a new op in optab to expand the CCMP to RTL, e.g. and_scc_scc/ior_scc_scc in ARM. - Testing is ongoing. == Plan == * Send out the updated conditional compare patches for review. == Panned leaves == * Sept. 19-21: Mid-Autumn Festival * Oct. 1-7: National Day of China holiday

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[Activity] Sept 9-15

by Rob Savoye

== Progress == * Set up a GCC git mirror on git.linaro.org. now at ssh://LOGIN@git.linaro.org/srv/git.linaro.org/git/toolchain/gcc.git. The two Linaro branches most people are interested in are now 'linaro-4.7-branch' (updated every 30 minutes from launchpad), and 'linaro-4.8-branch' updated every 10 minutes from subversion. * Tweaked Cbuildv2 & Jenkins to work with GIT repositories and branches as well as source tarballs. * Jenkins now "bootstraps" a cross compiler by building the native GCC, and then using that to compile the cross GCC. * Got aarch64-none-elf building with newlib via Cbuildv2. * Source and binary tarball release support in Cbuildv2 now works. I've had to change the naming convention to handle daily automated builds, and added the commit ID of HEAD for git based builds. * Almost got Canadian crosses building via Cbuildv2. * Continued work on Jenkins/Cbuildv2 integration. * Cbuildv2 now works on Fedora as well as Ubuntu. * Survived major 100+ year flood. Got to watch a dam overflow, kindof cool, all the roads in and out of this area have been closed for days, most of the bridges are gone. Been busy all weekend evacuating people, car accidents, normal disaster area stuff. I worked Katrina relief, never thought I'd see a flood in the mountains. == Plan == * Continuing with Jenkins/Cbuildv2/Git integration. * Get testing results from Jenkins builds imported via Junit conversion. * Compare automated tarballs with the current release tarballs. * Get Jenkins to upload binary & source tarballs to snapshots.linaro.org. * Add support for using specific commit IDs with Git and Cbuildv2. * Finish getting Canadian Cross builds working in Cbuildv2. * Odroids should arrive (when the roads open...) Monday, install Ubuntu and do some tests to see if it's a good platform. == Issues == * Flooding...

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[ACTIVITY] Week 37

by Kugan

== Progress == * Addressing patch review - Woking on vrp based zero/sign extension elimination based on feedback - Reworked the patch based and posted the first patch - Speck2k benchmarking in progress for second patch and will post once finished. * spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 - More benchmarks analysed. - Started with the report. Plan to send in next couple of days. - Created more reduced test cases. == Plan == * Continue with spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 * Start divmod work

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