== Progress ==
* Analyzed Android kernel linker issue and created LP #1154165 to track it.
* Triaged remaining binutils Launchpad tickets.
* Setup my Pandaboard with Linaro 13.01 (13.02 oopses on boot) to run tests.
* binutils: Committed fix for LP #517081 (Floating-point assembly and
disassembly bugs on armel) upstream.
* binutils: Committed a fix for ARM EABI tests upstream.
* Lots of admin stuff.
== Plan ==
* Get binutils testsuite green in a native configuration (fix LP #812276).
* Investigate getting binutils testuite automated via cbuild/Lava.
* More bugs...
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Progress ==
Reviewing GDB tests that FAIL due to timeout problems in remote
configuration.
Made some changes to some of the GDB tests that FAIL on arm targets to
check if they work by minor modifications.
Sick Days: Had been sick due to cough n fever and a drop in blood pressure
made me take most part of Thursday and Friday off.
== Plan ==
Get with Matt for Post- Connect work targets.
Review remaining GDB tests that FAIL due to timeout problems in remote
configuration.
Further experiments with GDB test suite to check support for unsupported
tests on arm.
The Linaro Toolchain and Platform Working Groups are pleased to announce
the 2013.03 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.
Uses include:
* Cross compiling ARM applications from your laptop
* Remote debugging
* Build the Linux kernel for your board
What's included:
* Linaro GCC 4.7 2013.03
* Linaro GDB 7.5 2012.12
* 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 4.7-2013.03:
* Updates to GCC 4.7.2+svn196272
* Includes arm/aarch64-4.7-branch up to svn revision 196225
* A fix for LP #1135633: [linaro regression] alsa-tools FTBFS with error
"unable to find a register to spill in class ‘AREG’"
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:
https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries/trunk/2013.03
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.
Short week to ...
== Progress ==
* Configured GCC testsuite to run on the Foundation model.
* Boehm GC AArch64 support:
- Submitted gc integration patch in GCC upstream for review.
- libatomic_ops AArch64 support branch re-tested and merged in mainline.
== Next ==
* AArch64 libunwind support.
== Progress ==
- Closed the blue print for gc-sections implementation since the patch
got upstreamed.
- Opened new blue print for adding more test coverage to gc-sections tests.
- Submitted a patch to enable missed out gc-sections test cases from
ld-elf group.
- Wrote gc-sections test cases for few GOT related relocs.
== Plan ==
- Understand equivalences created during CFG traversal for jump threading.
- Look at GCC code for a simple test case where jump threading is missed out.
- Continue writing gc-sections test cases for remaining relocs.
== Progress ==
- Monday was a public holiday
- Studied benchmarks and analysed the rtl/asm for redundant sign extensions
- Came up with simple test cases based on this (have 6 test cases now)
- Looked at gcc tree documentations and helper macros; tried it by
adding more debug dumps for types at tree level
== Plan ==
- Start with the algorithm for sign extension elimination
- Skipping manual changes at source level/asm level to see the
performance improvement for now.
Short week...
== Progress ==
* Catch up on internal tasks / email that piled up during holidays + Connect
* Resumed work on disable-peeling:
- local benchmarking on snowball
- restarting benchmarks via cbuild for an additional check
== Next ==
* Check benchmark results on disable-peeling
* Have a look at how to dejagnu-ize my Neon intrinsic tests
* Check results of libsanitizer branch
* Check results of 'revert-coalesce' branch
* Check bench results of '4.7-backport-vect-cost-model'
* Check bench results of '4.7-turnoff-64bits-ops'
* Investigate why cbuild did not generate all the comparisons I
expected (*-diff.txt files)
* Check whether 2013.03 release process exposed the same problems I
observed with 2013.02.
Progress (in a 1 day week...):
* qemu maintenance:
** released qemu-linaro 2013.03
** arm-devs pullreq
* VIRT-4 [Guest migration support for KVM]
** audited vexpress code for migration issues: there are a few
devices needing minor cleanup, and one (pflash_cfi01) which
has no migration support at all and needs it writing
* KVM other:
** reviewed virtio-blk refactoring patchset
-- PMM
== Progress ==
* Recuperating from Connect, catching up on email
* Attended David's and Maddog's presentation on Monday
* Investigating Arndale bug (seems to work with new kernel)
- Bootstrapping LLVM works, GCC doesn't
* Reviewing patches upstream (Mans', Tim's, others)
* Fixed three bugs on test-suite that depended on RNGs
- Only two more tests broken only in ARM
- Five others broken on both (but only visible on our bot)
- Nine EH tests that need disabling, for now
== Plan ==
* Tackle the two last ARM specific bugs
* If time allows, clear the other 5
* Try to disable any EH-specific test on ARM
* Start talks about getting an internal binary distribution process going
This is to let you know that the migration of lists.linaro.org has been
successfully completed.
As per the email I sent on Wednesday, it may take some time for the new
address of the server to be seen by your computer. You can check this by
trying to connect to the web site:
http://lists.linaro.org/
If you are able to connect and you do not get an error, this means you are
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If you experience any problems after the weekend and you find that you
still cannot connect to the server, please reply to this email to let us
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Regards
Philip
IT Services Manager
Linaro
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2013.03
release of both Linaro GCC 4.7 and Linaro GCC 4.6.
Linaro GCC 4.7 2013.03 is the twelth release in the 4.7 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.7.2+svn195745 release, it includes ARM-focused
performance improvements and bug fixes.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to GCC 4.7.2+svn196272
* Includes arm/aarch64-4.7-branch up to svn revision 196225
* A fix for LP #1135633: [linaro regression] alsa-tools FTBFS with error
"unable to find a register to spill in class ‘AREG’"
Linaro GCC 4.6 2013.02 is the 25th release in the 4.6 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.6.3+svn196247 release, this is the twelth
release after entering maintenance.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to 4.6.3+svn196247
The source tarballs are available from:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.7-2013.03https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2013.03
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/4.7/4.7-2013.03https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.6/4.6-2013.03
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
--
Matthew Gretton-Dann
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of
Linaro QEMU 2013.03.
Linaro QEMU 2013.03 is the latest release of qemu-linaro. Based off
upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes
and enhancements.
This release has been updated to be based on upstream's recent 1.4.0
release. It also includes ARM KVM support patches which are in sync
with the ABI as committed to the upstream Linux kernel for 3.9.
This feature is still under development but will no longer be subject
to kernel-vs-userspace ABI breaks.
The source tarball is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2013.03
More information on Linaro QEMU is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro
-- PMM
Hello
You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to one or more
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during this maintenance.
In order to ensure that you do not accidentally try to use the service
while it is being moved, the current server will be shut down at 2pm.
A further email will be sent on Friday afternoon to confirm that the
migration of the service is completed. However, due to the way servers are
found, it may take a while before your computer is able to connect to the
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After the old server has been shut down, email sent to any of the lists
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trying to deliver the email to the old server rather than the new one when
it is started.
It is therefore *strongly* recommended that you do not send any email to an
@lists.linaro.org email address until you can connect to the new service,
which you will be able to test by trying to use a web browser to connect to
http://lists.linaro.org after you receive the email confirming that the
migration has been completed. Since the old service will be shut down, if
you are able to connect, you can be sure you have connected to the new
service.
If by Monday you are still unable to connect to the service or you are not
able to send email to an @lists.linaro.org email address, please send an
email to its(a)linaro.org.
Thank you.
Regards
Philip
IT Services Manager
Linaro
== This Week ===
* Couldnt help my luck and wasnt able to reach Hong Kong due to delay in
visa processing by Hong Kong immigration department.
* Remotely attended live streams of Linaro Connect Asia
* Tried to reproduce all open bugs under linaro-gdb project on launchpad
and created a review sheet.
* Created a comparison sheet to figure out why certain gdb tests are
failing or not being run in different configurations.
== Next week ==
* Try to enable some native only tests and see if the functionality can be
tested for remote configurations as well.
* Set out some priority on blue prints and bugs under linaro-gdb project
and start with some stuff with higher priority.
* Caught some flu over the weekend and still a bit down with fever n
headache.
Progress:
* Linaro Connect Asia (Hong Kong)
* Lots of discussions with virtualization team (first time we've
all been able to meet up!), making sure we all understand our TODO
list, priorities, etc, and getting these details written up in JIRA
* Presentation of KVM current status and discussion of next steps;
we tried to keep the focus on the discussion/audience input part
and I thought it was pretty good
* Several linked conversations on UEFI and how it boots hypervisors
(including KVM); came to a conclusion everybody was happy with
(UEFI mostly runs in SVC mode but provides mechanisms so UEFI
bootloader code can start the kernel in Hyp mode as it requires);
Grant Likely will be moving this forward
* KVM/ARM support patchset for QEMU was accepted into upstream this week!
* looked at fixing QEMU's totally broken model of the versatile PCI
controller
-- PMM
== This Week ===
* Compiled GDB graphical report and test-case statistics out of the results
generated by running gdb-test suite in different configurations.
* Worked on release testing of QEMU. All configurations mentioned in
release template have been tested alongwith an extra configuration of 13.01
ubuntu on vexpress.
* Kept running around for my Hong Kong visa which is still not with me.
== Next week ==
* Try to make it to The Connect in Hong Kong or at least attend remotely.
* Participate in various activities at The Connect.
Progress:
* qemu-linaro: rolled tarball, sent it off for testing
* investigated and reviewed fixes for upstream regressions in
ADC/SBC instruction implementation
* sent updated versions of various patchsets
* fixed review comments on QEMU KVM support patchset, resent
* reviewed a pile of ARM patches from other people and sent arm-devs
pullreq
-- PMM
Hi,
I got the crosstool-ng from the 2013.02 release and wanted to build the linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu target locally. During the build, I'm encountering errors. I didn't do any menuconfig for the above target before starting the build.
I'm seeing the following errors with the first during the ppl build ...
[INFO ] Installing PPL
[EXTRA] Configuring PPL
[ERROR] configure: error: Cannot find GMP version 4.1.3 or higher.
[EXTRA] Saving state to restart at step 'cloog'...
...
(from build-ppl/config.log ....
...
configure:11257: result: no
configure:11392: error: Cannot find GMP version 4.1.3 or higher.
GMP is the GNU Multi-Precision library:
see http://www.swox.com/gmp/ for more information.
....)
...
[INFO ] Installing CLooG/ppl
[EXTRA] Configuring CLooG/ppl
[ERROR] checking for version 0.10 (or later revision) of PPL... configure: error: Can't find correct version of PPL.
[EXTRA] Saving state to restart at step 'mpc'...
...
(from build-cloog-ppl/cobnfig.log ...
...
configure:11237: error: Can't find correct version of PPL.
...)
If I'm building a known target with the released version, why am I seeing these errors?
Thanks,
Kalai
The Linaro Toolchain and Platform Working Groups are pleased to announce
the 2013.02 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.
Uses include:
* Cross compiling ARM applications from your laptop
* Remote debugging
* Build the Linux kernel for your board
What's included:
* Linaro GCC 4.7 2013.02-01
* Linaro GDB 7.5 2012.12
* 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:
* binutils is upgraded to 2.23.1
* eglibc is upgraded to 2.17
* kernel header is upgraded to 3.7
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:
https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries/trunk/2013.02
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.
Hi,
in the example below I want to explicitly generate a "store exclusive
pair" instruction with an asm statement:
typedef struct {
long unsigned int v1;
long unsigned int v2;
} mtype;
int main () {
mtype val[2] ;
val[0].v1 = 1234;
val[0].v2 = 5678;
int status;
do {
__asm__ __volatile__(
" stxp %0, %2, %3, %1"
: "=&r" (status), "=Q" (val[1])
: "r" (val[0].v1), "r" (val[0].v2)
);
} while (status != 0);
if (val[1].v1 == 1234 && val[1].v2 == 5678)
return 0;
return 1;
}
The generated assembly is:
.L7:
ldr x0, [sp]
ldr x1, [sp,8]
.L3:
add x3, sp, 16
stxp x2, x0, x1, [x3]
cbnz w2, .L7
and the issue is that the assembler is not happy of the register x2
used to store the exclusive access status, it should be w2, but
looking at constraint.md it seems that there is no constraint to say
that we want the 32bit version of the register. Any idea ?
Many thanks
Yvan
== This Week ===
* Wrote a python script that parses GDB Testsuite log file and filters out
all results and tests which were not passed.
* Wrote another python script that compares filtered output of GDB log
taken out from different configurations. This script compares results of
various tests which didn't pass in current configuration with their
corresponding results in GDB log of other configurations.
* Generated various comparison pie charts and bar charts to show the
testing results of GDB in different configurations.
* Updated Wiki pages with help for people getting started with remote
Pandaboards.
* Updated wiki pages with help for people getting started with GDB
development and testing remotely.
* Ran after my visa agent for quick processing of my Hong Kong visa.
== Next week ==
* Manual analysis of GDB test results for any possible issues on ARM
platform.
* Finish up the comparison document of all GDB test suite log files.
* Follow up on hong kong visa application.
* Flying to Karchi this Friday to catch flight to Hong Kong permitting visa.
== Progress ==
* Implementing GC sections support in binutils.
Tested the patch for enabling gc section.
"make ld-check" now passes after setting compiler in the PATH.
Used the patched binutils source and built GCC for aarch64-none-elf.
Ran gcc tests on V8 foundation model.
Submitted the patch to FSF binutils for a review.
* Analysis on jump threading in GCC.
Not much progress this week.
Identified few areas where we can improve.
- In Normal jump threading see if we can thread across loop latch and
loop header.
- Lowering switch cases in simple and see if threading benefits.
- Improve threading in VRP.
Misc
------
* Was on leave Friday 22nd.
* Attend tool chain weekly meet, and stand up call
* Had a look at one x86_64 related patch.
== Next week ==
* Update review comments if any and upstream gc sections support patch .
* Continue analysis on jump threading in GCC.
Hi,
I tried to generate a binary containing only ARM 32-bit ISA.
The toolchain I used is
gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.7-2013.01-20130125_linux.
The compilation options are -O3 -mcpu=Cortex-A15 -marm -static.
I could get 32-bit ARM ISA for my own C code, but not the C lib functions,
such as
strcpy. Is there a way to invoke 32-bit ARM ISA C library code?
Thanks,
Tien-Pao
