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[ACTIVITY] 21-25 January 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * 64-bits ops in Neon: waiting for upstream. * vectorizer cost model: initial activation with unaligned load/store cost equal to aligned ones; benchmarking shows no significant difference. * smin-umin: a few benchmarks show a few unexpected regressions (10-15%). * setting up spec2k on local board * tcpanda heat problems: GCC built OK. Don't know how hot it became. == Next == * handle 64-bits bitops in Neon feedback from upstream if any. * analyze regressions in smin-umin * check if more tuning of the vectorizer cost model is desirable. * finish local board setup * tcpanda: run gcc testsuite to check heat

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[ACTIVITY] 21-25 January 2013

by Yvan Roux

== Progress == * Boehm GC AArch64 support: - Tested on Foundation model - Patches sent to mailing list - Boehm GC has been accepted and merged into mainline - Libatomic_ops under review, some improvements are needed. == Next == * Boehm GC AArch64 support: - Fix libatomic_ops for mainline merge * Start gc sections support for AArch64 binutils * Review roster

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[Activity] Week 04

by Zhenqiang Chen

Summary: * Investigate Automotive benchmark performance on different branch cost. Details: 1. Automotive benchmark performance analysis for different branch cost on Pardaboard ES. * Design small test cases to simulate bitmnp01 to compare the performance between ITTT and conditional branch. Test results show - If branch prediction does not work (put the codes in a function), ITTT is always better than conditional branch. - If branch prediction works (inline the codes t in the loop body), for most cases, conditional branch is better than ITTT. * Code alignment has big impact for tblook01. By default IT block has better performance. When adding __attribute__((aligned (16))) for function t_run_test, performance of conditional branch is better than IT block. 2. Prepare Linaro toolchain binary release. * Update Linaro crosstool-ng local patches due to the fix of lp:1067766 in source package. * Spawn all builds and smoke tests. Plan: * Investigate SPEC2k performance for different branch costs. * Work with Bero for 2013.01 toolchain binary release . Planed leaves: * Feb. 9 - 15: Chinese Spring Festival. Best Regards! -Zhenqiang

12 years, 8 months

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[ACTIVITY] 21-25 Jan

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * Buildbot - Taking buildbot to Linaro - Had wireless/GPU overheating, disabled kernel modules - Running smooth again (most of the time) - Debugging errors that only appear on ARM. * Building and Testing LLVM - Compiling on Intel with only the ARM backend helps a lot - Sent a call for Action to people clean up cross-compilation failures * LAVA - Progress on LAVA LLVM job - Got it checking out, configuring and building - Got PASS/FAIL/SKIP patterns working - https://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/46027 - Need to get a patch from a specific place to apply * Cost Model - Re-wrote table lookup patch a few times, finally in for good - http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=173382&view=rev - Studying costs of instructions, all seem good enough - Better approach now is to change the target description (less code, more gain) * EuroLLVM - 136 people so far == Plan == * Test distcc (or similar) on Pandas * Get a buildbot running with cross-compilation * Internal git repository for LAVA LLVM job * Confirm Linaro's sponsorship for EuroLLVM * Continue cost model changes in between == Background == * Monitor list for ARM changes * Monitor buildbot for failures

12 years, 9 months

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[ACTIVITY] report week 04

by Peter Maydell

Activity: * calls and meetings (about 20% of my working week this week ;-)) * finished rebasing and testing the KVM QEMU patches (thanks to Pawel for getting me an updated RTSM device tree), sent out updated version to go with -v17 kernel * minor qemu maintenance patches (including a minor cfi01 flash model bugfix) * trying to track down issues running a 3.8-rc4 vexpress kernel on QEMU. Among other things: * looks like we need to emulate some more of the oscillator and voltage config registers now (if only to make the kernel a bit quieter) * the kernel doesn't like the way qemu's boot loader puts the DTB blob after the initrd but beginning in the same page as the initrd ends [free_initrd_mem will trash memory outside the initrd proper but inside that last page] * a15 reports the wrong board model number -- PMM

12 years, 9 months

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AArch64 cross compile

by naveen yadav

Dear All, Is it possible to compile ARCH "AArch64 " for 32 mode, like if I have x86 64 bit machine and I install 32 bit OS on it, and machine is compatible with 32 bit binary. So is it possible to use AARCH64 (Cortex-V8) with installation of kernel 32 bit and use 32 bit tool chain. If answer is yes, can I build tool chain or is there option available in linaro cross-compile available from https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries/+milestone/2012.12 Thanks

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[ACTIVITY] report week 03

by Peter Maydell

Activity: * usual set of calls and meetings (and there is another KVM related weekly meeting in the pipeline...) * reviewed virtio patches * rebased qemu-linaro on upstream * rebased KVM patches; couldn't get updated kernel to run on RTSM (probably a device tree or config issue; need to attack problem again this week) NB: I'm currently working a reduced set of hours due to RSI, though I am trying to remain responsive to email etc. -- PMM

12 years, 9 months

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[ACTIVITY] 14-18 January 2013

by Yvan Roux

== Progress == * Prepared Venkat on-boarding. * Aarch64 porting meeting: - libunwind is in the pipe * Boehm GC AArch64 support: - basic port done, test on-going == Next == * Boehm GC AArch64 support: - test and ask for up stream review.

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[Activity] Week 03

by Zhenqiang Chen

Summary: * Investigate automotive benchmark. * Linaro gcc 4.6 release Details: 1. Automotive benchmark performance analysis for different branch cost for Cortex-A9. * Debug function WriteOut, which is called 12 times on average, leads common performance issue since the IF-THEN in the function is converted to IT block, which TRUE probability is less than 4%. * Identify the root cause of performance regression with IT block for bitmnp01, rspeed01, pntrch01 and ttsprk01. Overall, - The performance of a taken bpl is better than an ITTT. If this is a common sense, for IF-THEN, we'd set branch-cost to 1. - For IF-THEN-ELSE, we'd take branch probability into account when converting it to IT block. - ifcvt might generate useless IT block. 2. Try to do Linaro GCC release. But meet several issues: * Can not branch a clean lp:gcc-linaro/4.7. As a workaround, I had downloaded a clean bzr tree from other site. For next release, I can use the local tree to create the release tarball. * All a9hf-builder ubutests fail due to test environment issue. Plan: * Investigate more benchmarks for different branch costs. Planed leaves: * Feb. 9 - 15: Chinese Spring Festival. Best Regards! -Zhenqiang

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[ACTIVITY] 14-18 January 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * 64-bits ops in Neon: pinged patch proposal. * vectorizer cost model: received results from spec2k. Prepared initial tuning to submit to benchmarking again. * smin-umin: tests OK, benchmarks ran, but did not generate the diff over a valid ancestor. I didn't make the manual comparison yet. * updated board for local benchmarking * tcpanda heat problems: built a new kernel with the thermal driver; need to reboot the board with it == Next == * handle 64-bits bitops in Neon feedback from upstream if any * analyze results of benchmarking with vectorizer cost model * analyze results of benchmarking with smin-umin idiom patch * continue board setup/update; I will probably try to cross-build the benchmarks to avoid having the build GCC itself on the board and save time. * followup on tcpanda heat problems

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[ACTIVITY] 14-18 Jan

by Renato Golin Linaro

== Progress == * Buildbots - Added a Panda ES buildbot on clang-native-arm-cortex-a9 group - Reporting and helping fix bot bugs on ARM - ARM buildbots are green again! - Each ARM buildbot takes 4h15min to complete, versus 15min on Intel - We're still testing up to 12-15 patches on each build, on peak times (PST) * LAVA - Created a test run for llvm check-all, infrastructure is there - Need to make it actually do some work * Vectorization - Refactored cost model's temp tables - http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=172658 - Studying NEON costs, changing ARM target lowering * test-suite A15 - Building LLVM on Chromebook, check-all (1h, 181 failures) - Self-hosting LLVM on Chromebook, check-all (50min, many more) - Found some floating point type errors, only on Chromebook (libs?) * AArch64 back-end - Reviewed patches, look ok, some comments - Should be all in by next week * LLVM cross-compilation woes - Had to define include path for c, c++ and arm locations - It calls the wrong assembler, even defining the right gnu toolchain - Someone needs to fix these cross-compilation bugs!! :) == Plan == * Finish basic NEON costs for vectorization * Finish LAVA bot compiling clang + check-all * Install Panda buildbot on rack * Continue investigating Chromebook failures * Continue thinking about the long term plan for LLVM

12 years, 9 months

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro GCC 4.7 and 4.6 2013.01 released

by Zhenqiang Chen

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2013.01 release of both Linaro GCC 4.7 and Linaro GCC 4.6. Linaro GCC 4.7 2013.01 is the tenth release in the 4.7 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.7.2+svn194772 release, it includes ARM-focused performance improvements and bug fixes. Interesting changes include: * Updates to GCC 4.7.2+svn194772 * Includes arm/aarch64-4.7-branch up to svn revision 194808 * Support for the rev16 and revsh instructions * A15 Neon pipeline backported from trunk * FMA intrinsic backported from trunk * Better extending core to NEON transfers * Fused multiply-add support Fixes: * LP #1088898 regression of x86 gcc bootstrap with Linaro sourcebase * LP #1067766 Backport support for arm-linux-gnueabihf to GCC Linaro * LP #1084010 __atomic_load doesn't match ACQUIRE memory model Linaro GCC 4.6 2013.01 is the 23st release in the 4.6 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.6.3+svn194771 release, this is the tenth release after entering maintenance. Interesting changes include: * Updates to 4.6.3+svn194771 The source tarballs are available from: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.7-2013.01 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2013.01 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/4.7/4.7-2013.01 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.6/4.6-2013.01 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

12 years, 9 months

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Thursday 17th January 2013 1600 UTC Performance Call cancelled

by Matthew Gretton-Dann

All, Due to items in the performance call being covered in other meetings, travel and other issues I have decided to cancel today's 1600 UTC call. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Gretton-Dann Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[PATCH] Cortex Strings AArch64 strnlen.S fix

by Marcus Shawcroft

This patch fixes an issue in the AArch64 strncmp implementation which occurs if ULONG_MAX-15 <= n <= ULONG_MAX. Matt, this is the last of my outstanding patches for cortex-strings. /Marcus

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[PATCH] Cortex Strings AArch64 fix for strncmp.S

by Marcus Shawcroft

This patch fixes an issue in the AArch64 strncmp implementation which occurs if ULONG_MAX-15 <= n <= ULONG_MAX. /Marcus

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AArch64 NEON polynomial types

by Renato Golin Linaro

Hi folks, On the LLVM list, Tim (ARM) is trying to push a patch to update the polynomial types on NEON to unsigned, on both 32-bits and 64-bits, since AArch32 says nothing and AArch64 specifies unsigned (char and short). Is there any such movement on the GCC end? The LLVM folks would rather this be a common move (or GCC first), than going solo and risk losing ABI compatibility. Any comments? cheers, --renato

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Linking error - VFP register arguments

by Anup Kini

Hi All, I am trying to build OpenNI drivers and stuck with the following linker error. /usr/bin/ld: error: ../../Bin/Arm-Release/libOpenNI.so uses VFP register arguments, ./Arm-Release/XnBaseNode.o does not /usr/bin/ld: failed to merge target specific data of file ./Arm-Release/XnBaseNode.o /usr/bin/ld: error: ../../Bin/Arm-Release/libOpenNI.so uses VFP register arguments, ./Arm-Release/XnDump.o does not /usr/bin/ld: failed to merge target specific data of file ./Arm-Release/XnDump.o and many more of similar errors with VFP. System : ZYNC ZC702 board with ARM Cortex A9 dual core. OS: Linaro 12.04 LTS GCC - 4.6.3 Is there some flag i have to set in the Makefile to correct the Hard/Soft float type ? How do i figure out the correct one ? -- *Anup Kini *Systems Engineer**** * ------------------------------ * *Synapticon** * | Cyber-Physical System Solutions **** Direct:**** +49 7335 / 186 999 17**** Fax:**** +49 7335 / 186 999 1 **** **** synapticon.com <http://www.synapticon.com/> | @synapticon_co<https://twitter.com/#!/synapticon_co> **** Synapticon GmbH | Hohlbachweg 2 | 73344 Gruibingen, DE Secretary +49 7335 / 186 999 0 | General Manager: Nikolai Ensslen Registry Court Ulm HRB 725114 | USt-ID DE271647127**** This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Please notify the sender immediately if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete it from your system.

12 years, 9 months

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Possible toolchain bug with handling return value of read()

by Riku Voipio

Hi, The testcase at https://launchpadlibrarian.net/128616769/compare-test.c With aarch64: aarch64-oe-linux-gcc -o a-test ./compare-test.c ./a-test: fail ret: -1: Bad address With X86_64: gcc -o test ./compare-test.c ./test correct. ret: -1: Bad address setting -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 doesn't make a difference. This is with: gcc version 4.7.3 20121205 (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.7-2012.12) This was found while debugging: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-aarch64/+bug/1099896 Riku

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[MINUTES] Toolchain Working Group Weekly Meeting 14/Jan/2013

by Matthew Gretton-Dann

All, The minutes for today's calls are here: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2013-01-14 Action items are: TODO: Matt to investigate EEMBC Office gs8 failures ONGOING: Matt to talk to Dave Pigott about HF builders TODO: Matt blueprint backport of binutils 2.23.1 - backport just needs merging TODO: Matt to blueprint options for reducing QEMU based cross test noise TODO: Matt to unreserve Michael Hope's reservations TODO: Matt to look at why Cortex-A9 softfloat bootstraps fail in Stage2. TODO: Zhenqiang to do GCC Release: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/GCC/ReleaseProcess TODO: Matt to do Cortex Strings release. TODO: Matt chase up EEMBC Networking License TODO: Matt chase up with morvek who is leading KVM Virtual team. TODO: All to think of proposals for GNU Tools Caudron The agenda for next week's call is here: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2013-01-21 Please feel free to add your own agenda items before hand. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Gretton-Dann Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

12 years, 9 months

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[Activity] Week 02

by Zhenqiang Chen

Summary: * Rebase and test the shrink-wrap patches. * Learn how branch cost impact on code generation. Details: 1. Rebase and test the shrink-wrap patches. * For pretend arguments, it is hard to generate correct dwarf info for case: * Add dwarf info for ldrd_pop. Testing is ongoing. * Expose an interface from regcpprog and do copy propagation for the entry block. Benchmark logs show there are much more functions can be shrink-wrapped. 2. Read codes and enhance ifcvt.c. * For IF-THEN-ELSE, if the last insn of then_bb or else_bb is ANY_RETURN_P, we can save one JUMP. In this, we'd keep max MAX_CONDITIONAL_EXECUTE, not "max *= 2". A patch is sent out for review. * Take the branch probability into account. Test is ongoing. 3. R/M toolchain related work. Plan: * Follow up the shrink-wrap dwarf info issue. * Investigate benchmarks which is impacted by different branch cost. Planed leaves: * Feb. 9 - 15: Chinese Spring Festival. Best Regards! -Zhenqiang

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[ACTIVITY] 7-11 January 2013

by Yvan Roux

== Progress == * Short week again (leading compilation courses) * Merge request review - finished 4.6 and 4.7 requests. * Boehm GC AArch64 support - Back on this topic == Next == * Continue Boehm GC activity

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[ACTIVITY] 7-11 Jan 2013

by Renato Golin Linaro

== This Week == * Livermore Loops - Test was badly adapted, failures were due to undefined behaviour - Removed from test-suite until a propper adaptation can be done - LTO and Static Analysis issues raised - http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14851 - http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14852 * LLVM Builds - Builds fine on Chromebook, same check-all failures as other ARM targets - test-suite fails, haven't had time to properly investigate - Getting a pandaboard to act as a buildbot - Creating a LAVA job to run often and on-demand internally * AArch64 in LLVM - reviewing lots of patches from ARM (Tim Northover) - full back-end just sent, will review over the weekend * Loop Vectorize - Some discussions with Tao Wang about cost models - Got some ideas on what are the best changes for LLVM's cost model - Not much on this front * EuroLLVM 2013 - Trying to define the level of sponsorship Linaro can provide - CFP will go out next week, committee created, conference confirmed * Commits http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=171642 http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=171859 == Next Week == * Get the LAVA job running - need account at people.linaro.org, RT created * Get at least one buildbot in sync with LLVM's lab * Get some traction on the cost model * Cambridge LLVM Social, liaise with ARM == Future == * Try to draft an LLVM story for Linaro (and understand why I'm here in the first place) ;) * Have builds with vectorization turned on

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[ACTIVITY] 7-11 January 2013

by Brice Dobry

== Blueprints == gcc-investigate-lra-for-arm == Progress == * Built "lra" gcc branch of gcc for x86 * Collected and compared SPEC benchmark results with and without LRA enabled * Bootstrapped ARM toolchain with last reported working revision from lra branch * Tracked down and resolved ICE * Bootstrapped ARM toolchain with head revision from lra branch * Tracked down and resolved another ICE * Verified two patches (from above ICEs) have no regressions on trunk * Began investigation into target hooks for LRA for ARM to improve performance * Admin * Connect registration and trip preparations == Next week == * Collect benchmark results from SPEC for LRA on ARM * Complete target hooks and benchmark again * Review roster

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[ACTIVITY] 7-11 January 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * 64-bits ops in Neon: pinged patch proposal. * disable peeling/vectorzer cost model: initial benchmarking done wth cost-model on (now default). Received some results with cost model off, waiting for spec2k. * started looking at smin-umin idiom patch from Ramana. Rebased and launched build to make some benchmarking. * restarted working on local board setup for benchmarking * discussed bug reports on ARM-Neon instrinsics testsuite == Next == * handle 64-bits bitops in Neon feedback from upstream if any * analyze results of benchmarking with vectorizer cost model * analyze results of benchmarking with smin-umin idiom patch * continue board setup/update

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[ACTIVITY] 7-11 January 2013

by Matthew Gretton-Dann

== Blueprints == Initial Current Actual fix-gcc-multiarch-testing 31 Dec 2012 31 Jan 2013 == Progress == * Infrastructure * Investigations of why Cortex-A9 HF boards are failing * Admin * Booked tickets to Connect * 'Onboarding' prep for new starters and assignees * Cortex Strings * Applied patches == Next week == * Prepare Cortex Strings release * Ensure GCC backports are up to date. * Release week. * Catch up on outstanding cards. == Future == * Run HOT/COLD partitioning benchmarks * Analyse ARM results * On x86_64 to see what the actual benefit we could get * fix-gcc-multiarch-testing * Come up with strawman proposal for updating testsuite to handle testing with varying command-line options. -- Matthew Gretton-Dann Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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