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Linaro GCC 4.5 and 4.6 2011-05 released

by Michael Hope

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of both Linaro GCC 4.5 and Linaro GCC 4.6. Linaro GCC 4.5 2011.05 is the tenth release in the 4.5 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.5.3+svn173417, it adds new optimisations, much improved support for strided load/stores, and fixes for many of the issues found in the last month. Interesting changes in 4.5 include: * Updates to 4.5.3+r173417 * Performance improvements in NEON strided loads and stores * Performance improvements targeted at EEMBC CoreMark * Precompiled header support on recent Linux kernels Fixes: * LP: #660156: Heap randomisation causes PCH testsuite failures * LP: #784375: vset_lane_u8 intrinsic generates wrong lane number * LP: #759409: Profiled bootstrap fails in FSF GCC 4.5 * LP: #723086: Test regressions in the Fortran test suite The strided load/store improvements allow both NEON intrinsics and the vectoriser to efficiently access values that occur at every n'th address, such as all of the red values in a RGB image or all of the left channel samples in a interleaved audio array. Previous versions of GCC would unpack the values onto the stack instead of using the registers directly. The CoreMark improvements improve the code generation for the hot functions in benchmark. This release is now on par with Linaro GCC 4.4 and significantly ahead of other FSF or Linaro 4.5 based compilers. This fixes the long-standing problems of ARMv5 being faster than ARMv7 and 4.4 based compilers being faster than 4.5 based ones. Linaro GCC 4.6 is the third release in the 4.6 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.6.0+svn173480, it adds new optimisations, vectoriser improvements, and continues with the merge of many ARM-focused changes. Interesting changes include: * Updates to 4.6.0+r173417 * Brings forward more of the performance improvements from Linaro GCC 4.5 * Adds support for swing-modulo scheduling * Fixes precompiled header support on recent Linux kernels * Changes the default NEON vector size to quads * Adds auto-detection of the best vector size * Adds vectorisation improvements due to better if-conversion Fixes: * LP: #714921: Uses an unreasonable amount of memory to compile QEMU on armel * LP: #723086: Test regressions in the Fortran test suite The source tarball is available from: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.5-2011.05-0 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2011.05-0 Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro 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 -- Michael

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Bug in linaros implementation of vset_lane intrinsics

by Lee Moore

Hi All, This is based upon gcc version 4.5.3 (20110221 pre-release) Any help appreciated This shows a bug in the Linaro gcc compiler with the Arm NEON vset_lane intrinsic Note in the objdump that the vmov.8 instruction that places the value in the vector for the non-q version uses 1 where it should use 2 and 3: 18: ee410bb0 vmov.8 d17[1], r0 1c: ee420bb0 vmov.8 d18[1], r0 20: ee400b90 vmov.8 d16[0], r0 3c: ee440bb0 vmov.8 d20[1], r0 For the q version the vmov.8 instructions are correct: 40: ee420bf0 vmov.8 d18[3], r0 54: ee420bd0 vmov.8 d18[2], r0 64: ee400b90 vmov.8 d16[0], r0 70: ee420bb0 vmov.8 d18[1], r0 /* Source code */ #include <arm_neon.h> static uint8x8_t vec[5] static uint8x16_t qvec[5]; void set(uint8_t value) { vec[1] = vset_lane_u8(value, vec[0], 3); vec[2] = vset_lane_u8(value, vec[0], 2); vec[3] = vset_lane_u8(value, vec[0], 1); vec[4] = vset_lane_u8(value, vec[0], 0); qvec[1] = vsetq_lane_u8(value, qvec[0], 3); qvec[2] = vsetq_lane_u8(value, qvec[0], 2); qvec[3] = vsetq_lane_u8(value, qvec[0], 1); qvec[4] = vsetq_lane_u8(value, qvec[0], 0); } Thx Lee

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Branch is open

by Michael Hope

Hi there. The 2011.05 release has been spun and is testing up well. The 4.5 and 4.6 branches are now open so feel free to commit any approved patches. -- Michael

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[Activity] Progress till 2011-05-13

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

Progress: * Attended LDS from 9th -14th May. Plans: * Look at Thumb2 performance blueprint and break it down. * Investigate more headroom for SPEC2k starting this week. * Thumb2 performance call this week. Meetings: * 1-1s * T2 performance.

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[ACTIVITY] 9th - 13th May

by Revital Eres

Hello, - Attended Linaro@UDS. - SMS patches to support ARM do-loop pattern got approved in mainline and merged into gcc-linaro 4.6 and 4.5. - Sent merge request for two patches in trunk. (SMS_fixes_for_unfreed_memory) - Implemented an optimization for the stage-count and now testing it. Thanks, Revital

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[ACTIVITY] May.09 -- May.15

by Chung-Lin Tang

== Last week == * At Linaro@UDS; I am still typing this in Budapest. Sparingly did some work between sessions. * PR42017, ARM LR register not being used. Discussed the patch with Richard Sandiford at LDS. Re-tested a bit and about to resend a revised patch according to his suggestion. * LP:748138, redirect_jump() ICE. Committed patch to CS stable and trunk. Submitted merge request to Linaro 4.5 branch. * LP:689887. Got some suggestions from Revital on how to debug the bootstrap failure caused by my patch, will look into applying it. == This week == * Taking Monday off, I'll be flying back to Taiwan on Tuesday. * Continue with issues after getting home.

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[ACTIVITY] 9th - 13th May

by Andrew Stubbs

Spent the whole week attending Linaro@UDS. Any other activity this week is squeezed into the space between (interesting) sessions. Finished making the suggested changes to my Thumb2 constants patch, and posted it back upstream. This is pre-approved, but can't be committed until after the addw/subw patch. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg05195.html Merged all my outstanding approved merge requests to the release branches in time for next week's release. ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html * ARM Thumb2 addw/subw support. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03783.html

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[ACTIVITY] report week 19

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: 1105 work item status 99% complete with 2 weeks to go Current Milestones: | Planned | Estimate | Actual | qemu-linaro 2011-05 | 2011-05-19 | 2011-05-19 | n/a | close out 1105 blueprints | 2011-05-28 | 2011-05-28 | | complete 1111 planning | 2011-05-28 | 2011-05-28 | | Historical Milestones: finish qemu-cont-integration | 2011-01-25 | 2011-01-25 | handed off | first qemu-linaro release | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | qemu-linaro 2011-03 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 | qemu-linaro 2011-04 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | == merge-correctness-fixes == * some of my pending patches have been applied; a number of others are still under discussion or need further work/testing == other == * We won't be making a qemu-linaro 2011-05 release, since there are no changes since the 2011-04 release (due to a combination of the Easter holiday and UDS week). * Attended UDS * almost all 1105 work items either complete or confirmed postponed to next cycle * Good progress on fleshing out blueprints for next cycle: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/Qemu1111 Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: (maybe) 15-16 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver [LinuxCon proper follows on 17-19th]

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Idea for auto-increment performance improvement

by Richard Sandiford

Last week, Ramana pointed me at an upstream bug report about the inefficient code that GCC generates for vzip, vuzp and vtrn: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48941 It was filed not longer after the Neon seminar at the summit; I'm not sure whether that was a coincidence or not. I attached a patch to the bug last week and will test it this week. However, a cut-down version shows up another problem that isn't related specifically to intrinsics. Given: #include <arm_neon.h> void foo (float32x4x2_t *__restrict dst, float32x4_t *__restrict src, int n) { while (n--) { dst[0] = vzipq_f32 (src[0], src[1]); dst[1] = vzipq_f32 (src[2], src[3]); dst += 2; src += 4; } } GCC produces: cmp r2, #0 bxeq lr .L3: vldmia r1, {d16-d17} vldr d18, [r1, #16] vldr d19, [r1, #24] vldr d20, [r1, #32] vldr d21, [r1, #40] vldr d22, [r1, #48] vldr d23, [r1, #56] add r3, r0, #32 vzip.32 q8, q9 vzip.32 q10, q11 subs r2, r2, #1 vstmia r0, {d16-d19} add r1, r1, #64 vstmia r3, {d20-d23} add r0, r0, #64 bne .L3 bx lr We're missing many auto-increment opportunities here. I think this is due to the limitations of GCC's auto-inc-dec pass rather than to a problem in the ARM port itself. I think there are two main areas for improvement: - The pass only tries to use auto-incs in cases where there is a separate addition and memory access. It doesn't try to handle cases where there are two consecutive memory accesses of the form *base and *(base + size), even if the address costs make it clear that post-increments would be a win. - The pass uses a backward scan rather than a forward scan, which makes it harder to spot chains of more than two accesses. FWIW, I've got fairly specific ideas about how to do this. Unfortunately, the pass is in need of some TLC before it's easy to make changes. So in terms of work items, how about: 1. Clean up the auto-inc pass so that it's easier to modify 2. Investigate improvements to the pass 3. Submit the changes upstream 4. Backport the changes to the Linaro branches I wrote some patches for (1) last week. I'd estimate it's about 2 weeks' work for (1) and (2). (3) and (4) would hopefully be background tasks. The aim would be for something like: .L3: vldmia r1!, {d16-d17} vldmia r1!, {d18-d19} vldmia r1!, {d20-d21} vldmia r1!, {d22-d23} vzip.32 q8, q9 vzip.32 q10, q11 subs r2, r2, #1 vstmia r0!, {d16-d19} vstmia r0!, {d20-d23} bne .L3 bx lr This should help with auto-vectorised code, as well as normal core code. (Combining the vldmias and vstmias is a different topic. The fact that this particular example could be implemented using one load and one store is to some extent coincidental.) Richard

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[ACTIVITY] 2011-05-13

by David Gilbert

== String routines == * Gave up on perf on silverbell and redid it on ursa2; now have a full set of perf figures and have updated the workload report to show the spec binaries that use significant time in libc and the routines they spend it in; a handful of tests spend very significant amounts of time in libm. * Have ltrace results from about 75% of spec - some of the others are fighting a bit * Optimised the non-neon memcpy; it's now quite respectable except in one or two cases (2 byte misaligned, and for some odd reason source offset by 8 bytes, destination by 12 is way down on any other combination) (Current result graphs here https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/People/DaveGilbert?action=AttachFile&do=ge… ) Dave

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[ACTIVITY] May 8-12

by Ira Rosen

Hi, * continued looking into ffmpeg/libavcodec: - dcadsp.c - the inner loop contains reverse accesses which are not supported on Neon. I think we can handle them using vrev and vswp. - a lot of loops have unknown memory stride. I am exploring a possibility of a combination of scalar loads and vmov into a vector register, but it is probably too expensive. * looking into telecom/conven Ira

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[ACTIVITY] May.02 -- May.08

by Chung-Lin Tang

== Last week == * Launchpad #748138: "ICE in redirect_jump, at jump.c:1443". Related to shrink-wrap, discussed a bit with Bernd off-list. Sent fix today (Mon.) to gnu-internal; will need to merge to Linaro. * CoreMark combine canonicalize compares patch set: bootstrapped and tested with clean results on powerpc, added comments and updated upstream submission. Machine independent parts okayed by Jeff Law, now committed upstream. ARM parts still pending review. * Compiled back-list of upstream patches, and sent to patches(a)linaro.org * Traveled to Budapest, Hungary for Linaro Developer Summit on Saturday. == This week == * Linaro Developer Summit at Budapest all week.

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[ACTIVITY] May 2 - May 6

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Committed support for NEON registers in core dumps (bug #615972) to Linaro GDB (not yet in mainline). * Investigated root cause of bug #615996 (gdb.cp/templates.exp) and started exploring ways to fix it. == GCC == * Committed fix for bug #759409 (Profiled bootstrap fails in GCC 4.5) to FSF GCC 4.5 branch and Linaro GCC 4.5. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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[ACTIVITY] 3th - 6th May

by Andrew Stubbs

Worked on the ARM 16 -> 64-bit multiply-and-accumulate problem. Bernd kindly provided a prototype patch to help. I've tried to understand what needs to be done, but I didn't have enough time to get to the bottom of it. So far, I think I know why the existing code doesn't work, and I think I have a way forward. It does appear that the real problem ought to be solved in the tree optimizers, though. Committed the FSF GCC 4.5.3 merge to the Linaro 4.5 branch. Testing did not show any trouble. Matthias requested an additional 4.5 merge to pick up a new bug fix, so I've done the merge, and submitted the merge request for testing. Committed Maxim's compound conditionals optimization patch - a merge from Linaro GCC 4.5. There was some confusion caused by the lp:gcc-linaro/4.6 branch history accidentally getting re-written. After some discussion on #bzr I managed to figure out what happened, posted a warning to linaro-toolchain mailing list, and changed the branch configuration to prevent it happening again. Committed Mark Shinwell's BRANCH_COST patch to Linaro GCC 4.6 - another merge from GCC 4.5. Merged from FSF GCC 4.6 to Linaro 4.6 and submitted the patch for testing. Richard Earnshaw approved my recent Thumb2 constants patch, but only if I modify it slightly. I've begun work on the changes, but I still need to test them. I won't be able to commit them until the ADDW/SUBW patch has been approved. Ramana has reviewed my EABI half-precision function names patch, and discovered that the return types are wrong. I have no idea how this happened - the changes are deliberate so they must have been based on something, but I no longer have the same documents I had when I did the work, and it clearly doesn't match my current ones. In any case, the changes make no practical difference as function return values are always as wide a register anyway. * Other Public holiday on Monday. * Next week I will be attending UDS in Budapest from 8th - 14th May. I shall continue to read my email, but will not be attending any calls. ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html * ARM Thumb2 addw/subw support. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03783.html

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[ACTIVITY] 2011-05-06

by David Gilbert

== Bug fighting == * Tracked bug 774175 (apt segfault on armel on oneiric) down to the cortex-a8 branch erratum bug that we found as part of the bug jam a few weeks ago (affecting the more obscure vtk package) - Richard's existing binutils fix should fix this. == String routines == * Struggled to get 'perf' to get sane results from profiling spec; some of the samples are obviously being associated with the wrong process somewhere along the process (e.g. it's showing significant samples in the sh process but in a library that's used by the actual benchmark. * latrace on spec still running on ursa2 * Wrote a non-neon memcpy; as expected it's aligned performance is very similar to libc/kernel - it's a bit faster in some places but slower in some odd places (e.g. n*32+1 bytes is a lot slower for some reason). It's also really bad on mis-aligned cases, I tried to take advantage of the v7's ability to do misaligned loads - but they really are quite slow. Dave

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Summit!

by Michael Hope

Hi everyone. Welcome to Budapest. The schedule is at: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-o/track/linaro-toolchain/ and should be pretty solid now. The NEON and strings ones may change to a room with a conference line, but we'll see. Thursday and Friday are mostly clear. Be at the hotel by 8:45. The plenary is at 9 am and is followed by a Linaro all-hands at 10. I've tried to reserve the room 'Ady' for general work and meetings but do try to make good use of the summit by having a look at the other sessions listed at: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-o/ and the full list of toolchain topics at: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain?searchtext=toolchain-o and subscribe to the interesting ones. Note that the schedule will keep changing through the week so keep a good eye on the board. Some that I found interesting are: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-cont… https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-hard… https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-o-arm-boot-speed https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-o-arm-firefox-startup https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-o-arm-port-lightspark https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/linaro-platforms-o-ubuntu-tra… with the full list at: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/~michaelh1/+specs?role=subscriber See you all tomorrow! -- Michael

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Richard Sandiford

== This week == * Committed interleaved load/store vectorisation changes upstream. * Merged the vldN and vstN intrinsic improvements into Linaro 4.5 and 4.6. (Thanks for the quick reviews here.) * Backported the interleaved load/store vectorisation changes to Linaro 4.5 and 4.6. This took a while because the patch series touches turbulent code. Submitted merge requests. * Merged Sergey Grechanik's NEON reload improvement into Linaro 4.5 and 4.6. * Got ready for summit. Richard

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * finished libunwind support of detection and handling of signal frames on ARM Linux. RT and non-RT signal frames are handled for both >=2.6.18 and <2.6.18 kernels. The *test-resume-sig testcases are passing now. * briefly looked into what needs to be done in order to add 64bit __sync_* ops * prepared for LDS Regards Ken

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[ACTIVITY] report week 18

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: GSoC QEMU student project approved Current Milestones: | Planned | Estimate | Actual | qemu-linaro 2011-05 | 2011-05-19 | 2011-05-19 | | Historical Milestones: finish qemu-cont-integration | 2011-01-25 | 2011-01-25 | handed off | first qemu-linaro release | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | qemu-linaro 2011-03 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 | qemu-linaro 2011-04 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | (short week, following holiday) == merge-correctness-fixes == * some minor patches committed: SPARC build issues, Neon UNDEFs, restore base reg properly for Thumb LDMs that abort midway * v2 of configure patch to print list of valid targets * some work on fixing QEMU FPSCR status flags (last remaining item in this blueprint); submitted a patchset fixing everything except the various VCVT instructions (which have trickier softfloat bugs) * submitted patch fixing NaN behaviour in VMLA/VMLS/VNMLA/VNMLS == other == * the Google Summer of Code QEMU project to work on upstreaming some of the Android emulator has been approved; I will be mentoring Patrick Jackson, who is the student who will be doing this work * qemu-linaro 2011-05 is unlikely to have any code changes since 2011-04; we might release it anyway just because it's the final one of the cycle Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: 13-19 May: UDS, Budapest (maybe but unlikely) 15-16 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver [LinuxCon proper follows on 17-19th]

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Fwd: Linaro forums replaced by "Ask Linaro"

by Andrew Stubbs

There's already a couple of tools-related questions on here. We should probably make sure we monitor it regularly. This isn't to hard, once you're signed up, you can mark certain topics as 'interesting' and then you'll get email notifications when there's a post. Andrew -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Linaro forums replaced by "Ask Linaro" Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 15:58:53 +0200 From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker(a)linaro.org> Organization: Linaro To: everyone <everyone(a)linaro.org> Greetings, We are pleased to announce the replacement of our forums by a new "Ask Linaro" service. Better than forums, we expect this service to bring more questions and answers, and incite people to join the Linaro community by sharing their experience. We count on your participation. See http://ask.linaro.org/ Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker - Community Manager Linaro, http://linaro.org Cell: +33 621 604 642 IRC: 'opm' in #linaro on irc.freenode.net

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Pushing to diverged branches

by Andrew Stubbs

Hi all, We seem to have had an accident! This morning I merged one of my patches to lp:gcc-linaro/4.6, and this afternoon I got an email from Launchpad notifying me that a mystery revision had been deleted. It seems that Richard has somehow overwritten my change with his. Luckily I've spotted it and will fix it now, but it could very easily have got lost. I'm not sure what's happened here, but I'm pretty sure bzr does not just do this silently. I thought you needed to specify --overwrite to do this on purpose, but perhaps there's a bzr bug here? Anyway, could everyone please be very careful when they do bzr push to the release branches. Thanks Andrew

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[ACTIVITY] May 1-5

by Revital Eres

Hello, [1] Regarding the patch 'Support closing_branch_deps' http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg00350.html Continued discussions with Ayal Zaks (SMS maintainer) regrading this patch. (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-05/msg00250.html) I'm now working on simplifying the patch for resubmission according the recommendation. [2] Regarding the patch 'Avoid considering debug_insn when calculating SCCs' http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg01294.html The problem exposed while testing patch [3] and it seems that is part of a bigger problem -- SMS does not support debug_insn properly. I've asked Alexandre Oliva who inserted the support for debug_insn to haifa sched and selective sched to help with that. [3] Regarding the patch 'Support instructions with REG_INC_NOTE' http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg01309.html The fix for debug_insn (which the patch [2] tries to solve) is needed for bootstrapping this patch. So I'm putting it on hold for now. Thanks, Revital

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[ACTIVITY] May 1-5

by Ira Rosen

Hi, - backported vzip fix to GCC 4.5 and 4.6 (PR 48252) - merged auto-detection of vector size patch to gcc-linaro 4.6 - started looking into vectorization of ffmpeg Ira

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uboot data abort when optimizated with Os under Linaro toolchain 4.5 2011.03/04

by Yuping Luo

Hi, I am trying add usb gadget mass storage to uboot , and got run-time abortion on usbmsd.c with the default u-boot Os option. I use linaro 2011.03 4.5.3 version, and my trials as following: 1) During debugging , I found the abort exception in usbmsd_init_strings(). if declaring it with noinline function, like static void usbmsd_init_strings (void) __attribute__((noinline)); it works, however, next steps still failed. 2) compling uboot with O0, everyhing is ok. 3) try other toolchain. It works with codesourcery's 2011.03-41 and ubuntu 4.5 version, while failed with 2011.04 4.5 linaro version. 4) I have dumped the obj files, seeming some funcs optimized ,analysing the details is out of my knowledge, :( . please check the src and objdump files in one compressed file) toolchain: ypluo@ypluo-dt:~/work/Current/L38EVB/Main/out/prima2cb$ arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc --v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/ypluo/work/Current/Tools/toolchain/linaro-201103-csr-build-armv7-vfpv3_x86_32/bin/../libexec/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/4.5.3/lto-wrapper Target: arm-none-linux-gnueabi Configured with: /media/8ccb10fd-862c-47d2-99fb-144e7188e1fb/home/vmuser/development/toolchain/build-toolchain/gcc-linaro-4.5-2011.03-0/configure --target=arm-none-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/media/8ccb10fd-862c-47d2-99fb-144e7188e1fb/home/vmuser/development/toolchain/build-toolchain/tools --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=softfp --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --disable-werror --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5-2011.3-csr-build' --enable-poison-system-directories Thread model: posix gcc version 4.5.3 20110221 (prerelease) (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5-2011.3-csr-build) ypluo@ypluo-dt:~/work/Current/L38EVB/Main/out/prima2cb$ /home/ypluo/mywork/toolchain/arm-2011.03/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc --v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=/home/ypluo/mywork/toolchain/arm-2011.03/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/mywork/toolchain/arm-2011.03/bin/../libexec/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/4.5.2/lto-wrapper Target: arm-none-linux-gnueabi Configured with: /scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/src/gcc-4.5-2011.03/configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-none-linux-gnueabi --enable-threads --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-extra-sgxxlite-multilibs --with-arch=armv5te --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-specs='%{save-temps: -fverbose-asm} %{funwind-tables|fno-unwind-tables|mabi=*|ffreestanding|nostdlib:;:-funwind-tables} -D__CS_SOURCERYGXX_MAJ__=2011 -D__CS_SOURCERYGXX_MIN__=3 -D__CS_SOURCERYGXX_REV__=41 %{O2:%{!fno-remove-local-statics: -fremove-local-statics}} %{O*:%{O|O0|O1|O2|Os:;:%{!fno-remove-local-statics: -fremove-local-statics}}}' --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-shared --enable-lto --enable-symvers=gnu --enable-__cxa_atexit --with-pkgversion='Sourcery G++ Lite 2011.03-41' --with-bugurl=https://support.codesourcery.com/GNUToolchain/ --disable-nls --prefix=/opt/codesourcery --with-sysroot=/opt/codesourcery/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/libc --with-build-sysroot=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/install/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/libc --with-gmp=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --with-mpfr=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --with-mpc=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --with-ppl=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --with-host-libstdcxx='-static-libgcc -Wl,-Bstatic,-lstdc++,-Bdynamic -lm' --with-cloog=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --with-libelf=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --disable-libgomp --enable-poison-system-directories --with-build-time-tools=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/install/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin --with-build-time-tools=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/install/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin Thread model: posix gcc version 4.5.2 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2011.03-41) Please let me know if other info needed. Many thanks. Yuping

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uboot data abort when optimizated with Os under Linaro toolchain 4.5 2011.03/04

by Yuping Luo

Hi, I am trying add usb gadget mass storage to uboot , and got run-time abortion on usbmsd.c with the default u-boot Os option. I use linaro 2011.03 4.5.3 version, and my trials as following: 1) During debugging , I found the abort exception in usbmsd_init_strings(). if declaring it with noinline function, like static void usbmsd_init_strings (void) __attribute__((noinline)); it works, however, next steps still failed. 2) compling uboot with O0, everyhing is ok. 3) try other toolchain. It works with codesourcery's 2011.03-41 and ubuntu 4.5 version, while failed with 2011.04 4.5 linaro version. 4) I have dumped the obj files, seeming some funcs optimized , analysing the details is out of my knowledge, :( . please check the attached three files. toolchain: ypluo@ypluo-dt:~/work/Current/L38EVB/Main/out/prima2cb$ arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc --v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/ypluo/work/Current/Tools/toolchain/linaro-201103-csr-build-armv7-vfpv3_x86_32/bin/../libexec/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/4.5.3/lto-wrapper Target: arm-none-linux-gnueabi Configured with: /media/8ccb10fd-862c-47d2-99fb-144e7188e1fb/home/vmuser/development/toolchain/build-toolchain/gcc-linaro-4.5-2011.03-0/configure --target=arm-none-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/media/8ccb10fd-862c-47d2-99fb-144e7188e1fb/home/vmuser/development/toolchain/build-toolchain/tools --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=softfp --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --disable-werror --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5-2011.3-csr-build' --enable-poison-system-directories Thread model: posix gcc version 4.5.3 20110221 (prerelease) (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5-2011.3-csr-build) ypluo@ypluo-dt:~/work/Current/L38EVB/Main/out/prima2cb$ /home/ypluo/mywork/toolchain/arm-2011.03/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc --v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=/home/ypluo/mywork/toolchain/arm-2011.03/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/mywork/toolchain/arm-2011.03/bin/../libexec/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/4.5.2/lto-wrapper Target: arm-none-linux-gnueabi Configured with: /scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/src/gcc-4.5-2011.03/configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-none-linux-gnueabi --enable-threads --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-extra-sgxxlite-multilibs --with-arch=armv5te --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-specs='%{save-temps: -fverbose-asm} %{funwind-tables|fno-unwind-tables|mabi=*|ffreestanding|nostdlib:;:-funwind-tables} -D__CS_SOURCERYGXX_MAJ__=2011 -D__CS_SOURCERYGXX_MIN__=3 -D__CS_SOURCERYGXX_REV__=41 %{O2:%{!fno-remove-local-statics: -fremove-local-statics}} %{O*:%{O|O0|O1|O2|Os:;:%{!fno-remove-local-statics: -fremove-local-statics}}}' --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-shared --enable-lto --enable-symvers=gnu --enable-__cxa_atexit --with-pkgversion='Sourcery G++ Lite 2011.03-41' --with-bugurl=https://support.codesourcery.com/GNUToolchain/ --disable-nls --prefix=/opt/codesourcery --with-sysroot=/opt/codesourcery/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/libc --with-build-sysroot=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/install/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/libc --with-gmp=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --with-mpfr=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --with-mpc=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --with-ppl=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --with-host-libstdcxx='-static-libgcc -Wl,-Bstatic,-lstdc++,-Bdynamic -lm' --with-cloog=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --with-libelf=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/obj/host-libs-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr --disable-libgomp --enable-poison-system-directories --with-build-time-tools=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/install/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin --with-build-time-tools=/scratch/janisjo/arm-linux-lite/install/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin Thread model: posix gcc version 4.5.2 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2011.03-41) Please let me know if other info needed. Many thanks. Yuping

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[ACTIVITY] 26th -28th April

by Andrew Stubbs

My MOVW patch from last week left an unused variable that killed -Werror builds, so I posted a new patch to fix it. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg04141.html Ramana approved that in record time, so I've committed it. Tom has committed Mark Shinwell's BRANCH_COST patch upstream, so I have backported it to Linaro GCC 4.6. Maxim has committed his compound conditionals patch upstream, so I've backported that to Linaro GCC 4.6 also. Reviewed what other patches are queued for forward porting to 4.6/7, hoping that other's might have picked some of them off, and found no other progress just yet. Reduced the test case for GCC PR48783. For some reason it is retaining ".global" directives for symbols that have been optimized away, which leads to link errors in the kernel build. Tried to find out why the "discourage neon in A8" patch has caused test failures. I'm still not sure - I've asked Michael Hope to rerun the tests in case it's just random. Reposted the EABI half-precision patch with the extra bits Joseph says it needed in the version scripts. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg04251.html Looked at the linking problem reported by Barry Song on the linaro-toolchain list. * Other Public holidays on Monday and Friday. * Future I will be attending UDS in Budapest from 8th - 14th May. I shall continue to read my email, but will not be attending any calls. ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html * ARM Thumb2 addw/subw support. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03783.html * ARM Thumb2 Replicated constants http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03883.html * ARM EABI half-precision function names (reposted 2011-04-27). http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg04251.html

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linaro-android track

by Zach Pfeffer

All, I apologize for the broad distribution. Alexander and I have been getting the Android track going. We have the following topics. Most of these have subscribers. Would everyone mind taking a look through this list and subscribing or suggesting people who should be involved? I'll be getting more details into each of these this week. Hosting and Distribution of Linaro Builds https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-buil… This topic will focus on building and distributing Linaro Android builds. Topics will include: binary and source distribution, source and binary overlays (proprietary components and blobs from TI, Samsung, etc), license click-through, build and distribution location or method (host images and/or support on-demand image builds) and release tagging and naming. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-buil… Android Code Review https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-code… This discussion will focus on Android code review. Topics will include Gerrit, continuous integration, maintainers, reviewers and validation. We'll focus on integrating the Android development model with Linaro. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-code… Android Continuous Integration and Building https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-cont… This discussion will focus on Linaro Android continuous integration and builds. Topics include: infrastructure and validation requirements, test subsets for merges and unit testing. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-cont… Android LEB Validation and Test Suite https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-vali… This discussion will focus on LEB validation and test suites. Topics will include: Monkey, CTS, Monkeyrunner, unit-tests, continuous integration merge tests. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-vali… 2011 ELC Follow Up and Planning https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-2011… Linaro had a good meeting at the 2011 Embedded Linux Conference. Many things were discussed. This session will talk about next steps and future planning. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-2011… Android Hardfloat Experiment https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-hard… This session will discuss strategies to find hot-spots that could benefit from hardfloat without breaking overall binary compatibility with market apps. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-hard… Android LEB Documentation https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-leb-… This session will focus on discussing what documentation we need for LEB use and bundled with releases. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-leb-… Linaro Android Toolchain Distribution https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-tool… This session will discuss how to distribute the various components of the Linaro toolchain. We'll discuss NDK and platform distribution, support on Ubuntu, Fedora and Mac, what components do we need to publish and benchmarking toolchain improvements. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-tool… LEB Board Review and Deliverable Requirements https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-leb-… This discussion will talk about defining new member deliverable for Android LEBs, reviewing what's been delivered and assessing if we can raise the bar, discuss other low-cost high-volume board that currently exist or are on the way (Nexus One, Nexus S, Snowball), talk about LEB candidates, discuss cost ceilings (is the Elba board too expensive, for instance). Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-leb-… Open Source Development for Non-Application Cores https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-non-… This session will explore how to open up development for the various DSP and video cores that exist on many SoCs that are running Android to allow open source development of multimedia acceleration. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-non-… Upstream Android Build https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-upst… This topic will discuss which changes we can upstream. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-upst… ADB Shell Improvements https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-adb-… The adb shell lacks many features we take for granted. There is a need for a little more functionality, this session will discuss this. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-adb-… Android Beyond Phones and Advanced Topics https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-beyo… This session will discuss the future of Android. It'll be a brainstorming session to talk about topics like: dual lib (bionic/glibc) support in Android, bringing apt-get into Android, Android as a general computing platform, expanded enterprise networking, expanded packages, traditional Linux application support, security certification and headless Android. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-beyo… JTAG for the World https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-jtag This session will talk about improving tools for Ubuntu hosted JTAG tools, open JTAG script development and available JTAG platforms. Subscribe: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+spec/linaro-android-o-jtag… -Zach

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[ACTIVITY] Apr.25 -- May.01

by Chung-Lin Tang

== Last week == * CoreMark ARMv6/v7 regression patch set for combine: exchanged some comments on upstream list with Jeff Law. Started some testing on powerpc64, hit some issues with native bootstrap that I don't think I completely overcome, but at least completed a 32-bit bootstrap successfully. Unfortunately hit two regressions after running tests, will work on fixing this week, and update the upstream submission. * PR48783: unused reference to __aeabi_uldivmod. Investigated and found this to be a case where during RTL expand, .global directives for the __aeabi_* runtime symbols are directly inserted after some div optab didn't have the insns, and a libfunc was to be used. However later optimizations that removed the divisions left the .global symbols dangling with no uses. We could probably just avoid adding the directives completely for the EABI functions. * PR42017: ARM LR register not used in leaf functions. This is a case where DF takes EPILOGUE_USES as part of the initial live registers at end of functionn, and liveness computations never get to kill it, since there are no function calls to clobber in a leaf function. Submitted a patch to remove LR from EPILOGUE_USES before reload, awaiting review. * LP #689887: investigated more; not much progress, but found that the bootstrap fail happens only under --with-mode=thumb (Thumb-2). Under ARM mode the native bootstrap succeeds. == This week == * Try to fix the problems with the CoreMark combine patches. * Investigate more optimizations/bugs. * Prepare for travel to Budapest on Saturday.

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[ACTIVITY] April 26-28

by Revital Eres

Hello, - Continued analysing DENbench benchmarks. - Discussed the SMS patched with Ayal Zaks (SMS maintainer). - Booked the flights for Budapest summit. Thanks, Revital

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[ACTIVITY] April 27-28

by Ira Rosen

Hi, gcc-linaro/4.6 - if-conversion improvement (needed to vectorize Telecom/viterbi) - merged - auto-detection of vector size - proposed for merging GCC FSF - fixed PR 48765 on trunk - completed testig of vzip fix (PR 48252) on gcc 4.5 and gcc 4.6 Ira

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, libunwind: * the initial support for resuming at a certain stack frame went upsream * learned about the various signal frame layouts on ARM * RT frames, non-RT frames for present and pre 2.6.18 kernels * implemented support for RT signal frame detection on ARM * started to implement support for unw_resume if signal frames are involved * attended a class on Friday Note: Monday was a public holiday. Regards Ken

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[ACTIVITY] Apr 26 - Apr 29

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Committed series of patches to fix bug #615978 (Failure to software single-step into signal handler) to mainline and Linaro GDB. * Drafted blueprint linaro-toolchain-o-cross-debug == GCC == * Split bug #771900 (Linaro GCC 4.5 switch optimization breaks profiled bootstrap) off bug #759409 (Profiled bootstrap fails in GCC 4.5). Tracked down root cause of bug #759409 / PR middle-end/43085, and posted fix to gcc-patches. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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Toolchain summit blueprints

by Michael Hope

Hi there. The toolchain session blueprints for the summit are now up on Launchpad: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain?searchtext=toolchain-o You can check out the schedule here: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-o/track/linaro-toolchain/ although it's really only for show at the moment. Expect things to jump around as the constraints kick in. Please go through these blueprints and subscribe yourself to them. You can check your list of blueprints at: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/people/+me?searchtext=toolchain-o -- Michael

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"BFD_ASSERT (out_attr[Tag_ABI_HardFP_use].i == 0) " assert

by Barry Song

Hi All, I found Jie has committed a patch "http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-05/msg00083.html". I am using the newest binary utils(2.21) and encounted the following ASSERT in arm_elf32.c: + if (out_attr[i].i == 0) + { + BFD_ASSERT (out_attr[Tag_ABI_HardFP_use].i == 0); My compiling options are as below, ASM_FLAGS := \ -gdwarf-2 \ -mfpu=vfp \ -mfloat-abi=softfp \ -mthumb-interwork C_FLAGS := \ $(ASM_FLAGS) \ -O3 -Wno-all \ -fno-optimize-sibling-calls \ -mlong-calls \ -ffunction-sections \ CPP_FLAGS := \ -fno-rtti \ -fno-exceptions \ LINK_FLAGS := \ --gc-sections -nostdlib \ -L ../stdlib \ -Wl,--as-needed \ -Wl,-no-enum-size-warning \ --cref \ ARFLAGS := \ rcs Can anyone give me any tip about why the assert is triggered? I have reported a bug here: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12700 But not sure whether it is a bug. -barry

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__aeabi_uldivmod undefined for sound/soc/codecs/snd-soc-wm8974.ko, snd-soc-wm8940.ko and snd-soc-wm8510.ko

by Barry Song

Hi All, I am using 2011.3 4.5 linaro GCC(armv7-a vfpv3d16) to compile kernel and modules. I select to compile all codecs as modules: "config SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS tristate "Build all ASoC CODEC drivers" " as M and I2C/SPI too. Then in the kernel dir, run "make" to get both vmlinux and modules, I found snd-soc-wm8974.ko, snd-soc-wm8940.ko and snd-soc-wm8510.ko will fail due to "__aeabi_uldivmod undefined". If i comment do_div() in these codec drivers, this issue will disappear. But it is strange there are many codecs which use do_div() too, for example: sound/soc/codecs/max98088.c sound/soc/codecs/max9850.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8350.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8400.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8510.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8580.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8753.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8804.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8900.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8904.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8940.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8955.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8960.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8974.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8978.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8985.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8990.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8991.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8993.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8995.c sound/soc/codecs/wm9081.c but others can pass the compiling except those 3 modules. Is it due to a wrong optimization by gcc? Other information: 1. old tool-chains we are using can pass the compiling of the 3 modules. 2. If i built all codecs into kernel image, these 3 drivers don't report error while compiling. Thanks Barry

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Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: prevent compilers from optimising pll calculation into __aeabi__uldivmod

by Barry Song

2011/4/27 Mark Brown <broonie(a)opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 04:50:12PM +0800, Barry Song wrote: > > > Marking pll_factors() as noinline or putting asm("" : "+r"(source)); before the > > call to do_div() works around the problem. > > If we do have to do something in the callers rather than in do_div() the > annotation seems substantially more taseful than inserting a random asm > into the code. I agree. for this patch which will not be applied, people can just get information about how to workaround the gcc issue while they have the same problem. google can find there are other people who failed to compile wm8974 module too. eg. http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/03/30/%23ubuntu-arm.txt Andrew Stubbs, Michael Hope in Linaro's toolchain team are working hard on this gcc issue. there have been many update today: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48783

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-O2 cause optimization issues while va parameters functions

by Barry Song

Hi All, As i have frequently said, we are using 2011.3 4.5 linaro gcc. For the following codes, if we compile it by -O2, it will crash with "segment fault", if we just comment " if(unifi_debug >= level) {", all will be ok. If we don't compile it by -O2, all will be ok too. #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdarg.h> #define DEBUG_BUFFER_SIZE 80 int unifi_debug = 5; void unifi_trace(void* ospriv, int level, const char *fmt, ...) { static char s[DEBUG_BUFFER_SIZE]; va_list args; unsigned int len; if(unifi_debug >= level) { va_start(args, fmt); len = vsnprintf(&(s)[0], (DEBUG_BUFFER_SIZE), fmt, args); va_end(args); if (len >= DEBUG_BUFFER_SIZE) { (s)[DEBUG_BUFFER_SIZE - 2] = '\n'; (s)[DEBUG_BUFFER_SIZE - 1] = 0; } printf("%s", s); } } int main(void) { char *prog = "/usr/sbin/unififw"; unifi_trace(NULL, 1, "start %s\n", prog); return 0; } Thanks Barry

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Sessions for the summit

by Michael Hope

Hi there. A first-pass list of summit sessions is up at: https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/1111Blueprints The next step is to investigate these areas and come up with a basic plan that can be discussed during the summit. I've put your names against the sessions as follows: Andrew: Broad tuning Dave: String routines everywhere Dave: QEMU topic #2 Doug: STM support Ira: Vectoriser and NEON performance Ken: 64 bit sync primitives Ken: Good backtracing Ken: End-developer tools bluesky Michael: Publish benchmarking of the toolchain Michael: Binary builds Michael: Deeper validation Peter: QEMU bluesky Ramana: Thumb-2 performance brainstorm Ramana: GCC backend rework Ulrich: GDB as a cross-debugger Ira and Dave, I know you won't be at the summit but we'll see about being able to call in. Could you all please have a read of the outline, investigate these topics, and draft up a blueprint-style list of work items to achieve it? Record any notes in the sandbox page[5] or in a child page if needed. Larger topics may warrant a specification[1]. I'd like these done by the end of next week. I'd expect to spend up to a day on the topics you already understand and more on broad topics. For reference, the see the draft TRs[2] and spreadsheet [3]. I've added some GDB topics to the spreadsheet that still need to go onto the wiki page. The outlines should touch each of these TRs in some way so let me know if I've missed anything. There's more good information on the process and style at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Process/Blueprints https://wiki.linaro.org/Process/WorkItemsHowto https://wiki.linaro.org/Resources/FAQ Questions? Need more detail? Let me know. -- Michael [1] https://wiki.linaro.org/Process/SpecTemplate [2] https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1111/TechnicalTopics/Toolchain [3] https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ap7fWLePADFVdHkxYy1INTZmMEd4bkwxSG… [4] there is no 4... [5] https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/1111Blueprints

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[ACTIVITY] 18th - 21st April

by Andrew Stubbs

Merged & tested the outstanding merge requests into Linaro GCC. Spin the Linaro GCC 4.5 and 4.6 releases. Uploaded the tarballs to Michael. Submitted a patch upstream that removed some redundant code that had confused me a introduced a bug into my Thumb2 constants patch. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03756.html This patch is now approved and committed upstream. I'll commit it internally when the rest of my ARM/Thumb constant handling changes are upstream. Worked on addressing RichardE's concerns with my Thumb2 constants patch. Tried to split it into smaller chunks, and rename the constraints. Posted the patches upstream: 1. a small patch upstream to clean up MOWV support. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03768.html (Now approved and committed.) 2. ADDW and SUBW support. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03783.html 3. Replicated constants for constant splitting. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03883.html Committed upstream Dan's Vector shift test cases patch that was approved last week. Pushed the same patch to Linaro GCC 4.6. ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html * ARM EABI half-precision functions (reposted 2011-04-14) http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03210.html * ARM Thumb2 addw/subw support. http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03783.html * ARM Thumb2 Replicated constants http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03883.html

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Performance meeting agenda for today.

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

Hi, Agenda for today's performance call . Sorry about the last minute posting and I'll put this in the wiki soon enough. 1. Sync-up on what's been happening around the group: a. Coremark regressions. b. Thumb2 constants patch. c. divmodsi4 and vfp register moves. d. DENBench investigations. 2. Planning for the summit and turning some of the ideas into blueprints. 3. AOB. cheers Ramana

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[ACTIVITY] Apr.18 -- Apr.24

by Chung-Lin Tang

== Last week == * PR48250, rehaul arm_legitimize_reload_address(). Richard Sandiford caught a bug of mine where I overlooked the valid index range of NEON quad-word load/stores. Quickly whipped up a fix, soon approved and committed upstream. * LP #744754, ICE in NEON struct-mode auto-inc-dec MEMs. Pushed upstream patch for a merge to Linaro 4.5. * PR46888, bit-field insert optimization patch. Resumed investigating, mailed Andrew Pinski for more information on that REG_EQUAL note issue he mentioned on gcc-patches; can't quite reproduce it myself. * CoreMark ARMv6/v7 regressions: posted a patch set to gcc-patches. Still waiting review. * Reported to Bernd and AndrewS on an issue (LP #748138) which seems to be related to the shrink-wrap patch. This ICE does not seem to be avoided by doing -fno-shrink-wrap. * A few tasks related to Linaro-Budapest event travel. == This week == * Do the merge of the new combine patches to Linaro, and test. * LP #689887 is still in progress. * Hope to experiment with a few more optimization ideas.

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NEON intrinsics vs. assembly code

by Richard Sandiford

Michael mentioned that some users reported seeing better preformance from RVCT using arm_neon.h then they did when coding directly in assembler. He suggested we try the same thing for GCC. Here's an experiment using the example that Jim Huang posted to the dev list recently: https://wiki.linaro.org/RichardSandiford/Sandbox/IntrinsicsPerformance The summary is that the C version needs to borrow a trick from the assembly code in order to be competitive. If it does that, though, the C code can be faster. I think this is mostly down to scheduling, although I haven't checked in detail yet. Richard

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[ACTIVITY] 2011-04-21

by David Gilbert

== String and Memory routines == * Profiled denbench with perf and produced a set of stats to show which programs spent how much time in libc and how much time was spent in each routine. While some of the benchmarks are good (like aes) and spend almost no time in libc some of the others (MPEG codecs especially) seem to spend significant times in libc. * Ran all of denbench through latrace to generate sets of library calls; post processed them to extract the section between the clock() calls (and hence in the timed portion) and analysed the hot library calls. I've looked at some of the output but not all of it yet; I get output like: Memcpy stats (dst align/src align/length/number of occurrences/total size copied) memcpy: 0,0,1 , 1588520, 1588520 memcpy: 16,28,4096 , 1, 4096 memcpy: 4,20,16384 , 855, 14008320 This shows that for a bunch of tests they do an inordinate number of 1 byte memcpy's, and a few hundred larger memcpy's with an address %32 which is 4 (and destination %32 is 20) - so not aligned but at least equally misaligned. * Started writing up a report on some of the stats * Also started to try and extract the same stuff from SPEC2k6 == QEMU == * Tested Peter's QEmu release earlier in the week (On Lucid so didn't hit his natty bug) * Wrote up a couple of specs (one for TrustZone and the other for Device Tree integration)

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Revital Eres

Hello, Submitted the following patches to GCC trunk: [1] Avoid unfreed memory when SMS fails (committed to trunk GCC) - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg01204.html [2] Free sccs field (committed to trunk GCC)- http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg01205.html [3] New flag to apply SMS when SC equals 1 (committed to trunk GCC) - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg01293.html [4] Avoid considering debug_insn when calculating SCCs - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg01294.html [5] Support instructions with REG_INC_NOTE - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg01309.html Returned looking into DENbench's benchmarks. Thanks, Revital

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[ACTIVITY] Apr 18 - Apr 21

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Created Linaro GDB 7.2-2011.04-0 release. * Committed patch to fix accessing "fpscr" register to Linaro GDB. * Failure to disable address space randomization (bug #616001) has been fixed in the kernel; closed the Linaro GDB bug. == GCC == * Ongoing analysis of bug #759409 (Profiled bootstrap fails). Identified two independent problems, one related to a new CodeSourcery feature, and one a mis-optimization of final-stage cc1plus which is also present in FSF GCC 4.5 (PR 43085). Ongoing investigation to track down the root cause of the latter problem. == Schedule == * Public holidays 04/22 - 04/25. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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[ACTIVITY] report week 16

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: another monthly qemu-linaro release out on schedule Current Milestones: | Planned | Estimate | Actual | qemu-linaro 2011-04 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | Historical Milestones: finish qemu-cont-integration | 2011-01-25 | 2011-01-25 | handed off | first qemu-linaro release | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | qemu-linaro 2011-03 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 | == maintain-beagle-models == * qemu-linaro 2011.04 tested and released * had to do another last minute -1 respin to fix a problem caught by ubuntu package builds; we need to come up with a process that lets us do test package builds prior to release so we can fix this sort of issue in a less last-minute fashion == merge-correctness-fixes == * sent patch: fix semihosting SYS_HEAPINFO (seems to have issues though) * sent patch: UNDEFs in Neon load/store space * sent patches: fix build issues on sparc * sent patch: bump the initrd load address to work with bigger kernels * sent patch: set Invalid flag for float-to-int conversion of NaN * sent patch: move vld/vst multiple to helper functions * reviewed patches from Aurelien doing some general softfloat cleanup * sent out a version of my performance counters patch which just does a basic dummy implementation without the cycle counter (since the cycle counter bits were going off down a blind alley rather and this part is the last thing needed to be able to boot Linaro vexpress images on stock upstream QEMU) == other == * trying to nail down proposed QEMU work for next cycle; work-in-progress: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/Qemu1111 * meetings: toolchain, standup Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: Holiday: 22 Apr - 2 May 9-13 May: UDS, Budapest (maybe) 15-16 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver [LinuxCon proper follows on 17-19th]

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, libunwind: * added initial support for resuming at a certain stack frame * posted unw_resume support plus some some testsuite fixes on the ml * there are still some issues left if signal handlers/frames are involved Note: Friday is a public holiday. Regards Ken

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[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Richard Sandiford

== This week == * Iterated with upstream on some of the vectorisation patches. I think only half a patch (the ARM implementation of array_mode_supported_p) is still pending review; everything else has been approved. * Backported the vldN and vstN intrinsics to Linaro 4.5. * Finished off the microbenchmarks for libav. * One of the problems in the original libav output was that the vectoriser didn't realise that a group of N accesses really did form a group. It instead generated N separate interleave operations and took 1 vector from each. Submitted a fix for that, which is now committed upstream. Updated the libav wiki page with the new, improved output. (This actually allowed more libav loops to be vectorised, as well as improving the output from some of the existing ones. I haven't looked at the new ones. I expect this comes from interleaved stores.) * Wrote an arm_neon.h version of Android's scanline_t32cb16_neon and compared it with the original. * Started (and only started) seeing how the vectorisation stuff affects DENbench. * Backported the dwarf2out OOM fix to Linaro 4.6. == Next week == * Do something useful on DENbench. * If all goes well, commit the vectorisation work upstream and backport it to Linaro 4.5 and 4.6. ...but it's only a three day week. Richard

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Linaro QEMU 2011.04-1 released

by Peter Maydell

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2011.04-1. Linaro QEMU 2011.04-1 is the third release of qemu-linaro. Based off upstream (trunk) qemu, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. Interesting changes include: - Compiling for an ARM host in Thumb mode now works - As usual, various minor correctness fixes and other upstream changes Known issues: - The beagle and beaglexm models do not support USB, so there is no keyboard, mouse or networking (#708703) The only change over the shortlived 2011.04-0 is to fix a compilation failure with gcc 4.5. The source tarball is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2011.04-1 Binary builds of this qemu-linaro release are being prepared and will be available shortly for users of Ubuntu. Packages will be in the linaro-maintainers tools ppa: https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/tools/ More information on Linaro QEMU is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro

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Linaro GDB 7.2 2011-04 released

by Michael Hope

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro GDB 7.2. Linaro GDB 7.2 2011.04 is the fifth release in the 7.2 series. Based off the latest GDB 7.2, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes. This release fixes: * LP: #684218 Failure to backtrace out of glibc system call stubs * LP: #667309 failed to single step over bad thumb->arm boundary * Fix accessing "fpscr" register The source tarball is available at: https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/+milestone/7.2-2011.04-0 More information on Linaro GDB is available at: https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro -- Michael

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