== Progress ==
* GCC:
- -mpure-code on v6m: sent an updated patch, waiting for approval.
* BFD Linker:
- non-contiguous memory support: partial prototype working on the
use-case, but causes regressions.
* GCC upstream validation:
- reported several issues
* misc:
- infra fixes / troubleshooting / reviews
== Next ==
* GCC: pure-code/v6m, handle feedback
* Binutils: support non-contiguous memory regions in linker
QEMU Tooling ([VIRT-252])
=========================
Extend gdbstub for SVE ([VIRT-281])
- worked on [v2 rebase addressing comments]
[VIRT-281] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-281
[v2 rebase addressing comments]
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/gdbstub/sve-registers-v2
Upstream Work ([VIRT-109])
==========================
- general poking around and stress testing on the run up to release
- documented some outstanding issues [on the planning page]
- posted {PULL for rc3 0/5} a few doc and testing tweaks Message-Id:
<20191120105801.2735-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
- posted {PATCH for 4.2 v1 0/3} some tests/vm fixes Message-Id:
<20191122112231.18431-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
[VIRT-109] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-109
[on the planning page] https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/4.2
Other Activities
================
- finalising [draft of KVM Forum conference report]
- will publish on Monday once Beata adds the last note
[draft of KVM Forum conference report]
https://collaborate.linaro.org/pages/resumedraft.action?draftId=128647720
Completed Reviews [3/3]
=======================
{PATCH v2 0/6} Make the qemu_logfile handle thread safe.
Message-Id: <20191115131040.2834-1-robert.foley(a)linaro.org>
- CLOSING NOTE [2019-11-22 Fri 17:15]
Ad of v3 this is ready to go, just awaiting the tree to open again
Added: <2019-11-15 Fri>
{PATCH v3 0/6} Make the qemu_logfile handle thread safe.
Message-Id: <20191118211528.3221-1-robert.foley(a)linaro.org>
{PATCH 0/6} Enable Travis builds on arm64, ppc64le and s390x
Message-Id: <20191119170822.45649-1-thuth(a)redhat.com>
Current Review Queue
====================
* {PATCH 0/1} tests/vm: Allow to set path to qemu-img
Message-Id: <20191114134246.12073-1-wainersm(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2019-11-14 Thu>
* {PATCH v7 0/8} Acceptance test: Add "boot_linux" acceptance test
Message-Id: <20191104151323.9883-1-crosa(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2019-11-04 Mon>
* {RFC 0/3} tests/vhost-user-fs-test: add vhost-user-fs test case
Message-Id: <20191025100152.6638-1-stefanha(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2019-10-25 Fri>
* {PATCH v5 00/22} target/arm: Implement ARMv8.5-MemTag, system mode
Message-Id: <20191011134744.2477-1-richard.henderson(a)linaro.org>
Added: <2019-10-11 Fri>
--
Alex Bennée
[Morello]
- LLD finished pre-review refactoring and splitting up into reviewable chunks
- Implemented range-extension and interworking thunks to test
interaction with aligning .text to comply with Cheri Concentrate
- Answered some questions from Linaro tech-leads about Morello
Plans
- Rebase once CUCL merge has been completed and submit for review.
Planned Absences:
Christmas Holiday 16th December - 3rd January inclusive
Progress:
* VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
- code review:
+ Marc-Andre's series trying to get rid of QOM pointer properties
+ various minor bits for rc2
- unsuccessfully tried to work out why one of QEMU's test
cases asserts on BSD hosts only
- some time consumed by office-move
thanks
-- PMM
== Progress ==
* Triaging check-lldb failures on AArch64 [LLVM-512]
- Opened 4 bug reports
- One of them got a lot of attention so I was asked to upload more
logs/try various things
- Still have a couple of test failures to look into
* Morello
- First contact with the team
- Started looking at the internal docs
- Trying to build the existing toolchain
== Plan ==
* Figure out the current state of LLDB for Morello and what needs to be done
* Continue triaging LLDB failures
Dear Linaro,
Dear Linaro I'm using arm cortex A53 (mt6735 [part number]). But I do not know which tool-chain I have to use. I found your website https://www.linaro.org/downloads/ on internet. and my guess is aarch64-linux-gnu. can you please guide me through selecting a proper tool-chain.
Regards,
Saeed Djamali
# Progress #
o Upstream GDB
* More patch reviewing and answering questions.
o GDB:
* GNU-644 - [GDB, AArch64] gdb.base/step-over-syscalls.exp failures
- Managed to track this down all the way to the aarch64
single-stepping infrastructure in the kernel. Created reproduction steps
and sent an e-mail to linux-arm-kernel
- Also noticed a difference in the order in which SIGCHLD's are
delivered between x86_64 and aarch64. This confused GDB, which expects
the ordering it sees on x86_64. Working on a fix.
* Tweaked QEMU setup a little for SVE testing
* GNU-645 - gdbserver is not using SVE register descriptions properly
- Tracked down why gdbserver is not sending SVE register data back
to GDB. Working on a fix.
* GNU-170 - GDB BZ #21221 - gdb hangs while stepping an empty loop
- On hold for now.
# Plan #
o GDB
* GNU-644 - [GDB, AArch64] gdb.base/step-over-syscalls.exp failures
- Continue working on a fix.
* GNU-645 - gdbserver is not using SVE register descriptions properly
- Continue working on a fix.
[VIRT-262 # ARMv8.1-PAN Privileged Access Never]
Started, based on VHE patch set due to mmu_idx reorg therein.
Needs some minor re-work to handle Secure EL1.
[VIRT-273 # ARMv8.2-ATS1E1, AT S1E1R and AT S1E1W instruction variants ]
Started.
[VIRT-327 # Richard's upstream QEMU work ]
Some soft-freeze bug fixing of stuff that I broke this cycle.
Some patch review.
[Kernel]
Posted v7 of the ARMv8.5-RNG patch set. There's some significant
mis-communication going on between me and Mark Rutland; I have no
idea what he wants at this point...
[GCC]
Committed the base asm-flags patch set. Posted a follow-up
to un-break thumb1, and add tests for it.
r~
== This Week ==
* GCC
- PR89007: Posted patch upstream.
- GNU-583: Worked with Kugan, to reproduce LTO failure and verified
his patch fixes it.
- Bug 5479: Investigated with Maxim, most likely a glibc issue.
* Validation:
- Posted abe patch to add --gcc_patch_file option.
== Next Week ==
- Continue ongoing tasks.
Monday off
== Progress ==
* GCC:
- -mpure-code on v6m: answered questions about my patch. Almost OK
* Linker:
- started looking at implementing non-contiguous memory support
* GCC upstream validation:
- reported several issues
* misc:
- infra fixes / troubleshooting / reviews
== Next ==
* GCC: pure-code/v6m, handle feedback
* Binutils: support non-contiguous memory regions in linker
[Morello]
- Dynamic linking implementation complete and tests written based on
GNU ld output.
- Good progress on refactoring the work prior to breaking it down into
reviewable chunks. Have got a good idea of what I'd like the
implementation to look like.
TODO:
- Finish refactoring patches.
- Rebase into reviewable patches.
- Document the design decisions.
- Test on more than just the examples in the toolchain.
- Rebase on top of latest CUCL drop when merge is finished.
[Other]
LLVM-MC upstream review for the Linux Kernel.
QEMU Tooling ([VIRT-252])
=========================
QEMU plugin support ([VIRT-280])
- feature now merged in 4.2
- closed out a bunch of related JIRA cards
- API version now merged and this card is closed
Extend gdbstub for SVE ([VIRT-281])
- posted {RFC PATCH 00/11} gdbstub re-factor and SVE support
Message-Id: <20191115173000.21891-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
[VIRT-281] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-281
[working prototype]
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/gdbstub/sve-registers
Upstream Work ([VIRT-109])
==========================
- posted {PULL 0/8} testing and tcg plugin api ver Message-Id:
<CAFEAcA_9AwoTE9zaKbiF6DkpN+O8LaEKGOct-m5S3yvFBHGK1g(a)mail.gmail.com>
- posted {PATCH for 4.2-rc2 v1 0/5} misc doc and testing fixes
Message-Id: <20191113115952.775-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
- posted {RFC PATCH} scripts/tap-driver: report "slow" tests (HACK)
Message-Id: <20191113142101.30280-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
Other Activities
================
- wrote [draft of KVM Forum conference report]
[draft of KVM Forum conference report]
https://collaborate.linaro.org/pages/resumedraft.action?draftId=128647720
Completed Reviews [5/5]
=======================
{PATCH 0/2} replace sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) with qemu_real_host_page_size
Message-Id: <20191015031350.4345-2-richardw.yang(a)linux.intel.com>
{PATCH v2 0/4} arm/aspeed: Watchdog and SDRAM fixes
Message-Id: <20191113005201.19005-1-joel(a)jms.id.au>
{kvm-unit-test PATCH 0/5} Improvements for the Travis CI
Message-Id: <20191113112649.14322-6-thuth(a)redhat.com>
{PATCH} target/arm: Clean up arm_cpu_vq_map_next_smaller asserts
Message-Id: <20191115131623.322-1-richard.henderson(a)linaro.org>
{PATCH v1 0/5} Make the qemu_logfile handle thread safe.
Message-Id: <20191112150105.2498-1-robert.foley(a)linaro.org>
Current Review Queue
====================
* {PATCH v2 0/6} Make the qemu_logfile handle thread safe.
Message-Id: <20191115131040.2834-1-robert.foley(a)linaro.org>
Added: <2019-11-15 Fri>
* {PATCH 0/1} tests/vm: Allow to set path to qemu-img
Message-Id: <20191114134246.12073-1-wainersm(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2019-11-14 Thu>
* {PATCH v7 0/8} Acceptance test: Add "boot_linux" acceptance test
Message-Id: <20191104151323.9883-1-crosa(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2019-11-04 Mon>
* {RFC 0/3} tests/vhost-user-fs-test: add vhost-user-fs test case
Message-Id: <20191025100152.6638-1-stefanha(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2019-10-25 Fri>
--
Alex Bennée
Progress:
* VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
- wrote up first draft of requirements for the better CI setup for
testing pull request merge builds
(https://wiki.qemu.org/Requirements/GatingCI)
- wrote up version of the QEMU Summit minutes that includes enough
context to make sense to people who weren't present; plan to
send to qemu-devel next Friday
- got 4.2 rc1 out of the door; this release seems to be pleasantly
quiet for a change.
thanks
-- PMM
== Progress ==
* Committed SVE-related fix for InstCombine
* Started triaging check-lldb failures on AArch64 [LLVM-512]
- Committed a trivial fix for one of the tests
- Still looking into the other failures
* Received and setup laptop for Morello work
- Awaiting further instructions
== Plan ==
* Start working on Morello
* Keep triaging check-lldb failures
* If time permits, look into SVE asserts some more
# Progress #
o Annual Review
* Concluded
o Upstream GDB
* Patch reviews on gerrit and answering questions.
* Fixed PR25124 - [ARM] regression: thumb-bx-pc.exp
(https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25124)
* Investigated an odd failure in gdb.base/step-over-syscall.exp and
ended up finding some odd stepping behavior that may or may not be
kernel related. Still investigating under GNU-644
(https://projects.linaro.org/browse/GNU-644)
o GDB:
* GNU-170 - GDB BZ #21221 - gdb hangs while stepping an empty loop
- On hold for now. It would be nice to be able to use a NOP instead
of a dummy label + jump.
* Setup QEMU for running SVE bits and reproduced some SVE hiccups in
gdbserver that Alex mentioned.
* Misc discussions about SVE and the GDB implementation in general.
# Plan #
o Upstream GDB
* More patch reviewing and answering questions.
o GDB:
* GNU-644 - [GDB, AArch64] gdb.base/step-over-syscalls.exp failures
- Continue investigating
* Tweak QEMU setup a little for SVE testing
== Progress ==
* GCC:
- -mpure-code on v6m: no feedback yet
* Linker:
- started looking at implementing non-contiguous memory support
* GCC upstream validation:
- reported several issues
* misc:
- infra fixes / troubleshooting / reviews
== Next ==
* GCC: pure-code/v6m, handle feedback
* Binutils: support non-contiguous memory regions in linker
[VIRT-263 # ARMv8.1-VHE Virtual Host Extensions ]
Reworked the timer redirection. Now the EL2 and EL0 redirection
is unified, which is a bit easier to understand. Still no joy
working out where the unwanted interrupt is coming from. As far
as I can tell everything is plumbed correctly...
I'll shelve this until PMM is not swamped with release work.
It must wait for 5.0 for merging anyway.
[VIRT-327 # Richard's upstream QEMU work ]
Assorted patch review.
[Kernel]
Posted two more rounds of ARMv8.5-RNG for review. Seems I'd
misunderstood one of Mark's previous suggestions, and Ard changed
his mind about how RNDR vs RNDRRS should be used in the context
of the shared resource across host*CORES + virt*VCPUS.
[GCC]
Posted an implementation of asm-flag-output for AArch32+AArch64.
I should have done this years ago. There are two potential users
within the kernel, and one is access_ok() which has thousands
of uses. (Oh, and RNG, which has like 3 uses. :-P)
Reviewed some arm simd patches that caught my eye.
r~
QEMU Tooling ([VIRT-252])
=========================
QEMU plugin support ([VIRT-280])
- feature now merged in 4.2
- closed out a bunch of related JIRA cards
- posted {PATCH} tcg plugins: expose an API version concept
Message-Id: <20191104131836.12566-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
- requested by Peter before hardfreeze
Extend gdbstub for SVE ([VIRT-281])
- got a [working prototype]
- probably need a little core gdbstub re-factor before posting RFC
[VIRT-281] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-281
[working prototype]
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/gdbstub/sve-registers
Upstream Work ([VIRT-109])
==========================
- posted {PULL v3 00/15} testing updates Message-Id:
<20191025193709.28783-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
- had to drop NetBSD autobuild (again)
[VIRT-109] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-109
[branch]
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/testing/docker-multiarch-refactor
[testing/next] https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/testing/next
Other Activities
================
- Presented at KVM Forum
- went down well, made a number of contacts who are interested
- A bunch of discussion on Hexagon
- More detailed write-up to follow
Completed Reviews [4/4]
=======================
{PATCH 0/5} travis.yml improvements: Update libraries, build with arm64
Message-Id: <20191009170701.14756-1-thuth(a)redhat.com>
- CLOSING NOTE [2019-10-18 Fri 19:04]
Pulled some bits into testing/next
Added: <2019-10-09 Wed>
{PATCH} Semihost SYS_READC implementation (v4)
Message-Id: <20191024224622.12371-1-keithp(a)keithp.com>
{PATCH v2 0/4} target/arm: Support for Data Cache Clean up to PoP
Message-Id: <CADSWDztHetgmbUOp4WyRAkR0daAG6kkwhUTcyKWiCTWHQ1XB=w(a)mail.gmail.com>
{PATCH 0/4} Make the qemu_logfile handle thread safe.
Message-Id: <20191107142613.2379-1-robert.foley(a)linaro.org>
Absences
========
- KVM Forum Oct 29th-Nov 1st
Current Review Queue
====================
* {PATCH v7 0/8} Acceptance test: Add "boot_linux" acceptance test
Message-Id: <20191104151323.9883-1-crosa(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2019-11-04 Mon>
* {RFC 0/3} tests/vhost-user-fs-test: add vhost-user-fs test case
Message-Id: <20191025100152.6638-1-stefanha(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2019-10-25 Fri>
* {PATCH v5 00/22} target/arm: Implement ARMv8.5-MemTag, system mode
Message-Id: <20191011134744.2477-1-richard.henderson(a)linaro.org>
Added: <2019-10-11 Fri>
* {PATCH v4 0/9} target/arm/kvm: enable SVE in guests
Message-Id: <20190924113105.19076-1-drjones(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2019-09-24 Tue>
--
Alex Bennée
Morello
- Started to document the LLD implementation.
- Implemented CHERI concentrate alignment for the important sections.
- Dynamic linking is feature complete, but not finished yet, still Todo:
-- More test cases for the various different combinations.
-- Refactor to clean up the implementation.
-- Rebase all the patches to remove the false starts.
-- Update the documentation I've just started as it is already out of date.
-- Not looked at ifunc or TLS yet.
llvm-mc
Some review on MC patch to allow limited symbolic computation when
evaluating .if
Progress / KVM Forum trip report:
* As usual, we held the QEMU Summit at the same time as the forum;
this is an hour-or-two invitation only meeting of the top 20 or
so maintainers/submaintainers, discussing process and other project
issues. A proper summary/writeup of the minutes will be posted to
qemu-devel later, but IMHO this year the most interesting topics were:
- Spreading the load of managing pull request merges; currently
I do this with the aid of some hand-hacked scripts. To be able
to spread this work among more people we need to replace that
with a more maintained and standardized CI/testing setup. RedHat
have agreed to provide some people to work on at least the initial
setup part of this, and we got some consensus that the approach to
take was to use Gitlab with some custom 'runners' to handle the
'build/test on aarch64/ppc/s390x/etc' parts.
- We talked about the project's general stance on 'plugin' interfaces;
which can be controversial both because they commit us to maintaining
a stable API/ABI and because they have the potential to be used to
work around the GPL (eg proprietary device models). We plan to
write up some guidelines here (mostly just writing down the
existing consensus).
- We also talked (again) about our handling of security issues and
CVEs. My impression is that there are some parts of this that
people aren't hugely happy with but that nobody has the time/effort to
try to improve things (eg better documentation/tracking of issues,
more prompt upstream point releases with security fixes), so things
are likely to stay about as they are now.
* Interesting talks (videos are being uploaded to:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCSQmAOh7yzgheq-emy1xA ):
- 'The Hype Around the RISC-V Hypervisor' : the RISC-V architecture's
hypervisor extension isn't completely finalized yet, but it's far
enough advanced that KVM support and also QEMU emulation of it have
been written. An amusing sign of the architecture's academic
underpinnings is that this first version doesn't have any hardware
acceleration of the interrupt controller, but does have full
nested-virtualization support.
- 'ZERO: Next Generation Virtualization Platform for Huawei Cloud':
Huawei describe hardware for a cloud environment which offloads
as much as possible of the hypervisor work to custom I/O cards
and a custom silicon cloud-control device, in a general approach
that's probably familiar to anybody who watched the Amazon Nitro
presentation from the other year.
- 'What's Going On? Taking Advantage of TCG's Total System Awareness':
Alex Bennée's talk on the introspection plugin work we've been doing
in Linaro (and which will be in QEMU 4.2).
- 'Playing Lego with Virtualization Components':
description of the Rust 'rust-vmm' set of libraries intended to
provide useful building blocks for putting together virtual machine
managers (like Firecracker, crosvm). Basically similar content to
a presentation they did for Cambridge University earlier this year,
but this talk's been recorded so is good if you weren't in the audience
the first time around.
* And as always the in-person networking is valuable:
- Oracle have a "split device emulation into separate processes" idea
that's alarmingly invasive of the source code, but Stefan came up
with an approach that might let them do what they need without making
the source code harder to work with for the rest of us.
- Met the RedHat person who's going to do the CI-for-pullreqs work
(see QEMU Summit item earlier) : getting this unstalled was probably
the most useful concrete outcome of the conference
- Finally met Aurelien Jarno (a longstanding hobbyist contributor
to QEMU who usually can't attend these conferences)
* While at the conference Drew and I managed to finally get the
SVE support for KVM guests into master (the last hurdle was an awkward
test failure on the aarch32-compat-on-aarch64-kernel setup I happen
to use as one of my build test environments; we don't care about whether
KVM really works in this setup but we need 'make check' to not fail)
* Also managed to fit in some wrangling of pull requests; the timing
of the 4.2 release unfortunately put softfreeze on the Tuesday
before the conference and rc0 on the Tuesday afterwards; rc0
ended up being postponed a couple of days as a consequence.
thanks
-- PMM
Linaro
- On buildbot monitoring duty, relatively quiet week with just a
couple of fairly simple to diagnose problems to report.
Morello
- Dynamic linking progressing albeit slowly.
-- Trying to work out the requirements from existing documents and
implementation.
-- Have some simple cases doing mostly the right thing and have
written some tests.
-- Will need to rewrite to move calculations earlier in the link-step.
-- Morello is quite different from Cheri in this regard so I have had
to diverge much more from the implementation.
Tree:
https://github.com/rth7680/qemu.git tgt-arm-vhe-5
Testcase:
qemu-test:~rth/linux/initramfs-min.cpio.gz
The host kernel could be anything, but I've been using
the same Image.gz that is inside the cpio archive.
./aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4G \
-M virt,virtualization=on,gic-version=max -cpu max \
-kernel Image.gz -initrd initramfs-min.cpio.gz
At the shell prompt, ./test will run a guest kernel with kvm.
As momentarily discussed with PMM in the hallway:
As soon as the guest kernel enables interrupts,
arch_timer_starting_cpu
enable_percpu_irq
irq_percpu_enable
gic_unmask_irq
-- Incorrect exception delivery.
the GTIMER_PHYS interrupt is delivered to EL2 (seems to be ok), the host kernel
does something (haven't dug into what exactly, bug presumably setting bits that
are supposed to pass the virq to the guest), and immediately another interrupt
is delivered to EL2. Repeat.
Whether this is incorrect routing of the virq interrupt, or incorrect
masking/acking of the hard irq interrupt at EL2, I do not yet know.
PMM: I don't know the answer to either (a) or (b) as asked on hangouts. I
think (b) is correct, but I can't be sure. I'm trying to understand how (a) is
supposed to work now. In particular, I can't find any code that sets
HCR_EL2.{VI,VF}, only tests them.
r~
# Progress #
o Ramp up
* Concluded.
o Annual Review
* Attended discussions.
o Upstream GDB
* Patch reviews on gerrit.
* Answered questions.
* The state of ARM/AArch64 GDB upstream seems to be reasonable, with
a few failures here and there. Numerous failures on problematic racy
tests (gdb.threads).
o GDB:
* GNU-170 - GDB BZ #21221 - gdb hangs while stepping an empty loop
- Spent some more time on this and improve the patch further,
covering most problematic cases for "for", "while" and "do/while" loops.
* Read some documentation on setting up Fast Models for testing MVE
(Helium).
* Inspected various aspects of ARM support in GDB, like SVE, PAC and
ACLE.
# Plan #
o Annual Review
* Conclude.
o GDB:
* GNU-170 - GDB BZ #21221 - gdb hangs while stepping an empty loop
- Discuss with gcc@ a bit more about my proposed solution.
* Attempt to setup system QEMU and/or Fast Model for testing ACLE SVE
and, maybe, MVE.
== Progress ==
* Out of office 1 day
* Buildbot monitoring
- Moved the buildbots to pull from github
* Trying to setup a build environment on ex40-01
- Gave up on the tcwg-sq-01/2 boards because they seemed too unstable
* Still no access to Morello docs
* Playing with lldb python scripting
- Got a script that intercepts all calls to
VectorType::getNumElements that don't come from a getElementCount
(since that likely means that they won't be preserving the 'scalable'
property)
- This should help figure out problems spotted by the fuzzer
- Likely needs a bit more refining
== Plan ==
* More of the same
* Out of office on Friday (1 November)
== Progress ==
* GCC:
- -mpure-code on v6m: no feedback yet
* FDPIC/GDB
- problems with the board I used, it hangs shortly after or during
boot. None of the workaround/fixes suggested to me worked. Having an
stm32 qemu config would help.
* GCC upstream validation:
- reported several issues
* misc:
- infra fixes / troubleshooting / reviews
- sent 2 small qemu patches (fix vmrs support for m-profile, and add cortex-m7)
- confirmed that gcc LTO profiled bootstrap works on arm with recent
trunk, although it takes ages. Will need to try on a more powerful
board
== Next ==
* Holidays next week, back Nov 4th
* FDPIC: resume work on GDB: check the various qemu forks with stm32
board support.
Add FDPIC configuration in the GCC trunk validation.
* GCC: pure-code/v6m, handle feedback
* Binutils: support non-contiguous memory regions in linker
Progress:
* VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
+ lots of wrangling of patches and pulls since I'm away
next week and it's also going to be softfreeze
+ preparation for KVM Forum next week
thanks
-- PMM
Progress:
[VIRT-344 # ARMv8.5-MemTag, Memory Tagging Extension ]
Updates for user-only.
Merge bug fixes from eugeni.stepanov(a)gmail.com.
[VIRT-349 # QEMU SVE2 Supprt ]
Convert neon pmul helpers to a form that will be usable for sve2.
[VIRT-327 # Richard's upstream QEMU work ]
Pull for tcg-next.
Review plugins v5.
Update for capstone submodule.
Started reviewing multi-phase reset v5.
[Kernel]
Hacked up a patch for ARMv8.5-RNG.
r~
# Progress #
o Ramp up
* Credentials, machine access and LDAP updates done.
o Qualcomm Landing Team sunsetting
* Returned Qualcomm's Laptop.
o Upstream GDB
* Ramping up on reviews.
* Gathering data on the current state of GDB on ARM.
o GDB:
* GNU-170 - GDB BZ #21221 - gdb hangs while stepping an empty loop
- Came up with a little hack/proof-of-concept to get this fixed.
Though ugly, it seems fixing this in the front-end may make more sense,
as the information i need (source line) is easily accessible in there.
- Discussion ongoing with gcc@. GDB clearly needs the compiler to
provide more information.
* Created JIRA cards for all known pending ARM tasks for GDB, based
on Alan's and Joey's input. TODO-ed all of them for the time being.
# Plan #
o GDB:
* GNU-170 - GDB BZ #21221 - gdb hangs while stepping an empty loop
- Continue pursuing a fix.
* Prioritize GDB JIRA cards and start work on them.
[Morello]
- Got static linking support to the point that I can successfully link
with LLD the coremark, dhrystone and EEMBC from the arran-toolchain.
Not got any outstanding failures to investigate.
- Altered LLD so a linker script is no longer necessary for newlib.
- Started the process of rebasing and adding tests for all the
fixes/hacks I needed to make to the linker work.
- Aligned the base and limit of capabilities according to the incoming
CHERI concentrate scheme. Interesting question of what should a linker
do when alignment requirements on the base and limit cross section
boundaries, and what are the responsibilities for an object producer
when creating a section when the length of the capability is known at
compile time.
Planned absences:
Holiday Thursday, Friday (24th, 25th October)
Progress:
* VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
+ finishing off the ptimer API transition work
+ review of rth's "speed up calculation of tbflags" patchset
+ put together and sent an arm pullreq
* VIRT-350 [Update Arm KVM support in QEMU]
+ the patchset for hotpluggable RAM support is now upstream
thanks
-- PMM
== Progress ==
* GCC:
- Work on -mpure-code on v6m. Patches sent for upstream review.
* GCC upstream validation:
- reported several issues
* misc:
- infra fixes / troubleshooting / reviews
== Next ==
* FDPIC: resume work on GDB
* GCC: pure-code/v6m
* Binutils: support non-contiguous memory regions in linker
== Progress ==
* clang-tidy workshop (and associated prep)
- I think this went really well, we got good feedback from some of
the participants
* Trying to setup a build environment on tcwg-sq-02.tcwglab
- Mostly so I can deploy the SVE fuzzer there, but maybe for other things too
- All the compilers that I've tried so far are ICE-ing at some point
or another while building llvm
- Still looking into it but I'm starting to suspect there's
something fishy about this board
* Still no access to Morello docs
* Read a bit more about LLDB
* Finished annual review
== Plan ==
* Maybe THIS time I'll get access to the Morello docs next week
* If not, more SVE fuzzer
* One day off
o LLVM:
* Buildbots babysitting:
- Various breakage on the bots and in the kernel build
* Machine Outliner:
- preparing upstream submission
o Misc
* Various meetings and discussions.
== Progress ==
* GCC:
- Work on -mpure-code on v6m
* GCC upstream validation:
- reported several issues
* misc:
- infra fixes / troubleshooting / reviews
- watched a couple of GNU Cauldron presentations
== Next ==
* FDPIC: resume work on GDB
* GCC: pure-code/v6m
* Binutils: support non-contiguous memory regions in linker
[VIRT-263 # ARMv8.1-VHE Virtual Host Extensions ]
Still need to think of more test cases...
[VIRT-344 # ARMv8.5-MemTag, Memory Tagging Extension ]
Posted v5 of the system-only patch set,
with testing help from Alex.
[VIRT-327 # Richard's upstream QEMU work ]
Catching up on patch review
- arm semihosting
- tcg profiler
- ptimer transactions
- s390 mvcl interrupt
- started on v2 of dave martin's bti kernel patch set.
Posted v6 of my arm hflags patch set.
r~
== Progress ==
* Support Morello fat pointers in LLDB [LLVM-597]
- Read an intro to Cheri (research project that Morello is based on)
- Read more LLDB docs
* Started writing annual review
* Setup VM for a clang-tidy workshop that I'm co-organizing as part of
the Stockholm LLVM socials
== Plan ==
* Hopefully will get access to Morello docs next week so I can start actual work
* Rebase and play more with the SVE IR fuzzer [LLVM-586]
[VIRT-263 # ARMv8.1-VHE Virtual Host Extensions ]
Lots of work with Alex trying to produce a reduced test case.
We are now unit testing entry and exit from EL0 (EL2&0),
EL1 and EL0-in-EL1 (EL1&0).
Next would be to test the various memory access faults.
[VIRT-327 # Richard's upstream QEMU work ]
Patch review for SVE in KVM, S390 interrupt handling during MVCL.
r~
Short week (2 days off)
== Progress ==
* GCC:
- looked at what's needed to enable -mexecute-only on v6m
* GCC upstream validation:
- reported a couple of issues.
* misc:
- infra fixes / troubleshooting / reviews
- catching up after Connect (internal debrief, ...)
- started looking at GNU Cauldron presentations
== Next ==
* FDPIC: resume work on GDB
* GCC: execute-only/v6m
* Binutils: support non-contiguous memory regions in linker
Slightly overlong this time as it covers pre&post connect weeks.
QEMU Tooling ([VIRT-252])
=========================
[VIRT-252] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-252
[VIRT-280] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-280
QEMU plugin support ([VIRT-280])
- sporadic work on the [v5 branch]
- posted {PATCH v6 0/6} semihosting cleanups (plus minor tests/tcg
tweak) Message-Id: <20190913151845.12582-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
- now merged - delta down a little ;-)
[VIRT-280] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-280
[v5 branch] https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/plugins/plugins-v5
GSoC Mentoring Afermath ([VIRT-348])
- more work preparing [subset for final list review]
- stats, CONFIG_PROFILER and perf integration
- dropped coverset and dot diagram as a bit too rough
- however should form a good basis going forward
[VIRT-348] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-384
[subset for final list review]
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/tcg/tbstats-and-perf
ARMv8.1 VHE Extensions ([VIRT-263])
===================================
- worked with rth to get a minimal testcase
- very messy [wip branch]
[VIRT-263] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-263
[wip branch] https://github.com/rth7680/qemu/tree/test-vhe
Upstream Work ([VIRT-109])
==========================
- posted {PATCH v3 00/33} testing/next (docker,tcg, alpha ;-)
Message-Id: <20190924210106.27117-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
- posted {RFC PATCH} configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts
Message-Id: <20190925233013.6449-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org> mostly to
stimulate discussion of our modest proposal
- posted {PULL 00/28} testing updates (docker,podman,tcg,alpha)
Message-Id: <20190926183553.13895-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
- posted {PATCH} accel/kvm: ensure ret always set Message-Id:
<20191002102212.6100-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
[VIRT-109] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-109
Other Activities
================
- More Connect travel administrava (airport transfer booked now)
- Connect itself
- many interesting talks
- discussions with bemi w.r.t migration and command line opts
- discussions with rth w.r.t 64/32, VHE and PR process
- discussions with FutureWei w.r.t scaling QEMU emulation
- KVM Forum administrava
Completed Reviews [2/2]
=======================
{PATCH} configure: Remove s390 (31-bit mode) from the list of supported CPUs
Message-Id: <20190928190334.6897-1-thuth(a)redhat.com>
{PATCH v2} s390x/tcg: MVCL: Exit to main loop if requested
Message-Id: <20191002082636.7739-1-david(a)redhat.com>
Absences
========
- KVM Forum Oct 29th-Nov 1st
Current Review Queue
====================
* {PATCH v2 00/15} target/arm: Implement semihosting v2.0
Message-Id: <20190916141544.17540-1-peter.maydell(a)linaro.org>
Added: <2019-10-03 Thu>
* {PATCH 00/19} hw/arm/raspi: Improve Raspberry Pi 2/3 reliability
Message-Id: <20190926173428.10713-1-f4bug(a)amsat.org>
Added: <2019-09-27 Fri>
* {PATCH RFC} docker: automatic dependencies for dockerfiles
Message-Id: <20190920001823.23279-1-jsnow(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2019-09-24 Tue>
* {PATCH v4 0/9} target/arm/kvm: enable SVE in guests
Message-Id: <20190924113105.19076-1-drjones(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2019-09-24 Tue>
--
Alex Bennée
On buildbot duty
- Several buildbot failures to investigate along with one linux kernel
regression
- Didn't manage to get the libcxx buildbot failures resolved on time.
I think the community are still trying to fix it (Script needs to be
Python2/Python3
Started work on LLD support for Morello
- Getting familiar with the toolchain
- First target is sufficient support to statically link the Howdy
"hello world" equivalent.
- Made the first couple of local patches to implement the easiest set
of static relocations.
Some upstream LLD patch review.
Progress:
* VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
+ investigated the cause of a hang when using single-threaded TCG
+ sent RFC patchset proposing a rework of the ptimer API/implementation
which will fix LP:1777777. Unfortunately we'll need to update all
the devices using ptimers. I started in on that process of conversion,
which turns out to be a little more awkward than I had expected;
I ran into at least one corner case I hadn't thought about.
thanks
-- PMM
== Progress ==
* Out of office on Monday
* Catching up after Connect
* Minor buildbot fix
* IR SVE Reviews [LLVM-545]
- Another round on the size queries patch
* SVE IR fuzzer [LLVM-586]
- Waiting for the size queries patch to get merged so I can give it a spin
* Support Arran fat pointers in LLDB [LLVM-597]
- Built lldb
- Looked a bit through the docs
== Plan ==
* Play more with lldb, read more docs
* A bit of globalisel maintenance
o LLVM:
* Buildbots babysitting:
- Troubleshot ARMv8 selfhosted bots issue
* Machine Outliner:
- Experiment outlining with -mexecute-only
- Tried to find a testcase which exhibits issues with unwinding
without much success.
o Misc
* Various meetings and discussions.
Progress:
* VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
+ identified cause of LP:1844597 and sent patch fixing it (we broke
direct-booting kernels when the emulated system has an AArch32 EL3)
+ tracked down the cause of LP:1777777 to a race condition that's
inherent to the current design of QEMU's 'ptimer' countdown timers;
fixing this will require us to rethink when we call the callback
when a ptimer hits 0. Posted some ideas to mailing list, for feedback
on whether I missed a better way to rework them.
+ usual upstream maintainer stuff; managed one way or another to
get a few of the most obstinately sticky patchsets off my to-review list
thanks
-- PMM