* One day off on Thu [2/10]
# Progress #
* Linaro GDB [4/10]
** TCWG-805, aarch64 native debugging multi-arch support.
Prepare for the patches submission.
It is a big patch series, and think about how to upstream them.
Write commit log including the rationale of the changes.
* FSF GDB [2/10]
** FSF GDB 7.10 release. Audit some GDB regressions caused by intel
mpx stuff.
** PR 18605. Write a patch and it is in testing.
** Other patches review.
* Misc [2/10]
** File expense report for Grenoble travel.
** Some discussions on aarch64 tracepoint.
# Plan #
* TCWG-805, upstream some patches on multi-arch debugging.
--
Yao
* One day off (Wed) (2/10)
== Progress ==
* linaro-5.1-2015.06 snapshot (1/10)
- dealt with tags, release notes
- shared it with B&B
* 4.8-2015.06 branch merge (1/10)
- investigated regression: incorrect automatic merge
- fixed, validation on-going
* 4.9 branch (2/10)
- updated our git linaro-4.9-branch to match the svn one
- ready for branch merge, will be done right after fsf release
* Misc (4/10)
- meetings, conf-calls, emails, reviews (GCC backports, ABE, backflip)
== Next ==
* more reviews for new backports
* backports, release, validation: update doc
* hopefully upstream work
Recently I came across two excellent post about accelerating clang/llvm
build with different compiler/optimization [1] [2].
I tried some of author advices getting very good results. Basically I
moved to optimized clang build, changed to gold linker and used another
memory allocator than system glibc one. Results in build time for all
the clang/llvm toolchain is summarized below (my machine is a i7-4510U,
2C/4T, 8GB, 256GB SSD):
GCC 4.8.4 + gold (Ubuntu 14.04)
real 85m17.640s
user 257m1.976s
sys 11m35.284s
LLVM 3.6 + gold (Ubuntu 14.04)
real 34m4.909s
user 128m43.382s
sys 3m51.643s
LLVM 3.7 + gold + tcmalloc
real 32m56.707s
user 121m40.562s
sys 3m52.358s
Gold linker also shows a *much* less RSS usage, I am able to fully use make -j4
while linking in 8GB without issue any swapping.
Two things I would add/check for the posts:
1. Change from libc to tcmalloc showed me a 3-4% improvement. I tried jemalloc,
but tcmalloc is faster. I am using currently system version 2.2, but I have
pushed an aggressive decommit patch to enable as default for 2.4 that might
show lower RSS and latency (I will check it later).
2. First I try to accelerate my build by offloading compilation using distcc.
Results were good, although the other machine utilization (i7, 4C/8T, 8GB)
showed mixes cpu utilization. The problem was linking memory utilization
using ld.bfd, which generates a lot of swapping with higher job count. I
will try using distcc with clang.
[1] http://blogs.s-osg.org/an-introduction-to-accelerating-your-build-with-clan…
[2] http://blogs.s-osg.org/a-conclusion-to-accelerating-your-build-with-clang/
Benchmark automation - TCWG-360 [7/10]
* Arndales stopped booting
** Package servers for elderly filesystem had gone
** Investigated some approaches to creating more stable filesystems
** Realized I could just updated image to point at old-releases, so
did that for now
* _More_ time thinking about interactions with Jenkins & LAVA. Fathi
gave me some Jenkins jobs to prototype in.
* Brain-dumped some of the present state of things into Collaborate
Misc - [3/10]
=Plan=
Jenkins prototyping
>> Using Python to script GDB makes it much more efficient to do testing.
>> Having a Python-disabled build of GDB prevents this.
I use the example of the gdb-python scripts for the linux kernel.
They are very useful, these do not work when using GDB from windows.
-Duane
It seems the prebuilt windows releases of GDB do not enable Python.
Are there plans to release a python-enabled-gdb in the windows builds?
If not, what are the roadblocks to this?
Thanks
Example:
$ ./aarch64-linux-gnu-gdb.exe
GNU gdb (Linaro GDB 2015.02-3) 7.8-2014.09-1-git
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show
copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-w64-mingw32
--target=aarch64-linux-gnu"
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro>.
Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.
For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word".
(gdb) python
>
>Scripting in the "Python" language is not supported in this copy of GDB.
(gdb) quit
== This week ==
* Sprint recovery day (2/10)
* TCWG-140 - Transform end of loop conditions to min_expr (6/10)
- Investigated match.pd change added by Andrew Pinski
* TCWG-734 - GCC Autovectorization (1/10)
- EPIC Review
* Misc (1/10)
- Conference calls
== Next week ==
- Call with Charles and Prathamesh for Autovectorization planning
- Begin developing patch for TCWG-140
- Benchmark TCWG-146 patch
- TCWG-832 investigation
== This week ==
* cfgloop.h flatten (2/10)
- Rebased and tested on top of Andrew's patch
- bootstrapped on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
- building on all targets in config-list.mk in progress
* TCWG-777 (2/10)
- Problem is still present on trunk
- Original test-case: http://pastebin.com/UTv8g3aA
- Original test-case assembly for -O1: http://pastebin.com/815TgDjV
- Possibly reduced test-case: http://pastebin.com/UGUteX4a
- Assembly for reduced test-case for -O1: http://pastebin.com/edKu6CxH
- x86 assembly for reduced test-case for -O1: http://pastebin.com/9APbJeLr
- Workaround: To disable CSE in branch conditions make flags volatile.
This prevents
storing result of ands to temporary but leads to worse code-gen.
- Possible approaches from (https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/851258):
a) teach PRE not to fold in such cases ? I don't know how.
b) Write a new tree-ssa pass that "unfolds" cse on result of test conditions.
Check if operand in if (operand != 0) is a result of test condition.
eg:
_8 = flags & 1;
if (_8 != 0)
goto true_branch
else
goto false_branch
In this case we could add an attribute to _8 say "unfold".
If we again come across if (_8 != 0) at a later point,
and it's marked with "unfold",
we can create a new ssa var with definition of _8.
so it becomes:
_9 = flags & 1;
if (_9 != 0)
...
which will "undo" CSE on test conditions.
Does this sounds reasonable ?
Should we do it on all test conditions ?
I don't understand "suitable compare insn" a target should have in above link.
* TCWG-145 (2/10)
- Optimization is already implemented in PRE pass.
- Verified for various test-cases in eembc.
- Currently gcc does not convert global statics to locals
- remove-local-statics-7.c not handled currently by gcc:
(https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-07/msg01007.html)
- Desirable to have ipa dead-store analysis to avoid stores to static vars:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-07/msg01609.htmlhttps://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-07/msg01602.html
- continuing to look for cases where static-to-locals wins over PRE.
* Misc (4/10)
- Built firefox on x86 non-LTO
- Read thru tree-ssa-dse.c, IPA, LTO doc
- US Visa application
- Setting up home office
== Issues ==
Not able to connect to #linaro-tcwg thru ircproxy.linaro.org , password invalid.
== Next Week ==
- TCWG-830
- TCWG-835
- TCWG-844
- continue investigating branch out of range error issue.
- Work towards committing cfgloop.h patch
== Progress ==
Sprint recovery [2/10]
(TCWG-775) NEON intrinsics error messages [7/10]
. familiarisation with differences between ARM and AArch64 NEON/SIMD backends
. started porting error reporting changes to ARM NEON backend
. pinged patch for AArch64 work
Misc [1/10]
== Plans ==
continue NEON error messages
vectorization work discussions
== Progress ==
* Maintenance (CARD-1833 1/10)
- Looking at AArch64 ADD->SUB a bit more
* Buildbots (CARD-1823 6/10)
- Moving LNT bot to CMake
- Setting up LLD and LLDB buildbots
- Investigating LNT instability / Perf buildbot
* Background (3/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- Reviewing more stride vectorizer patches (back-end)
== Plan ==
* Try to get some development going back again...
# Progress #
* Linaro GDB [7/10]
** TCWG-805, aarch64 native debugging multi-arch support.
Aarch64 GDB works well debugging Aarch32 programs, except on handling
fork/vfork and watchpoint. Test harness uses ldd which doesn't
handle aarch32 too.
Report a kernel issue that it doesn't get TLS base right through
ptrace in compat mode. Got a patch to fix it.
* FSF GDB [3/10]
** Push in a fix to unbreak arm native gdb build.
** Post a patch to fix a bug on using PTRACE_GETREGSET on arm-linux.
** GDB 7.10 release. Branch isn't created. Test results of arm
and aarch64 look good.
# Plan #
* TCWG-805, start to push some preparatory patches upstream.
* Off on Thu.
--
Yao
Hello toolchain people,
I created a patch on top of upstream binutils for a feature I need which
should be universally useful as well. Now I have 3 questions for you:
1) Does it look sane enough?
2) If so, could you integrate it in the Linaro release?
3) Would you be willing to promote it upstream?
Comments appreciated.
Here's the patch:
----- >8
Subject: [PATCH] gas: introduce section name substitution support
When gas is invoked with --sectname-subst, the occurrence of %S in a section
name will be substituted by the name of the current section. For example:
.macro exception_code
.pushsection %S.exception
[exception code here]
.popsection
.endm
.text
[code]
exception_code
[...]
.section .init
[init code]
exception_code
[...]
In the first exception_code invocation the .text.exception section is
created while in the second invocation it is the .init.exception section
that is created. This is useful e.g. to discriminate between anciliary
sections that are tied to .init code and can be discarded at run time when
initialization is over vs anciliary sections tied to .text sections that
need to stay resident.
This would also allow for actually omitting __exit sections from the Linux
kernel binary when modules are configured in even when exit marked code
generates exception table entries.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico(a)linaro.org>
diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 57fc30a..0189bb2 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2015-06-03 Nicolas Pitre <nico(a)linaro.org>
+
+ * as.c (show_usage): Document --sectname-subst.
+ (parse_args): Add --sectname-subst.
+ * as.h (flag_sectname_subst): New.
+ * config/obj-elf.c (obj_elf_section_name): Add %S substitution.
+ * doc/as.texinfo: Document it.
+
2015-06-03 Matthew Wahab <matthew.wahab(a)arm.com>
* config/tc-arm.c (arm_archs): Add "armv8.1-a".
diff --git a/gas/as.c b/gas/as.c
index 2a8923f..fecfcd2 100644
--- a/gas/as.c
+++ b/gas/as.c
@@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ Options:\n\
fprintf (stream, _("\
--size-check=[error|warning]\n\
ELF .size directive check (default --size-check=error)\n"));
+ fprintf (stream, _("\
+ --sectname-subst enable section name substitution sequences\n"));
#endif
fprintf (stream, _("\
-f skip whitespace and comment preprocessing\n"));
@@ -447,6 +449,7 @@ parse_args (int * pargc, char *** pargv)
OPTION_EXECSTACK,
OPTION_NOEXECSTACK,
OPTION_SIZE_CHECK,
+ OPTION_SECTNAME_SUBST,
OPTION_ALTERNATE,
OPTION_AL,
OPTION_HASH_TABLE_SIZE,
@@ -481,6 +484,7 @@ parse_args (int * pargc, char *** pargv)
,{"execstack", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_EXECSTACK}
,{"noexecstack", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_NOEXECSTACK}
,{"size-check", required_argument, NULL, OPTION_SIZE_CHECK}
+ ,{"sectname-subst", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_SECTNAME_SUBST}
#endif
,{"fatal-warnings", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_WARN_FATAL}
,{"gdwarf-2", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_GDWARF2}
@@ -848,6 +852,10 @@ This program has absolutely no warranty.\n"));
else
as_fatal (_("Invalid --size-check= option: `%s'"), optarg);
break;
+
+ case OPTION_SECTNAME_SUBST:
+ flag_sectname_subst = 1;
+ break;
#endif
case 'Z':
flag_always_generate_output = 1;
diff --git a/gas/as.h b/gas/as.h
index 6de319e..635b2c5 100644
--- a/gas/as.h
+++ b/gas/as.h
@@ -589,6 +589,9 @@ COMMON enum
size_check_warning
}
flag_size_check;
+
+/* If section name substitution sequences should be honored */
+COMMON int flag_sectname_subst;
#endif
#ifndef DOLLAR_AMBIGU
diff --git a/gas/config/obj-elf.c b/gas/config/obj-elf.c
index 4d7a8a7..78dc6d9 100644
--- a/gas/config/obj-elf.c
+++ b/gas/config/obj-elf.c
@@ -917,6 +917,27 @@ obj_elf_section_name (void)
name = (char *) xmalloc (end - input_line_pointer + 1);
memcpy (name, input_line_pointer, end - input_line_pointer);
name[end - input_line_pointer] = '\0';
+
+ while (flag_sectname_subst)
+ {
+ char *subst = strchr (name, '%');
+ if (subst && subst[1] == 'S')
+ {
+ int oldlen = strlen (name);
+ int substlen = strlen (now_seg->name);
+ int newlen = oldlen - 2 + substlen;
+ char *newname = (char *) xmalloc (newlen + 1);
+ int headlen = subst - name;
+ memcpy (newname, name, headlen);
+ strcpy (newname + headlen, now_seg->name);
+ strcat (newname + headlen, subst + 2);
+ xfree (name);
+ name = newname;
+ }
+ else
+ break;
+ }
+
#ifdef tc_canonicalize_section_name
name = tc_canonicalize_section_name (name);
#endif
diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
index 5710e1c..be13b6a 100644
--- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo
+++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo
@@ -6259,6 +6259,36 @@ For ELF targets, the @code{.section} directive is used like this:
.section @var{name} [, "@var{flags}"[, @@@var{type}[,@var{flag_specific_arguments}]]]
@end smallexample
+@cindex --sectname-subst
+If the @samp{--sectname-subst} command-line option is provided, the @var{name}
+argument may contain a substitution sequence. Only @code{%S} is supported
+at the moment, and substitutes the current section name. For example:
+
+@smallexample
+.macro exception_code
+.section %S.exception
+[exception code here]
+.previous
+.endm
+
+.text
+[code]
+exception_code
+[...]
+
+.section .init
+[init code]
+exception_code
+[...]
+@end smallexample
+
+The two @code{exception_code} invocations above would create the
+(a)code{.text.exception} and @code{.init.exception} sections respectively.
+This is useful e.g. to discriminate between anciliary sections that are
+tied to setup code to be discarded after use from anciliary sections that
+need to stay resident without having to define two @code{exception_code}
+macros just for that purpose.
+
The optional @var{flags} argument is a quoted string which may contain any
combination of the following characters:
@table @code
Nicolas
* 1 day off (2/10)
== Progress ==
* Neon intrinsics tests
- committed last batch of tests
- need to think about tests for vget_lane which are still missing,
but not high priority
* linaro-gcc-5.1-2015.06 snapshot (4/10)
- committed branch merge with upstream gcc-5-branch
- prepared snapshot & updated release scripts
* Upstream maintenance (1/10)
- backported a fix from Michael to 4.8 and 4.9 branches
- backported fix for PR62308 to 4.9 branch
- most of the time spent on bootstrapping on aarch64 HW
- started looking at some recent new tests having trouble dealing
with some multilib variants
* Misc (3/10)
- meetings, conf-calls, emails, ...
== Next ==
* linaro-gcc-5.1-2015.06 snapshot
- build release notes
- create a proper tag
* backports, release, validation:
- update doc according to our new process
* validation:
- take unstable tests into account
* upstream maintenance:
- check recent regressions
== Progress ==
* Maintenance (CARD-1833 2/10)
- Initial work on ADD<->SUB for negative imm in asm
* Buildbots (CARD-1823 6/10)
- Adding test-suite to CMake buildbot (D10244)
- Bisecting broken self-hosting vfp3 bots
* Background (2/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- Some more meetings about infrastructure...
- LLVM status and plan for next half
* Sprint Week in Grenoble
== Plan ==
* Continue with CMake LNT changes
* Carry on with ADD/SUB change
* Revive ASM warnings discussion
Holiday [2/10]
Benchmark Automation - TCWG-360 [4/10]
* Learned about central Jenkins instance
* Considered ways of integrating benchmark scripts with said instance
* Considered alternative way for benchmark scripts to interoperate with LAVA
Misc [4/10]
* Large mail backlog
* Travel prep
=Plan=
Team sprint
# Progress #
* Linaro GDB [4/10]
** TCWG-805, aarch64 native debugging multi-arch support.
aarch64 native gdb is able to debug arm program now, but with some
problems on coredump. Patches are not posted.
** Give my input on GDB kernel awareness too, and the proposal finally
is posted upstream.
* FSF GDB [1/10]
** Patches review.
* Misc [5/10]
** Attend an internal ARM Debug/Tracing summit.
** Prepare for the France travel.
# Plan #
* Sprint in Grenoble.
--
Yao
Hi Linaro Toolchain Group,
I am trying to build a cross-native toolchain for AARCH64 using ABE build
framework.
By cross native I mean that toolchain will be build on 0x86 (Red hat
Santiago 6.4), it will run on AARCH64 (Juno) and
will produce binaries to be run on AARCH64 (Juno)
(If I am not mistaked) --build=0x86, --host=AARCH64, --target=AARCH64
Steps followed:
1. I built a cross toolchain first
../abe/configure
../abe/abe.sh --target aarch64-linux-gnu --build all --release 2015.05.29
--tarbin --disable update
2. Added the above cross toolchain (bin path) in the PATH
3. To build to cross-native
../abe/configure
../abe/abe.sh --host aarch64-linux-gnu --target aarch64-linux-gnu --build
all --release 2015.06.01.native --tarbin --disable update
But after some time, I got following error and compilation hanged.
make: Leaving directory
`/home/user_name/vpathak/build_abe/builds/aarch64-linux-gnu/aarch64-linux-gnu/gcc.git~linaro-4.9-branch-stage1'
RUN: copy_gcc_libs_to_sysroot
"/home/user_name/vpathak/build_abe/builds/destdir/aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc
--sysroot=/home/user_name/vpathak/build_abe/sysroots/aarch64-linux-gnu"
/home/user_name/vpathak/abe/lib/make.sh: line 962:
./builds/destdir/aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: cannot
execute binary file
Am I missing something ? Please help.
However with the following hack in the abe, I am able to compile
cross-native toolchain for aarch64-linux-gnu.
In the abe code base:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
lib/make.sh
Function copy_gcc_libs_to_sysroot()
gcc_exe="`find -name ${target}-gcc`"
- libgcc="`${gcc_exe} -print-file-name=${libgcc}`"
+ #libgcc="`${gcc_exe} -print-file-name=${libgcc}`"
+
libgcc="/home/user_name/vpathak/build_abe/builds/destdir/aarch64-linux-gnu/lib/gcc/aarch64-linux-gnu/4.9.3/libgcc.a"
Since './builds/destdir/aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc' is
native toolchain it will not run on 0x86. Thus libgcc will be empty.
Therefore I hard-coded libgcc path.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I had to disable gdb compilation. This error I faced while compiling
cross-native compilation only.
Cross compilation is successful on the same 0x86 machine.
checking for library containing waddstr... no
configure: error: no enhanced curses library found; disable TUI
make: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
make: Leaving directory
`/home/user_name/vpathak/build_abe/builds/aarch64-linux-gnu/aarch64-linux-gnu/binutils-gdb.git~linaro_gdb-7.8-branch-gdb'
WARNING: Make had failures!
ERROR (#159): build_all (Failed building .)
hacked patch
--- a/lib/make.sh
+++ b/lib/make.sh
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ build_all()
# to rebuilt the sysroot.
local builds="infrastructure binutils libc stage2 gdb"
else
- local builds="infrastructure binutils stage1 libc stage2 gdb"
+ local builds="infrastructure binutils stage1 libc stage2"
fi
if test "`echo ${target} | grep -c -- -linux-`" -eq 1; then
- local builds="${builds} gdbserver"
+ local builds="${builds}"
fi
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks.
--
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak
Hi Linaro Toolchain Group,
Is there any tool for checking coding style of the patches submitted to the
Linaro Toolchain ?
In other word is there any equivalent of Linux checkpatch.pl in Linaro
Toolchain (GCC, Binutils etc) ?
If yes, please let me know.
If not, then in general how people check the coding style of the patches
they submit to Linaro Toolchain (GCC, Binutils etc).
I assume manual inspection (line by line) may be very tedious thing to do.
Thanks.
--
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak
== Progress ==
* Upstream GCC (8/10)
- TCWG-486 - Optimize Constant Uses in Loops.
- Jeff reviewed it and asked for some minor changes
- Rebased and redid full testing and posted it
- TCWG-555 - Complete re-write of widening pass based on review comments
- Getting ready to post for review
* Misc (2/10)
- Reading TACT User Manual
- gcc-patches, gcc-bugs list
- Meetings
== Plan ==
- Continue with gcc stage1 activities
== This week ==
* Bug 539 - .LTHUNK symbols are surviving (2/10)
- Built Qt 4.8 using 4.9 and 4.9 toolchain and verified fix
identified by Jim Wilson
- Plan to close as fixed
* Bug 535 - static cast from float to int not working on ARM hardfp (2/10)
- Investigation
* TCWG-140 - Transform end of loop conditions to min_expr (1/10)
- Investigation into blueprint and patch
* TCWG-146 - Detect smin/umin idiom (2/10)
- After investigation no patch deemed necessary for aarch64
* Misc (1/10)
- Conference calls
* US Holiday - Memorial Day, May 25th (2/10)
== Next week ==
- Submit Aarch32 patch for TCWG-146 upstream
- TCWG-140 investigation
== This week ==
* TCWG-619 (4/10)
- Chromium builds with LTO single-partition with gold by changing
arm_is_long_call_p() to always return true, thereby disabling short
calls.
- Fails to build with ld.bfd for single partiition with the following error:
obj/third_party/webrtc/base/rtc_base.ipaddress.o: In function
`rtc::IPAddress::IPAddress(unsigned int)':
ipaddress.cc:(.text._ZN3rtc9IPAddressC2Ej[_ZN3rtc9IPAddressC5Ej]+0x28):
undefined reference to `vtable for rtc::IPAddress'
- gas debug for "Thumb2 branch out of range" in config/tc-arm.c:
Fails in md_apply_fix at following condition:
if ((value & ~0x3fffff) && ((value & ~0x3fffff) != ~0x3fffff))
{
if (!(ARM_CPU_HAS_FEATURE (cpu_variant, arm_arch_t2)))
as_bad_where (fixP->fx_file, fixP->fx_line, BAD_RANGE);
else if ((value & ~0x1ffffff)
&& ((value & ~0x1ffffff) != ~0x1ffffff))
as_bad_where (fixP->fx_file, fixP->fx_line,
_("Thumb2 branch out of range"));
}
The condition became true for value == fffffda
Backtrace: http://pastebin.com/QZqbwNCy
Options passed to as: -march=armv7-a -march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=hard
-mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mfpu=neon -meabi=5
- Disabling the above condition results in:
arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++: internal compiler error: Killed (program lto1)
* PR49551 (2/10)
- Modified patch and retested on x86 and arm.
- Submitted patch upstream for review.
* Misc (4/10)
- Exams ended on Monday.
- College Annual day.
== Next Week ==
- Work towards getting the patch approved.
- Continue investigating "Thumb2 branch out of range" error.
- Begin with TCWG-777.
- Submit cfgloop.h flattening patch upstream.
Hi Linaro Toolchain Group,
I am going through the binutils code base specific to arm & aarch64. Please
give some insight on below questions.
1. In the struct bfd_arch_info {...} (in bfd/bfd-in2.h) there are two
fields 'enum bfd_architecture arch' and 'unsigned long mach'.
I went trough the binutils porting guide (by MR.Swami.Reddy(a)nsc.com) which
says 'arch' is for architecture & 'mach' is for machine value.
At present in the bfd/bfd-in2.h :- arch = bfd_arch_aarch64 and mach =
bfd_mach_aarch64 or bfd_mach_aarch64_ilp32.
But what these fields really means ? What is the difference between 'arch'
and 'mach'?
Lets say instruction set architecture is ARMv8 (also known as aarch64 for
64 bit- if I am not wrong). Then we have specific implementation of this
like cortex53, cortex57, Cavium ThunderX etc. With respect to this what
will be the value of arch = ? and mach = ?
2. In the include/opcode/arm.h the 'arm_feature_set' is defined as a
structure where as in include/opcode/aarch64.h 'aarch64_feature_set' is
defined as unsigned long. Is there any specific reason for this? Why
structure definition was not followed in aarch64 ?
typedef struct
{
unsigned long core;
unsigned long coproc;
} arm_feature_set;
typedef unsigned long aarch64_feature_set;
3. Also I see that in the case of arm, 'mach' values are derived from cpu
extension value specified in that 'arm_feature_set' structure.
For example.
if (ARM_CPU_HAS_FEATURE (cpu_variant, arm_cext_iwmmxt2))
mach = bfd_mach_arm_iWMMXt2;
Whereas in aarch64 mach is derived based on API type (64 or 32). Any
reason for this ?
mach = ilp32_p ? bfd_mach_aarch64_ilp32 : bfd_mach_aarch64;
Thanks in advance.
--
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak
== Progress ==
TCWG-775 NEON error messages (2/10)
. wrote new patch for Aarch64
. tried to test it, but GCC testsuite stopped working on my laptop
(random failures with "test for errors, tests randomly being marked
UNSUPPORTED)
Bank Holiday [2/10]
Bug #1599 [1/10]
. reproduced bug on Linaro GCC 4.9
, bisected both the cause and the trunk fix
Misc [5/10]
. attempted to diagnose GCC testsuite problems. Seems to be related to
kernel version somehow.
. Erratum workaround stuff (bug 1550, bug 1596)
== Plans ==
Find working kernel for laptop
Cleanup/submit patch for TCWG-775
Create JIRA cards following vectorization study (TCWG-735)
Bank holiday on Monday. [2/10]
# Issue #
No. Ubuntu is successfully installed on my chromebook.
# Progress #
* Linaro GDB [4/10]
** TCWG-517, GDB AAarch64 record/replay. Done.
Patches are committed upstream. Fix one build failure caused
these patches.
** TCWG-805, aarch64 native debugging multi-arch support.
*** Switch to PTRACE_GETREGSET and PTRACE_SETREGSET. Patches are posted
upstreams.
*** Get ubuntun 14.02 running on chrombook successfully.
** Give my input on GDB kernel awareness too.
* FSF GDB [3/10]
** PR 18392, review the fix and understand the code about tail call
unwinding.
** Approve and commit some tiny patches.
* Misc [1/10]
** Prepare for incoming France travel.
** Book flight and hotel for GNU Tools Cauldron.
Next week:
* TCWG-805, aarch64 native debugging multi-arch support.
--
Yao
== Progress ==
* Bank Holiday (2/10)
* Maintenance (CARD-1833 6/10)
- Finished all FIXMEs in LLVM and Clang
- Working on ASM warnings
* Background (2/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- Updated arm-bots.html to account for build num, commit range
== Plan ==
* Continue working on ASM warnings
* Move a few left-overs in ARMAsmParser to use ARMTargetParser
If time allows...
* Check the ADD -> SUB change in the assembler
* Try to get the test-suite running on a CMake buildbot
Background
* Check the progress of some Android bugs
* 1 day off
* Neon intrinsics tests (4/10)
- submitted last set for review
* Misc (4/10)
- meetings, conf-calls, emails, ...
- checks for our new GCC mirror
== Next ==
* Neon intrinsics tests: work on vget_lane test.
* linaro-gcc-5.1-2015.06 release:
- start working on backports
* TCWG-619 (2/10)
- "branch out of range" error disappears by disabling sibling call optimization
- using gold results in internal error at arm.cc:4192
- using ld.bfd results in tons of same errors message during LINK
chrome - "thumb2 branch out of range"
- building with "-dp" option shows the error comes for function calls,
generated from pattern call_value_symbol.
* PR49551 (2/10)
- Bootstrapped on x86, tested on x86 and arm.
- added test-case.
* Misc (6/10)
- Exams
== Next Week ==
- Submit patch to PR49551 upstream
- Continue investigating "branch out of range" error.
- Rebase and submit cfgloop.h flattening patch upstream.
== Progress ==
* Upstream GCC (8/10)
- vector cost (TCWG-779)
- benchmarking complete and analysed
- Committed after full testing (bootstrap and regression testing)
- Started working on widening pass based on review comments (TCWG-555)
- Completed re-factoring with the new ideas
- ran into many ICEs with the patch and making progress
* Misc (2/10)
- Looked at http://ctuning.org/wiki/index.php?title=CTools:MilepostGCC
again
- gcc-patches, gcc-bugs list
- Meetings
== Plan ==
- Continue with gcc stage1 activities
== Progress ==
* Releases (CARD-1431 1/10)
- Final ARM/AArch64 3.6.1
* Automation Framework (CARD-1378 1/10)
- More meetings with Lab about infrastructure
* Maintenance (CARD-1833 5/10)
- Working on FIXMEs to TargetParser
* Buildbots (CARD-1823 1/10)
- Bisecting self-hosting failure on thumbv7a
* Background (2/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- More stride vectorizer reviews (D9368)
- Setting up boards for developers
== Plan ==
* Finish the parser FIXMEs, get on with ASM warnings
* Check some Android bugs and see if I can reduce their numbers
* Probably a bit more infrastructure discussions
# Issues #
* Don't have arm board to run native gdb testsuite (my pandaboard is
too slow to run native tests). Get a chromebook, but takes a lot
of time installing ubuntu on it. Network still doesn't work, don't
know how much time are still needed to fix networking issues.
# Progress #
* Linaro GDB
** TCWG-517, GDB AAarch64 record/replay. [3/10]
These bits are finally posted upstream. The review looks good.
** TCWG-805, aarch64 native debugging multi-arch support. [4/10]
*** Switch to PTRACE_GETREGSET and PTRACE_SETREGSET. Patches are done,
but takes much time to set up GDB native testing env, as linaro
tcwglab is still unreachable.
Install ubuntun 14.02 on chrombook. Done, but network driver
doesn't work.
** Give my input on GDB kernel awareness.
** Tweak pandaboard for native gdb testing. Done.
** AArch64 debugging on different ELs, a meeting is scheduled
in the sprint but I ask more details before that meeting.
* FSF GDB [1/10]
** Review a patch about arm abi detection for ELFOSABI_GNU. Approve it.
** Review a patch about compile feature in GDB.
* Misc [2/10]
** Go to London for France Visa application on Monday and get visa on
Thu.
# Plan #
* TCWG-517, GDB AAarch64 record/replay.
Address review comments and push them in.
* TCWG-805, aarch64 native debugging multi-arch support.
Set up chromebook and test my patches on it.
--
Yao
Holiday Thursday afternoon and Friday [3/10]
Benchmark automation - TCWG-360 [4/10]
* CPU2006 patches cleaned up, submitted
* A few other small fixes
Misc [3/10]
* ~1/10 getting a Juno running
=Plan=
Holiday next week, then:
Pick a direction on streaming vs listeners, write down the reasoning
Follow up (close out?) results storage and restricted targets
Write more tests, refactoring where appropriate
Investigate running benchmarks through ci.linaro.org
If time, and it looks sane, wrap a LAVA job around benchmark scripts
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Submitted and committed AArch64 hardware watchpoint/breakpoint
support [2/10] [TCWG-771]
-- Submitted Arm hardware watchpoint/breakpoint support [1/10] [TCWG-770]
-- Debugged arm watchpoints on Nexus 7 Android device. [2/10] [TCWG-651]
Miscellaneous [5/10]
-- Submitted AArch64 gdb record-replay patches
-- Travel to Islamabad for interview at French Embassy
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Fix issues with hardware watchpoints and try to run tests on Nexus 7
-- Update and resubmit Arm hardware watchpoint patch.
== This week ==
* TCWG-619 (2/10)
- Disabling seccomp-bpf, works with LTO build for chromium for
multiple partitions (-flto-partitions={balanced, 1to1})
- disabling fPIC does not prevent the error - "branch out of range"
for single or no partition (--param lto-partitions=1 / -flto-partitions=none )
- The docs say there is option to disable PLT (-fno-plt),
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html#Code-Gen-Options
but using it results in unrecognized command line option.
* PR49551 (2/10)
- Found out why r221297 prevents the ICE:
merge_decl() calls make_decl_rtl() upon condtion DECL_RTL_SET_P (olddecl),
which causes the ICE. Before r221297, in merge_decls() DECL_RTL_SET_P
(olddecl) was true which resulted in call to make_decl_rtl() causing
ICE. After r221297, DECL_RTL_SET_P (olddecl) is 0, which doesn't
result in call to make_decl_rtl() so no ICE is produced. However,
DECL_COMMON is still incorrectly set in merge_decls() because it
copies newdecl into olddecl.
- Will post upstream for review after final testing on x86 and ARM.
* Misc (6/10)
- Exams
Short week (2 days off)
== Progress ==
o Upstream GCC (3/6)
* Flags for Cortex-a53 erratum #84341 workaround:
- Backported into FSF 4.9 and 5 branches
* Some cleanup to avoid format-security warnings
* TCWG-786 (LRA and PIC): Look for potential improvements
- nothing found so far.
o Linaro GCC release (2/6)
* Reviewed FSF branch merge into 4.8 branch
* Look at differences between our actual source tarball, and
the ones that can be created by ABE.
o Misc (1/6)
* Various meetings
== Plan ==
- Continue ongoing tasks
Benchmark automation - TCWG-360 [7/10]
* Convinced benchmark scripts to run entirely within LAVA
* Did a couple of benchmark runs for Kugan
* Cleaned up my CPU2000 patches and committed to central repository
Misc [3/10]
=Plan=
Clean up, commit CPU2006 patches
Pick a direction on streaming vs listeners, write down the reasoning
Follow up (close out?) results storage and restricted targets
Write more tests, refactoring where appropriate
If time, and it looks sane, wrap a LAVA job around benchmark scripts
== Progress ==
* Upstream GCC (5/10)
- committed delaying constant splitting in arm after full testing
(TCWG-486)
- Spec benchmarking is still an issue (TCWG-779)
- Bernie agreed to kindly help benchmark it
- taking time due to long lava queue
- Started working on widening pass based on review comments (TCWG-555)
- Wilco from ARM provided some test-cases and looking into it as well
* GCC bootstrap/build issues (4/10)
- Looked at bare-metal
- aarch-elf-none issue
- gcc bootstrap issue with ARM
- middle-end error
- Thanks to all, all now fixed in mainline.
* Misc (1/10)
- gcc-patches, gcc-bugs list
- Meetings
== Plan ==
- Continue with gcc stage1 activities
- Look at register allocation
# Progress #
* TCWG-517, GDB AAarch64 record/replay. Ongoing. [3/10]
Takes over from Omair, complete test cases and update patches.
Rewrite the test case using gcc inline assembly.
Happen to see that AAarch64 doesn't have CPSR register but
GDB thinks it has. This should be fixed separately later.
* Think about GDB version in next linaro toolchain release. [3/10]
The next linaro release is on July/Aug and the next GDB FSF release
7.10 will be on mid of June. I prefer to picking up 7.10, but need
Ryan or Maxim to make a decision.
* Exchange emails with Peter to push GDB kernel awareness work forward,
and think about how do that in next step. [1/10]
* Misc [3/10]
** Print and photocopy documents needed for France visa application.
# Plan #
* Go to France Embassy in London on Monday.
* GDB AAarch64 record/replay test and upstream submission.
--
Yao
Hi,
I tried on abe 'stable' branch and with below configuration build was
successful.
../abe/configure --with-fileserver=148.251.136.42 --with-remote-snapshots=
http://148.251.136.42/snapshots-ref
../abe/abe.sh --target aarch64-linux-gnu --build all
(Additionally I had to increase the wget_timeout=100)
But on master branch, with below commands (as suggested in above mail)
following error were observed.
../abe/configure --with-fileserver=148.251.136.42
--with-remote-snapshots=/snapshots-ref
../abe/abe.sh --target aarch64-linux-gnu --build all
ERROR (#144): fetch_http (md5sums doesn't exist and you disabled updating.)
Looks like following commit is causing problem on the abe master branch.
On removing it, build successfully downloaded the packages from
148.251.136.42.
commit 5a5ab3582851d52d903846d34c79850f5d7ebda5
don't try to fetch anything is updates are disabled.
Thanks
Virendra
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> > On 04/21/2015 04:23 PM, Christopher Covington wrote:
> > > abe$ ./abe.sh --target aarch64-linux-gnu
> > > NOTE: Downloading md5sums to abe/snapshots
> > > RUN: /usr/bin/wget --timeout=10 --tries=2 --directory-
> prefix=abe/snapshots/ http://abe.tcwglab.linaro.org/snapshots/md5sums
> >
> > We're having a major security related issue, so the entire TCWG lab
> > got taken offline yesterday till this is fixed and more secured. No
> idea
> > what the ETA is for all of that. ABE will work regardless other than
> > some warning messages about not being able to download the md5sums
> file,
> > or anything under 'infrastructure'. Most of what ABE needs is at
> > git.linaro.org, and that's still online. The only files ABE downloads
> > from abe.tcwglab.linaro.org are source tarballs, which don't change
> very
> > often. As long as you have them already downloaded, you can build a
> > toolchain still. I work offline pretty frequently, so have tried to
> make
> > ABE work without the upstream access to anything.
> >
> > Try adding '--disable update' to your command line for abe.sh, and
> > it'll stop trying.
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> > - rob -
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> Is there any update for when the TCWG lab will be back online? I was
> trying to use ABE for the first time and got the 503 Service Unavailable
> message. Is there a way to specify different locations for the source
> tarballs in the meantime? I'm hoping to work around the issue if a
> timeline is still unknown.
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> > Rob Savoye <rob.savoye@...> writes:
> >
> > >
> > > On 04/21/2015 04:23 PM, Christopher Covington wrote:
> > > > abe$ ./abe.sh --target aarch64-linux-gnu
> > > > NOTE: Downloading md5sums to abe/snapshots
> > > > RUN: /usr/bin/wget --timeout=10 --tries=2 --directory-
> > prefix=abe/snapshots/ http://abe.tcwglab.linaro.org/snapshots/md5sums
> > >
> > > We're having a major security related issue, so the entire TCWG lab
> > > got taken offline yesterday till this is fixed and more secured. No
> > idea
> > > what the ETA is for all of that. ABE will work regardless other than
> > > some warning messages about not being able to download the md5sums
> > file,
> > > or anything under 'infrastructure'. Most of what ABE needs is at
> > > git.linaro.org, and that's still online. The only files ABE downloads
> > > from abe.tcwglab.linaro.org are source tarballs, which don't change
> > very
> > > often. As long as you have them already downloaded, you can build a
> > > toolchain still. I work offline pretty frequently, so have tried to
> > make
> > > ABE work without the upstream access to anything.
> > >
> > > Try adding '--disable update' to your command line for abe.sh, and
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> > Is there any update for when the TCWG lab will be back online? I was
> > trying to use ABE for the first time and got the 503 Service Unavailable
> > message. Is there a way to specify different locations for the source
> > tarballs in the meantime? I'm hoping to work around the issue if a
> > timeline is still unknown.
> >
>
> We've setup an alternate server for the source tarballs for now. Configure
> master with '--with-fileserver=148.251.136.42
> --with-remote-snapshots=/snapshots-ref' to use it.
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Hi Guys,
I have two questions:
(1) I have download gcc-4.9 tool chain from
http://releases.linaro.org/14.08/components/toolchain/binaries.
The kernel for the release
(http://releases.linaro.org/14.08/components/kernel/linux-linaro) is
3.16. So can we assume the kernel headers found in the tool chain
installation from the link above belongs to linux version 3.16?
(2) Also, I ubuntu wiki indicates that starting with Ubuntu 12.04 they
are using linaro gcc packages for arm64
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ToolChain). Is there an easy way to find what
linaro-release (for tool chain) will be compatible with Ubuntu 14.10
aarch64 image?
Thanks,
Aravind
--
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
Short week (off Thu/Fri - 4/10)
== Progress ==
* GCC trunk (1/10)
- investigated bare-metal broken builds for aarch64 and arm
(--with-mode=thumb)
Setting LDFLAGS_FOR_TARGETS=-specs=rdimon.specs fixes the
libstdc++ build problem for aarch64. Not sure if that's expected.
* Neon intrinsics tests (2/10)
- submitted a new set of tests for review
* 4.8-2015.04
- branch merge committed after validation
* Validation (1/10)
- looking at tests instabilities
* Misc (2/10)
- meetings, conf-calls, emails, ....
== Next ==
* Neon intrinsics tests
* GCC trunk/bare metal
* Validation
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Finished most of work for ARM watchpoints and hardware breakpoints
[3/10] [TCWG-770]
-- Added hardware breakpoint handlers for AArch64 [1/10] [TCWG-771]
-- Debugging for ARM watchpoints not hitting the hardware watchpoint
Set/Clear handlers. [3/10] [TCWG-770]
-- Setting up development environment on Google Nexus 7 Android device. [1/10]
Miscellaneous [2/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
-- Submission of French visa application
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Submit ARM and AArch64 hardware breakpoint and watchpoints code for review
-- Fix issues with hardware watchpoints and try to run tests on Nexus 7
-- Figure out debugging using gdb on Nexus 7
Miscellaneous
-- Travel to Islamabad for visa interview, out of office on
wednesday 13th May 2015.
-- Half day out of office on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th May due to
power outage in the area.
Short week: Friday off
== Progres ==
* Linaro-GCC 4.8-2015.04
- have to redo the fsf-4.8 branch merge
- results stability issue, probably caused by a race condition in
the testsuite similar to one already fixed by Maxim
* Validation
- a few updates to our jobs on ci.linaro.org
* Neon intrinsics tests
- resumed port of existing testsuite to GCC
* Misc
- meetings, conf-calls, emails, ....
== Next ==
Short week (Thu/Fri off)
* Linaro-GCC-4.8-2015.04
* Neon intrinsics tests