== This week ==
* Linaro 4.8 and 4.9 Releases (9/10)
- Validated backports, followed release process and staged tarballs
for release
* Misc (1/10)
- Conference calls
== Next week ==
- Backports
- Work on bug fixes
* TSAN support for Aarch64 (3/10)
Working on memory map layout for TSAN in Aarch64 (TCWG-581) .
Experimenting switching on 64 bit allocator as default.
* Bug 869 - Analyzing tree dumps on how VECT_CONVERT_EXPR works (2/10)
* Emails, meetings. (3/10)
* Linaro remote hack sessions.
* internal AMD meetings/event, 1-1 with AMD manager, .
* GCC mailing list.
Leave on 10-Feb-2015 (2/10)
== Plan ==
* TSAN support for Aarch64 work on memory layout.
* Bug869
* Review/Watch connect slides.
== This week ==
* Created dummy release in preparation for February Linaro release (2/10)
* Backports (2/10)
- Backported 216220 and 217229
- Additional merge issues indicates another backport is required.
- I will abandon the backports for this release.
* Bug fixing (5/10)
- Bug 535 - Could not reproduce after triage.
- Bug 539 - Additional triage.
* Misc (1/10)
- Conference calls
== Next week ==
- Commit validated backports and create release
== Progress ==
* AArch64 ILP32 toolchain (5/10)
- Got SPEC2k results for LP64 and ILP32
* Committed patch for AArch64 -Bsymbolic ld issue (1/10)
* Other stuff (2/10)
- Working on handing over various projects
- Email, meetings, etc.
* Friday travelling to Connect (2/10)
== Issues ==
* Juno boards have been busy
== Plan ==
* Connect
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Progress ==
* Automation Framework (CARD-1378 1/10)
- Restarting build-02
- Trying new way to setup juno-01, failed
- Moving gateway-config to new private git server
* Release 3.6 (CARD-1431 4/10)
- Found NEON regression, reverting patches
- Setting up more new NEON buildbots
* Libraries (CARD-1831 1/10)
- Opening discussion on libunwinder move, getting consensus
* Background (2/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- FOSDEM 2015 (http://llvm.org/devmtg/2015-02/)
* Flying to Connect (2/10)
== Issues ==
After working on Sunday and all nights since, I'll be off tomorrow and
will get ready to Connect on Friday. Email/HO/IRC as usual.
== Plan ==
Connect
* TSAN support for Aarch64 (5/10)
Working on memory map layout for TSAN in Aarch64 (TCWG-581) .
* Emails, meetings. (3/10)
* 1-1 with maxim, linaro status call.
* internal AMD meetings, 1-1 with AMD manager.
* GCC mailing list.
Leave on 26-Jan-2014 (India Holiday) (2/10)
Planned Leave on 04-Feb-2014
== Plan ==
* TSAN support for Aarch64 work on memory layout.
== This week ==
* Backports (10/10)
- 216734 - Temporarily remove aarch64_gimple_fold_builtin code for
reduction operations
- 216736 - [Vectorizer] Make REDUC_xxx_EXPR tree codes produce a
scalar result
- 216737 - Add new optabs for reducing vectors to scalars
- 216738 - Use new reduc_plus_scal optabs, inc. for __builtins
- 216741 - Use new reduc_[us](min|max)_scal optabs, inc. for builtins
- 216742 - Restore gimple_folding of reduction intrinsics
- 216779 - Remove VEC_LSHIFT_EXPR and vec_shl_optab
- 217331 - Fix checking on MAX_PENDING_LIST_LENGTH
- 217430 - Fix typo in *<arith_shift_insn>_shiftsi
- 217431 - Let LR register allocable
- 217533 - Pair load store instructions using a generic scheduling
fusion pass
- 219717 - PR rtl-optimization/64011
- 219718 - Improve warning message
== Next week ==
- Prepare for release by creating "dummy" release
- Work on bug fixes
Hi,
We've noticed that in the 14.11 toolchain binary release that the .asc files
contain md5sums instead of PGP signatures. Would it be possible to either
switch these files to contain signatures or change the filename to indicate
that they contain md5sums?
I also noticed that an md5sum is missing:
http://releases.linaro.org/14.11/components/toolchain/binaries/armeb-linux-…
Finally, there appears to be some inconsistent usage of tuples in the download
directories. Would it be possible to use the same tuple for a particular
toolchain everywhere that tuple is used? For example, for the arm-none-eabi
toolchain, the directory is "arm-none-eabi", but the compiler tarball has only
"arm-eabi".
Thanks,
Chris
--
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
== Progress ==
* Automation Framework (CARD-1378 1/10)
- Setting up new box
* Release 3.6 (CARD-1431 5/10)
- Looking for the patch that introduced a major NEON regression since December
* Background (4/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- More Jira farming...
- Some EuroLLVM paper reviews
- LLVM/Android planning
== Plan ==
* Keep trying to find the bug in release 3.6
* Try to have some time to fix the NEON unwinder issue
* Preparing for Connect
== Issues ==
I cocked up the LLVM 3.6 ARM release last December when I
inadvertently ignored a bug report about clang not self-hosting on
NEON machines. To make matters worse, I was the one that decided to
move *all* our buildbots to non-NEON machines, expecting that the
test-suite on a Chromebook would catch all NEON problems.
There are limits to human intelligence, not human stupidity.
== Progress ==
* LLD (1/10, TCWG-561, TCWG-563, TCWG-570)
- Updated and added more cards, adding more detail and loose priorities
- Rebased, fixed up and resubmitted relocation test patch
* AArch64 ILP32 toolchain (4/10)
- Attempted various SPEC2k runs and fixed issues found
* Submitted patch for AArch64 -Bsymbolic ld issue (1/10)
* Connect slides (2/10)
* Other stuff (1/10)
- Email, meetings, etc.
* Tuesday looking after sick child
== Issues ==
* Juno access has been patchy
== Plan ==
* Get SPEC2k running ok on Juno and with ILP32
* Push remaining LLD patches
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
Hello,
I have a question about the status of overo support in qemu-linaro vs upstream qemu; from a quick look on the Git commits for qemu-linaro, most things seemed to have been ported back upstream into qemu as of v2.0.0, although there does appear to be some recent new commits. However, I'm looking for overo board support, and although I see that OMAP3 chip support has been merged upstream, there aren't any board configuration files for overo. What would be the easiest way to get working qemu overo board support?
Additionally, I don't see any recent binary packages available for qemu-linaro. The qemu-linaro packages on the Ubuntu PPA haven't been built for almost a year now, and the releases.linaro.org page doesn't seem to have recent qemu-linaro builds either.
Thanks,
Dominic
* TSAN support for Aarch64 (5/10)
Up streamed make file changes for building non x86_targets (TCWG-579).
Working on memory map layout for TSAN in Aarch64 (TCWG-581) .
* Fix Bug 863(Linaro)/ 63949(FSF) (2/10).
Tested patches and fixed few aarch64 regressions.
got feedback that approach is good. planning to send a revised patch
for stage 1.
* Emails, meetings. (3/10)
* 1-1 with maxim,christophe,Ryan, linaro status call.
* internal AMD meetings, 1-1 with AMD manager.
* GCC mailing list.
Leave on 26-Jan-2014 (India Holiday)
== Plan ==
* TSAN support for Aarch64 work on memory layout.
* Send revised patch for Bug 863
== Progress ==
LLDB vs GDB investigation [TCWG-583] [4/10]
-- Scoring of previous patches and mailing list discussions
-- Tried and was able to build+test lldb on x86_64 linux
-- Tried and was able to build (but not test) lldb on arm linux
-- Tried lldb AArch64 build but couldnt get it going successfully.
Some gdb bug fixing and wrap up open gdb stuff [4/10]
Miscellaneous [2/10]
-- Meetings, Emails etc
-- Connect Preparation: Flights Confirmation, Visa pick up etc.
== Plan ==
Try fixing LLDB testsuite on arm and try out aarch64 build if possible.
ABE benchmarking automation - TCWG-360 [6/10]
* Fixed an awkward escaped process
* Struggled with LAVA timeouts & discovered that some Junos
accidentally have a baked-in timeout
* More discussion/thinking about where to store benchmark source
* Some trouble with intermittent flakiness when copying large chunks
of data over the lab network
Investigating cache effects on Juno - LDTS-1238 [2/10]
Misc - [2/10]
* Featuring catomics (TCWG-436) - implemented a few missing catomics
(well under 1/10)
=Plan=
Pack for office move
Fix intermittent copying problem
Look more at cache effects on Juno
Test Jenkins dispatch (Rob says it works now)
* Look into triggering coremark on every backport
Carry on, hopefully close, storage discussion
Benchmark catomic patches
Write up/think about where to go with libm exercising
== Progress ==
* Automation Framework (CARD-1378 2/10)
- Rebooting machines, again...
- Fiddling with bugzilla, wiki
* Release 3.6 (TCWG-575 5/10)
- Investigating ARMv7 bootstrapping failures
- Rebuilding manually with cmake, as autoconf build is bogus
- Turns out wasn't autoconf, but a NEON bug reported 14th Dec
- Benchmarking AArch64 3.6-RC1 against 3.5.1 - all good
* Background (3/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- More Jira farming
- Investigating some weird llvm-objdump issues
- Fixing ninja output issue on bots with an ugly hack
== Plan ==
* Bisect NEON bug, revert the patch, back-port to 4.6 RC2
* Add a NEON+T2 full buildbot (dragonboard) to the list of public bots
* Benchmark ARMv7 3.6 RC1 or RC2 against 3.5.1
== Progress ==
* GCC trunk/4.9 monitoring (1/10)
* AArch64 sanitizers (3/10)
- patched LLVM to reduce the number of failures to 2 on Juno
- need access to a board with different memory layout to make sure
my patches actually support all configurations
* Neon intrinsics tests (2/10)
- committed most of the series
- addressed comments received on a few of them
- looked at error reported by vmax test: I needed to force AArch64
FPCR.DN=1 in the test, posted updated patch.
* Misc (4/10)
- meetings, conf-calls, emails, ...
== Next ==
* GCC trunk/4.9 monitoring
* AArch64 sanitizers
* abe: look at backport and tcwgweb scripts
== This week ==
* GCC modularization project
* Header flattening
- committed r220092, which addresses suggestions for expr.h flattening patch.
* Include reduction
- Analyzed cross referencers: ctags, rtags, crange.
- Analyzed python modules for C lexer: plex, ply.
- Wrote python script for include reduction.
- Wrote python script 'find-header-deps' for finding header
dependencies in files.
* Target macro removal
- Went through documentation and patches for target macro removal.
- Hookize ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL target macro.
* Bugs 413
- Started working on 413.
* Connect slides
- Started working on match-and-simplify presentation slides.
== Issues ==
- Sore throat and fever since Saturday.
- Terrible lag with NXClient on tcwg-env-03 (didn't happen before).
== Next Week ==
- Bug 413
- Continue working on include-reduction tool.
- Hookize ASM_OUTPUT_* target macros in defaults.h.
- Finish connect slides.
== Progress ==
* LLD (2/10, TCWG-561, TCWG-563, TCWG-570)
- Rebased patches and resolved conflicts
- Applied error handling patch
- Applied sh_addralign == 0 patch
- Submitted first of outstanding relocation test patches
* AArch64 ILP32 toolchain (4/10)
- Rebased and cleaned up ABE patches so they are more mergeable
- Spent a lot of time looking at building SPEC
* Connect slides (2/10)
* Other stuff (2/10)
- Email, meetings, etc.
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* Finish Connect slides
* Benchmark ILP32
* Push remaining LLD patches
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Progress ==
LLDB vs GDB investigation [TCWG-583] [2/10]
Configuration of GDB AArch64 remote testing with juno. [1/10]
GDB AArch64/ARM/X86 native/remote testing and comparison result
compilation. [4/10]
Investigate some record-replay testsuite failures on d01. [2/10]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, Emails etc
== Plan ==
More LLDB vs GDB investigation [TCWG-583]
More GDB AArch64 feature comparison
ABE benchmarking automation - TCWG-360 [5/10]
* Converted Juno runs from OE to Ubuntu
* Fixed cross-compilation in SPEC2000
* Picked up a couple of users, spent some time supporting them
* Discussion about storage
catomics - TCWG-436 [3/10]
* Took a remarkably long time to make the last few patches build
* Looked through the generated code
* Learned some of the ways of test-schroot
Misc - [2/10]
=Plan=
Support Charles' release benchmarking
Try Jenkins again, now that release has gone
Carry on, hopefully close, storage discussion
Benchmark catomic patches
Write up/think about where to go with libm exercising
== This week ==
* GCC Modularization Project (1/10)
- Flattening header files
- Reviewed expr.h patches and email discussion regarding post stage
3 development
* Bug Fixing (7/10)
- Bug 539 - .LTHUNK symbols are surviving
- Triage indicates bug is multiple inheritance related
- Investigated several legacy fixes on trunk that no longer apply
- Investigating possible fix in linker:
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00260.html
- Bug 535 - static cast from float to int not working on ARM hardfp
- Initial triage
* Backports (1/10)
- 217394- PR target/61997 - cc1plus ICE with aarch64 target using PCH
and builtin functions
* Misc (1/10)
- Conference calls
== Next week ==
- Work on backports and bug fixes
- Vacation January 22nd and 23rd.
== Progress ==
* Tuesday sick
* Automation Framework (CARD-1378 5/8)
- Fixing more crashed Junos
- Working on QEMU VMs on gateway (buildbot master, nagios)
- Finalising server purchase, building new rack
* Release 3.6 (TCWG-575 1/8)
- AArch64 built and tested, all green.
- ARM is broken, investigating...
* Background (2/8)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- Jira farming
== Plan ==
* More Jira farming
* Setup the new server in the rack
* 3.6 benchmarking against 3.5
== Progress ==
* GCC trunk/4.9 monitoring (1/10)
- noticed a regression in the 4.9 branch
* AArch64 sanitizers (2/10)
- juno-01 back online, so I could rebuild & test llvm with asan tests enabled
- several failures reported, debugging...
* Neon intrinsics tests (1/10)
- pushed a series of patches, probably too late before stage 4.
* Backports (1/10)
- reviews
* Misc (5/10)
- meetings, conf-calls, emails, ....
- Connect preparation
== Next ==
* GCC trunk/4.9 monitoring
* AArch64 sanitizers
* Neon intrinsics tests
* cbuild2/abe: improve reporting, look at backport and tcwgweb scripts
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2015.01
engineering release of the Linaro GCC 4.9 source package.
Linaro GCC 4.9 2015.01 is the tenth Linaro GCC source package release in the
4.9 series. It is based on FSF GCC 4.9.3-pre+svn219502 and includes performance
improvements and bug fixes.
With the imminent release of ARMv8 hardware and the recent release of the
GCC 4.9 compiler the Linaro TCWG will be focusing on stabilization and
performance of the compiler as the FSF GCC compiler. The Linaro TCWG provides
stable[1] quarterly releases and monthly engineering[2] releases.
Interesting changes in this GCC source package release include
* Linaro bugzilla PR fixed : #902
* Updates to GCC 4.9.3-pre+svn219502
* Backport of [AArch64] Support SISD variants of SCVTF,UCVTF
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix ICE in aarch64_float_const_representable_p
* Backport of [AArch64] Switch to sched-pressure by default.
* Backport of [AArch64] Add scheduler for ThunderX
* Backport of [AArch64] Remove crypto extension from default for cortex-a53,
cortex-a57
* Backport of [AArch64] doloop pattern for -fmodulo-sched
* Backport of [AArch32] Add execution tests of ARM REV intrinsics.
* Backport of [AArch32] Post-indexed addressing for NEON memory access
* Backport of [AArch32] Improve 64 bit division performance (serie)
* Backport of [AArch32] Revert 215321 backport.
* Backport of [AArch32/AArch64] Add ACLE 2.0 predefined macros
* Backport of PR tree-optimization/54742 - extend jump thread for finite state
automata
* Backport of PR target/61997 - cc1plus ICE with aarch64 target using PCH and
builtin functions
* Backport of PR target/63724 - Fix up BSL expander for floating point types
* Backport of [LRA] Relax one gcc_assert in lra-eliminate for fixed register
* Backport of Add clobber_reg function
Feedback and Support
Subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC channels to
stay on top of Linaro development.
** Linaro Toolchain Development "mailing list":
http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
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* Bug reports should be filed in bugzilla against GCC product:
http://bugs.linaro.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GCC
* Questions? "ask Linaro":
http://ask.linaro.org/.
* Interested in commercial support? inquire at "Linaro support":mailto:
support(a)linaro.org
[1] Stable source package releases are defined as releases where the full Linaro
Toolchain validation plan is executed.
[2] Engineering source package releases are defined as releases where the
compiler is only put through unit-testing and full validation is not
performed.
== Progress ==
* LLD (3/10, TCWG-561, TCWG-570)
- Re-spin and re-submitted error handling patch and dependencies
- Submitted a patch for crash with sh_addralign == 0
* AArch64 ILP32 toolchain (2/10)
- Got a native ILP32 toolchain building on a hackbox
- Got a working hacking session on Juno with help from Dave
- Just need to combine the two
* Other stuff (1/10)
- Email, meetings, etc.
* Holiday Thursday and Friday (4/10)
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* Run make check on ILP32 glibc
* Connect presentation
* Try and get outstanding LLD patches committed
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Issues ==
* none.
== Progress ==
* Give compilation courses at University (5/10)
* GCC 4.9 2015.01 (4/10)
- Gave some support to Michael for his backports
- Performed mine.
* Misc: (1/10)
- meetings.
- mails
== Plan ==
* Linaro GCC 4,9 2015.01 release
ABE benchmarking automation - TCWG-360 [8/10]
* Added some sanity checks, fixed some bugs in LAVA URL handling
* Some struggling with Jenkins, with support from Rob
* Compress builds before scp-ing
* Resurrected SPEC, fixed some problems I'd forgotten about
Misc [2/10]
* Email catchup, start-of-year meetings
* Brief look at single-thread optimization in glibc (TCWG-436)
* Connect prep (including immunization boosters, I'm still a little woozy)
=Plan=
Test SPEC with present state of automation
Keep struggling with Jenkins
Address benchmark storage
Actually do something with TCWG-436
Write up/think about where to go next with libm exercising
== Progress ==
* TCWG-486 (4/10)
- Ready to start benchmarking
- Discussed with Bernie on new benchmarking set-up
- Waiting for Ryan on permission
* https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412 (4/10)
- Created a reduced test-case and filed upstream bug
- looked at GCSE code and ifcvt code/dumps
* gcc bugzilla and gcc-patches list (2/10)
- Review patches
- Looked at arm related bugs
== Plan ==
TCWG-486 and TCWG-555
== This week ==
* GCC Modularization Project
- Worked on header-file flattening tool to make it usable for
flattening headers.
Used it to flatten expr.h.
- fixed build issue with ggc-compile.c due to tree.h flattening.
- committed Michael's tree.h flattening patch to FSF trunk (r219402).
- built r219402 on all targets in config-list.mk with languages: all, go
- upstreamed patch to fix visium build on FSF trunk which broke due to r219402.
- fixed plugin/ggcplug.c test-case which was failing due to r219402.
- sent expr.h flattening patch upstream for review.
== Next Week ==
* Commit expr.h flattening patch to FSF trunk.
* Commit cfgloop.h flattening patch to FSF trunk.
* Try to commit df.h flattening patch to FSF trunk.
== Progress ==
* Automation Framework (CARD-1378 2/10)
- DNS requests (Hetzner, bridge), new APM
- Following up on purchase of new server, new rack, UPS
* Buildbots (TCWG-76 4/10)
- Enabling swap on dragon boards (local bots)
- Investigating AArch64 RT failure, XFAIL like ARM
- AARch64 full bot (Clang+LLVM+RT) green! Getting ARM to make it public
- Installing QEMU VMs for different buildmasters
* Background (4/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- Email back-log...
- FOSDEM organisation (accepting talks, fixing Penta cock-ups)
== Plan ==
* Increase check-all verbosity on bots
* Finish installing all buildmaster QEMU images
* Setup new rack
* Probably more release 3.5.1 testing (RC3), CMake bot testing
* Help Will and Christophe setting up their bots
== Backlog ==
* Fix libc++abi NEON/VFPv3 unwinder
* FPU parser (PR20787)
* .fpu in assembler (PR20757)
* -mpfu in driver (PR20700)
== Progress ==
* LLD (5/10, TCWG-561, TCWG-570)
- Re-spin and re-submitted error handling patch
- Implemented some more relocations and added tests
* AArch64 ILP32 toolchain (2/10)
- Investigated OE for building a native toolchain
- Started on hacking ABE to build a "cross on native" toolchain
- Switched to hackboxes as the performance is better than LAVA
* Released newlib and binutils 2015.01 releases and updated release
procedure (2/10)
* Other stuff (1/10)
- Email, meetings, etc.
- Pushed new strcpy to cortex-strings
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* Get ABE building a native ILP32 toolchain on LP64
* More LLD work
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Progress ==
* Back from holiday
* Public holiday Thursday (2/10)
* TCWG-486 (4/10)
- Simplified existing patch
- Discussed with Zhenqiang
* TCWG-555 (4/10)
- propagate wrap/overflow information to ssa
== Plan ==
TCWG-486 and TCWG-555
