cbuild2 benchmarking - TCWG-360 [4/10]
* SPEC 2006 cross-built binaries now running. Easy when you know how.
libm exercising - CARD-1693 [4/10]
* Understood improved libm usage on 1 benchmark.
* Tried 3 more. 1 shows significantly more time in libm on AArch64 over AArch32.
Meetings/mail/etc - [2/10]
=Plan=
cbuild2 benchmarking
* Make sure reporting works
* Get working in either LAVA or 'new TCWG infrastructure'
* Test repeatability
* Get SPEC 2000 working
* Possibly have another go at building tools on AArch64
libm exerising
* Keep working through the list of benchmarks
* Hopefully reach the end and do some analysis
== Issues ==
* none.
== Progress ==
* GCC 4.9 and 4.8 2014.11 (1/10)
- Reviewed FSF branch Merges.
* Lab move (3/10)
- Cherry-picked cbuildv2 master patches in schroot-test
- Created a new jenkins job to tst the "schroot lab move" branch
- The job is able to build all the targets but validation still not works
* Misc: (6/10)
- Caught up with mails and irc logs
- Prepared a patch that add __LINARO_[RELEASE|SPIN]__ macros.
- Reviewed libatomic_ops upstream patch
- Validate libunwind upstream patch
- Various meetings.
== Plan ==
* Back on backports
* Tuesday off (11/11)
= Progress ==
* TCWG-544 - Investigate core mark performance with both at -O3 with
LTO + PGO (6/10)
Different IPA inline decisions happening between Linaro and trunk.
No major differences in other IPA passes. Trunk Inlines crcu32 and not
inlines crcu16. Inlining crcu16 decreases instruction count. Honza
pointed out a patch which inlines fucntions based on profile feedback
and ignores max inlines parameters. It could be reason why trunk
inlines crcu32 and then prevents inlining crcu16. Need to explore on
this.
* Bug fix - Linaro 849. Reproduced and tested it with trunk revision
which fixes it. It looks to be same issue as upstream pr62308 (1/10)
* Misc [3/10]
Emails, linaro and AMD status meetings.
1-1 with inline mangers (Mev, Ryan).
1-1 with christophe.
== Plan ==
* Debug and understand the inline differences trunk vs linaro
compiler for core mark at -O3 with LTO + PGO.
* Expecting one Aarch64 Enablement task.
* Leave on 11/11/2014.
== This week ==
* GCC Modularization Project (9/10)
- Flattening header files
- gimple-streamer.h, tree-streamer.h, lto-streamer.h
- Additional updates based on review:
- Created new header files to contain prototypes from .c files
- Boostrapped changes
- New changes being reviewed
- tree-core.h, cfgloop.h, df.h
- Removed unnecessary includes
- Created new header files to contain exports from .c files
* Misc. (1/10)
- Conference calls
== Next week ==
- Continue flattening of header files on GCC modularization project
- Vacation November 12-14th
== Progress ==
* Zero/sign extension elimination with widening types (TCWG-546 - 9/10)
- benchmarked Spec2k and the improvements are very small
- Coremark fared worse. Looked into the cases and relaxed some of the
constraints.
- Subsequent passes are also not optimizing some of the expected cases
- Re-factored and posted an RFC patch for comments at
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-11/msg00756.html
* Improve block memory operations by GCC (TCWG-142 - 1/10)
- Looked at the test-cases and gcc dumps
== Plan ==
* Continue with improve block memory operations by GCC.
* Continue with Zero/sign extension pass based on feedback.
== Progress ==
* GCC 4.8 and 4.9 releases (2/10)
- committed both branch merges after review+checked the validation results
- 4.8 needs another branch merge, to get the last errata-related backport
* GCC trunk/4.9 cross-validation (1/10)
- committed a couple of patches to clean the testsuite
- observed a couple of regressions, no time to investigate/report
* AArch64 sanitizer
- got agreement in principle for a new patch, which would test the
kernel headers version.
* Neon intrinsics tests update (1/10)
- the 2 PR I created last week are probably duplicate.
- ARM posted patches to fix problems in the same area, but don't fix these PRs
* cbuild2
- no progress
* Misc (6/10)
- calls, meetings, support
== Next ==
- Tuesday 11th public holiday
* AArch64 sanitizer
* Neon intrinsics update
* GCC linaro 4.8/4.9 releases
* cbuild2:
- analyze previous results
- look at backport-test and tcwgweb scripts+logs
== Progress ==
* Automation Framework (CARD-1378 4/8)
- Moving TCWG machines to the new office
- Setting up new rack, stacking boards, etc.
- Setting up Junos
* Buildbots (TCWG-76 2/8)
- Moving buildbots to the new office
- Checking libcxxabi failure, marking as XFAIL
- All bots green
* Background (2/8)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
* 1 day ill
== Plan ==
* Continue lab migration
Hi,
When updating:
>From git://git.linaro.org/toolchain/binutils-gdb
e0f5246..336649d master -> linaro/master
I now get the following build error:
gdb/binutils/readelf.c: In function ‘process_mips_specific’:
gdb/binutils/readelf.c:13522:3: error: format ‘%lu’ expects argument of type
‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘size_t’ [-Werror=format=]
printf (_("<symbol index %lu exceeds number of dynamic symbols>"), i);
^
Thanks,
Cov
--
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
Hi,
after the recent lkml thread on blacklisting some GCC versions (see
below) and the issue in identifying accurately our releases, I propose
to add some Linaro specific macros in our branches (i.e this patch
will not go upstream) to be able to check the Linaro version at
preprocessor time. It will not solve the kernel issue with 4.8.N but
hopefully help if such issues happen again the the futur.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap/119412
What GCC has for the moment is 3 macros __GNUC__, __GNUC_MINOR__ and
__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ that are filled by parsing version number
contained in BASE-VER file, for instance on our 4.9 branch:
__GNUC__ = 4
__GNUC_MINOR__ = 9
__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ = 2
In our branches, the Linaro version number is in the LINARO-VERSION
file and has this format:
At release point : 4.9-2014.10
Head of our branch: 4.9-2014.10-1~dev
I want your (the team and users) point of view on the macros we need
to create from it. Here is the options I see:
A - Be fully Linaro consistent:
__LINARO_MAJOR__ = 4
__LINARO_MINOR__ = 9
__LINARO_YEAR__ = 2014
__LINARO_MONTH__ = 10
__LINARO_SPIN__ = 0 or N
__LINARO_STATE = 0 for release or 1 for dev
B - Only give information that are not in the __GNUC* macros:
__LINARO_YEAR__ = 2014
__LINARO_MONTH__ = 10
__LINARO_SPIN__ = 0 or N
__LINARO_STATE = 0 for release or 1 for dev
C - Be more concise:
__LINARO_VERSION__ = 201410
__LINARO_SPIN__ = 0 or N
__LINARO_STATE = 0 for release or 1 for dev
D - Even more:
__LINARO_VERSION__ = 201410N (with N the spin number)
__LINARO_STATE = 0 for release or 1 for dev
E - Hardcore conciseness:
__LINARO__ = 201410NM (N = SPIN M = state)
F - One of the previous ones without STATE information.
G - One of the previous ones without SPIN information.
Do you think it is something we need ?
Do we already have that kind of macros in some products (binutils,
gdb, glibc, ...) ?
What option do you prefer ?
My own feeling is that C+F is sufficient as STATE information is
useless for releases and I don't think dev builds checking have to be
used in another project. But SPIN information can be useful has we're
doing respin because an outstanding issue/improvement has to be
fixed/added to the current release, thus it is the kind of thing you
want to check if the version of the compiler you are using contains.
Thanks,
Yvan
Dear all concerned:
ARM has reported it's 53's bug:AArch64 multiply-accumulate instruction might produce incorrect result
and developed the patch descriped below. will the patch be backported to Linaro 4.9 this month's release.
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2014-10/msg00335.html
thanks
Peter
cbuild2 benchmarking - TCWG-360 [8/10]
* Scripts build SPEC 2006 tools on x86_64 and arm, not yet on AArch64
* Scripts cross-build for x86 to arm and aarch64
* Cross-built binaries refuse to run
Meetings/mail/etc - [2/10]
=Plan=
cbuild2 benchmarking
* Make cross-built binaries run, collect reports
* Build tools for AArch64 (lower priority)
libm exerising
* Work through list of benchmarks, see what I find
= Progress ==
* TCWG-544 - Investigate core mark performance with both at -O3 with LTO +
PGO (6/10)
* Misc [3/10]
emails, linaro and AMD meetings and 1-1 with inline manger.
1-1 with christophe.
* Tried to reproduce Bug 63653 (1/10)
== Plan ==
* Continue core mark performance with both at -O3 with LTO + PGO.
* Continue Bugfix 63653
== Progress ==
GDB Tracepoints/Fast Tracepoints support on arm [TCWG-480] [3/10]
-- Investigate arm hardware debugging capabilities in linux kernel.
ARM/AArch64 GDB testsuite failures investigation [TCWG-507] [4/10]
Trying out patches that add support for gdbserver catch vfork/fork
[TCWG-507] [2/10]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, Emails etc
-- Annual Review 2014
== Plan ==
Monday/Tuesday Public Holidays in Pakistan.
Fix watchpoints-reuse-slot tests for arm somehow to allow skipping
unsupported tests
Also investigate the same on AArch64. [TCWG-507]
Re-submit some hanging patches after a bit of rework to grab attention.
== This week ==
* GCC Modularization Project (7/10)
- Decided on work near term work objectives with Andrew Macleod
- Began flattening header files
- gimple-streamer.h (complete)
- tree-streamer.h (complete)
- lto-streamer.h (complete)
- tree-core.h (In progress)
- cfgloop.h (In Progress
- df.h (In progress)
* Vector Extensions Project (2/10)
- Design work on C++ classes
- Call with Charles Baylis to discuss libvpx benchmark
* Misc. (1/10)
- Conference calls
- ARM required online training
== Next week ==
- Continue flattening of header files on GCC modularization project
- Further review of libvpx and vector extensions design work
== Progress ==
* Zero/sign extension elimination with widening types (TCWG-546 - 10/10)
- Fixed regression failures
- Fixed bootstrapping issues for ARM and AArch64
- Re-factored and added some comments
- x86-64 Bootstrapped and regression tested for all languages with
forced promotion. There is 6 differences in scanning for certain
instructions. All the execution tests are passing. Needs further
investigation.
== Plan ==
* Continue with Zero/sign extension pass.
- Benchmarking
- Get patch ready for upstream discussion
* Improve block memory operations by GCC (TCWG-142)
- Start work on this
== Progress ==
* GCC trunk/4.9 cross-validation (1/10)
- submitted a couple of patches to clean testsuite cases
* Neon intrinsic tests (1/10)
- submitted patch to avoid running the tests on ARM targets w/o Neon
- started adding new tests
- created 2 PR about intrinsic tests failing on AArch64_be
(1 assigned to Venkat, 1 to me)
* AArch64 sanitizer (1/10)
- submitted a patch upstream to allow supporting both older and newer kernels
No feedback so far.
* GCC 4.8 and 4.9 releases (3/10)
- preparing both releases including ARM's latest fixes for the A53 erratum
- had to respin mid-week after new fix was committed
- LINK_SPEC patch not committed yet in 4.8, and committed in 4.9
after I made the branch merge.
- now checking results with references. Several FAIL appear. TBC.
* cbuild2 schroot and master branches comparison (1/10)
- re-ran schroot branch after cleaning spurious "-static" flag left
in dejagnu configuration
- better results, faster
* Misc (3/10)
- calls, meetings
== Next ==
* GCC 4.8 and 4.9 releases: hopefully, after branch merge review
* AArch64 sanitizer
* Neon intrinsics tests update
* cbuild2:
- analyze previous results
- look at backport-test and tcwgweb scripts + logs
== Progress ==
* US LLVM Dev Mtg (4/6)
* Buildbots (TCWG-76 1/6)
- Fixing last bugs of the libcxx bot
- One last failure being looked at
* Background (1/6)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- Meeting with Google/ARM/Qualcomm about Android+LLVM
* Two days off
== Plan ==
* Investigate last libcxx bug
* Move lab/office
Thanks for the reply, Will Newton.
Then can we expect the fix to be included for the official Android
toolchain 2014.11?
And, thanks for explaining the culprit of this bug, Jongsung Kim! :)
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> 1. RE: Enabling back linker plugin for Linaro Android toolchain
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> 2. Re: Enabling back linker plugin for Linaro Android toolchain
> (Will Newton)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:26:30 +0900
> From: "Jongsung Kim" <neidhard.kim(a)lge.com>
> To: '???' <qkrwngud825(a)gmail.com>, <linaro-android(a)lists.linaro.org>,
> <linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org>
> Subject: RE: Enabling back linker plugin for Linaro Android toolchain
> Message-ID: <012f01cff31f$c01cea90$4056bfb0$(a)lge.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> The version-string from binutils-linaro looks to be blamed. It once was:
>
> GNU ld (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2013.04-20130415 - Linaro GCC
> 2013.04) 2.23.1
>
> and the linker plugin works with this version of Linaro prebuilt
> toolchain. Now it is:
>
> GNU ld (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.8-2014.04 - Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04)
> 2.24.0.20140311 Linaro 2014.03
> GNU ld (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.9-2014.08 - Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.08)
> 2.24.0.20140801 Linaro 2014.08
>
> and the linker plugin is not supported:
>
> $ arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -flto -fuse-linker-plugin -o hello hello.c
> arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc: error: -fuse-linker-plugin is not supported in
> this configuration
>
> Look into gcc/configure script. It uses the version of ld to determine
> whether ld supports linker plugin. It extracts the version by doing
> something like:
>
> $ arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld --version | sed 1q | sed -n -e 's,^.*[
> ]\([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*.*\)$,\1,p'
>
> and it will extract the last 2014.03 or 2014.08. By using proper
> substitution expression like 's,^GNU ld (.*) \([0-9][.0-9]*\).*$,\1,p', the
> script may enable linker plugin.
>
> However, patching the script looks like a bad idea, because it doesn?t
> help handling the version of gold:
>
> GNU gold (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu 2.24) 1.11
> GNU gold (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2013.04-20130415 - Linaro GCC
> 2013.04 2.23.1) 1.11
> GNU gold (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.8-2014.04 - Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04
> 2.24.0.20140311 Linaro 2014.03) 1.11
> GNU gold (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.9-2014.08 - Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.08
> 2.24.0.20140801 Linaro 2014.08) 1.11
>
> I couldn?t find a reasonable general expression to extract the version.
>
>
> From: linaro-toolchain-bounces(a)lists.linaro.org [mailto:
> linaro-toolchain-bounces(a)lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of ???
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 10:15 PM
> To: linaro-android(a)lists.linaro.org; linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org
> Subject: Enabling back linker plugin for Linaro Android toolchain
>
> I'm using Linaro Android toolchain's arm-eabi- for compiling my Android
> Linux kernel with LTO.
>
> The main benefits of my kernel is that it uses
> LTO(Link-Time-Optimizations).
> (Patches found here: https://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc)
>
> But now, it's broken with Linaro Android toolchains from 2014.09~
>
> Building Linux kernel with LTO requires Linker plugin with the toolchain.
>
>
> But for some reason, linker plugin is disabled with 2014.09 and 2014.10
> (Which I used from here :
> https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/toolchain-4.9-2014.…
> https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/toolchain-4.9-2014.…
> )
>
> LTO build works flawlessly with 2014.08.
>
> With 2014.09 and 2014.10, I get the following error :
> cc1: error: -fno-fat-lto-objects are supported only with linker plugin
>
> If I explicitly remove " -fno-fat-lto-objects " from the Makefile, the
> linker fails to link all of the object files.
>
>
> I would like to ask Linaro to enable back the Linker plugin support :)
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:12:53 +0000
> From: Will Newton <will.newton(a)linaro.org>
> To: Jongsung Kim <neidhard.kim(a)lge.com>
> Cc: ??? <qkrwngud825(a)gmail.com>, linaro-android(a)lists.linaro.org,
> Linaro Toolchain <linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org>
> Subject: Re: Enabling back linker plugin for Linaro Android toolchain
> Message-ID:
> <CANu=DmhPdCGYw0=hCs9tmkbCU6hMLLMJnYS-u_JGz=
> p17Bgonw(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> On 29 October 2014 02:26, Jongsung Kim <neidhard.kim(a)lge.com> wrote:
> > The version-string from binutils-linaro looks to be blamed. It once was:
> >
> > GNU ld (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2013.04-20130415 - Linaro GCC
> 2013.04) 2.23.1
> >
> > and the linker plugin works with this version of Linaro prebuilt
> toolchain. Now it is:
> >
> > GNU ld (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.8-2014.04 - Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04)
> 2.24.0.20140311 Linaro 2014.03
> > GNU ld (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.9-2014.08 - Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.08)
> 2.24.0.20140801 Linaro 2014.08
> >
> > and the linker plugin is not supported:
> >
> > $ arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -flto -fuse-linker-plugin -o hello hello.c
> > arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc: error: -fuse-linker-plugin is not supported in
> this configuration
> >
> > Look into gcc/configure script. It uses the version of ld to determine
> whether ld supports linker plugin. It extracts the version by doing
> something like:
> >
> > $ arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld --version | sed 1q | sed -n -e 's,^.*[
> ]\([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*.*\)$,\1,p'
> >
> > and it will extract the last 2014.03 or 2014.08. By using proper
> substitution expression like 's,^GNU ld (.*) \([0-9][.0-9]*\).*$,\1,p', the
> script may enable linker plugin.
> >
> > However, patching the script looks like a bad idea, because it doesn?t
> help handling the version of gold:
> >
> > GNU gold (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu 2.24) 1.11
> > GNU gold (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2013.04-20130415 - Linaro GCC
> 2013.04 2.23.1) 1.11
> > GNU gold (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.8-2014.04 - Linaro GCC
> 4.8-2014.04 2.24.0.20140311 Linaro 2014.03) 1.11
> > GNU gold (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.9-2014.08 - Linaro GCC
> 4.9-2014.08 2.24.0.20140801 Linaro 2014.08) 1.11
> >
> > I couldn?t find a reasonable general expression to extract the version.
>
> This should be fixed in binutils-linaro-2.24-2014.11.
>
> > From: linaro-toolchain-bounces(a)lists.linaro.org [mailto:
> linaro-toolchain-bounces(a)lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of ???
> > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 10:15 PM
> > To: linaro-android(a)lists.linaro.org; linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org
> > Subject: Enabling back linker plugin for Linaro Android toolchain
> >
> > I'm using Linaro Android toolchain's arm-eabi- for compiling my Android
> Linux kernel with LTO.
> >
> > The main benefits of my kernel is that it uses
> LTO(Link-Time-Optimizations).
> > (Patches found here: https://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc)
> >
> > But now, it's broken with Linaro Android toolchains from 2014.09~
> >
> > Building Linux kernel with LTO requires Linker plugin with the toolchain.
> >
> >
> > But for some reason, linker plugin is disabled with 2014.09 and 2014.10
> > (Which I used from here :
> https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/toolchain-4.9-2014.…
> https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/toolchain-4.9-2014.…
> )
> >
> > LTO build works flawlessly with 2014.08.
> >
> > With 2014.09 and 2014.10, I get the following error :
> > cc1: error: -fno-fat-lto-objects are supported only with linker plugin
> >
> > If I explicitly remove " -fno-fat-lto-objects " from the Makefile, the
> linker fails to link all of the object files.
> >
> >
> > I would like to ask Linaro to enable back the Linker plugin support :)
> >
> > Thanks in advance..
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > linaro-toolchain mailing list
> > linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org
> > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
>
>
>
> --
> Will Newton
> Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
>
>
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>
I'm using Linaro Android toolchain's arm-eabi- for compiling my Android
Linux kernel with LTO.
The main benefits of my kernel is that it uses LTO(Link-Time-Optimizations).
(Patches found here: https://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc)
But now, it's broken with Linaro Android toolchains from 2014.09~
Building Linux kernel with LTO requires Linker plugin with the toolchain.
But for some reason, linker plugin is disabled with 2014.09 and 2014.10
(Which I used from here :
https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/toolchain-4.9-2014.…https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/toolchain-4.9-2014.…
)
LTO build works flawlessly with 2014.08.
With 2014.09 and 2014.10, I get the following error :
cc1: error: -fno-fat-lto-objects are supported only with linker plugin
If I explicitly remove " -fno-fat-lto-objects " from the Makefile, the
linker fails to link all of the object files.
I would like to ask Linaro to enable back the Linker plugin support :)
Thanks in advance..
Hi All,
There will be lab downtime in the month of November, and rather than
jeopardize the November quarterly binary toolchain release we've decided to
take some steps to ensure that it takes place on time.
The November binary toolchain quarterly release will contain some ARM64
erratum fixes. These are already in the Linaro GCC 4.9 2014.10 source
package release.
The November binary toolchain quarterly release will contain these fixes,
and will be delivered as planned, but will be based on the Linaro GCC 4.9
2014.10 package. We will not have a November Linaro GCC 4.9 2014.11 source
package release.
The December release will be the next Linaro GCC 4.9 source package release.
--
Ryan S. Arnold
Linaro Toolchain Working Group - Engineering Manager
www.linaro.org
cbuild2 benchmarking - TCWG-360 [2/10]
* Figured out how to cook my own OE images
* Started remembering how to build spec
libm exercising - CARD-1693 [2/10]
* Borrowed a usable Juno
* Found that lapack tests segfault on AArch64
* Ran linpack hpl, didn't observe it exercising libm much
** Haven't ruled out Bernie-error yet, though
Upstream - CARD-341 [1/10]
* Respun lowlevellock.h comments
Meetings/mail/etc [5/10]
* A lot of time (>3/10) in performance review and other annual ARM admin
* Some back and forth about difficulties of userspace access to ID registers
=Plan=
Get spec2006 working via my scripts
Find a good HPL libm exerciser
Spend a lot less time on ARM admin
== Progress ==
Further progress on GDB Tracepoints/Fast Tracepoints support on arm
[TCWG-480] [6/10]
-- Debugging and trying out some code enabling tracepoints in gdbserver
-- Research on past tracepoint patches and x86 vs arm architecture comparison
ARM/AArch64 GDB testsuite failures investigation [2/10]
Miscellaneous [2/10]
-- Meetings, Emails etc
-- Fix SSH configurations
-- Patch Scrolling
-- Hong Kong visa process
-- Multiple Dr visits due to continued sickness
== Plan ==
Further progress on GDB Tracepoints/Fast Tracepoints support on arm [TCWG-480]
Fix internet latency issues from lab hardware.
= Progress ==
* Short week was in vacation (22-24 October)
* Updated perf profile numbers for instruction count and documented my
analysis for Linaro compiler's O3 + LTO comparison on Aarch64 vs X86_64
(TCWG-544) (2/10)
* Misc [2/10]
emails, AMD meetings and 1-1 with inline manger.
1-1 with christophe.
== Plan ==
* Coremark benchmark and profiling.
Investigate trunk degradation for O3+ PGO + LTO and report.
== Progress ==
* Zero/sign extension elimination with widening types (TCWG-546 - 10/10)
- Re-wrote the pass from the results of experiments so far
- Fixed most of the regression failures
- 5 tests are still failing from C/C++/Fortran regression suite.
== Plan ==
* Continue with Zero/sign extension pass.
- Get bootstrapping for ARM and AArch64 working
- Fix remaining regression failures
- Add detail dumps
- Remove unnecessary copies (it is now being removed dead code
elimination pass)
- Get patch ready for upstream discussion
== This week ==
* GCC Modularization Project (5/10)
- Reviewed Re-Architecture GNU Cauldron videos by Andrew Macleod
- Reviewed tree/gimple source base
* Linaro bugzilla 602 - gcc 4.7.3 compiler internal error while building
hsail components (2/10)
- Resolved bug by determining that 4.7 compiler was assinging a
incorrect VFP register to a parameter
- Issue was fixed in 4.8 by adding call to arm_hard_regno_ok which
disallowed register
* vector Extensions Project (2/10)
- Preliminary design work on C++ classes and libvpx review
* Misc. (1/10)
- Conducted interview with Prathamesh Kulkarni
- Conference calls
== Next week ==
- GCC Modularization draft plan to TCWG group for review
- Understand status of Re-Architecture work by Andrew Macleod
- Further review of libvpx and vector extensions design work
=== Progress ===
SPEC Benchmarking [5/10]
. managed to run SPEC2k
. managed to run integer parts of SPEC2k6
. spec2xxx-report fails
. can't run full suite as LAVA Junos have insufficient disk
NEON error reporting bugs #403/#418 [3/10]
. ongoing mailing list discussions
vldN_lane patches [1/10]
. respun and committed
Misc [1/10]
=== Plan ===
Talk to Tejas @ ARM about AArch64 NEON loads/stores
Review prep
Move office
Day off at some point (likely Wednesday)
Short week, 2 days off
== Progress ==
* GCC trunk/4.9 cross-validation (2/10)
- committed testsuite patch to support forcing -mword-relocations
option when compiling testglue.c
* Neon intrinsics tests (2/10)
- committed the 1st batch (21 commits)
* AArch64 sanitizer
- libsanitizer internal data depend on the kernel headers version
used to build the toolchain, old_[gu]id_t type changed in 3.15.3.
- discussing the best way to address this
* Misc (2/10)
- calls, meetings
== Next ==
* 4.8 branch merge for next release
* GCC trunk/4.9 cross-validation
- investigate abi_check test, probably another testsuite harness
configuration issue
* AArch64 sanitizer
* Neon intrinsics tests update
* cbuild2:
- analyze previous results
- look at backport-test script + logs
== Progress ==
* Automation Framework (CARD-1378 1/10)
- Setting up Junos with ARM
* Toolchain (CARD-862 1/10)
- Some progress on fpu parser issue
- Produced a lot more work for the near future
* Buildbots (TCWG-76 4/10)
- Setting up a libc++ buildbot, working on reducing failures
- Some bots broken, bisecting
* Background (4/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- Annual review
- More lab move planning
- EuroLLVM meetings and planning
== Plan ==
* US LLVM whole next week
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2014.10
release of the Linaro GCC 4.9 source package.
Linaro GCC 4.9 2014.10 is the seventh Linaro GCC source package release. It is
based on FSF GCC 4.9.2-pre+svn216130 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 enginering[2] releases.
Interesting changes in this GCC source package release include
* Updates to GCC 4.9.2-pre+svn216130
* Backport of [AArch64] Define TARGET_FLAGS_REGNUM
* Backport of PR target/61565
* Backport of [AArch64] libitm: Improve _ITM_beginTransaction
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix *extr_insv_lower_reg<mode> pattern
* Backport of [AArch64] Use CC_Z and CC_NZ with csinc and similar instructions
* Backport of [AArch32] Implement and vectorize lceil, lfloor, lround optabs
with new ARMv8-A instructions
* Backport of [AArch64] Improve epilogue unwind info rth
* Backport of [AArch64] Add a mode to operand 1 of sibcall_value_insn
* Backport of [AArch64] Add a builtin for rbit(q?)_p8; add intrinsics and tests
* Backport of [AArch32/AArch64] Schedule alu_ext for Cortex-A53
* Backport of [AArch64] Remove varargs from aarch64_simd_expand_args
* Backport of [AArch64] Tidy: remove unused qualifier_const_pointer
* Backport of [AArch32/AArch64] Add scheduling info for ARMv8-A FPU new
instructions in Cortex-A53
* Backport of [AArch32] Convert FP mnemonics to UAL.
* Backport of [AArch32] Enable auto-vectorization for copysignf
* Backport of [AArch32][tests] Make input and output arrays 128-bit aligned in
vectorisation tests
* Backport of [AArch64] Add crtfastmath
* Backport of PR target/56846 libstdc++
* Backport of PR target/63209
* Backport of [Ree] Ensure inserted copy don't change the number of hard
registers
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix force_simd macro in vdup_lane_2
* Backport of [AArch32] Disallow -mfpu=neon for unsuitable architectures
* Backport of [AArch32] movmisalign<mode>_neon_load
* Backport of [AArch64] Add constraint letter for stack_protect_test pattern
* Backport of [AArch64] Auto-generate the "BUILTIN_" macros
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Hi,
I start to use Linary AArch64 toolchain recently and just joined this maillist. I went through some of the archived threads but didn't read all of them. So bear me if I'm asking dumb question or old question which had been answered before.
For our use case, we are running the gdb client at early state of boot. So the ARMv8 target might be running into any EL and into either AArch64 or AArch32 state. My questions are:
1) Is the aarch64-none-elf-gdb.exe good for both AArch64 and AArch32 or I have to run the arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe if the target running in AArch32 state?
2) If the target is in AArch64 state, can I use the aarch64-none-elf-gdb.exe to load binary built for AArch32 to the target?
I'm really appreciated if anybody can help me on these two questions.
Thanks in advance,
StrongQ
cbuild2 benchmarking - TCWG-360 [3/10]
* A few small enhancements and bug-fixes
* Tried to run spec2006 on Juno, looks tricky
libm profiling - CARD-1693 [3/10]
* Pulled together lapack + blas
* Looked a bit at how it exercises libm on x86
* Tried to look at how it exercises libm on Juno, looks tricky
Meetings/mail/etc [4/10]
* Featuring some fun with backups and ARM performance review season
=Plan=
* cbuild2 benchmarking - keep chipping away at spec/juno
* libm profiling - attempt to assemble an AArch64 setup that works for me
* further performance review/corporate admin will take up extra time
this week, but should then fall back to normal levels
=Issues=
State of the setup on our Junos
== Progress ==
* Part way through integrating Cbuild2/Jenkins with Gerrit. (#1692,
8/10)
- Implemented functions to use the REST API to Gerrit via SSH.
- Integrated into build and test processes.
* Meetings and Misc (2/10)
- Ordered 10 Snapdragon boards
== Plan ==
* Finish Gerrit integration with Cbuild2 and Jenkins. (#1692)
- Find a way the buildslave user can use the SSH connection to Gerrit.
* Start merging the linaro branch in DejaGnu to master to get
ready for the next release.
* Start getting ready for the lab move, do what I can ahead of time.
== Issues ==
* Gerrit comments via REST strip out all newlines, so I need to
limit the message size after a test run.
= Progress ==
* Core mark benchmark and report for PGO and PGO + LTO (TCWG-544) (6/10)
Going by CPU cycles adding LTO gains in x86 and degrades in Aarch64 .
Looked at hot functions and examining assembly the code generation seems to
be same. X86_64 does alignment of code. Also branch misses decreased in
X86_64 compared to Aarch64 with -flto + -O3.
Also profiled for instruction counts on Aarch64 with linaro compiler. These
profiles say that we are executing less instructions with LTO and PGO for
Aarch64.
* PR 63173- Reproduced the issue and changed the test case to work with
trunk. Now Looks like someone else has a patch for it. (1/10). so will
work on other bugs.
* Misc [3/10]
Internal work, emails, AMD meetings and 1-1 with inline manger.
1-1 with Maxim, christophe and 1-1 with ryan
== Plan ==
* Coremark benchmark and profiling.
Investigate trunk degradation for O3+ PGO + LTO and report.
== leaves ==
Diwali holiday (22-24)
== Issues ==
* Still no network at home and will not be fixed before at least one week :(
== Progress ==
* GCC 4.9 2014.10 (8/10)
- Merged FSF 4.9 branch
- Released Linaro 4.9 2014.10
* Misc: (2/10)
- Various meetings.
== Plan ==
* Analyse some failures that occur only in --enable-release.
== Progress ==
Catch up with work after return from Eid ul Adha and Annual Holidays [7/10]
* Hong Kong visa application
* UPS repairs and office cleanup
* Catching up with work, gdb roadmap and open/running cards.
* Emails/Patch scrolling/Meetings etc
* Sick day off on Monday
GDB Tracepoints/Fast Tracepoints support on arm [TCWG-480] [3/10]
* Getting re-synced with code where I left.
== Plan ==
Further progress on GDB Tracepoints/Fast Tracepoints support on arm [TCWG-480]
Investigate possibility of AArch64 trace-point work without
availability of hardware.
Check for GDB status on ARM and AArch64 vs x86.
== Progress ==
* Zero/sign extension elimination with widening types (TCWG-546 - 9/10)
- Fixed ICEs and now can build the cross compiler and do the regression
testing with qemu
- some test-cases are failing due to condition that rely on overflow;
this need fixing.
- Bootstrapping on AArch64 still fails (but much later than previously).
- Verified CRC is optimized
* Improve block memory operations by GCC (TCWG-142 - 1/10)
- Looked at the changes since the card was drafted
== Plan ==
* Continue with Zero/sign extension pass.
== Progress ==
* GCC trunk/4.9 validation (CARD-647) (3/10)
- committed testsuite patch to test if -shared is supported
- forcing -mword-relocations flags when compiling testglue works on
my Ubuntu machines, but does not in the Compute Farm RHEL5 servers.
- investigating why, all the more as it made me incorrectly report
failures in the 4.9 branch
* Validation (2/10)
- compared cbuild2 schroot-test branch and master
the results of this manual run does not seem to match Jenkins results
* Neon intrinsics tests (1/10)
- fixed .exp harness to support parallelization
- looking at how to pre-support fp16, will probably skip it for now,
and add dedicated tests later
* AArch64 sanitizer (1/10)
- GCC trunk seems to need to cherry pick a sanitizer patch when
building using recent kernel headers
- tried to use Jenkins to build trunk and trunk+cherry-pick, but the
results are not consistent
needs more investigation
* Misc (3/10)
- calls, meetings, irc
== Next ==
* GCC trunk/4.9 cross-validation
- fix -mword-relocations support
- investigate abi_check test
* AArch64 sanitizer
* Neon intrisics tests update
* cbuild2:
- analyze previous results (mostly check the logs....)
- look at backport-test script + logs
Short next week: off Wednesday/Thursday
== Progress ==
* Respin of malloc single-thread optimizations (4/10, TCWG-436)
- Create a generic header, include AArch64 in series
* Further work on malloc app benchmark framework (4/10, TCWG-441)
- Cleaned up, improved reliability, added comments
- Committed to cortex-malloc.git
* Email, meetings, etc. (1/10)
* Upstream work (1/10, CARD-341)
- glibc patch review and pings
- Look into some bug reports and testsuite failures
== Issues ==
* Electricians and gas engineers turning off power/heating at various points
== Plan ==
* Hopefully get some resolution of single thread atomic stuff for glibc
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Progress ==
* Linux Plumbers (6/10)
- Attended conference, Android/Tools/LLVM tracks
- Presented 2 talks (GCC+LLVM and LLVM+ARM)
* Buildbots (TCWG-76 2/10)
- Made the Compiler-RT bot green! Now on to the libc++ one
* Background (2/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- Internet upgrade, re-wiring the house, building works
== Plan ==
* Add libc++abi buildbot
* Follow up on the fpu issues on Clang/asm
FYI.
The whole thread is available here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap/119412
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 01:18:01 +0100
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux(a)arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Peter Hurley <peter(a)hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <Nathan_Lynch(a)mentor.com>,
David Laight <David.Laight(a)ACULAB.COM>,
Otavio Salvador <otavio(a)ossystems.com.br>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico(a)fluxnic.net>,
Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap(a)vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel(a)lists.infradead.org
Message-ID: <20141016001801.GQ12379(a)n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Blacklist GCC 4.8.0 to GCC 4.8.2 - PR58854
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 06:18:30PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On 10/15/2014 05:56 PM, Russell King wrote:
> > I was in two minds whether to include 4.8.3 as Linaro released a buggy
> > toolchain which identifies itself as 4.8.3, but I decided that's also
> > a distro problem. IMHO Linaro should really think about taking that
> > compiler down given the seriousness of this bug and it being
> > indistinguishable from the fixed stock version.
>
> Maybe it's unfair to blame them; Linaro just took a snapshot and
> released what was there.
>
> If gcc is going to retain the "change release number then add all the
> new features" model, some kind of prerelease indicator would help
> eliminate this kind of problem. And that indicator should be both
> a preprocessor define and parseable from the command line :)
My comment is not to attribute blame to them, my comment is entirely
on a technical level.
My reasoning is that the bug is just as prevalent in userspace, though
it will occur less often. Any program which uses signal handlers is
a candidate for exactly the same kind of corruption, since you can
receive that signal between the point that the stack pointer is
modified and the function loads the parent context.
Of course, there are ways around that: don't use signal handlers, or
if you do, use alternate signal stacks. Neither of those can be
guaranteed for any program though.
So, let me put this another way: a compiler with this bug is _completely_
unsuitable for use for compiling programs for use under the Linux
kernel _as well_ as the Linux kernel itself.
The difference is that the Linaro compilers come with an expectation
that they are usable on ARM... whereas stock versions cover a lot more
and so the ARM arch is probably very small number of their users.
Hence why I recommend that Linaro takes down their buggy compiler.
Their 4.8.3 version should not be used *anywhere*, just the same as
the stock 4.8 to 4.8.2 inclusive should also not be used anywhere on
ARM either.
== Progress ==
Neon vld/vst [4/10]
. submitted v2 of vldN_lane patch (respin of patches 1&2 only)
. continued ML discussion about patches 3&4.
Tried out jenkins/cbuild infrastructure [1/10]
. hardest part was getting git.linaro.org/people to hold my test tree
. https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Systems/GitServer#Creating_new_repositories
. if it doesn't work, ask ITS to check you are in the git-users group
. still need to find where the results go.
bug 403/418 wrong line number on neon error messages [2/10]
. experimented with a couple of ways to solve this
bug 715 [2/10]
. investigated and closed as only affects deprecated old ABI
Misc [1/10]
== Plan ==
Benchmark 2014.10 release
Continue bug 403/418 work
== Progress ==
* Further work on malloc single-thread optimizations (2/10, TCWG-436)
- Still pending some resolution on direction from upstream
* Upstream work (1/10, CARD-341)
- Patch review
- Applied binutils patch for missing AArch64 relocs
* Further work on malloc app benchmark framework (2/10, TCWG-441)
- Found a possible way to get memory statistics without hacks, should improve
speed and reliability of the benchmark framework
* Email, meetings, etc. (1/10)
* Thursday and Friday annual leave (4/10)
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* Get malloc app benchmark framework into shape and committed
* Figure out direction for malloc single thread optimization work
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
cbuild2 benchmarking - TCWG-360 [7/10]
* Fixed/worked around some especially resilient bugs
** Mostly relate to running benchmarks through LAVA, which may be less
important in the near future
* Wrote a doc
* Upstreamed some code that works about as I want it to
Meetings/mail/etc [3/10]
=Plan=
cbuild2 benchmarking
* Work through TODO list from connect
* Tidy up behaviour on shutdown
* Storage issues
* (Maybe) persuade a LAVA Juno to work for benchmarking or configure spec
Hopefully pick up something else