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[ACTIVITY] 8 - 11 October 2013

by Kugan

== Progress == * 4 Day week (October 7th Public Holiday) * 64bit division - Looked at libgcc division implementations - Implemented in C "Align divisor shift dividend method" for procssors without div instrusttion - gcc regression now pass with above * spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 - Continue working on slides for connect - ran benchmarks to gather required results == Plan == * Continue with spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 * Continye with 64bit division

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[ACTIVITY] 7 - 11 October 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == (TCWG-266), (TCWG-270), (TCWG-250), (TCWG-280) and (TCWG-288) * Added arm process record syscall support changes and some bug fixes. * More improvement to gdb.reverse on arm now 2214 tests are passing in native mode (144 failures left) (TCWG-267), (TCWG-268) and (TCWG-269) * No progress this week. * Received US visa from US visa passport collection center. * Booked travel for LCU13. == Plan == * Short week Hujj and Eid-Al-Adha Public Holidays in Pakistan 15-17 October 2013. (TCWG-250) * Update/test arm process record thumb32 support patch incorporating changes suggested by Will in his review. (TCWG-280) * Improve code changes and find ways to avoid hard coded constants imported from Linux Kernel.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 40 & 41

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * Develop machine was broken. Have to resetup the system. == Progress == * Commit fix for pr58423 * Enhance Linaro crosstool-ng - Fix lp:1232678 - Get EGLIBC version from config files automatically. - Build aarch64 sysroot to support profile (https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries/support/01/). * Update the patch "Reassociate X == CST1 || X == CST2 if popcount (CST2 - CST1) == 1 into ((X - CST1) & ~(CST2 - CST1)) == 0" according to comments. * Continue on CCMP - Send the phiopt patch to handle CCMP for community review. Jeff will follow-up it. - Enhance ifcombine to generate more CCMP. - Handle more than 2 compares in expand. - Add new instruction patterns to generate CCMP for ARM. Test is ongoing. == Plan == * Send ifcombine patch for community review. * Continue on CCMP testing.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 41 : Oct 7 - Oct 11

by Ryan Arnold

== Progress == * CbuildV2 Fixes to add fetch md5sums to testsuite/test.sh: - Subject: [PATCH][test_fetch_md5sums 1/2] lib/fetch.sh: Add missing ${local_snapshots} to md5sum path. - Subject: [PATCH][test_fetch_md5sums 2/2] testsuite/test.sh: Add fetch tests section. * CbuildV2 Fixes to get testsuite/test.sh working in the source directory: - Subject: [PATCH][cbuild2 1/3] testsuite/test.sh: Don't use "warning" function before it is sourced. - Subject: [PATCH][cbuild2 2/3] testsuite/test.sh: Remove redundant sourcing of host.conf. - Subject: [PATCH][cbuild2 3/3] testsuite/test.sh: Re-enable running tests from src dir. CbuildV2 random fixes: - Subject: [PATCH][cbuild2 2/4] cbuild2.sh: correct --disable "boostrap" - Subject: [PATCH][cbuild2 3/4] config/ffmpeg.conf: separate options * CbuildV2 fixes to remove ${dir}/md5sums usage (it is redunant with snapshots/md5sums). - Subject: [PATCH][cbuild2 1/4] Remove unneeded infrastructure/md5sums fragment - Subject: [PATCH][cbuild2 4/4] Remove ${dir} specific md5sums files. * Fixed error where gcc stage 2 configure returns early (erroneously) on success. - [PATCH] Only return early on error following configure * Fixed error in downloading branch named git repos in lib/checkout.sh. - [PATCH] Fix git clone to get repo without branch name as part of the url. == Issues == Contacted its@linaro requesting permission to be able to create personal branches in rsavoye’s cbuild2 git tree. They created a group for cbuildv2. Got work laptop installed (dualboot) with Fedora 19 and ran into some errors with secure boot. == Plan == * Spend some time looking at our options with regard to EGLIBC options groups when forced to move to glibc proper. *

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[ACTIVITY] Week 41

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Backports and release for binutils 2013.10 (x4!) * Backports and release for eglibc 2013.10 * Submitted a couple more glibc memalign patches * Committed aarch64 gdb fix * Bits of malloc work in between == Issues == * None == Plan == * Try and get some uninterrupted time on malloc -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ACTIVITY] Week 41

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * EEMBC - Updating Linaro image with Clang toolchain changes - Updating compare_all script to rank boards - Investigating differences in performance against GCC * ODroid XU - Setting up server image (Linaro 13.09 + odroid specific changes) - CPU scheduler is a mess, forcing "performance" governor at boot seems to work - No journal in root fs, remounts ro all the time (bad image?) - LLVM builds are slow (as fast as Chromebook), maybe it's the SDCard - Setting it as self-host buildbot in the lab, going well * Background - Massive patch review (Sub-Register Live Range Analysis for NEON/VFP et al) - LLVM Sync and EuroLLVM meetings == Plan == * Continue investigating performance problems in EEMBC * Check Odroid XU internal buildbot for stability

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Error

by Rick

Hi Term, I have try to us "crosstool-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.8 "to build myself cross tool chain, but some problem happened,just before I have used crosstool-ng offcial version, every thing is fine,I have got my toolchain, my operation system is Ubuntu 12.10, when I change to crosstool-ng-linaro, I am follow these steps. ct-ng list-samples, ct-ng linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf ct-ng menuconfig I just change Local tarballs directory ,Prefix directory ,and change target os from prebuilt to linux, then,I build it,first time error happened at step "cc_core_pass_1 ",I google it and found out it is about multilib,I need to install gcc-multilib and g++-multilib, then,I continue,this time,error happened at step"cc_core_pass_2 ". related messages in build.log: [ALL ] Supported emulations: armelf_linux armelf armelfb armelfb_linux [ERROR] collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status [ERROR] make[4]: *** [libgcc_s.so] Error 1 [ALL ] make[4]: Leaving directory `/work/software/cortexa9-linaro-build/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/build-cc-core-shared/arm-linux-gnueabihf/arm-linux-gnueabi/libgcc' [ERROR] make[3]: *** [multi-do] Error 1 [ALL ] make[3]: Leaving directory `/work/software/cortexa9-linaro-build/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/build-cc-core-shared/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgcc' [ERROR] make[2]: *** [all-multi] Error 2 [ALL ] make[2]: Leaving directory `/work/software/cortexa9-linaro-build/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/build-cc-core-shared/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgcc' [ERROR] make[1]: *** [all-target-libgcc] Error 2 [ALL ] make[1]: Leaving directory `/work/software/cortexa9-linaro-build/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/build-cc-core-shared' [ERROR] [ERROR] >> [ERROR] >> Error happened in: main[scripts/crosstool-NG.sh] so,I really don't know how to do now,any help is welcome.Thank you Cheers,Rick

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Does Linaro aarch64 gcc toolchain support Cortex-A53/A57 performance tunning.

by Zenon Xiu

Hi team, In the GCC.pdf of gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.08, it says that -mcpu supports cortex-a53, but when I tried to build a simple hello bare metal application with -mcpu=cortex-a53 option, gcc reports, Error: unknown cpu `cortex-a53' Error: unrecognized option -mcpu=cortex-a53 Could you please confirm whether Cortex-A53/A57 performance tunning is supported? Thanks. Best Regards. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Zenon Xiu -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. ARM Limited, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ, Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2557590 ARM Holdings plc, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ, Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2548782

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[ANNOUNCE] Aarch64 toolchain binaries respin 2013.09-01 released

by Bernhard Rosenkränzer

We have spotted a problem with the GOT layout in binaries generated by the 2013.09 Aarch64 toolchain, causing them to crash on startup. New builds fixing this issue are now available at http://releases.linaro.org/13.09/components/toolchain/binaries The arm-linux-gnueabihf and arm-none-eabi toolchains are not affected by this problem - there is no respin version for those builds. The Linux version is supported on Ubuntu 10.04.3 and 12.04, Debian 6.0.2, Fedora 16, openSUSE 12.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5.7 and later, and should run on any Linux Standard Base 3.0 compatible distribution. Please see the README about running on x86_64 hosts. The Windows version is supported on Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Vista Business SP2, and Windows 7 Pro SP1. The binaries and build scripts are available from: http://releases.linaro.org/13.09/components/toolchain/binaries Need help? Ask a question on https://ask.linaro.org/ Already on Launchpad? Submit a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries On IRC? See us on #linaro on Freenode. Other ways that you can contact us or get involved are listed at https://wiki.linaro.org/GettingInvolved.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 40

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Committed glibc ARM pointer encryption support. * Committed binutils AArch64 ifunc support. * Committed glibc malloc test patches. * Committed glibc setjmp/longjmp Thumb patches. * Backported glibc aarch64 gprof support. * Submitted qemu AArch32 VSEL patch. * Backported binutils AArch64 GOT layout patches. == Issues == * None == Plan == * Backports for 2013.10 * Follow up qemu patch * malloc -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ACTIVITY] 29 Sept-4 Oct 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * AArch64 frame grows downward: no feedback yet. * Disable-peeling: Vectorizer cost model has been changed upstream, the current default now includes the effect of disabling peeling. I have submitted benchmark jobs to check the exact effet; expecting some regressions since the reduced test case I was working on now generates the same code as with my patch. * AArch64 bootstrap failure: build it still on-going, so still hoping to reproduce it. * GCC trunk validation: - good progress on reporting - cross-validating several configurations (currently 18) for each upstream commit is too much for our compute farm to handle. Reduced to patches related to ARM/AArch64, but then we can miss regressions caused by other generic patches. * Backports: - committed a few simple ones. == Next == * AArch64 frame grows downward: continue * Disable-peeling/new vectorizer cost model: analyze bench results * Backports : check which ones can be reasonably done

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[ACTIVITY] Week 40

by Yvan Roux

== Issues == * None. == Progress == * 2013-10 release. - Reviewed some backports. * LRA on AArch32: - Testsuite analysis showed one remaining issue in ARM mode (with the movmisalignv8hi_neon_store insn handling). - Ran Benchmarks on Calxedas, some failures due to the same bug. - Benchmarks on tcpandas ongoing. - Benchmarks results analysis ongoing. == Next == * Continue on LRA.

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[ACTIVITY] 28 September -1 October 2013

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * libssp Updated review comments given by glibc maintainer and rerun tests. There are some test failures, suspecting issue in using ALIGN_UP/DOWN macro. Debugging them. * gprof support for aarch64 Upstreamed patches to GCC and backported to Linaro 4.8 branch. Closed the cards for gprof work. * 1-1 Meet with Christophe. == Plan == * Continue libssp support. * Restart Aarch64 boot strap in a server machine. * Book hotel ticket for connect. * PGO for aarch64

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[Activity] Sept 30 - Oct 5

by Rob Savoye

== Progress == * Fixed my laptop's desktop by upgrading to saucy & Gnome 3.10. * Continuing with Jenkins/Cbuildv2/Git integration. Since this is an ongoing task, I think I'm going to stop listing it every week. :-) * Fixed more bugs in Cbuildv2 when handling branches and revisions. * Compared source tarballs for binutils and gcc, Linaro releases against Cbuildv2 produced ones. * Added support to Cbuildv2 for building binutils source releases in the same style as src-release. * Worked on aarch64 builds on real hardware to test adding libatomic and go to builds. * Added support to build all documentation, which is used when building tarballs. * Reviewed and applied Cbuildv2 patches from Ryan. == Plan == * Try to work around problem with importing test results. * Continued work on release building via Cbuildv2. * Get Odroid boards working reliably, ordered AC powered USB hubs to work around problem with exterrnal USB drives.

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[ACTIVITY] 30 September - 4 October 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Traveled to Islamabad for US Visa Interview, got verbal confirmation of visa. Passport will be back this week. (TCWG-250) * GDB ARM Process Record Thumb32 Support: Submitted a new patch upstream which fixed bugs. (TCWG-270) * Tested arm process record bug fixes in various configurations to get pass rate statistics for the new patch. (TCWG-280) * Reviewing changes required for syscall support for gdb arm process record. == Plan == (TCWG-267), (TCWG-268) and (TCWG-269) * Ping or Send response to comments. (TCWG-280) * Start implementation and complete most part of coding next week. * If Passport comes back with visa stamped: plan/book travel to US, gather connect related information and notify all concerned.

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[ACTIVITY] Sept 29 - Oct 4

by Kugan

== Progress == * Lnaro 4.8 Bugfix - Fixed Bugs LP1232017 and LP1234060 - gmp and mpfr make check now clean * spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 - Looked at register allocation issues - Started working on slides for connect == Plan == * Continue with spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 * Start again with 64bit division == Misc == * October 7th Public Holiday.

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[ACTIVITY] Sept 29 - Oct 4

by Ryan Arnold

== Progress == * Finished most new employee onboarding * Setup Chromebook with Linux Ubuntu (crouton) development environment. * glibc [PATCH] Update generic swapon definition to match prototype. * CBuildV2 [PATCH] Fix stamp-configure* name for git repos with specific named branches [PATCH] Only return early on error following configure [PATCH] Remove dryrun wrapper from git-new-workdir invocation. [PATCH] Fix stamp name for git repos with specific named branches. [PATCH] Remove lynx check from configure[.ac]. It's no longer used. Started working on a patch to fix git working directory branch name for named branches. == Plan == * Install Fedora 19 on work laptop that just (Oct 4) arrived and setup working environment. * Finish first-pass fixes on cbuildv2. * Complete patch to fix git working directory branch name. * Start working on a glibc.git conf file to potentially move away from eglibc.git. * Fix cbuildv2 fetch time stamps. They seem to always be downloading tar balls. * Fix stamp output so that it doesn't imply that stamps or older than a file when stamps do not yet exist. == Issue == * Temporary desktop corruption and couldn't Linux 'rescue' from an encrypted drive. Spent part of Tuesday rescuing my work environment off the drive and reinstalling system.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 40

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * EEMBC - Ran on multiple boards, collected statistical data, wrote some scripts to do it again - Found a few regressions on GCC 4.9, reported internally - Found 4 benchmarks in which LLVM is a lot worse - Looking at RGBCMY which GCC is able to vectorise - LLVM transforms the pointer access into a PHI cycle, which is wrongly interpreted as a reduction variable by the loop vectorizer. * Background - Patch reviews and discussions as usual - TCWG rack has arrived! - Got another Chromebook and an ODroid XU to play with next week == Plan == * Update script to rank the compilers according to EEMBC results on the same machine * Try to teach the loop vectorizer to not treat load/store PHIs as a reduction variable * Set up some temporary buildbots with new hardware

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process for enabling gccgo in Linaro GCC binary distributions

by Michael Hudson-Doyle

Hi, With the patch I just sent to this list in place, gccgo builds for aarch64. I don't know how well it _works_ -- "hello world" builds and runs -- but I would like to ask what the process would be to get gccgo included in the binary distributions of GCC that Linaro makes. Cheers, mwh

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[Activity] Sept 23-30

by Rob Savoye

== Progress == * Got Odroid U2 board up and doing builds. Stock hardkernel kernel images are unstable, keeps remounting USB drive read-only under a load. * Got the new support for branches and revisions for any toolchain component working in Cbuildv2. * Attended the 30th anniversary of the GNU project in Boston over the weekend. == Plan == * Continuing with Jenkins/Cbuildv2/Git integration. * Try to work around problem with importing test results. * Compare automated tarballs with the current release tarballs. * Get Odroid U2 working reliably. * Get Odroid X2 working. == Issues == * Upgrading Gnome on my laptop destroyed my desktop to where nothing worked, limiting productivity for a few days.

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MPFR build issue

by Kugan

Hi, With respect to the MPFR build error, (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58578), is movs appropraite as shown below? When _err1 is negative the condition is evaluating it to be true. /* C Codeoes */ if (_err1 > 0) { /* working code */ .loc 1 67 0 cmp r3, #0 ble .L6 /* not working code*/ .loc 1 67 0 movs r3, r3, asl #1 ble .L6 When I looked at the ARM documents, I found the following Condition flags ------------------- If S is specified, for MOV instructions: 1. update the N and Z flags according to the result 2. can update the C flag during the calculation of Operand2 (see Flexible second operand) 3. do not affect the V flag. And also le Signed less than or equal. (Z==1) || (N!=V) Does this means we cant movs at comparision. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-02/msg00861.html added this and I guess it is intentional. Am I missing anything here? Thanks, Kugan

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[ACTIVITY] 23-27 September 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * AArch64 frame grows downward: no feedback yet. * Disable-peeling: trying to tune the vectorizer cost model so that it is less aggressive. * AArch64 bootstrap failure: build it still on-going, so still hoping to reproduce it. * GCC trunk cross-validation: - aarch64 added - looking at how to handle compute farm jobs timeouts nicely * Backports: - launched several merge requests for a few individual patches. == Next == * AArch64 frame grows downward: continue * Disable-peeling: continue * Backports : spend little time on checking the results

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[Activity] Week 39

by Charles Baylis

Progress . worked on cleaning up arm config in gcc (TCWG-201) . not really convinced I have a way to properly test the result . a bit of bug triage . a bit more on the 4.7 segfault bug (lp1215925) Plans . ping the arm*gnueabihf testsuite patch . finish the config clean up . revisit 4.7 segfault, now I have more suggestions from Matt

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[ACTIVITY] Week 39

by Yvan Roux

== Issues == * None. == Progress == * Misc: - Installed Saucy on Chromebook. * LRA on AArch64: - Committed RTL analyser patch. - Committed patch which switch on LRA on AArch64. * LRA on AArch32: - Committed patch which fix failing assembly scan test with LRA. - Committed LRA register notes DEAD and UNSUSED handling in LRA. - Bootstrapped GCC with LRA on Chromebook. - Analysis of testsuite results ongoing. == Next == * Continue on LRA.

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[ACTIVITY] 23-27 September 2013

by Venkataramanan Kumar

Short week (Tuesday and Wednesday went to US consulate Chennai for VISA interview and document processing). == Progress == * gprof support for aarch64 Re-based and tested. Asked permission for upstreaming in trunk. Gibc patches are upstreamed. Thanks to Marcus. * Aarch64 Boot strap failure. Tried to reproduce it in V8 model. Build failing in stage 1 for me. * 1-1 Meet with Christophe. == Plan == * Back to libssp support. * Aarch64 boot strap issue. == Issues == * LTO/PGO work stopped now since libssp support priority is more. Misc ------ October 2 India Holiday.

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[ACTIVITY] 23 - 27 September 2013

by Kugan

== Progress == * MPFR and GMP Build error with Latest 4.8 Release - Reproduced MPFR error with a simplified testcase - Found the buggy codesequence and the patch that introduced it. - Looking at solution for this - Reprdouced GMP error with -march=armv7-a and -mthumb - continuing with the invetigation * 64bit division - Looked at current libgcc implementaion and studied the alorithm. * Addressing patch review - Posted second patch for zero/sign extension * spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 - Ran spec2k with various options to validate code analysis == Plan == * Continue with spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 * Continue 64bit division * Fix GMP and MPFR build error

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[ACTIVITY] 23 - 27 September 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == (TCWG-270) * Tested GDB Process Record/Replay and reverse debug feature for arm. * Thumb32 support patch along with a couple of bug fixes made huge improvement in testsuite results. (TCWG-267) and (TCWG-269) * Reviewed all previous submitted patches and wrote response patch updates. * Implemented gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwaf2/dw2-error.exp using dwarf assembler. (TCWG-268) * Submitted patch for failing gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwaf2/dw2-case-insensitive.exp (TCWG-272) * Re-viewed and verified gdb bugs reported on launchpad and created JIRA cards where required. (TCWG-265) * Generated Test data to test instruction decoding in arm specific code of gdb process record/replay. (TCWG-280) * Reviewed previously submitted patches related to gdb process record syscall support for arm targets. * Submitted US Visa application for processing and got appointment for Visa Interview. * Reviewed all open JIRA cards and created new ones for future progress on GDB == Plan == (TCWG-270) * Submitt patch for bug fixes and show testsuite improvement with bug fixes and thumb32 patch. * Do more testing and analyse failures and try to fix them if possible. * Verify issues reported by maintainers in old arm instruction decoding code. (TCWG-267), (TCWG-268) and (TCWG-269) * Update gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwaf2/dw2-error.exp as asked by gdb maintainers. * Ping or Send response to comments. (TCWG-280) * Test syscall support with old patch and make changes if required. * Travel to Islamabad on Tuesday to attend US visa interview early morning Wednesday.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 39

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * Update Conditional compare (CCMP) patch according to community comments. * Investigate how to generate CCMP to support more than two compares. - Investigate ifcombine to create more CCMP opportunities. - Enhancing phiopt to handle CCMP case like: if (a == 0 && b > c) return 0 return a; == Plan == * Continue on CCMP to support more than two compares. == Panned leaves == * Oct. 1-7: National Day of China holiday

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[ACTIVITY] Week 39

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * Profiling ImageMagick - Clang 3.4-svn is around 10% less performing than GCC 4.7.3 - Mainly due to recursive octree-style map/reduce of most functions, spending a lot of time before/after branches - Any optimization on that front won't fit the "Incubation" tag * Profiling EEMBC - Found 2 cases where Clang is *a lot* better than GCC 4.7.3 (pruning bmark.c, producing much smaller objects, and vectorizing telecom/autcor, which GCC can't) - Most of the time, GCC is slightly better (~5% faster, ~10% smaller, geomean) - Wrote some scripts to run any two compilers against each other, compare the results and dump the ratios in a TSV file. == Plans == * Update EEMBC Linaro image with Clang toolchain changes * Look for low-hanging fruits in EEMBC * Try comparison with GCC 4.8 and 4.9, too * Find a way to extract Phoronix results in TSV format

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[ACTIVITY] Week 39

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Checked testsuite for glibc and gcc bootstrap on aarch64 native * Released Linaro gdb 7.6.1 2013.09-1 * Submitted glibc pointer guard patch using TLS * Submitted respin of pointer guard patch using a global variable * Submitted binutils aarch64 ifunc patches for a second time * A little bit of time on malloc * Built office furniture! == Issues == * None == Plan == * Finish off pointer guard * Hopefully back to malloc -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2013.09 released

by Bernhard Rosenkränzer

The Linaro Toolchain and Platform Working Groups are pleased to announce the 2013.09 release of the Linaro Toolchain Binaries, a pre-built version of Linaro GCC and Linaro GDB that runs on generic Linux or Windows and targets the glibc Linaro Evaluation Build. This release introduces a set of experimental (pre-alpha) crosscompilers to big-endian ARM architectures. Uses include: * Cross compiling ARM applications from your laptop * Remote debugging * Build the Linux kernel for your board What's included: * Linaro GCC 4.8 2013.09 * Linaro Newlib 2.0 2013.06 * Linaro Binutils 2.23 2013.06 * Linaro Eglibc 2.17-2013.07-2 * Linaro GDB 7.6 2013.05 * A statically linked gdbserver * A system root * Manuals under share/doc/ The system root contains the basic header files and libraries to link your programs against. Interesting changes include: * gcc updated to 4.8-2013.09 * Initial big-endian pre-alpha versions added The Linux version is supported on Ubuntu 10.04.3 and 12.04, Debian 6.0.2, Fedora 16, openSUSE 12.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5.7 and later, and should run on any Linux Standard Base 3.0 compatible distribution. Please see the README about running on x86_64 hosts. The Windows version is supported on Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Vista Business SP2, and Windows 7 Pro SP1. The binaries and build scripts are available from: http://releases.linaro.org/13.09/components/toolchain/binaries Need help? Ask a question on https://ask.linaro.org/ Already on Launchpad? Submit a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries On IRC? See us on #linaro on Freenode. Other ways that you can contact us or get involved are listed at https://wiki.linaro.org/GettingInvolved.

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro gdb 7.6.1 2013.09-1 released

by Will Newton

### About Linaro gdb Linaro gdb is a release of the GNU debugger with bug fixes and enhancements for ARM platforms. gdb allows interactive debugging of C and C++ programs natively and remotely. ### Linaro gdb 7.6.1 2013.09-1 The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2013.09-1 release of Linaro gdb 7.6.1, the first release in the 7.6.1 series. This release is based on the latest upstream gdb 7.6 stable branch, but with additional features and bug fixes. #### Additional Features * None #### Bug Fixes * Fixes for debugging on AArch64 with hardware breakpoints. ### Source #### Release Tarball * https://releases.linaro.org/13.09/components/toolchain/gdb-linaro #### Development Tree * git://git.linaro.org/toolchain/gdb.git This release was built from the `linaro_gdb-7_6_1-2013_09-1_release` tag. ### 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) * Linaro Toolchain IRC channel on irc.freenode.net at `#linaro-tcwg` * Questions? [ask Linaro](http://ask.linaro.org/). * Interested in commercial support? inquire at [Linaro support](mailto:support@linaro.org) -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[Activity] Sept 16-22

by Rob Savoye

== Progress == * Finally got GCC 4.7 automatic updates working from launchpad. * Continuing with Jenkins/Cbuildv2/Git integration. * Added support for using specific commit IDs with Git and Cbuildv2. Also many improvements to how git branches and revisions are handled. * Worked on importing testing results from Jenkins builds, there seems to be a problem finding the .sum files when the build is complete. * Started getting new Odroid boards online running Ubuntu. == Plan == * Work on getting Canadian Cross builds working in Cbuildv2. * Finish getting Odroid boards setup. * Compare automated tarballs with the current release tarballs. * Continuing with Jenkins/Cbuildv2/Git integration. * Try to work around problem with importing test results. == Issues == * Phone and network access has been randomly down for extended periods. I assume it's flood repairs related.

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[ACTIVITY] 16-20 Sept 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * GCC trunk cross-validation: - stabilizing reporting (dealing with thread tests giving unstable results when run under qemu, timeouts caused by overload of the compute farm, ....) - adding aarch64 * Backports: - updated list (57 candidates for 4.8-2013.03), discussed prioritization and collaboration with ARM. - sent 1st branch-merge candidate for testing, as a preparation to partially backport a bug fix from Richard. * Aarch64 frame grows downward: - modified test-case shows that code can be better with frame grows downward than upward, depending on variables order and layout. == Next == * Backports - start backporting to prepare 2013.10 release * AArch64 frame grows downward: continue * Disable-peeling: resume work

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[ACTIVITY] Week 38

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Visit to Cambridge (Tue - Thu) and annual leave (Fri). * Applied gas fix for neon vector load/store constraints. * Applied glibc memcpy performance tweak. * Applied gdbserver AArch64 fix to trunk and branch. * Updated gdb release process and built a release candidate. * Started glibc ARM pointer guard work == Issues == * None == Plan == * gdb 2013.09 release * Various small items arising out of meetings last week * Complete glibc ARM pointer guard -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ACTIVITY] Week 38

by Yvan Roux

== Issues == * None. == Progress == * LRA on AArch64: - Validate Vladimir's patch to support HARD_REGNO_CALL_PART_CLOBBERED macro in LRA. - Reduced and analysed libstdc++ failures : they were due to PCH usage, but the issue was fixed with a rebase on trunk's head. - Testsuite is now clean. - Waiting for my rtl analyser patch to be accepted. * LRA on AArch32: - No more libstdc++ failures, they were PCH related too. - One more issue in ARM mode testsuite, related bad REG_NOTES info after LRA pass. - Reduced failing Thumb testcase. == Next == * Continue on LRA.

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[ACTIVITY] 16 - 20 September 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Spent week in Linaro's Cambridge office, had meetings with team mates. * Visited ARM office in Cambridge and met toolchain team there. * Submitted patch for GDB Record and Replay thumb32 support upstream. * Reviewed and reproduced gdb bugs reported on launchpad and changed their status according. * Reviewed previously submitted gdb patches and replied to comments if required. * Reviewed x86 record syscall code in GDB for adding support for recording ARM syscall record. * Updated JIRA cards or added new issues against bugs or features. == Plan == * Progress on record and replay feature by testing instruction set support. * Review all open JIRA cards for GDB * Work on getting previous patches committed or resubmit new ones. * Submit US visa application for LCU13.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 38

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * 2 day off on Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival * Update conditional compare (CCMP) patch according to community comments. * Work out a patch to fix PR 58423. * Prepare LCU'13 Visa and hotel. == Plan == * Continue on CCMP. == Panned leaves == * Sept. 24 AM: US Visa. * Oct. 1-7: National Day of China holiday

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[ACTIVITY] 16 -20 September 2013

by Kugan

== Progress == * Addressing patch review - zero/sign extension preparation patch accepted. - Christophe is helping to commit. * spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 - Looked at conditional code generation related code in gcc - looked at ifcvt and code in arm.md and arm.c to understand the heuristics that dictate how much to conditionalize and what is causing some of the problems I am seeing. == Plan == * Continue with spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 * Start looking at 64bit division

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[ACTIVITY] 16 -20 September 2013

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * gprof mcount support in glibc Tested the patch and posted in libcports. * Fix signal handler issue in glibc for profiling Found issue with time profiling. Time profiling is obtained by setting up SIG_PROF interrupt and kernal calls signal handler with interrupted pc address. But in glibc, aarch64 port does not register the signal handler properly. Fixed and sent a patch to team for review. Tested the patch and posted in libcports. * Linaro connect - VISA application. Applied VISA online and scheduled interview with US consulate. * Libssp support for AArch64 TCWG 23: Timeout issues disappears after increasing TIMEOUTFACTOR Base glibc test results are captured in wiki https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/ReleaseAndInfrastructure/Cr… * 1-1 meeting with Matt and Christophe. == Plan == * Post RFC patch for Libssp support for AArch64 in GCC * Continue testing the patch for Libssp support for AArch64 in GCC and glibc TCWG-23. == Issues == * LTO/PGO work stopped now since libssp support priority is more. Misc ------ Tuesday and Wednesday in Chennai to attend US VISA interview.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 38

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * Trying to profile ImageMagick on A9 - perf is broken on Exynos 4, used Panda - Linaro image doesn't have all PPAs - Clang code 10% worse than GCC on some operations - Code doesn't look that bad, but Clang on x86 is faster - Will look into that next week Background - Meetings at ARM, Linaro - Omair in Cambridge - Patch review, fixing bots, discussions, etc - Moved from Ubuntu to Mint 15, using Gnome Shell == Plan == * Finally look into the profiler output * Increase the profiling to other image operations * Profile Phoronix results?

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arm-linux-gnueabihf kernel headers out of date?

by Christopher Covington

Hi, In building some code (CRIU) that includes linux/if_packet.h for x86_64-linux-gnu, arm-linux-gnueabihf, and aarch64-linux-gnu, some discrepancies popped up relating to whether the TPACKET_V3 structures were defined. It looks like the headers shipped with the 13.08 arm-linux-gnueabihf toolchain do not define them, implying kernel headers older than October 2012. The aarch64-linux-gnu toolchain on the other hand does have them defined. If this analysis is correct, can I expect the kernel headers in the 32-bit toolchain to be updated in the near future or should I really be generating and referencing my own kernel headers? Thanks, Christopher -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation.

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[ACTIVITY] 9-13 Sept 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * Releases 4.7 and 4.8 2013.09 after finished a few backports * GCC trunk cross-validation: - improving reporting * First attempts at using cbuildv2 * Aarch64: Analyse code generation when frame grows downward. * LCU13: Booked plane and hotel. == Next == * Aarch64: continue 'frame grows downward' 'analysis * Disable-peeling: resume investigation

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[ACTIVITY] 9 - 13 September 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * GDB Record and Replay (TCWG-197) Debugged code for an exception coming up in gdb code after applying Thumb32 patch. * Travel to UK on Wednesday night stopped in UAE for Thursday and Friday. * Holiday on Thursday and Friday. == Plan == * Working from Linaro Cambridge from Monday till Friday * GDB Record and Replay (TCWG-197) Fix issues Submit patch upstream. * Meetings with team mates in Cambridge and visit to ARM.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 37

by Yvan Roux

== Progress == * 4.8 2013.09 backports: - Finished ongoing reviews. * LRA: - Fixed and refactored rtl analyser patch, waiting fro upstream green light - Reduced AArch64 testcase, and find the root cause of the issue: Only 64 bits of callee saved registered v8-v15 are preserved, larger values has to be handle by the caller, which not the case with LRA. Working on the issue with LRA maintainer. * LCU'13 - Hotel and flight booked == Next == * Continue on LRA

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[ACTIVITY] Week 37

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * Prepare Linaro toolchain binary 2013.09 release - Create linaro-prebuilt-sysroot-2013.09. - Update local patches and all Linaro samples to use eglibc-linaro-2.18-2013.09. * Update Conditional compare (CCMP) according to community comments. Current method is: - In fold-const, if HAVE_conditional_compare, set LOGICAL_OP_NON_SHORT_CIRCUIT to true. - Identify CCMP during expanding. A CCMP candidate is a BIT_AND_EXPR or BIT_IOR_EXPR, whose operators are compares. - Add a new op in optab to expand the CCMP to RTL, e.g. and_scc_scc/ior_scc_scc in ARM. - Testing is ongoing. == Plan == * Send out the updated conditional compare patches for review. == Panned leaves == * Sept. 19-21: Mid-Autumn Festival * Oct. 1-7: National Day of China holiday

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[Activity] Sept 9-15

by Rob Savoye

== Progress == * Set up a GCC git mirror on git.linaro.org. now at ssh://LOGIN@git.linaro.org/srv/git.linaro.org/git/toolchain/gcc.git. The two Linaro branches most people are interested in are now 'linaro-4.7-branch' (updated every 30 minutes from launchpad), and 'linaro-4.8-branch' updated every 10 minutes from subversion. * Tweaked Cbuildv2 & Jenkins to work with GIT repositories and branches as well as source tarballs. * Jenkins now "bootstraps" a cross compiler by building the native GCC, and then using that to compile the cross GCC. * Got aarch64-none-elf building with newlib via Cbuildv2. * Source and binary tarball release support in Cbuildv2 now works. I've had to change the naming convention to handle daily automated builds, and added the commit ID of HEAD for git based builds. * Almost got Canadian crosses building via Cbuildv2. * Continued work on Jenkins/Cbuildv2 integration. * Cbuildv2 now works on Fedora as well as Ubuntu. * Survived major 100+ year flood. Got to watch a dam overflow, kindof cool, all the roads in and out of this area have been closed for days, most of the bridges are gone. Been busy all weekend evacuating people, car accidents, normal disaster area stuff. I worked Katrina relief, never thought I'd see a flood in the mountains. == Plan == * Continuing with Jenkins/Cbuildv2/Git integration. * Get testing results from Jenkins builds imported via Junit conversion. * Compare automated tarballs with the current release tarballs. * Get Jenkins to upload binary & source tarballs to snapshots.linaro.org. * Add support for using specific commit IDs with Git and Cbuildv2. * Finish getting Canadian Cross builds working in Cbuildv2. * Odroids should arrive (when the roads open...) Monday, install Ubuntu and do some tests to see if it's a good platform. == Issues == * Flooding...

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[ACTIVITY] Week 37

by Kugan

== Progress == * Addressing patch review - Woking on vrp based zero/sign extension elimination based on feedback - Reworked the patch based and posted the first patch - Speck2k benchmarking in progress for second patch and will post once finished. * spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 - More benchmarks analysed. - Started with the report. Plan to send in next couple of days. - Created more reduced test cases. == Plan == * Continue with spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 * Start divmod work

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[ACTIVITY] Week 37

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Committed glibc realloc test * Committed glibc malloc integer overflow patches and requested CVE number * More work on glibc malloc benchmarking * Investigated AArch64 gdb issue and submitted a patch * Investigated gas NEON issue and submitted a patch == Issues == * None == Plan == * Visit Linaro in Cambridge from Tuesday to Thursday (see you there!) * Submit glibc malloc benchmark * Get benchmark numbers for tweaked memcpy * Start glibc pointer guard work -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ACTIVITY] Week 37

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * Patches - Committed lzma fix for cross-compilation - Split ARMv7 fixes in three patches, committed - Reviewed many ARM patches * ImageMagick benchmark - Using IM's convert to test compiler performance - LLVM seems pretty good on x86_64, par on A15 and behind on A9 when compared to gcc 4.7 - http://people.linaro.org/~rengolin/llvm/scripts/ * Profiling - Found a serious bug in LLVM when emitting profile information - mcount segfaults on prelude, luckily only on x86. :D * Phoronix - Found out that our problems with Phoronix were not unique - Might need a bit more of work to get the build scripts changed - And A bit more to get the data out of the reports == Plan == * Profile IM's convert on A9 (after finding out why it's not generating gmon.out) * Hoping to find low-hanging SLP-vectorizer fruits... fingers crossed! * Try something on Jenkins, hopefully it'll be easy to get Phoronix and ImageMagick running on it

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