== Progress ==
* Buildbots
- Prepared buildbot images, tested, setup is very quick and efficient
- Set up local buildmaster, two buildslaves doing self-hosting tests
- Each slave took 20 minutes setup time, including flashing SDCard
- Failures after a few hours running at 100% @ 1.2GHz @ < 26C
- Reducing to 920MHz does fix the problem, but this is not a solution
- Leaving the two pandas alive during Connect in hope they won't fail
* LNT Lencod
- Following up on Lencod stack corruption, we're closer to a solution
* Dibmod
- Didn't have much time to look at it properly, but my solution was over
simplified
- Will probably only look at it better after Connect
* Chromebook
- Had to re-install Ubuntu on it, using Raring (Saucy didn't work)
- Glad all my data is in the external hard-drive
* Others
- Added a doc about platform-specific tests that usually break the bots
http://llvm.org/docs/TestingGuide.html#platform-specific-tests
- LLVMLinux meeting, cross-compilation with Clang is almost impossible
- Haven't been able to review many patches, thanks to Tim, they kept going!
== Plan ==
* Connect whole next week
== After Connect ==
* Finish implementation AEABI divmod/udivmod calls
* Check why Phoronix result pages are not working
* Put self-hosting bots back on 920MHz mode in the Lab
Progress:
* misc:
** went through "aarch64 preparation" patchset (originally Alex's,
then modified by John), fixed a lot of issues/nits, and sent out
an updated version; this is now I think upstreamable-quality
except that it doesn't provide anything useful on its own.
** looked at the VirtualOpenSystems patchset for v8 KVM support in
QEMU; needs to be reconciled with John's work in the same area.
** Mans' LDA/STL patches now queued in target-arm.next to go upstream
** preparation for Connect
Plans:
* mach-virt
-- PMM
== Issues ==
* None
== Progress ==
* Investigate library dir issue in aarch64-linux-gnu release.
- Crosstool-ng should not link lib64 to lib.
- Eglibc used in Linaro release is too old. No configure to change
lib to lib64.
- Runtime tarball should not assume multiarch (aarch64 gcc does not
support it yet).
- When creating runtime tarball, use lib or lib64 bases on the TARGET.
* Fix misc issues in local conditional compare changes.
* Investigate how to optimize "c == '+' || c == '-'".
== Plan ==
* LCE13: July 8-12.
== Progress ==
* Short week (3 days off sick)
* Aarch64 frame growing downward: sent patch
* A few merges on Rob's behalf after approval by Yvan
* Prepared one more merge request
* Prepared for Connect
* Internal support
== Next ==
* Handle remaining backports for 4.8 release
* Disable peeling: resume work
== Issues ==
* None.
== Progress ==
* OE Launchpad bug #1192953 :
[g++ compilation terminated with error on Linaro-openembedded lamp image]
- Doko submitted a patch for that issue one year ago
- Mailing list pinged
* Launchpad bug #1186218 :
[kernel doesn't boot on Arndale/Nexus with Linaro GCC 4.8]
- Reproduced the build locally
- Need to have access to some hardware for further investigations
* LRA on ARM and AArch64:
- Fixed the issue, compiler now bootstrap
- Testing on-going before submission
* 2013-07 release:
- merge reviews
* LCE13:
- Connect registration done
- flight and hotel booked.
== Plan ==
* Merge review and release preparation
* LRA
== Progress ==
* Re-wrote gdb.dwarf2/dw2-error.exp and gdb.dwarf2/clztest.exp for arm.
* Investigated catch syscall patch in gdb patches to narrow down changes
required for arm.
* Continued with gathering documentation for future visas.
== Plan ==
* Test and fix failures due to optimization code in gdb.dwarf2/clztest.exp
for arm.
* Figure out a way to generate arm assembly for dwarf2/fission* gdb tests
using gcc.
* Further investigation arm requirements by going through catch syscall
patch for gdb on x86.
* Work with James to start UK and US visas for future visits.
Most of Last week spent on internal AMD work.
== Progress ==
* AArch64 LTO and PGO support.
LTO run for coremark and ran coremark on V8 model with and without the patch.
Ran perf on the model against the both the coremark binaries.
For non LTO, retired instructions seems to be less than the LTO one.
And PGO run for coremark did not emit any gcda file. Need to drill down further.
* AAarch64 testing
GCC runs still on going. Experimenting on spawning subtarget tests to
more than one V8 model.
== Plan ==
* Complete gcc testsuite with runs with trunk and trunk+gprof GCC patches.
* Continue LTO and PGO runs for AArch64
==issues==
* libssp support for AArch64
This work is currently in hold. Needed frame layout changes before
restarting.
== Progress ==
* spec2k comparison between ARM and x86
- Specfp on x86 has some failures in trunk
- Trying 4.8 now
- Analysed some of the benchmarks and documenting them
- continuing with the rest.
== Plan ==
* Continue with spec2k comparison between ARM and x86
== Issues ==
* None
== Progress ==
* Investigate big endian toolchain build in Linaro crosstool-ng.
- Fix an aarch64 triple name issue.
- Add Linaro armeb-linux-gnueabihf, aarch64_be-linux-gnu and
aarch64_be-none-elf configs for big endian builds.
- Please find the reference builds at:
http://cbuild.validation.linaro.org/build/crosstool-ng-linaro-1.13.1+bzr258…
* Design a test case for lp1189445 and revise the patch for review.
* Revise the shrink-wrap related fix for pr57637 and send out for review.
* Investigate lp:1194501 and lP:1194123
- lp:1194501 is confirmed a "tail call" issue, and also in trunk pr57731.
- lP:1194123 seams shrink-wrap related, since the case pass with
option -fno-shrink-wrap.
== Plan ==
* Continue on conditional compare.
Best Regards!
-Zhenqiang
== Progress ==
* Divmod patch
- Trying to regain knowledge about the SelectionDAG infrastructure
- Working with Tim and Joey, got a patch working, but seen some failures
in test-suite
- Will investigate and submit when all is clear
* Lencod in LNT
- Bug is a mix of ByVal with wrong spill offset, teams interacting
- Bug fixed by a side effect of another change, can't guarantee future
stability
* CBuild
- Patch merged, fired another LLVM benchmark, which failed the same way
- Not sure how to proceed here...
- Should I dig deep on the old CBuild?
- Or should I wait for CBuild2?
* Release Maintenance
- Talks about maintenance of old/current releases sparking on the list
- Bots, tests, benchmarks, release process will have to be followed for
those releases
- Binary & API compatibility kept, performance doesn't matter much, only
serious bugs fixed
- This will increase the cost of background duty on our team
* Other
- Reviewing some more patches
- Checking impact of a new alias analysis in the loop vectorizer, all good
- EuroLLVM 2014 meeting
- Long discussions about pre-UAL support in LLVM: Short answer: no.
- Someone else will look at PerfDB analysis, one less thing to do
- Got the Buildbot Pandas home, will look at them next week
== Issues ==
* After using all my RAM all the time, for a week, I found a fault on it
which prompted kernel panic and stopped my laptop from booting. Luckily, it
was just one of the two chips, and even better, it has a lifetime
guarantee! But I'll only get a new one after Connect... :(
== Plan ==
* Finish implementation AEABI divmod/udivmod calls
* Carefully analyse what's the best configuration for the pandas and
produce a pre-packed image
* NOT put them back before they're stable, snapshot a known good
configuration
* But put TWO pandas as self-hosting (and leave Galina's alone)
Time allowing...
* Check why Phoronix result pages are not working
* Write about target-specific tests on TestingGuide.rst
* Write a thing or two about the optimization levels in LLVM for the
official docs
== Progress ==
* Some further work on AArch64 ifunc failure, no progress.
* Add some extra features to cortex-strings plotting capability.
* More memcpy gerrit review.
* Basic framework for testing and benchmarking malloc.
* Extracted glibc malloc from glibc.
* Pushed memcpy performance tweak to cortex-strings and newlib for review.
== Issues ==
* None.
== Plan ==
* Prepare for Connect.
* Resubmit memcpy to gerrit as requested.
* Respin AArch64 ifunc patches against latest head.
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
Progress:
* VIRT-49 closed out (cp15 migration patches committed upstream)
* virtio:
** virtio-mmio patchset v1 now sent out to qemu-devel
* misc:
** fixed some instances of undefined behaviour (mostly shift related)
diagnosed by clang -fsanitize=undefined
** worked through upstream review backlog, sent target-arm and arm-devs
pullreqs
Plans:
* VirtualOpenSystems (sponsored by Huawei) have sent a patchset for
KVM support in QEMU for ARMv8; need to review this and reconcile it
with the Linaro work in progress in this area
* mach-virt
* preparation for Connect
-- PMM
== Issues ==
* None
== Progress ==
* Investigate conditional compare RTL representation.
- Fix new fails when expanding conditional compare to cmp_and/cmp_ior.
* Identify the root cause for pr57637.
== Plan ==
* Continue on conditional compare.
== Issues ==
* None.
== Progress ==
* OE Launchpad bug #1192953
- 4.8 g++ failed to find c++ included headers because of the
combined usage of --with-sysroot and --with-g++-include-dir
- Investigated the issue with Andrew McDermott
- found an existing OE workaround
* LRA on ARM and AArch64:
- Fixed AArch64 failure
- Moved to the new one
* Cbuild Babysitting
== Plan ==
* Merge review
* LRA
== Progress ==
* Started re-writing x86 assembly language gdb test cases for arm.
* Debugging watchpoints code to investigate issues on arm.
* Upgraded chromebook Ubuntu installation to a faster SD card.
* Tried to resolve various travel hurdles. Gathering different kind of
documents for future travel, submitted passport for extension etc.
== Plan ==
* Submit more gdb patches to mailing list.
* Wind up work on translation of gdb test cases in arm assembly.
* Further investigation about watchpoint issues on arm.
* Work on filing US and UK visit visas.
== Progress ==
* AArch64 LTO and PGO support.
Tweaked make file to run coremark on V8/openembedded model
Experimenting with PGO runs for coremark.
* AAarch64 testing
Set up Cross build and test in V8 model for GCC testsuites on one of
workstation in lab.
Completed g++ testsuite with V8 model for gcc trunk. Running gcc tests now.
* Installed Ubuntu 13.04 on Chrome book.
== Plan ==
* Complete gcc testsuite with runs with trunk and trunk+gprof GCC patches.
* Continue LTO and PGO runs for AArch64
* Linaro connect preparation, check VISA status.
==issues==
* libssp support for AArch64
This work is currently in hold. Needed frame layout changes before
restarting.
* Waiting for some inputs from Rob on Bootstrap issue with GCC on V8 model
== Progress ==
* Generate single call to divmod
- Addressed review comments
- Proposed a new patch for discussion
* spec2k comparison between ARM and x86
- Obtained Profile results for both architectures
- Analysing gzip and found some register allocation issues.
* VRP based zero/sign extension
- Still no review for rtl changes
- Pinged again
== Plan ==
* Continue with spec2k comparison between ARM and x86
== Progress ==
* Added support to cbuildv2 to handle merges from GCC trunk.
* Merged backports of 199694 199705 199733 199734 199739
199810 199814 199533 200019 200020 200061 200062 200096
200148 200152.
* Managed to survive making complex travel plans for the next few
weeks.
* Fixed eembc and denbench benchmarks so they work again.
== Plan ==
* Work on benchmarking & testing database, more graphs, write up
presentation.
* Fix running spec2000 benchmark, produce some results.
* Commit backports to svn as merges approved.
* Off on leave Wed till Connect. Will be 100% offline.
== Issues ==
* Backports of 199792, 199959 have major conflicts. Required patches
for these to be merged not in backports list.
* Turns out benchmarks have not worked for several months,
particularly spec2000 still doesn't want to run.
Still having the issue of FM/semi-hosting not catching seg-faults using
2013.06. With "aem-ve.specs", a fault seems to call main() repeatedly.
With "dimon.specs", FM hangs. Any ideas how to properly compile/deal with
faults in semi-hosting mode?
thanks,
Rory
=== hello.c ===
#include <stdio.h>
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("hello.\n");
* ((unsigned int *) 0) = 0; // cause seg-fault
return 0;
}
=== compile/run ===
.../gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.06_linux/bin/aarch64-none-elf-gcc -specs=aem-ve.specs -march=armv8-a -c hello.c
.../gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.06_linux/bin/aarch64-none-elf-gcc -o hello -specs=aem-ve.specs -march=armv8-a hello.o
.../Foundation_v8 --image hello --quiet --semihost-cmd=hello
hello.
hello.
hello.
hello.
hello.
...
== Progress ==
* Completed list of backports from trunk to linaro-4.8 for 2013.07
release and sent it to Rob.
* Merged backport of address sanitizer in linaro-4.8 branch
* Aarch64 frame growing downward: checking what really needs to be
changed in GCC. Documentation not very verbose :-)
* Various attemps to resurrect my old testsuite patch to be stricter
at excluding some unsupported configurations.
* Internal support
== Next ==
* Aarch64 frame growing downard.
* Disable peeling: make the vectorizer less aggressive
* Neon intrinsics/vuzip/veor: resume work
* Book hotel/flight for Connect.
== Progress ==
* Release 3.3
- Finally public
http://llvm.org/releases/download.html#3.3http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
* Pandaboard
- We lost two bots this week:
- linaro-panda-01: buildslave binary segfaults, needs fresh re-install?
- linaro-panda-02: GCC installation is broken, needs fresh install!!
- This means we need:
- At least two boards for each bot
- At least one extra board of each type, off-line to save power/space
- A standard Image on a gz file to flash & boot quickly, for each type
* Chromebook LNT
- Binary search on patch that broke the buildbot, found the culprit
- Reduced the problem, bug posted, discussing
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16393
* CBuild
- Built Clang+LLVM in CBuild, need benchmarks, sent a patch, waiting for
merge
* Phoronix results
- Adding them to internal (pw protected) website to avoid public confusion
- The numbers are meaningless for now and we don't want panic within the
general public:
http://people.linaro.org/toolchain-benchmarks/llvm/
- Visualization still broken. Works well only locally on Firefox. Why not
HTML? Why not PNG? Sigh...
* Administrativia / Others
- Lots of patches to review
- Auto-vectorizer now turned on by default on -O2 and -Os!
- Meeting with LLVMLinux folks, good progress, good plans, trying to get
more traction in that direction on Connect
- Trial of "ARM maintenance" backlog item:
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16387
== Plan ==
* Fix LNT bug
* Implement AEABI divmod/udivmod calls
* Try CBuild benchmark again (when patch merged)
* Carefully analyse what's the best configuration for the pandas and
produce a pre-packed image
* NOT put them back before they're stable
* But put TWO pandas as self-hosting (and leave Galina's alone)
* Check why Phoronix result pages are not working
Time allowing...
* Have a look at PerfDB
* Write a thing or two about the optimization levels in LLVM for the
official docs
== Progress ==
* Reverted AArch64 ifunc change while investiigation continues.
* Created TCWG-177 for gdb.thread testsuite failures.
* Merged new strlen code into cortex-strings and newlib.
* Applied a few more gdb patches upstream.
* Fixed a few bugs and added a few features to cortex-strings benchmarks.
* gerrit review of memcpy change ongoing.
== Issues ==
* None.
== Plan ==
* Reproduce AArch64 ifunc issue.
* Resolve gerrit memcpy review if possible.
* Start work on malloc test and benchmark framework.
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
Progress:
* virtio:
** have some patches that work (including modifying the device tree
to tell the kernel where the virtio transports are)
** more cleanup still required; in particular need to figure out
nice way of having the board model tell boot.c where the transports
are and what the interrupt routing info should look like
** virtio spec needs clarification about what a virtio-mmio transport
with no backend is supposed to look like
* misc:
** fixed linux-user utimensat breakage caused by a patch of mine
from last week
** helped Grant Likely with debugging problems running UEFI on QEMU
(and caught a QEMU bug in the process)
** reviewed another round of LDA/STL patches and a VSEL patch
Plans:
* continue mach-virt/virtio work
-- PMM
The Linaro Toolchain and Platform Working Groups are pleased to announce
the 2013.06 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.
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 2013.06
* Linaro Newlib 2.0 2013.06
* Linaro Binutils 2.23 2013.06
* Linaro Eglibc 2.17-2013.06 (Aarch64 only)
* 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:
* Linaro versions of Binutils, Newlib and Eglibc are included
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:
https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries/trunk/2013.05
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.
Note: This will likely be the last release built with support for (e)glibc
2.15 on armv7. With future releases, you will have to either use a newer
(e)glibc on the target system, or link statically.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni(a)free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm facing a bizarre problem with an armeb toolchain built by
> Buildroot. I'm also posting this to the crossgcc@ list since there are
> some gcc/binutils experts out there.
>
> First, a little bit of background. ARM Big Endian comes into two
> variants:
>
> * BE32, which was used up to ARMv5, where both the instructions and
> the data are Big Endian.
>
> * BE8, which is used since ARMv6, where the instructions remain
> little-endian and only the data are big-endian.
>
> See
> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0338g/ch06s0…
> for some details about this.
>
> So, I've built an ARMv7 Cortex-A8 toolchain, with the armeb
> architecture selected. The CROSS-gcc -v shows that it was configured as
> follows:
>
> --target=armeb-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabi
> --with-abi=aapcs-linux
> --with-arch=armv7-a
> --with-tune=cortex-a8
>
> Then, I wrote a simple program that contains some data and
> instructions, built it under several conditions, and observed with
> hexdump whether the data and code was little-endian or big-endian.
>
> And the results are somewhat surprising: when I explicitly pass
> -mbig-endian, I get the proper behavior (BE8 code with code in little
> endian and data in big endian), but when I don't pass any flags to the
> compiler, I get an incorrect behavior: both the code and data are big
> endian, as if the BE8 wasn't used (and readelf confirms that it wasn't
> used). See below the detailed results.
>
> Note that the compiler is supposed to automatically use BE8 on
> ARMv6/ARMv7 and BE32 on ARMv5 and earlier cores.
>
> The data is DEADBEEF, and the instruction is E52DB004.
>
> Flags used Observed data Observed code Comment
> ======================= =============== =============== =========================================
>
> -mlittle-endian EFBEADDE 04B02DE5 Code and data in LE -> OK
> -mbig-endian DEADBEEF 04B02DE5 Code LE, data BE, binary marked BE8 -> OK
> no flags DEADBEEF E52DB004 Data BE (ok!), code BE (*NOT* ok) -> NOK
> -march=armv5t -mbig-endian DEADBEEF E52DB004 Code and data in BE, on ARMv5 -> OK
> -march=armv5t DEADBEEF E52DB004 Code and data in BE, on ARMv5 -> OK
>
> As can be seen in this table:
>
> (*) On ARMv5, regardless of whether -mbig-endian is passed or not, the
> code produced is correct (both code and data are big endian, which is
> correct for ARMv5 where the big endian mode is BE32)
>
> (*) On ARMv7 however, the code is different whether -mbig-endian is
> passed or not, even though an "armeb-linux" compiler is supposed to
> generate big endian code by default. When no flags is passed, both the
> data *and* code are big-endian (so it's BE32 like on ARMv5), but
> passing -mbig-endian makes the thing behave properly (code is
> little-endian, data is big-endian).
>
> I'm using binutils 2.23.2 and gcc 4.7.3.
>
> Any ideas?
Hi Thomas,
I added linaro-toolchain to CC as there may be someone there who knows
the answer.
I got an app to compile fine for v8 FM with gcc, but I notice that
seg-faults hang the simulator. Using raise() properly exits FM,
but I can't seem to trap the seg-fault with signal() or do anything
intelligent to know about the seg-fault. Normal execution works well.
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
* (unsigned int *) (0) = 0; // seg-fault hangs FM
return(0);
}
thanks,
Rory
-----Original Message-----
From: linaro-toolchain-boun...(a)lists.linaro.org
[mailto:linaro-toolchain-boun...@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of Matthew
Gretton-Dann
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 2:47 PM
To: Padgett Don-B43265
Cc: linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: Semi-hosting on v8 Foundation Model using gnu tools
Don,
On 17/05/13 20:57, Padgett Don-B43265 wrote:
> The v8 Foundation Model User Guide has a bare metal hello world example
> that uses semi-hosting. The Makefile uses ARM tools, however. Is there
> equivalent support for this example using a bare metal version of the
> gnu tools, such as
> gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.04-20130422_linux.tar.xz? I took
> a look, but didn't see a way to do this.
It is possible but not necessarily easy.
Using the binary tools you've downloaded you will want to do something like the
following:
aarch64-none-elf-gcc -specs=elf-aem-ve.specs ...
The -specs option has to be on all your invocations of GCC and G++. You should
also invoke the linker through GCC with this option.
Then you need to invoke the model, given an image called foo.axf:
Foundation_v8 --image foo.axf --semi-host="foo.axf OPT1 OPT2" --quiet
Note that the first option to --semi-host is the name of the image again.
Thanks,
Matt
You'll have better luck sending bug reports to the linaro-toolchain
mailing list.
On 18 June 2013 11:50, Bernhard Rosenkränzer
<bernhard.rosenkranzer(a)linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> the 4.8-2013.06 tarball built without version overrides reports itself as:
> 4.8-2013.06-0~dev
> Looks like the release flag isn't set in the tarball.
>
> ttyl
> bero
--
Mans Rullgard / mru
== Progress ==
* Merges for linaro-4.8-2013.06:
- investigated why the cross-validation lack libpthread and libdl.
- fixed cbuild to make these libs available in the same dir as ld-linux.so
- not sure why it wasn't necessary several weeks ago when I first
spawn libsanitizer tests: we changed the prebuilt tarball since then,
but the libs are still at the same place; the binutils version changed
though.
* Re-spawned a merge request for libsanitizer, using the updated
cbuild (libpthread/libdl support, qemu flags updated) and the updated
gcc-4.8 (with my patch to cope with qemu's output of /proc/self/maps)
* Merges for linaro-4.8-2013.07: updated list
* Aarch64 frame growing downward: started.
* Disable-peeling: restarting looking at vectorizer.
== Next ==
* Merges for linaro-4.[78]-2013.07: update list
* disable peeling: see how to make the vectorizer less aggressive
* Aarch64 frame growing downward.
* Neon intrinsics/vuzip/veor: resume work
* Book hotel/flight for Connect
== Issues ==
* None.
== Progress ==
* Releases merge reviews:
- Finished reviews for releases.
* Launchpad bug #1187247:
- Closed as invalid since the issue was on an
attempt to access at an invalid address.
* Cbuild Babysitting:
- Fixed 4.8 repository update on toolchain64.
- Recreate ancestors tarballs and re-spawned jobs
- Re-started Calxedas...
* LRA on ARM and AArch64:
- Resumed the task.
- Investigation of AArch64 failure on-going.
== Plan ==
* Mainly LRA
== Progress ==
* libssp support for AArch64
Libssp support needed AArch64 frame to grow downward. But it is
currently defined as growing upward.
This work is currently in hold. Needed frame layout changes before
restarting. Waiting for feedback from Matt.
* AAarch64 testing
Drilling down Boot strap failure with GCC 4.9 trunk on open embedded
image with V8 model. Fails at time xg++ is linking. Not much progress.
Set up Cross build and test in V8 model for GCC testsuites.
Also looking at increasing timeout for individual tests.
* AArch64 LTO and PGO support.
Started on understanding PGO and LTO runs with AArch64.
== Plan ==
* Continue bootstrap testing and push patches to GCC
* Continue LTO and PGO runs for AArch64
== Progress ==
* Investigated gdb.dwarf2 unsupported issues wrote two new patches for
gdb.dwarf2 testsuite.
* Read some background on dwarf2 to translate test written in x86
assembly into arm assembly.
* Got refusal of visa from Irish embassy. Ran after visa consultants
for issues related to visa application.
* Calls with Irish consulate officers for appeal process and causes of refusal.
== Plan ==
* Submit ready patches for dwarf2 untested/unsupported problems.
* Translate dwarf2 tests written in x86 to arm asm.
* Chromebook os update on a faster sd card. (Still pending)
* Add JIRA cards for gdb features missing on arm. (Still pending)
* Prepare documentation for future visa applications.
== Issues ==
* None
== Progress ==
* Investigate conditional compare RTL representation.
- Expand conditional compare to cmp_and/cmp_ior.
- Test is ongoing
* Investigate lp: 1189445. Patch is in testing.
* Identify the root cause for lp: 1189448. FSF4.8 does not have the
buggy code. Linaro 2013.06 and trunk have fixed it.
== Plan ==
* Continue on conditional compare.
== Public Holiday ==
* Monday, 10 June (4 day week)
== Progress ==
* VRP based zero/sign extension
- Pinged the patch.
* Generate a single call to divmod
- Builtin based implementation bootstrapped and passes regression.
- posted patch and initiated discussion
(http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-06/msg00100.html)
- long long is not handled now
* Better end of loop counter optimisation
- Dropped md patch
- Verified that Bin Cheng's RTL change noop_move_p fixes this.
== Plan ==
* Respond to patch review
* Set-up X86 benchmarking locally for Spec2k
== Progress ==
* Did QEMU testing for the release by running several images on a
few platforms.
* Did the GCC 4.7-2013.06 release.
* Did the GCC 4.8-2013.06 release.
* Did a spin of the GCC 4.7-2013.06 release.
* Updated benchmark parsing scripts, downloaded historical
benchmark data and data from the release testing.
* Updated SQL query and gnuplot scripts to work with new data.
* Produced some benchmark graphs.
* Finally figured out how to spawn remote Cbuildv1 tests and
benchmarks.
== Plan ==
* Focus on performance and regression test graphs.
* Do builds of FSF GCC branches to compare with Linaro branches.
* Continue improving Cbuildv2 as use it to do all these builds and
testing.
- rob -
== Progress ==
* Branched and released binutils, newlib and eglibc.
* Wrote up some release process docs on the wiki.
* Fixes and further investigation of AArch64 ifunc issue.
* Submitted memcpy to upstream gerrit and ran more benchmarks.
* Submitted new fix for gdb frexpl issue.
== Issues ==
* None.
== Plan ==
* Fix AArch64 ifunc issue.
* Fix gdb.thread issue.
* strlen
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
[very short week; two days]
Progress:
* misc
** made qemu-linaro 2013.06 release
** remaining VIRT-4 work handed over to other people for now
** Huawei's AArch64 TCG patches now committed upstream
** working through mach-virt and virtio patches to see what
still needs to be done here and in what order
Plans:
* continue mach-virt/virtio work
* set up a new qemu-linaro tree/branch as our CI/LAVA input [to keep it
separate from our "we release this" tree]
* restart work on upstreaming omap3 patches as part of my generic qemu
maintenance work (will reduce our maintenance burden in the long term)
-- PMM
== Progress ==
* Pandaboard
- Using GNU ld didn't help the problem, and made compilation time double
to 5hs!
- Reverting to Gold and will keep an eye on it
* Release 3.3 finished
- Tested and released, just waiting the final email
* Linaro+ARM sync meeting
- Setting priorities, requesting approval for some work items
* Phoronix
- Script to run batch mode ready at:
http://people.linaro.org/~rengolin/llvm/scripts/
- Got some results, generally on par, some big differences could be due to
compilation options
- Some tests still run GCC, even with CC being Clang, Clang-only options
(slp vect) cannot be tested
- No way yet to share this data internally, working with IT to find a
solution
* CBuild
- Merged Clang changes, running job again
- Autodetecting ARMv7
* LLVM administrativia
- many patches to review this week
- vectorizer also being enabled by default on -O2 and -Os
- testing vectorizer with -Os on chromebook, found no big differences
== Issues ==
None
== Plan ==
* Phoronix
- Store the base runs somewhere (people.linaro?) and have the script
install them to compare with any run on the board.
- Think of a way to put bootstrap & phoronix in LAVA/CBuild (whatever is
easier), so I can use the calxeda nodes without worry if they'll be up or
down
* Pandaboard
- Use GCC 4.8 on linaro-panda-02 and hope to solve the problem
* CBuild
- Finish LLVM+Clang change (merge pending) and try to run some benchmarks
with it
* PerfDB
- Install website locally, try to cook some analysis
### About Linaro binutils
Linaro binutils is a release of the GNU binutils with bug fixes and
enhancements for ARM platforms. GNU binutils is a collection of tools
including the `ld` linker and `as` assembler.
### Linaro binutils 2.23.2 2013.06
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2013.06
release of Linaro binutils 2.23.2, the first release in the 2.23 series.
This release is based on the latest GNU binutils 2.23 stable branch, but
with additional features and bug fixes.
#### Additional Features
* None
#### Bug Fixes
* Bug fix for ARM support of GNU indirect functions
### Source
#### Release Tarball
* https://releases.linaro.org/13.06/components/toolchain/binutils-linaro
#### Development Tree
* git://git.linaro.org/toolchain/binutils.git
This release was built from the `linaro_binutils-2_23_2-2013_06_release` tag.
### Feedback and Support
Subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC channels to
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* Linaro Toolchain Development [mailing
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* 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)
--
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Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
### About Linaro newlib
Linaro newlib is a release of the newlib C library with bug fixes and
enhancements for ARM platforms. newlib is a small footprint C library
designed for embedded systems.
### Linaro newlib 2.0.0 2013.06
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2013.06
release of Linaro newlib 2.0.0, the first release in the 2.0.0 series.
This release is based on the latest upstream newlib trunk, but with
additional features and bug fixes.
#### Additional Features
* Faster memcpy implementation for hardware with NEON or VFP support.
#### Bug Fixes
* None
### Source
#### Release Tarball
* https://releases.linaro.org/13.06/components/toolchain/newlib-linaro
#### Development Tree
* git://git.linaro.org/toolchain/newlib.git
This release was built from the `linaro_newlib-2_0_0-2013_06_release` tag.
### Feedback and Support
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* Linaro Toolchain Development [mailing
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* 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
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--
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Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
### About Linaro eglibc
Linaro eglibc is a release of the eglibc C library with bug fixes and
enhancements for ARM platforms. eglibc is a variant of the GNU libc
designed to work well on embedded systems.
### Linaro eglibc 2.17 2013.06
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2013.06
release of Linaro eglibc 2.17, the first release in the 2.17 series.
This release is based on the latest upstream eglibc 2.17 stable branch,
but with additional features and bug fixes.
#### Additional Features
* Faster memcpy implementation for hardware with NEON or VFP support.
#### Bug Fixes
* None
### Source
#### Release Tarball
* https://releases.linaro.org/13.06/components/toolchain/eglibc-linaro
#### Development Tree
* git://git.linaro.org/toolchain/eglibc.git
This release was built from the `linaro_eglibc-2_17-2013_06_release` tag.
### Feedback and Support
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* Linaro Toolchain Development [mailing
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* 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
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--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of
Linaro QEMU 2013.06.
Linaro QEMU 2013.06 is the latest release of qemu-linaro. Based off
upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes
and enhancements.
This release has been updated to be based on upstream's recent 1.5.0
release. Interesting ARM related upstream changes include fixes to
the VersatilePB and Realview model PCI controller, improved performance
of emulation of ARM targets, and working VM save/load for vexpress-a15
and vexpress-a9 board models.
The source tarball is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2013.06
More information on Linaro QEMU is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro
-- PMM
== Progress ==
* Merges for linaro-4.8-2013.06 and linaro-4.7-2013.06
- Spent most of my time on this activity, with Yvan
- A few cbuild issues, local disk full, and other local disk crash
- Investigating why the cross-validations lack libpthread and libdl
(required since libsanitizer backport). The libs are present, but not
found by the compiler.
* Registered for Connect/Dublin
== Next ==
* Complete merges quickly, to enable release this week.
* Disable-peeling: resume work
* Better end of loop counter optim: discuss with Kugan
* libsanitizer/aarch64: resume work
* Neon intrinsics/vzup/veor: resume work
* Book hotel/flight for Connect/Dublin
== Issues ==
* None.
== Progress ==
* Releases merge reviews:
- Most of the week spent on this activity
- Lot of reviews and cbuild issues
- some reviews still on-going
* Jira cards:
- Closed card #108 on Tiny memory model support.
- Created Card #167 for TLS support in the Tiny memory model.
* LRA on ARM and AArch64:
- Raise the issue to LRA maintainer (Vladimir Makarov)
- will iterate with him in the coming weeks.
* Launchpad bug #1187247
- started to look at it.
== Plan ==
* Finishing reviews
* Bug #1187247
* LRA
== Progress ==
* AARCH64 testing
Drilling down Boot strap failure with GCC 4.9 trunk on open embedded
image with V8 model
Sent the steps to reproduce boot strap failure in the model to team.
Renoto suggestion to add libgcc_eh.a explicilty is not working well at
all places.
Trying few other options (LDFLAGS, --with-stage1-libs ) to pass
libgcc_eh.a to the xg++ build.
* libssp support for Aarch64
Wrote down the steps needed to implement the support in Aarch64. Sent
mail to Matt for a review.
Working on machine descriptions for stack_protect_set and stack_protect_test.
* Filled online VISA Application form. Collected Relevent documents needed.
Hotel rooms are not available via online booking. Sent follow up mail
to the hotel and informed James and Arwen.
== Plan ==
* Continue bootstrap testing and push patches to GCC
* Implement Libssp GCC back end hooks.
* Linaro connect travel prep, book tickets hotel and apply visa.
== Progress ==
* Did builds of GCC 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9-svn on x86_64, i686, arm7l to
load more recent data into testing database plus test source builds
for the release at the same time.
* Did builds of GDB 7.6 & 7.5 on x86_64, i686, arm7.
* Added wiki page on how to run DejaGnu in a chroot.
* Cbuildv2 work continuing, works well enough to do the above
builds plus bootstrapping infrastructure.
* Change how the index for the testing database gets calculated,
so it's now possible to delete bogus records without screwing
up existing data when importing.
== Plan ==
* Produce some new graphs with the data from the above builds and
test runs.
* Make GCC & GDB release tarballs.
* Update wiki pages on Cbuildv2, release process.
== Issues ==
* Figure out why make check for GDB fails for everything on
chromebook running 13.04.
- rob -
== Progress ==
* Investigated gdb.threads and gdb.multi failures and submitted patch
to enable tests requiring multiple hardware breakpoints on arm
targets.
* Investigate gdb.base failures and submitted patch to enable
disp-step-syscall.exp for arm targets.
* Investigate gdb.mi and gdb.trace failures, some of problems are
feature requests on arm.
* Investigate gdb.base failures and submitted patch to enable
disp-step-syscall.exp for arm targets.
* Submitted gdb.dwarf2 pending patch.
== Plan ==
* Try to fix remaining gdb failures.
* Generate a fresh copy of gdb test suite results on arm and x86
* Chromebook os update on a faster sd card.
* Add JIRA cards for gdb features missing on arm.
* Follow up on Ireland visa application.
== Progress ==
* Better end of loop counter optimisation
- Experimented with fixing the extra instruction.
- Found a possible way to fix it. Discussing it with Christophe.
* Generate a single call to divmod
- Looked at the code including how sin()/cos() -> sincos() handling
in gcc.
- Implemented a prototype and experimented.
== Plan ==
* VRP based zero/sign extension
- Ping the patch.
* Generate a single call to divmod.
- Finish the prototype implementation and get the regression working
- Discuss in gcc mailing list for a good way to implement and get
consensus with the results from prototype.
== Issues ==
* None
== Progress ==
* Test and send out shrink wrapping improvement patch for review (TCWG-133).
* Update aarch64-none-elf TARGET_CFLAGS to " -g -O2 ".
* Enable aarch64 gdb build for Windows (lp:1187862).
* Investigate conditional compare RTL representation.
- Trying to expand it to cmp_and/cmp_ior like instruction.
== Plan ==
* Continue on conditional compare.
== Planed leaves ==
* June 10-12: Dragon Boat Festival.
== Progress ==
* Fixed gdb.cp testsuite failures and committed upstream.
* Worked with ITS to get git mirrors for libraries & tools.
* Started documenting branch and merge policy on the wiki.
* Respin AArch64 binutils ifunc patch and commit.
* Looked into AArch64 assembler issue.
* Assorted other gdb testsuite fixes.
* Some research into malloc.
== Issues ==
* None.
== Plan ==
* Create release branches for libraries & tools and improve docs.
* More gdb fixes.
* More malloc reading.
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro