== This Week ===
* Joined Linaro, had welcome meeting with Matt
* Set up my office at home
* Laptop purchased and had it ready for development
* Exchanged emails with various people for getting started and read a lot
of administrative material on the wiki pages.
* Registered for the connect, figured out visa process and sent request to
Arwen for required documents.
* Attended Weekly toolchain call, stand-up call and 1:1 with Matt.
* Started work on GDB Testing in various configurations for analysis of
current GDB status on ARM.
* Build GDB on x86_64 machine and had test suite run in local and remote
configuration.
* Suffered from a bad run of cough n fever.
== Next week ==
* Continue with Analysis of GDB status on ARM, hopefully get to access a
pandaboard remotely and setup QEMU as well.
* Apply for Hong Kong Visa for the connect.
* Visit local market to resolve pending office setup and hardware
requirements.
* More Wiki reading and getting to know different processes at Linaro.
* 5th February public holiday in Pakistan.
Summary:
* Linaro toolchain binary 2013.01 release
* Move to using EGLIBC 2.17 in aarch64 build
Details:
1. Linaro toolchain binary.
* Document on how to do release test.
* Help Bero on 2013.01 release.
* Investigate lp:1107659. Crosstool-ng upstream has a workaround fix.
2. Move to using EGLIBC 2.17 in aarch64 build.
* Update Linux version to 3.7.0 since eglibc 2.17 configure
"checking for kernel header at least 3.7.0".
* Migrate local patches for eglibc 2.16 to 2.17 and update the config to 2.17
* Package build is OK. Test on simulation is ongoing.
3. Collect SPEC performance for different branch costs.
* The total results wave less than 0.5%.
* Three cases have 1-2% regression for smaller branch cost. Will
analyze the detail impact for the three cases.
Plan:
* Investigate coremark performance impact for different branch costs.
* Commit EGLIBC 2.17 changes
Planed leaves:
* Feb. 9 - 15: Chinese Spring Festival.
Best Regards!
-Zhenqiang
== Progress ==
* Backport
Tested and backported patch written to CSE optmize compares.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-02/msg00015.html
Ran GCC regression suite with ARMV8 foundation model for aarch64-none-elf
* Implementing GC sections support in bintuils
Had a quick look at changes need to be added.
Reading about relocations that needed to considered for
elf_backend_gc_sweep_hook
* Tried using Cbuild for buildign and testing gcc4.7 aarch64 branch.
ssh keys are not in sync. I am getting permission denied.
Cheking with David and Andy in valdation team.
Misc
* Attend tool chain weekly meet, and stand up call
* Attend usual AMD meetings
* Performed one x86_64 AMD task
* Booked tickets, hotel and got invite letter for Linaro connect.
== Next week ==
* Complete Cbuild experiments to test gcc svn aarch64 4.7 branch.
* Continue gc section support. Implement elf_backend_gc_sweep_hook
== Progress ==
* 64-bits ops in Neon: No news from upstream.
* vectorizer cost model: added possibility to tune the problem by
processor type.
* smin-umin: regression actually caused by a previous patch brought
when merging bswap16 support. Investigation on-going.
* managed to run spec2k on local board. Need to upload tools compiled
for hf platform.
* tcpanda heat problems: GCC testsuite passed.
* hot-cold partitioning: posted a follow-up to google patches on gcc-patches.
* looked at some codecs needing improvements (Neon intrinsics usage)
* feedback on lava/cbuild integration
* hotel/plane booked for Connect.
== Next ==
* handle 64-bits bitops in Neon feedback from upstream if any
* smin-umin: check bench results with probable culprit patch reverted.
Will need investigation on trunk too.
* vectorizer cost model: check bench results
* get more codecs sample codes.
Activity:
* calls and meetings
* last bits and pieces of ARM QEMU patches sent prior to upstream
1.4 hardfreeze
* continuing fixes for running a 3.8-rc4 vexpress kernel on QEMU:
* refactored the way we handle SYS_CFG vexpress registers so it's
possible to reasonably add support for more of them
* put together a basic implementation of the various regs
we're missing (oscillator, voltage, and some misc)
* ideally this would be done via variable-length qdev array
properties; started looking at how hard those would be to implement
* investigated linux-user bug where an edge case in use of
get_user_u32() had accidentally been broken; sent patch
* all travel/hotels now booked for Connect
-- PMM
== Progress ==
* Welcomed Omair to the team working on GDB
* Starting investigating cortex-a9 bootstrap failure
* Blueprints updating
* Preparing for two new starters next week
== Next week ==
* Welcome two new members to the team.
* Finish cortex-a9 bootstrapping investigations
== Future ==
* Run HOT/COLD partitioning benchmarks
* Analyse ARM results
* On x86_64 to see what the actual benefit we could get
* fix-gcc-multiarch-testing
* Come up with strawman proposal for updating testsuite to handle
testing with varying command-line options.
--
Matthew Gretton-Dann
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Progress ==
* Maintenance
- Fixing ARM buildbots, poking people to fix bugs, keeping them green
- http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=173510
* Cost Model
- Fixing some bugs on the generic code
- http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=173691
- Adding some simple free cast (plus some infrastructure)
- http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=173849
* LLVM
- Investigating APFloat issue on Chromebook (bad libraries?)
- Clang miscompiles and show same synthoms, will play with options next
week
- AArch64 back-end in, to be built by default
* LAVA
- Got three last errors due to include path ('bits/predefs.h' file not
found)
- libc6-dev + libstdc++-dev have no effect, problem doesn't show on
buildbots
- Testing heating problem with multiple images (only 12.02 is good)
- Testing other boards, other images (with Dave)
* Friday Holiday
== Plan ==
* Try a bit more on the APFloat issue in Chromebook, but I think that's
just bad distro (ChrUbuntu), since no one else has this problem. Has anyone
put any Linaro image on a Chromebook?
* Continue working on getting faster builds on LAVA (quad-core origen,
Arndale, etc) with Dave Pigot.
* Continue micro-benchmarking the vectorization and updating the
cost-model. Start discussing the side-effects that are not modelled at all.
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group and Platform Team are pleased to
announce the 2013.01
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 4.7 2013.01
* Linaro GDB 7.5 2012.12
* 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.
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/2013.01
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.
Hi,
I have a few armv7 assembly tests. I'm trying to compile these using the linaro aarch64 toolchain and I'm getting errors.
Is there any specific flag that I have to pass to enable backward compatibility to allow v7 assembly to be compiled for a v8 model?
reset.s: Assembler messages:
reset.s:32: Error: operand 1 should be an integer register -- `mov r0,#0'
reset.s:33: Error: unknown mnemonic `mcr' -- `mcr p15,0,R0,C13,c0,1'
reset.s:36: Error: unknown mnemonic `mrc' -- `mrc p15,0,r0,c1,c0,0'
reset.s:40: Error: operand 1 should be a SIMD vector register -- `orr r0,r0,#0x00001000'
....
Relevant assembly code:
....
_reset:
// init Context ID Register
MOV r0, #0
MCR p15, 0, R0, C13, c0, 1
// Enable Instruction cache
mrc p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0
/* set bits:
12 = I i-cache
*/
orr r0, r0, #0x00001000
mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0
.....
This is my assembler command: aarch64-linux-gnu-as -march=armv8-a+fp --keep-locals -o "reset.o" "reset.s"
Thanks,
Kalai
== Progress ==
* 64-bits ops in Neon: waiting for upstream.
* vectorizer cost model: initial activation with unaligned load/store
cost equal to aligned ones; benchmarking shows no significant
difference.
* smin-umin: a few benchmarks show a few unexpected regressions (10-15%).
* setting up spec2k on local board
* tcpanda heat problems: GCC built OK. Don't know how hot it became.
== Next ==
* handle 64-bits bitops in Neon feedback from upstream if any.
* analyze regressions in smin-umin
* check if more tuning of the vectorizer cost model is desirable.
* finish local board setup
* tcpanda: run gcc testsuite to check heat
== Progress ==
* Boehm GC AArch64 support:
- Tested on Foundation model
- Patches sent to mailing list
- Boehm GC has been accepted and merged into mainline
- Libatomic_ops under review, some improvements are needed.
== Next ==
* Boehm GC AArch64 support:
- Fix libatomic_ops for mainline merge
* Start gc sections support for AArch64 binutils
* Review roster
Summary:
* Investigate Automotive benchmark performance on different branch cost.
Details:
1. Automotive benchmark performance analysis for different branch cost
on Pardaboard ES.
* Design small test cases to simulate bitmnp01 to compare the
performance between ITTT and conditional branch. Test results show
- If branch prediction does not work (put the codes in a
function), ITTT is always better than conditional branch.
- If branch prediction works (inline the codes t in the loop
body), for most cases, conditional branch is better than ITTT.
* Code alignment has big impact for tblook01. By default IT block
has better performance. When adding __attribute__((aligned (16))) for
function t_run_test, performance of conditional branch is better than
IT block.
2. Prepare Linaro toolchain binary release.
* Update Linaro crosstool-ng local patches due to the fix of
lp:1067766 in source package.
* Spawn all builds and smoke tests.
Plan:
* Investigate SPEC2k performance for different branch costs.
* Work with Bero for 2013.01 toolchain binary release .
Planed leaves:
* Feb. 9 - 15: Chinese Spring Festival.
Best Regards!
-Zhenqiang
== Progress ==
* Buildbot
- Taking buildbot to Linaro
- Had wireless/GPU overheating, disabled kernel modules
- Running smooth again (most of the time)
- Debugging errors that only appear on ARM.
* Building and Testing LLVM
- Compiling on Intel with only the ARM backend helps a lot
- Sent a call for Action to people clean up cross-compilation failures
* LAVA
- Progress on LAVA LLVM job
- Got it checking out, configuring and building
- Got PASS/FAIL/SKIP patterns working
- https://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/46027
- Need to get a patch from a specific place to apply
* Cost Model
- Re-wrote table lookup patch a few times, finally in for good
- http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=173382&view=rev
- Studying costs of instructions, all seem good enough
- Better approach now is to change the target description (less code, more
gain)
* EuroLLVM
- 136 people so far
== Plan ==
* Test distcc (or similar) on Pandas
* Get a buildbot running with cross-compilation
* Internal git repository for LAVA LLVM job
* Confirm Linaro's sponsorship for EuroLLVM
* Continue cost model changes in between
== Background ==
* Monitor list for ARM changes
* Monitor buildbot for failures
Activity:
* calls and meetings (about 20% of my working week this week ;-))
* finished rebasing and testing the KVM QEMU patches (thanks
to Pawel for getting me an updated RTSM device tree), sent
out updated version to go with -v17 kernel
* minor qemu maintenance patches (including a minor cfi01
flash model bugfix)
* trying to track down issues running a 3.8-rc4 vexpress
kernel on QEMU. Among other things:
* looks like we need to emulate some more of the oscillator
and voltage config registers now (if only to make the
kernel a bit quieter)
* the kernel doesn't like the way qemu's boot loader puts
the DTB blob after the initrd but beginning in the same
page as the initrd ends [free_initrd_mem will trash memory
outside the initrd proper but inside that last page]
* a15 reports the wrong board model number
-- PMM
Dear All,
Is it possible to compile ARCH "AArch64 " for 32 mode, like if I have
x86 64 bit machine and I install 32 bit OS on it, and machine is
compatible with 32 bit binary.
So is it possible to use AARCH64 (Cortex-V8) with installation of
kernel 32 bit and use 32 bit tool chain.
If answer is yes, can I build tool chain or is there option available
in linaro cross-compile available from
https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries/+milestone/2012.12
Thanks
Activity:
* usual set of calls and meetings (and there is another
KVM related weekly meeting in the pipeline...)
* reviewed virtio patches
* rebased qemu-linaro on upstream
* rebased KVM patches; couldn't get updated kernel to run
on RTSM (probably a device tree or config issue; need to
attack problem again this week)
NB: I'm currently working a reduced set of hours due to RSI,
though I am trying to remain responsive to email etc.
-- PMM
== Progress ==
* Prepared Venkat on-boarding.
* Aarch64 porting meeting:
- libunwind is in the pipe
* Boehm GC AArch64 support:
- basic port done, test on-going
== Next ==
* Boehm GC AArch64 support:
- test and ask for up stream review.
Summary:
* Investigate automotive benchmark.
* Linaro gcc 4.6 release
Details:
1. Automotive benchmark performance analysis for different branch cost
for Cortex-A9.
* Debug function WriteOut, which is called 12 times on average,
leads common performance issue since the IF-THEN in the function is
converted to IT block, which TRUE probability is less than 4%.
* Identify the root cause of performance regression with IT block
for bitmnp01, rspeed01, pntrch01 and ttsprk01. Overall,
- The performance of a taken bpl is better than an ITTT. If this
is a common sense, for IF-THEN, we'd set branch-cost to 1.
- For IF-THEN-ELSE, we'd take branch probability into account when
converting it to IT block.
- ifcvt might generate useless IT block.
2. Try to do Linaro GCC release. But meet several issues:
* Can not branch a clean lp:gcc-linaro/4.7. As a workaround, I had
downloaded a clean bzr tree from other site. For next release, I can
use the local tree to create the release tarball.
* All a9hf-builder ubutests fail due to test environment issue.
Plan:
* Investigate more benchmarks for different branch costs.
Planed leaves:
* Feb. 9 - 15: Chinese Spring Festival.
Best Regards!
-Zhenqiang
== Progress ==
* 64-bits ops in Neon: pinged patch proposal.
* vectorizer cost model: received results from spec2k. Prepared
initial tuning to submit to benchmarking again.
* smin-umin: tests OK, benchmarks ran, but did not generate the diff
over a valid ancestor. I didn't make the manual comparison yet.
* updated board for local benchmarking
* tcpanda heat problems: built a new kernel with the thermal driver;
need to reboot the board with it
== Next ==
* handle 64-bits bitops in Neon feedback from upstream if any
* analyze results of benchmarking with vectorizer cost model
* analyze results of benchmarking with smin-umin idiom patch
* continue board setup/update; I will probably try to cross-build the
benchmarks to avoid having the build GCC itself on the board and save
time.
* followup on tcpanda heat problems
== Progress ==
* Buildbots
- Added a Panda ES buildbot on clang-native-arm-cortex-a9 group
- Reporting and helping fix bot bugs on ARM
- ARM buildbots are green again!
- Each ARM buildbot takes 4h15min to complete, versus 15min on Intel
- We're still testing up to 12-15 patches on each build, on peak times
(PST)
* LAVA
- Created a test run for llvm check-all, infrastructure is there
- Need to make it actually do some work
* Vectorization
- Refactored cost model's temp tables
- http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=172658
- Studying NEON costs, changing ARM target lowering
* test-suite A15
- Building LLVM on Chromebook, check-all (1h, 181 failures)
- Self-hosting LLVM on Chromebook, check-all (50min, many more)
- Found some floating point type errors, only on Chromebook (libs?)
* AArch64 back-end
- Reviewed patches, look ok, some comments
- Should be all in by next week
* LLVM cross-compilation woes
- Had to define include path for c, c++ and arm locations
- It calls the wrong assembler, even defining the right gnu toolchain
- Someone needs to fix these cross-compilation bugs!! :)
== Plan ==
* Finish basic NEON costs for vectorization
* Finish LAVA bot compiling clang + check-all
* Install Panda buildbot on rack
* Continue investigating Chromebook failures
* Continue thinking about the long term plan for LLVM
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2013.01
release of both Linaro GCC 4.7 and Linaro GCC 4.6.
Linaro GCC 4.7 2013.01 is the tenth release in the 4.7 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.7.2+svn194772 release, it includes ARM-focused
performance improvements and bug fixes.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to GCC 4.7.2+svn194772
* Includes arm/aarch64-4.7-branch up to svn revision 194808
* Support for the rev16 and revsh instructions
* A15 Neon pipeline backported from trunk
* FMA intrinsic backported from trunk
* Better extending core to NEON transfers
* Fused multiply-add support
Fixes:
* LP #1088898 regression of x86 gcc bootstrap with Linaro sourcebase
* LP #1067766 Backport support for arm-linux-gnueabihf to GCC Linaro
* LP #1084010 __atomic_load doesn't match ACQUIRE memory model
Linaro GCC 4.6 2013.01 is the 23st release in the 4.6 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.6.3+svn194771 release, this is the tenth release
after entering maintenance.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to 4.6.3+svn194771
The source tarballs are available from:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.7-2013.01https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2013.01
Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro
More information on the features and issues are available from the
release pages:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.7/4.7-2013.01https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.6/4.6-2013.01
Mailing list: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/
Questions? https://ask.linaro.org/
Interested in commercial support? Inquire at support(a)linaro.org
All,
Due to items in the performance call being covered in other meetings, travel
and other issues I have decided to cancel today's 1600 UTC call.
Thanks,
Matt
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Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
This patch fixes an issue in the AArch64 strncmp implementation which
occurs if ULONG_MAX-15 <= n <= ULONG_MAX.
Matt, this is the last of my outstanding patches for cortex-strings.
/Marcus
Hi folks,
On the LLVM list, Tim (ARM) is trying to push a patch to update the
polynomial types on NEON to unsigned, on both 32-bits and 64-bits, since
AArch32 says nothing and AArch64 specifies unsigned (char and short).
Is there any such movement on the GCC end? The LLVM folks would rather this
be a common move (or GCC first), than going solo and risk losing ABI
compatibility.
Any comments?
cheers,
--renato
Hi All,
I am trying to build OpenNI drivers and stuck with the following linker
error.
/usr/bin/ld: error: ../../Bin/Arm-Release/libOpenNI.so uses VFP register
arguments, ./Arm-Release/XnBaseNode.o does not
/usr/bin/ld: failed to merge target specific data of file
./Arm-Release/XnBaseNode.o
/usr/bin/ld: error: ../../Bin/Arm-Release/libOpenNI.so uses VFP register
arguments, ./Arm-Release/XnDump.o does not
/usr/bin/ld: failed to merge target specific data of file
./Arm-Release/XnDump.o
and many more of similar errors with VFP.
System : ZYNC ZC702 board with ARM Cortex A9 dual core.
OS: Linaro 12.04 LTS
GCC - 4.6.3
Is there some flag i have to set in the Makefile to correct the Hard/Soft
float type ?
How do i figure out the correct one ?
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Hi,
The testcase at https://launchpadlibrarian.net/128616769/compare-test.c
With aarch64:
aarch64-oe-linux-gcc -o a-test ./compare-test.c
./a-test:
fail ret: -1: Bad address
With X86_64:
gcc -o test ./compare-test.c
./test
correct. ret: -1: Bad address
setting -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 doesn't make a difference.
This is with:
gcc version 4.7.3 20121205 (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.7-2012.12)
This was found while debugging:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-aarch64/+bug/1099896
Riku
All,
The minutes for today's calls are here:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2013-01-14
Action items are:
TODO: Matt to investigate EEMBC Office gs8 failures
ONGOING: Matt to talk to Dave Pigott about HF builders
TODO: Matt blueprint backport of binutils 2.23.1 - backport just needs merging
TODO: Matt to blueprint options for reducing QEMU based cross test noise
TODO: Matt to unreserve Michael Hope's reservations
TODO: Matt to look at why Cortex-A9 softfloat bootstraps fail in Stage2.
TODO: Zhenqiang to do GCC Release:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/GCC/ReleaseProcess
TODO: Matt to do Cortex Strings release.
TODO: Matt chase up EEMBC Networking License
TODO: Matt chase up with morvek who is leading KVM Virtual team.
TODO: All to think of proposals for GNU Tools Caudron
The agenda for next week's call is here:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2013-01-21
Please feel free to add your own agenda items before hand.
Thanks,
Matt
--
Matthew Gretton-Dann
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
Summary:
* Rebase and test the shrink-wrap patches.
* Learn how branch cost impact on code generation.
Details:
1. Rebase and test the shrink-wrap patches.
* For pretend arguments, it is hard to generate correct dwarf info for case:
* Add dwarf info for ldrd_pop. Testing is ongoing.
* Expose an interface from regcpprog and do copy propagation for the
entry block. Benchmark logs show there are much more functions can be
shrink-wrapped.
2. Read codes and enhance ifcvt.c.
* For IF-THEN-ELSE, if the last insn of then_bb or else_bb is
ANY_RETURN_P, we can save one JUMP. In this, we'd keep max
MAX_CONDITIONAL_EXECUTE, not "max *= 2". A patch is sent out for
review.
* Take the branch probability into account. Test is ongoing.
3. R/M toolchain related work.
Plan:
* Follow up the shrink-wrap dwarf info issue.
* Investigate benchmarks which is impacted by different branch cost.
Planed leaves:
* Feb. 9 - 15: Chinese Spring Festival.
Best Regards!
-Zhenqiang
== Progress ==
* Short week again (leading compilation courses)
* Merge request review
- finished 4.6 and 4.7 requests.
* Boehm GC AArch64 support
- Back on this topic
== Next ==
* Continue Boehm GC activity
== This Week ==
* Livermore Loops
- Test was badly adapted, failures were due to undefined behaviour
- Removed from test-suite until a propper adaptation can be done
- LTO and Static Analysis issues raised
- http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14851
- http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14852
* LLVM Builds
- Builds fine on Chromebook, same check-all failures as other ARM targets
- test-suite fails, haven't had time to properly investigate
- Getting a pandaboard to act as a buildbot
- Creating a LAVA job to run often and on-demand internally
* AArch64 in LLVM
- reviewing lots of patches from ARM (Tim Northover)
- full back-end just sent, will review over the weekend
* Loop Vectorize
- Some discussions with Tao Wang about cost models
- Got some ideas on what are the best changes for LLVM's cost model
- Not much on this front
* EuroLLVM 2013
- Trying to define the level of sponsorship Linaro can provide
- CFP will go out next week, committee created, conference confirmed
* Commits
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=171642http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=171859
== Next Week ==
* Get the LAVA job running
- need account at people.linaro.org, RT created
* Get at least one buildbot in sync with LLVM's lab
* Get some traction on the cost model
* Cambridge LLVM Social, liaise with ARM
== Future ==
* Try to draft an LLVM story for Linaro (and understand why I'm here in the
first place) ;)
* Have builds with vectorization turned on
== Blueprints ==
gcc-investigate-lra-for-arm
== Progress ==
* Built "lra" gcc branch of gcc for x86
* Collected and compared SPEC benchmark results with and without LRA
enabled
* Bootstrapped ARM toolchain with last reported working revision from
lra branch
* Tracked down and resolved ICE
* Bootstrapped ARM toolchain with head revision from lra branch
* Tracked down and resolved another ICE
* Verified two patches (from above ICEs) have no regressions on trunk
* Began investigation into target hooks for LRA for ARM to improve
performance
* Admin
* Connect registration and trip preparations
== Next week ==
* Collect benchmark results from SPEC for LRA on ARM
* Complete target hooks and benchmark again
* Review roster
== Progress ==
* 64-bits ops in Neon: pinged patch proposal.
* disable peeling/vectorzer cost model: initial benchmarking done wth
cost-model on (now default). Received some results with cost model
off, waiting for spec2k.
* started looking at smin-umin idiom patch from Ramana. Rebased and
launched build to make some benchmarking.
* restarted working on local board setup for benchmarking
* discussed bug reports on ARM-Neon instrinsics testsuite
== Next ==
* handle 64-bits bitops in Neon feedback from upstream if any
* analyze results of benchmarking with vectorizer cost model
* analyze results of benchmarking with smin-umin idiom patch
* continue board setup/update
== Blueprints ==
Initial Current Actual
fix-gcc-multiarch-testing 31 Dec 2012 31 Jan 2013
== Progress ==
* Infrastructure
* Investigations of why Cortex-A9 HF boards are failing
* Admin
* Booked tickets to Connect
* 'Onboarding' prep for new starters and assignees
* Cortex Strings
* Applied patches
== Next week ==
* Prepare Cortex Strings release
* Ensure GCC backports are up to date.
* Release week.
* Catch up on outstanding cards.
== Future ==
* Run HOT/COLD partitioning benchmarks
* Analyse ARM results
* On x86_64 to see what the actual benefit we could get
* fix-gcc-multiarch-testing
* Come up with strawman proposal for updating testsuite to handle
testing with varying command-line options.
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Matthew Gretton-Dann
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
Hi,
Would you please help on how to generate correct epilogue dwarf info?
Without correct dwarf info, when shrink-wrap is enabled, it tends to
ICE at dwarf2cfi.c: function maybe_record_trace_start.
/* We ought to have the same state incoming to a given trace no
matter how we arrive at the trace. Anything else means we've
got some kind of optimization error. */
gcc_checking_assert (cfi_row_equal_p (cur_row, ti->beg_row));
Issues:
1) pretend_args
The attached pretend_arg.c shows an example about pretend_args dwarf info
push {r2, r3}
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 8
.cfi_offset 2, -8
.cfi_offset 3, -4
use r3
push {r4, r5, lr}
...
pop {r4, r5, lr}
add sp, sp, #8
//No instruction here to restore r2 and r3
Can we RESTORE r2 and r3?
* If we notes to RESTORE r2 and r3, it might lead to wrong info for
GDB since no instruction restores them.
* If we do not RESTORE them, the reg_save dwarf info will not be
cleared. Then the dwarf check will fail when the function is
shrink-wrapped.
2) frame_pointer_needed
In prologue, we set fp like
fp = sp + INT
After this instruction, cfi_def_cfa_register is set to fp
In epilogue. we have
fp += INT
sp = fp
Can we reset cfi_def_cfa_register back to sp?
* If we set it back to sp, how to handle it in arm_unwind_emit_set,
which assumes sp can not be set from other register?
/* A stack increment. */
if (GET_CODE (e1) != PLUS
|| !REG_P (XEXP (e1, 0))
|| REGNO (XEXP (e1, 0)) != SP_REGNUM
|| !CONST_INT_P (XEXP (e1, 1)))
abort ();
* If we do not set it back, to get correct dwarf info for POP after
"sp = fp", we have to add notes " sp = fp + INT" for dwarf-info while
we have "sp = sp + INT" in the insn. Here is the workaround POP RTL
example for the attached alloca,c:
(insn/f 62 61 66 3 (parallel [
(set/f (reg/f:SI 13 sp) // sp = sp + 8
(plus:SI (reg/f:SI 13 sp)
(const_int 8 [0x8])))
(set/f (reg:SI 3 r3)
(mem/c:SI (reg/f:SI 13 sp) [3 S4 A32]))
(set/f (reg/f:SI 7 r7)
(mem/c:SI (plus:SI (reg/f:SI 13 sp)
(const_int 4 [0x4])) [3 S4 A32]))
]) alloca.c:8 329 {*load_multiple_with_writeback}
(expr_list:REG_UNUSED (reg:SI 3 r3)
(expr_list:REG_CFA_ADJUST_CFA (set (reg/f:SI 13 sp)
(plus:SI (reg/f:SI 7 r7) // sp = fp + 8
(const_int 8 [0x8])))
(expr_list:REG_CFA_RESTORE (reg/f:SI 7 r7)
(expr_list:REG_CFA_RESTORE (reg:SI 3 r3)
(nil))))))
(3) No idea for
if (crtl->calls_eh_return)
emit_insn (gen_addsi3 (stack_pointer_rtx,
stack_pointer_rtx,
gen_rtx_REG (SImode, ARM_EH_STACKADJ_REGNUM)));
Currently I have no shrink-wrapped test case which
crtl->calls_eh_return is true.
Thanks!
-Zhenqiang
Hi all,
I'm helping the loop vectorization in LLVM and for that we need first to
build the instruction cost model so we can decide whether the vectorization
is worth or not.
I was looking at some papers, but most of them concern with energy
consumption, which is not the issue (at least not for now). The "cost"
model should take the point of view of latency, stalls and pipeline cost.
I know there are sporadic comments on this on the ARM ARM, but would be
good to have a definite resource where to get the data from (and hope it's
a public document). Does anyone know of a good place to start looking for
that?
Even if the document is private, we can certainly hide the information
enough to make it to the LLVM code base.
cheers,
--renato
Hi All,
I am using linaro-precise-ubuntu-desktop-20120626 on my ZYNQ ZC702 board
which has an ARM Cortex-A9 dual core processor.
I am trying to compile Point Cloud Library and its dependent libraries like
FLANN, VTK, EIGEN etc.. which are basically c++ libraries.
The compiler crashes with the following error msg and i am unable to figure
out where the problem is.
linaro@linaro-ubuntu-desktop:~/flann/flann-1.8.3-src/build$ make install
[ 33%] Building CXX object src/cpp/CMakeFiles/flann_s.dir/flann/flann.cpp.o
In file included from
/home/linaro/flann/flann-1.8.3-src/src/cpp/flann/algorithms/kmeans_index.h:51:0,
from
/home/linaro/flann/flann-1.8.3-src/src/cpp/flann/algorithms/all_indices.h:38,
from /home/linaro/flann/flann-1.8.3-src/src/cpp/flann/flann.hpp:45,
from /home/linaro/flann/flann-1.8.3-src/src/cpp/flann/flann.h:466,
from /home/linaro/flann/flann-1.8.3-src/src/cpp/flann/flann.cpp:31:
/home/linaro/flann/flann-1.8.3-src/src/cpp/flann/util/logger.h:73:9: note:
the mangling of ‘va_list’ has changed in GCC 4.4
c++: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus)
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs for instructions.
make[2]: *** [src/cpp/CMakeFiles/flann_s.dir/flann/flann.cpp.o] Error 4
make[1]: *** [src/cpp/CMakeFiles/flann_s.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
linaro@linaro-ubuntu-desktop:~/flann/flann-1.8.3-src/build$
Let me know if someone has faced similar issue or has any solution for this.
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All,
The minutes from today's meeting are online at:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2013-01-07
The Action items are:
TODO: Matt to investigate EEMBC Office gs8 failures
TODO: Matt to talk to Dave Pigott about HF builders
TODO: Matt blueprint backport of binutils 2.23.1
TODO: Matt to blueprint options for reducing QEMU based cross test noise
ACTION: Matt to unreserve Michael Hope's reservations
ACTION: Matt to look at why Cortex-A9 softfloat bootstraps fail in Stage2.
Thanks,
Matt
--
Matthew Gretton-Dann
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
Folks,
This series of patches adds aarch64 specific implementations of
memmove, strlen, strncmp to the cortex strings library and the
corresponding test cases lifted directly from glibc.
Enjoy
/Marcus
asking for some help about debian #697521 and lp: #1096619. looking at the
config.log files for armel/armhf I don't see any differences. I assume it's a
difference in the cpu configuration (armv4/v5 vs. armv7) not soft/hard-float.
any pointers?
== Progress ==
* Short week (2 working days)
* Merge request review
- Merged approved branches
* Boehm GC AArch64 support
- Back on this topic
== Next ==
* Course leading most of the week
* Review roster
== This Week ==
* Setting up laptop, desk, mailing lists, SSH keys, Launchpad, etc
* Livermore Loops Benchmark
* It fails on some types of builds but not others
* Failure is due to LTO, problem identified, trying to get a reduced case
* Getting LLVM building nightly and running the test-suite
* Got where we are with ARM and others regarding buildbots
* LLVM compiles and checks on pandaboard, need test-suite
* Got a Chromebook to run the test-suite
* LLVM web presence (pages, svn repositories, etc) dead
== Next Week ==
* Reduce the LTO bug on Livermore kernels
* Report it once I have more information and a reduced case
* Try to fix it
* Checkout Zorg (LLVM's build system integrator)
* Force builds to use LNT (new test harness, which passes)
* Someone else is looking into setting up consistent LTO tests to the
rest already
* Get Ubuntu on Chromebook and build LLVM on it + test-suite
* Understand the CBuild infrastructure and setup a board to do it
automatically
* Revise the current LLVM build to be continuous and check-all
* Help Nadav Rotem (Apple) with the cost model for vectorization on ARM
VFP/NEON
* Meeting with ARM and "le French" to finalize the EuroLLVM 2013 and send
the CFP
== Future ==
* Validate vectorization for ARM after cost model is reasonably accurate
* Vectorization will be turned on by default as of 3.3 on -O2 or higher
* Reduced strength with -Os, but still on
* Make Livermore Loops vectorize
* Allow vectorization to detect global structures as safe
* Allow floating point vectorization if using -unsafe-math
* Plan a workflow to report / fix bugs that our internal CBuild finds on
ARM
* Liaise with ARM on what processes can be shared / commoned-up
* Try to be less verbose on activity reports...
== Blueprints ==
Initial Current Actual
fix-gcc-multiarch-testing 31 Dec 2012 31 Jan 2013
== Progress ==
* Short week, working Weds-Fri
* Admin
* Welcomed Renato to the team, and discussions with him about LLVM
* Initial project setup for llvm-linaro.
* Finished putting current set of card drafts into Jira
* Did GCC merges
* Backport of Thumb literal pool issues to 4.7.
== Next week ==
* Prepare Cortex Strings release
* Ensure GCC backports are up to date.
* Merge reviewing week.
* Catch up on outstanding cards.
== Future ==
* Run HOT/COLD partitioning benchmarks
* Analyse ARM results
* On x86_64 to see what the actual benefit we could get
* fix-gcc-multiarch-testing
* Come up with strawman proposal for updating testsuite to handle
testing with varying command-line options.
--
Matthew Gretton-Dann
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
Hi all!
I use the arm-linux-gnueabihf-ct-ng.config in gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.7-2012.12-20121214_win32.zip to rebuild linaro-toolchain,but failured with the fellow messages:
[INFO ] Performing some trivial sanity checks
[INFO ] Build started 20130104.110952
[INFO ] Building environment variables
[WARN ] Directory '/home/ljc/ct-ng/crosstool-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214/mybuild/tarballs' does not exist.
[WARN ] Will not save downloaded tarballs to local storage.
[EXTRA] Preparing working directories
[EXTRA] Installing user-supplied crosstool-NG configuration
[EXTRA] =================================================================
[EXTRA] Dumping internal crosstool-NG configuration
[EXTRA] Building a toolchain for:
[EXTRA] build = i686-pc-linux-gnu
[EXTRA] host = i586-mingw32msvc
[EXTRA] target = arm-linux-gnueabihf
[EXTRA] Dumping internal crosstool-NG configuration: done in 0.26s (at 00:04)
........
[EXTRA] Saving state to restart at step 'binutils'...
[INFO ] =================================================================
[INFO ] Installing binutils
[EXTRA] Configuring binutils
[EXTRA] Building binutils
[ERROR] /home/ljc/ct-ng/crosstool-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214/mybuild/.build/src/binutils-2.22/gold/arm.cc:2173: internal compiler error: in make_rtl_for_nonlocal_decl, at cp/decl.c:4971
[ERROR] make[5]: *** [arm.o] Error 1
[ERROR] make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
[ERROR] make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
[ERROR] make[2]: *** [all-gold] Error 2
[ERROR] make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
[ERROR]
[ERROR] >>
[ERROR] >> Error happened in: main[scripts/crosstool-NG.sh]
[ERROR] >>
[ERROR] >> For more info on this error, look at the file: 'build.log'
[ERROR] >> There is a list of known issues, some with workarounds, in:
[ERROR] >> 'share/doc/ct-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214/B - Known issues.txt'
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Build failed in step 'Extracting and patching toolchain components'
[ERROR]
[ERROR] (elapsed: 57:51.80)
make: *** [build] 错误 2
And in build.log:
..........
[ALL ] /home/ljc/ct-ng/crosstool-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214/mybuild/.build/src/binutils-2.22/gold/arm.cc:11999: instantiated from here
[ERROR] /home/ljc/ct-ng/crosstool-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214/mybuild/.build/src/binutils-2.22/gold/arm.cc:2173: internal compiler error: in make_rtl_for_nonlocal_decl, at cp/decl.c:4971
[ALL ] Please submit a full bug report,
[ALL ] with preprocessed source if appropriate.
[ALL ] See <URL:http://www.mingw.org/bugs.shtml> for instructions.
[ERROR] make[5]: *** [arm.o] Error 1
[ALL ] make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[ALL ] mv -f .deps/powerpc.Tpo .deps/powerpc.Po
[ALL ] make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/ljc/ct-ng/crosstool-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214/mybuild/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/build-binutils/gold'
[ERROR] make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
[ALL ] make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ljc/ct-ng/crosstool-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214/mybuild/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/build-binutils/gold'
[ERROR] make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
[ALL ] make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ljc/ct-ng/crosstool-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214/mybuild/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/build-binutils/gold'
[ERROR] make[2]: *** [all-gold] Error 2
[ALL ] make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ljc/ct-ng/crosstool-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214/mybuild/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/build-binutils'
[ERROR] make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
[ALL ] make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ljc/ct-ng/crosstool-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214/mybuild/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/build-binutils'
[ERROR]
[ERROR] >>
[ERROR] >> Error happened in: main[scripts/crosstool-NG.sh]
[ERROR] >>
[ERROR] >> For more info on this error, look at the file: 'build.log'
[ERROR] >> There is a list of known issues, some with workarounds, in:
[ERROR] >> 'share/doc/ct-ng-linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214/B - Known issues.txt'
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Build failed in step 'Extracting and patching toolchain components'
[ERROR]
[ERROR] (elapsed: 57:51.80)
Has anybody met this problem too?
Dear All,
When doing prelink I got following error.
/a.out
/a.out: R_ARM_TLS_DTPMOD32 reloc in executable?
Gcc version 4.6
I have following question:
1. What this relocation do. ?
2. Is it problem in tool chain ?
3. Are we need to fix this in Prelink utils
Thanks
Hi,
The following code fails to build with OE Aarch64 toolchain with
current kernel headers. While ugly, the code is a reduced testcase
from fuse build failure (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-oe/+bug/1087757 ) and the same fuse
code compiles on all other architectures. Before I send a workaround
for upstream, I'd like to know how we can end up with different
definitions for int64_t when that happens on no other architectures -
something wrong with the generic kernel headers?
Testcase:
#include <sys/types.h>
#define __s64 int64_t
#include <signal.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int64_t x=4;
return x;
}
Failure:
/data/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/aarch64-oe-linux/aarch64-oe-linux-gcc
-save-temps --sysroot=/data/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/genericarmv8
-o test test.c
In file included from
/data/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/genericarmv8/usr/include/asm-generic/types.h:7:0,
from
/data/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/genericarmv8/usr/include/asm/types.h:1,
from
/data/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/genericarmv8/usr/include/linux/types.h:4,
from
/data/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/genericarmv8/usr/include/asm/sigcontext.h:19,
from
/data/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/genericarmv8/usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:27,
from
/data/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/genericarmv8/usr/include/signal.h:338,
from test.c:4:
/data/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/genericarmv8/usr/include/asm-generic/int-ll64.h:29:44:
error: conflicting types for 'int64_t'
In file included from test.c:2:0:
/data/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/genericarmv8/usr/include/sys/types.h:197:13:
note: previous declaration of 'int64_t' was here