== Progress ==
* BFD Linker:
- GNU-629: non-contiguous memory support: handling feedback received
* GCC:
* GCC-9: continued work for validation of -mpure-code on v6m. All new
failures reported with cortex-m0 + -mpure-code are to be expected
(mainly testcases forcing options incompatible with -mpure-code)
* GCC upstream validation:
- reported a couple of failures/regressions
- looked at a problem with LTO profiled bootstrap failing on aarch32
with gcc-8. Could not reproduce with current trunk
- working on reproducing a non-functional code problem with spec2006
on arm with LTO and -Os
* misc:
- infra fixes / troubleshooting / reviews
- looked at a problem reported about addr2line and kernel symbols.
Needs more analysis
== Next ==
* Binutils: GNU-629: support non-contiguous memory regions in linker
* GCC-9: continue work for validation of -mpure-code on v6m
* spec2006 / LTO / Os / aarch32
* FDPIC GDB
== Progress ==
* More Morello (updating for new capability encoding)
* Tiny amount of GlobalISel arm32 maintenance (not committed yet)
== Plan ==
* More Morello
Same comment applies with regards to mailing lists.
On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 10:16, zied guermazi <guermazi_zied(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike, hi Matthieu,
>
> I was too rapid to press the send button, sorry for the inconvienience.
> and yes, it works. I published the source code in github (https://github.com/gzied/binutils-gdb/tree/gdb_arm_coresight) ,as well as a mail in linaro mailing list (https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/coresight/2020-February/003676.html).
Unfortunately you didn't publish your work in "PATCH" format and as
such it can't be reviewed.
> Eventhough there is still an effort needed to stabilize it for armv7, and test it for armv8, I consider this as a breakthough that we can build on the top of it.
> I will be visiting Embedded world exhibition between 25th and 27th of February in Nuremberg, Germany. are you planning to be there too. I am looking forwards to meet you there if possible to discuss possibilities of further development and integration in the main stream.
I won't be in Nuremberg next week and I'm pretty sure Mike won't be
there either. Other people on the lists might be around and
interested in meeting with you. Mike and I will be attending Linaro
Connect in Budapest between the 23rd and 27th of March. The Linaro
toolchain group will also be there so it might be the perfect
opportunity to sit down for an hour or so and have a chat.
A good day to you,
Mathieu
>
> Kind Regards
> Zied Guermazi
>
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, February 17, 2020, 06:08:26 PM GMT+1, zied guermazi <guermazi_zied(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Mike, hi Matthieu
> it works!
>
>
>
> On Monday, December 16, 2019, 11:20:20 PM GMT+1, zied guermazi <guermazi_zied(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> hi Mike, hi Mathieu
> last few weeks I was able to spend some time on implementing this feature, and I want to share the status with you and get your recommendation on organizational and technical level.
> so far I was able to use perf events to configure the drivers for etm and collect the traces. the code was tested successfully on an STM32MP157A discovery kit (arm v7).
> I would like to push this on git, first for review and second for integration and creating traction . Do you think it is ok to push it in this status (feature partially achieved) ? is linaro gdb git the correct one? who is the maintainer of this part of gdb? I do not have an ARMv8 platform to test. who can support here?
>
> during the implementation few technical question raised:
> - etm tracing collection requires selecting a trace sink. and I have two alternatives: either extending the "record btrace etm" command (used to start tracing) with a sink as an argument or extending the command "set record btrace" (general configuration of tracing) with etm sink sub-command? (I have hard-coded it currently to be able to progress)
> - currently I am hardcoding the path "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/" as the default etm source, is this guaranteed to be unique? can we have a system with many etm sources enumerated in the sysfs.
>
> for parsing the traces I will need some configuration parameters like the content of registers ETMCR, ETMIDR, ETMCCER, ETMTRACEIDR. if my understanding of the implementation of perf is correct, it is collecting them from the sysfs files located in /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/cpu0/mgmt/. which are global for the system. my question is what will happen if two process are requesting tracing at the same time? how to differentiate between traces going to one session from the second one? is it possible to get the parameters of a given session by some kind of ioctl request to the file descriptor we get out of sys_perf_open call?
>
> I will publish those queries in the linaro coresight and gdb forums, I wanted first to align with you especially on the organizational issues, before going to a bigger round.
>
> Thanks for your support
> Zied Guermazi
>
>
i
Hi Zied,
As requested before, always add the CS mailing list when interacting
with us. There is a fair amount of people on there that would surely
be interested in this work. I also CC'd the linaro-toolchain group
since some of the content below is related to what they do.
On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 10:08, zied guermazi <guermazi_zied(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike, hi Matthieu
> it works!
>
>
>
> On Monday, December 16, 2019, 11:20:20 PM GMT+1, zied guermazi <guermazi_zied(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> hi Mike, hi Mathieu
> last few weeks I was able to spend some time on implementing this feature, and I want to share the status with you and get your recommendation on organizational and technical level.
> so far I was able to use perf events to configure the drivers for etm and collect the traces. the code was tested successfully on an STM32MP157A discovery kit (arm v7).
> I would like to push this on git, first for review and second for integration and creating traction . Do you think it is ok to push it in this status (feature partially achieved) ? is linaro gdb git the correct one? who is the maintainer of this part of gdb? I do not have an ARMv8 platform to test. who can support here?
I will address your questions one by one:
Q: Do you think it is ok to push it in this status (feature partially
achieved) ?
A: That depends on how advanced things are. If it is stable (i.e it
does something) and can be used as a starting point for other people
to work on, then there is probably value in publishing your work.
Q: is linaro gdb git the correct one?
A: I see from your other email that you've already published your work.
Q: who is the maintainer of this part of gdb?
A: I'm sure the GDB project has documentation and a well defined
process that would identify who you should submit your code to.
Q: I do not have an ARMv8 platform to test. who can support here?
A: No doubt you'd get a lot more interest if you were working on V8.
I suggest purchasing a dragonboard 410c - they are super cheap, well
supported and one of our CS reference platforms. I think we talked
about that before...
>
> during the implementation few technical question raised:
> - etm tracing collection requires selecting a trace sink. and I have two alternatives: either extending the "record btrace etm" command (used to start tracing) with a sink as an argument or extending the command "set record btrace" (general configuration of tracing) with etm sink sub-command? (I have hard-coded it currently to be able to progress)
I would assume this "set record btrace" command has an effect on the
current session only. If so I would go for the latter option.
> - currently I am hardcoding the path "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/" as the default etm source, is this guaranteed to be unique? can we have a system with many etm sources enumerated in the sysfs.
>
I am very confused by this question. Yes, the path
"/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/" is guaranteed to be unique but
it is by no means a "default source". Is is simply a directory used
by the perf tools to have more details on the CS specifics for the
running platform. Nowadays it is fair to assume there is one ETM perf
CPU, all enumerated under sysfs. Also keep in mind that processes are
being moved around by the scheduler and as such, a specific source
can't be hard coded.
> for parsing the traces I will need some configuration parameters like the content of registers ETMCR, ETMIDR, ETMCCER, ETMTRACEIDR. if my understanding of the implementation of perf is correct, it is collecting them from the sysfs files located in /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/cpu0/mgmt/. which are global for the system. my question is what will happen if two process are requesting tracing at the same time? how to differentiate between traces going to one session from the second one? is it possible to get the parameters of a given session by some kind of ioctl request to the file descriptor we get out of sys_perf_open call?
Configuration of the tracers does indeed need to be considered. At
this time we assume all the tracers in an implementation are similar,
hence using ".../cpu0/mgmt". The information gathered from there is
related to the static configuration of the tracers. Per session
dynamic configuration is collected from the perf tools command line
and communicated to the perf infrastructure for later interpretation
by the decoding code when instantiating a decoder from the openCSD
library. Since the current framework handles only N:1 source/sink
configuration, there can only be one trace session using a sink.
There is currently no way to extract trace session configuration other
than the user space perf tools mechanic.
>
> I will publish those queries in the linaro coresight and gdb forums, I wanted first to align with you especially on the organizational issues, before going to a bigger round.
>
> Thanks for your support
> Zied Guermazi
>
>
== Progress ==
* More Morello (updating for new capability encoding)
* Went to the embassy to get my passport
* Read a couple ARM policy refreshers...
== Plan ==
* More Morello
== Progress ==
* BFD Linker:
- GNU-629: non-contiguous memory support: posted v4
* GCC:
* GCC-9: continued work for validation of -mpure-code on v6m:
posted updated patch for latent bug on trunk
* GCC upstream validation:
- reported a couple of failures/regressions
- fixed FDPIC build broken on trunk
* misc:
- infra fixes / troubleshooting / reviews
== Next ==
* Binutils: GNU-629: support non-contiguous memory regions in linker
* GCC-9: continue work for validation of -mpure-code on v6m
* FDPIC GDB
VirtIO Related Work
===================
This is essentially a mind-map of bullet points as we work out what
concrete work items should be implemented by the TCWG Virt hackers
(most likely just me ;-)
Xen for Automotive ([LBI-24])
- Things that need doing
- support for virtio in core (i.e. not just emulated devices)
- support for virtio-iommu and sharing memory between guests
(ivshmemv2?)
- support virtio over ivshmemv2 (would native virtio be supported?)
- support for vhost over shared memory (zero copy device emulation)
- support isolating userspace emulation from hvm (vhost-user)
- Why?
- userspace emulation has performance benefits (exit-less, polling)
- growing number of virtio devices for that guests support
[LBI-24] <https://projects.linaro.org/browse/LBI-24>
Virtualizing Android ([LBI-38])
- Builds on Google's work on Cuttlefish
- New Android Device model using VirtIO (including VirtGPU) \o/!
- Used to run on QEMU, now targeting CrosVM
- Potential interest in using as a HAL layer
- Potential work items
- Better support for ARM in CrosVM
- Is QEMU of interest to members? (emulation & tooling - unlike
CrosVM)
- Is a virtualised Android HAL possible
- Where does Hafnium fit it?
[LBI-38] <https://projects.linaro.org/browse/LBI-38>
QEMU Tooling ([VIRT-252])
=========================
Extend gdbstub for SVE ([VIRT-281])
- re-based [a v7 branch]
[VIRT-281] <https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-281>
[a v7 branch]
<https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/gdbstub/sve-registers-v7>
Upstream Work ([VIRT-109])
==========================
- posted [PATCH v2 00/12] testing/next (with build fixes!) Message-Id:
<20200130113223.31046-10-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
- posted [PATCH v2 00/19] testing and plugin updates Message-Id:
<20200213225109.13120-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
[VIRT-109] <https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-109>
Completed Reviews [3/3]
=======================
[RFC PATCH 1/2] GitLab CI: avoid calling before_scripts on unintended jobs
Message-Id: <5d0def0e-0943-3345-784d-80f8ccc318b9(a)redhat.com>
[PATCH v1 00/14] tests/vm: Add support for aarch64 VMs
Message-Id: <20200205212920.467-1-robert.foley(a)linaro.org>
- CLOSING NOTE [2020-02-07 Fri 19:56]
Some problems with hangs, not sure about using threads/file
approach.
Added: <2020-02-06 Thu>
[PATCH 0/2] target/arm: Pass arguments by value for sve FMLA/FCMLA
Message-Id: <20200212025145.24300-1-richard.henderson(a)linaro.org>
Absences
========
- 17t-24th Feb Half Term
- 23rd-27th March BUD20
Current Review Queue
====================
* [PATCH v16 00/10] VIRTIO-IOMMU device
Message-Id: <20200214132745.23392-1-eric.auger(a)redhat.com>
Added: <2020-02-14 Fri>
* [RFC][PATCH 0/3] IVSHMEM version 2 device for QEMU
Message-Id: <cover.1573477032.git.jan.kiszka(a)siemens.com>
Added: <2020-02-14 Fri>
* {PATCH v2 0/2} tests/tcg/multiarch: Add tests for implemented real
Message-Id: <1581603905-21565-1-git-send-email-Filip.Bozuta(a)rt-rk.com>
Added: <2020-02-13 Thu>
* [RFC 0/9] Add an interVM memory sharing device
Message-Id: <1580815851-28887-1-git-send-email-i.kotrasinsk(a)partner.samsung.com>
Added: <2020-02-05 Wed>
--
Alex Bennée
Progress:
* VIRT-241 [QEMU ISA Support for A-profile]
- Looking into implementing some of the easier, smaller architecture features
- Implemented ARMv8.1-VMID16 (16-bit VMID support), which is trivial
for QEMU because it doesn't care much about VMIDs
- Working on ARMv8.1-PMU and ARMv8.4-PMU: it turns out that we already have
most of these extensions, so we just need to finish off some smaller pieces
and fix one or two bugs. Sent out a patchset implementing these.
- Found a bunch of ID-register related bugs in the process, which I have
fixes for
- Implemented the "mandatory from v8.2" ACTLR2 and HACTLR2 registers
* VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
- code review:
- series from Laurent fixing a long-standing issue with handling of
realtime signals in our linux-user code
- imx6 model patches to fix a watchdog device bug and add the
watchdog to our imx6 boards
- final few unreviewed patches in rth's "PAN, ATS1E1, UAO" series
- respin of the json QAPI Sphinx conversion patchset; hopefully the
first half of this is now uncontroversial cleanups that can go in
while the second half gets code reviewed
thanks
-- PMM
