== This Week ==
TCWG-619:
* Compiled chromium on ARM without LTO with following hack to resolve
error: undefined reference to 'clock_gettime', version 'GLIBC_2.17'
- chromium uses prebuilt sysroot in
src/chrome/installer/linux/debian_wheezy_arm-sysroot
and it has libc-2.13.so, libc.so.6 is symbolic link to libc-2.13.so in
the sysroot. However it appears minimum libc-2.17 is required (version
'GLIBC_2.17'). I replaced libc-2.13.so by abe-built
libc-2.20-2014.11-1-git.so, and symlinked libc.so.6 to
libc-2.20-2014.11-1-git.so and that worked (for non LTO build).
Curiously I didn't require to do this for building chromium with
linaro prebuilt toolchain.
* Found a way to disable LTO for building lib/libblink_web.so by manually
removing -flto from web_blink.ninja and Webkit/source/core/*.ninja,
which worked.
* Chromium non LTO build issues on ARM:
a) Fails with gcc-5 due to error in chromium:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=340312
To compile chromium, I applied a patch to cp/typeck2.c to shut
narrowing conversion errors (ideally the fix should be to chromium).
b) ld.bfd (linaro branch) fails with undefined references to many functions
in libattr1: http://pastebin.com/ju4SCDSE
Not sure if this is ld.bfd bug, or me building it wrongly.
Haven't tested yet with trunk ld.bfd.
Works fine with gold.
* Target independent Chromium LTO issues with trunk
a) Top-level asm and LTO (PR57703) - This appears to be not supported.
* Chromium LTO issues on ARM with trunk:
a) ICE in lib/libblink_web.so (PR65576).
b) Target specific builtin not available: http://pastebin.com/2ANsEyMn
Seems related to:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=408997
c) ICE during LINK chrome: http://pastebin.com/DpjJ5M7g
d) GNU ld appears to segfault compiling in LTO mode.
* Chromium LTO issues with linaro-4.9 branch:
a) ICE elf section out of range (PR57208) - fixed in trunk
b) gold - Ran out of file descriptors: fixed in trunk.
Seems the following patch which is in trunk but not in linaro branch fixes it:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blobdiff;f=gold/…
I tried to backport it but got errors, possibly depends on other commits.
* v8 ARM LTO issues:
- Assembly error - offset out of range (PR65778). Possibly invalid bug.
== Next Week ==
- Create reduced test case for PR65576
- Figure out how to disable LTO for building lib/libblink_web.so in .gyp files
- PR49551
- Exams on 20th and 24th April.
# Progress #
* arm gdb, [6/10] many fails are fixed in the last two weeks.
1034->153 FAILs of -marm, 1008->143 FAILs of -mthumb, and 627->71
FAILs of -mfloat-abi=soft/-marm/-march=armv4t. There are 367 FAILs
in total, and 205 FAILs are about reverse debugging, which has been
broken for many years.
** TCWG-769, patch is committed upstream.
** TCWG-567, two patches are committed, and another two patches are in
progress. Existing HW watchpoint resource counting in GDB doesn't
work well on arm boards which doesn't have HW watchpoint support.
** TCWG-509, many arm gdb test fails are fixed. In progress.
* FSF GDB patch review. [3/10]
Test Pedro's "all-stop on top of non-stop" patch series V3 on both arm
and aarch64. Results are much better.
* Misc, meeting. [1/10]
# Plan #
* Fix test fails for arm and aarch64 gdb.
* Upstream patches review.
--
Yao
Hi,
I (and several other people) am (are) having trouble to build busybox with the latest aarch64-linux-gnu 2014.11 binaries we got from linaro.org.
It seems none of the built-in library search paths (gcc -print-search-dirs) allow to find crt[1i].o. They seem to be expected in a multiarch location but aren't (libc/usr/lib64). We're working around this with a symlink. Is this a bug? Have you seen similar issues?
Here's a failing command-line and the associated error message:
/path/to/gcc-linaro-4.9-2014.11-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -Wall -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wunused -Wunused-parameter -Wunused-function -Wunused-value -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-format-security -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wold-style-definition -fno-builtin-strlen -finline-limit=0 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-guess-branch-probability -funsigned-char -static-libgcc -falign-functions=1 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-labels=1 -falign-loops=1 -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -Os -static -o busybox_unstripped -Wl,--start-group applets/built-in.o archival/lib.a archival/libarchive/lib.a console-tools/lib.a coreutils/lib.a coreutils/libcoreutils/lib.a debianutils/lib.a e2fsprogs/lib.a editors/lib.a findutils/lib.a init/lib.a libbb/lib.a libpwdgrp/lib.a loginutils/lib.a mailutils/lib.a miscutils/lib.a modutils/lib.a networking/lib.a networking/libiproute/lib.a networking/udhcp/lib.a printutils/lib.a procps/lib.a runit/lib.a selinux/lib.a shell/lib.a sysklogd/lib.a util-linux/lib.a util-linux/volume_id/lib.a archival/built-in.o archival/libarchive/built-in.o console-tools/built-in.o coreutils/built-in.o coreutils/libcoreutils/built-in.o debianutils/built-in.o e2fsprogs/built-in.o editors/built-in.o findutils/built-in.o init/built-in.o libbb/built-in.o libpwdgrp/built-in.o loginutils/built-in.o mailutils/built-in.o miscutils/built-in.o modutils/built-in.o networking/built-in.o networking/libiproute/built-in.o networking/udhcp/built-in.o printutils/built-in.o procps/built-in.o runit/built-in.o selinux/built-in.o shell/built-in.o sysklogd/built-in.o util-linux/built-in.o util-linux/volume_id/built-in.o -Wl,--end-group -Wl,--start-group -lm -Wl,--end-group
==========
/work/integration/envs/latest/tools/gcc/gcc-linaro-4.9-2014.11-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/../lib/gcc/aarch64-linux-gnu/4.9.3/../../../../aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory
/work/integration/envs/latest/tools/gcc/gcc-linaro-4.9-2014.11-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/../lib/gcc/aarch64-linux-gnu/4.9.3/../../../../aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [busybox_unstripped] Error 1
Thank you!
Regards,
Kévin
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== Progress ==
Bank Holiday [2/10]
Backports [2/10]
. started and abandoned backport of 217440 due to unbackported dependent patch
. FSF 4.9 branch is missing from our git mirror - this is still
wasting time after 7 months
Vectorization (TCWG-735) [3/10]
Benchmarking [1/10]
. started 2015.03 benchmarking
Misc [2/10]
raspberry pi config
calls/mailing lists
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Patch update, test and re-submission native Linux register context
for Arm. [1/10] [TCWG-650]
-- Patch update, test and re-submission POSIX register context for
Arm. [1/10] [TCWG-755]
-- Tested lldb armhf native build on ubuntu utopic, build fine but
lacks of VFP support is a blocker. [1/10] [TCWG-647]
-- Initial investigation on hardware watchpoint support for lldb arm
linux. [2/10] [TCWG-770]
-- Initial investigation on hardware watchpoint support for lldb
aarch64 linux. [2/10] [TCWG-771]
-- Fix lldb build and test environment for arm and aarch64. [2/10] [TCWG-651]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Progress towards hardware watchpoint support for lldb arm linux.
-- Progress towards hardware watchpoint support for lldb aarch64 linux.
-- Bug fixing, patch reviews etc
== Issue ==
* none
== Progress ==
* [TCWG-762] - GCC Maintenance (9/10)
- PR65648 (ARMv6 IRA clobbering issue): Worked on a testcase that exhibit
the issue and don't conflict with various multilib configs.
Generic part of the
patch accepted, ARM related part needs to be reviewed by a ARM maintainer.
- PR65710 (LRA ICE in Thumb1): Proposed a quick workaround for this bug,
Proper fix was committed by Vlad.
- PR65729 (LRA ICE on arm-linux-gnueabhif): Proposed a fix, which is a stage1
material. Issue workarounded on trunk to avoid extensive
validation for the RC.
* [TCWG-702] Merge FSF 4.9 branch
- Merged up to revision 221939
- Will do another one to include needed LRA fixes.
* Misc (1/10)
- Various meetings
== Plan ==
- FSF branch merge #2
- Back on a Thumb2 insn fix
catomics - TCWG-436 [4/10]
* Fiddled with SPEC runs with unstripped binaries on tiny Juno discs
* Got a run for the interesting subset of SPEC, non-atomic catomics
still show no effect
* Tried a few catomics variations with the glibc malloc
microbenchmark, here non-atomic catomics show a significant effect
* Tried firing a perf shotgun at the malloc microbenchmark to see if
it suggests anything - results pending
Benchmark automation - TCWG-360 [3/10]
* Fixed Jira benchmarking
* Flushed some of the backlog out of my 'small fixups' branch
Misc [1/10]
Holiday [2/10]
