== Linaro GCC ==
* Worked on quad-word/big-endian fixes patch. Sent off a version
on Tuesday which worked OK, but which made some awkward changes to the
middle-end. Tried to re-think those parts, but without much luck: came
to the conclusion that spending more time trying to fix
element-ordering-dependent operations on quad-word vectors in
big-endian mode was probably not worth the effort (since we plan to be
changing things in that area anyway). Wrote a much-simplified patch
which simply disables those patterns, and ported it to mainline.
* Then, spent some time trying to set up big-endian testing with a
mainline build, since the lack of such an option is partly why we got
into this mess to start with. My current plan (as well as testing the
above patch) is to create an upstreamable patch to easily enable
big-endian (Linux) multilibs, in the hope that it'll generally make
big-endian testing easier. (Of course people will still need test
harness configurations which will allow running big & little-endian
code, which most won't have.)
* Also, ping lp675347 (volatile bitfields vs. QT atomics), and do some
some extra checks suggested by DJ Delorie, which seemed to work out
fine. Backported patch for lp629671 to Linaro 4.4 branch, and ran tests
(also fine).
* Continued discussion of internal representations for fancy vector
loads/stores in GIMPLE/RTL on linaro-toolchain.
== Last Week ==
* Continued implementing support for ARM unwind tables in libunwind.
* Sent patches upstream to improve binutils's readelf, adding support
for all remaining unwind table instructions (i.e. VFP/NEON and WMMX).
When used on ARMv7a, provides meaningful output for previously
'unsupported' opcodes that get used in some libraries (e.g. glibc).
== This Week ==
* Continue working on libunwind.
--
Zach Welch
CodeSourcery
zwelch(a)codesourcery.com
(650) 331-3385 x743
== GDB ==
* Posted updated implementation of #661253 (Improve
backtrace by using ARM exception tables) to gdb-patches,
which includes several changes requested by reviewers
* Posted updated patch to further improve backtrace
(in the absence of debug info) to gdb-patches
* Commented on a couple of GDB LP bugs
== Miscellaneous ==
* Started setting up IGEP v2 board
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards
Ulrich Weigand
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Stuttgart, HRB 243294
Since it came up in the toolchain meeting this morning, some links to
issues people are having doing ARM scratchbox-style builds because of
generic linux-user issues:
http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10529 # linux-user's mmap
implementation isn't very smart
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/668799 # qemu locking issues
which can cause build failures (sometimes)
-- PMM
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-linaro-n-cross-compilers:
- wrote patches for creating backports PPA
- each component [1] generates versioned -source binary package
(eglibc-2.12.1-source etc)
- a-c-t-b [2] got "PPA" boolean variable in rules to have one source package
for archive and for backports
- I built a-c-t-b with all components backports from natty in lucid pbuilder
Bugs:
- 684625 - libc6 is compiled for armv5 instead of armv7a
- confirmed, wrote fix, will sent for review and merge
- 683832 - gcc fails to cross compile Qt
- confirmed in maverick for cross gcc 4.4/4.5
- need to check with fixed (bug 684625) toolchain
- FTFBS of armel-cross-toolchain-base 1.53/natty
- issue is lack of LTO plugin built in gcc/stage2
- have first patches for it, need to test
1. component = eglibc, gcc-4.4/4.5, binutils, linux
2. a-c-t-b = armel-cross-toolchain-base
Regards,
--
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LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinjuszkiewicz
== GCC related ==
* PR44557, Thumb-1 ICE: originally thought a fix of constraint will
work, however after simplifying the testcase, received another ICE in
postreload, due to a load of IP, which is not permitted in Thumb-1.
Looking at some reload internals as part of fixing this.
* PR45416, ARM code generation regression. First fix from last week hit
an assert FAIL in the alias-oracle due to ARRAY_REFs not being handled
there. Also, further found some expand code quality regressions due to
this change. Turned to a more conservative fix by adding the related TER
substitution to expr.c:do_store_flag(), which produced more focused
results. However, 32-bit x86 slightly regressed in the same flag storing
code (did not use the 'testl' insn after the change). Still WIP.
* PR46667, submitted a section type conflict bug fix upstream, see
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-12/msg00137.html , which
supposedly fixes the upstream ARM-Linux C++ build. Jan Hubicka later
gave another fix, so still in discussion.
* PR45886, this PR is call for backporting the __ARM_PCS* preprocessor
symbols to gcc-4_5-branch. Submitted a mail to ask for approval, no
response.
== libffi VFP hard-float ==
* PR46508, libffi VFP assembly error. I missed this earlier due to using
a compiler configured with --with-fpu=vfp. Submitted assembly fix to add
the needed FPU directives. Committed to upstream trunk.
== This week ==
* Hope to wrap up the above in-progress PRs, as well as continue to look
at other PRs of interest.
* LP #685534 popped up on Sunday, and manifests on upstream trunk too.
Add this to queue.
* Think about GCC performance opportunities (Linaro)
== Linaro GCC ==
* Reproduce regression of my ldm/stm backport on 4.5, which is caused by
the other two merged patches in ifcvt.c. Fix them. Propose merge
request again. Learn how to sync/merge changes from one branch to the
other branch.
* Fix VFP_D0_D7 handling in predicate vfp_register_operand. Approved
and committed upstreams.
* Test new regrename improvement patch on x86_64, and measure
effectiveness of it on ARM. Code size of bash-3.2 is reduced 0.2% with
option "-march=armv7a -mthumb -O2 -frename-registers". Eric B. is
almost OK with this patch except some wording in comments.
== Linaro GDB ==
As discussed in UDS, I'll move to GDB work for gdb correctness.
http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/planner#tr-toolchain-gdb-correctness
In this month, I'll focus on GDB testsuite failures fixing.
* Analyze LP:615978, failures in gdb.base/annota3.exp.
Signal is not delivered to child while software single-stepping. The
same as LP:649121.
* Fix failure in gdb.xml/tdesc-regs.exp. LP:685494
It is caused by a target triplet matching error, when target is set to
"armv7l-linux-gnueabi". Target triplet matching in test cases should be
changed. Patch is being reviewed in upstreams.
* LP:616000 failures caused by -fstack-protector.
Homework to understand frame-related code in GDB. Got some big picture
of usage of some key data structures inside GDB on frame. Compared with
prologue with and without stack-protector, find some difference there.
Still no clue on how to educate GDB to identify whether stack-protector
is turned on or off.
* Fix one failure in printcmds.exp. LP:685702
This test case on 7.2 branch is a little bit out of date, compared with
GDB trunk. Backport one patch on trunk to 7.2 branch can fix this
problem. Backport patch is being reviewed in upstreams.
* Neon registers in kernel dump file. LP:615972
Ask Linaro kernel WG to see how to move forward on this. Discussion is
still ongoing.
== This Week ==
* Report the rest of GDB testsuite failures.
* Pick up some of them, and fix.
* Pass gcc patches in my queue one by one to gcc-patches to review.
--
Yao (齐尧)
RAG:
Red:
Amber:
Green:
Milestones:
| Planned | Estimate | Actual |
finish virtio-system | 2010-08-27 | postponed | |
get valgrind into linaro PPA | 2010-09-15 | 2010-09-28 | 2010-09-28 |
complete a qemu-maemo update | 2010-09-24 | 2010-09-22 | 2010-09-22 |
finish testing PCI patches | 2010-10-01 | 2010-10-22 | 2010-10-18 |
Progress:
* merge-correctness-fixes:
** Nathan Froyd (CodeSourcery) has reviewed a lot of
my ARM patches. Most were OK, one or two needed tweaking
We seem to have come to agreement on how best to treat
the API between qemu and the softfloat library, and I
have a V2 patchset ready to mail as soon as Nathan has
commented on the final patch.
** posted a patch to rename a very misleading _is_nan()
function
** identified list of correctness patches in meego and
samsung trees and issues noted within ARM
** qemu: posted patch to remove an unused function
** started looking at the first patch in the meego tree,
which fixes VQSHL. I have already discovered a bug in
this insn not covered by the meego patch...
Meetings: toolchain, PD update, ARM 20th birthday party
Plans:
- qemu consolidation
Issues:
* Locking in qemu is definitely insufficient, especially
(but not exclusively) when running multi-threaded
programs in linux-user mode.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/668799
has an example problem and some discussion; I'm hoping
some other qemu developers have an opinion, but the
nicest approach IMHO would involve fairly invasive
changes to how qemu implements interrupting a cpu
which is executing TCG code.
Not sure where this should sit in the priority list.
Things of note:
- there has been some discussion of broadening the "KVM Forum"
conference to include other virtualisation related topics including
Xen and also the TCG aspects of Qemu. Still all up in the air but
possibly colocated with LinuxCon in Vancouver in August. See:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2011
Absences: (complete to end of 2010)
Fri 17 Dec - Tue 4 Jan inclusive.
2011: Dallas Linaro sprint 9-15 Jan. Holiday 22 Apr - 2 May.
== This week ==
* Looked at a generic bug in GAS's handling of ifuncs. Sent a patch upstream:
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-11/msg00495.html
Alan quite reasonably wanted me to test on a variety of targets. For want
of anything better, I wrote a script to test Alan's list of 118 targets.
Tests went OK, patch committed upstream.
* Wrote more IFUNC tests. Found another problem (as yet unresolved).
* Looked at vector stuff, but nothing tangible yet.
(I also had to spend some time on other IBM things, sorry.)
== Next week ==
* Away Monday and Tuesday.
* More STT_GNU_IFUNC and vectors.
Richard
* Benchmarking of simple package builds with various string routine
versions; not finding enough difference in the noise to make any large
conclusions
* Looking at the string routine behaviour with perf to see where the time
is going
- getting hit by the Linaro kernels on silverbell missing Perf
enablement in the config
- Useful amount of time does seem to be spent outside the main 'fast
aligned' chunks of code
- pushing/popping registers does seem to be pretty expensive
* Started looking at libffi and hard float
- Started writing a spec
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Specs/LibFFI-variadic
- It's going to need an API change to libffi, although the change
shouldn't break any existing code on existing platforms where they work.
* Helping with the image testing
Dave
