Hi
I'm concerned that the workaround for apr was just uploaded in the form
of disabling process shared mutexes (see LP #599874), but we didn't
address or investigate the root cause in eglibc.
Would someone be able to look at LP #604753 where the issue is tracked?
Thanks!
--
Loïc Minier
...is available at:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2010-08-16
-- Michael
Agenda
• Benchmarks
□ ffmpeg (h.264), libmad (mp3), LAPACK, CoreMark, Dhrystone, and memcpy()
□ EEMBC
□ Methods of benchmarking
• Patch tracking
□ Minimum features
□ Discovering upstream patches to backport
□ Example version at http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/patchtrack
□ Ticket view at http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/tickets
• Upstream tracking
□ Ubuntu tracks release+SVN. What should we do?
• memcpy() and friends
□ https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/StringRoutines
□ Copyright issues with EGLIBC
• Hardware status
• Creating blueprints
• Connecting with other groups
• Open tickets
□ 616141 Backport the sync_* primitive fixes
□ 590696 fix wrong use of objdump during cross build
□ 600277 Backport ARM Cortex A9 scheduling changes
□ 605059 Merge 4.4.5
Blueprint Assignee
Initial delivery of Linaro GCC 4.4 ams
Cross Compiler Packages hrw
Action Items from this Meeting
• TBD
Action Items from Previous Meeting
• ACTION: Richard to ask the GCC developers on IRC what the status of 4.4.5
is
• ACTION: Andrew to merge 4.5.1 and the Firefox fix by 2010-08-17
• ACTION: Ulrich to ticket GDB items
• ACTION: Michael to understand whiteboards as a way of organising features
...are here:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2010-08-11
-- Michael
Attendees
• Name Email IRC Nick
Yao Qi yao.qi(a)linaro.org yao
Ulrich Weigand ulrich.weigand(a)linaro.org uweigand
Richard Earnshaw richard.earnshaw(a)arm.com rearnshaw
Peter Maydell peter.maydell(a)linaro.org pm215
Michael Hope michael.hope(a)linaro.org michaelh
Julian Brown julian(a)codesourcery.com jbrown
Chung-Lin Tang cltang(a)codesourcery.com cltang
Agenda
• Stand up call
Blueprint Assignee
Initial delivery of Linaro GCC 4.4 ams
Cross Compiler Packages hrw
Action Items from this Meeting
• ACTION: Michael to email his configure options to Julian
• ACTION: Richard, if he's going, will set up
Action Items from Previous Meeting
Minutes
• Julian
□ Continues to merge 4.4 into the CSL 4.5 branch
□ Andrew is pushing changes out to the Linaro branch
□ Can't reproduce some failures
□ ACTION: Michael to email his configure options to Julian
• Ulrich
□ Has been ticketing the GDB features and faults for him and Yao to work
on
• Yao
□ GCC patch has been approved upstream
□ Going through the GDB tickets
• Chung-Lin
□ Doing some last optimisations
□ Preparing to send the patch upstream
• Peter
□ Looking into virtio
□ Amit has been working on similar
□ Michael suggests getting on IRC and asking
□ Almost has approval to work publicly
• Richard
□ Issues were found with the sync fixes. These are being reworked
• Michael
□ Looked at benchmarks and string routines
□ Want the group to start pulling the A9 changes down
□ And other A9 pipeline changes
□ Richard suggests pulling Marcus's 4.4 sync primitives fix in too
• GCC Summit
□ Overlaps with UDS
□ Ulrich suggests a BoF session on the ARM toolchain
□ ACTION: Richard, if he's going, will set up
□ Not enough material for a paper at the moment
The next meeting is the stand up call on Friday.
I wanted to point somebody at this mailing list (linaro-toolchain),
and I noticed that it wasn't listed here:
https://wiki.linaro.org/GettingInvolved
which is the first place I tried. Is that deliberate, or just an oversight?
thanks
-- Peter Maydell
Hi Michael,
here's a list of features and bugfixes that can serve as a basis for
Monday's discussion on what we should be working on in GDB in the future.
The goal of the list is to fix currently known problems with GDB, including
the testsuite, as well as bringing GDB on ARM in line with other platforms
by adding required back-end support to enable common GDB features that are
already supported elsewhere. It does not yet include anything completely
new that we'd develop specifically for ARM.
If anybody knows of a feature or bugfix I've missed, please let me know!
Features/fixes involving kernel support:
- hardware watchpoint support
- Neon registers in core files
- Interrupted syscall handling
- PTRACE_ATTACH disabled ?
Features/fixes involving GCC support:
- backtrace from abort (missing LR save)
- debug info for args in varargs routine
GDB features/fixes:
- prologue parsing on Thumb-2
- displaced stepping on Thumb
- syscall tracing support
- improved epilogue detection (fix software watchpoints)
- multi-threaded debugging inferior crashes
- multi-threaded Thumb/ARM state tracking
- signal handler stepping
- inferior call fixes
- misc. other testsuite regressions
gdbserver features/fixes
- Neon register support
- fast tracepoints
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards
Ulrich Weigand
--
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= Friday 7th August 2010 =
== This month's meetings ==
<<MonthCalendar(WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings,2010,08,,,,WorkingGroups/ToolChain/MeetingTemplate)>>
== Attendees ==
||<rowbgcolor="#333333" rowstyle="color: white; font-weight:
bold;"style="text-align: center;">Name ||<style="text-align:
center;">Email ||<style="text-align: center;">IRC Nick ||
|| Andrew Stubbs || andrew.stubbs(a)linaro.org || ams ||
|| Chung-Lin Tang || cltang(a)codesourcery.com || cltang ||
|| Julian Brown || julian(a)codesourcery.com || jbrown ||
|| Marcin Juszkiewicz || marcin.juszkiewicz(a)linaro.org || hrw ||
|| Michael Hope || michael.hope(a)linaro.org || michaelh ||
|| Peter Maydell || peter.maydell(a)linaro.org || pm215 ||
|| Richard Earnshaw || richard.earnshaw(a)arm.com || rearnshaw ||
|| Ulrich Weigand || ulrich.weigand(a)linaro.org || uweigand ||
|| Yao Qi || yao.qi(a)linaro.org || yao ||
== Agenda ==
* Stand up meeting
== Action Items from this Meeting ==
== Action Items from Previous Meeting ==
== Minutes ==
* Andrew:
* Continues to push the 4.5 patches
* Seen one regression so far which he is investigating
* Continues to approve 4.4 merge requests
* Spinning 2010.08 release today
* Will give tarball to michaelh to also build
* Yao:
* Continuing on bug fixes and merges
* [[LP:602174]]: Problem has gone away, to confirm on release
* [[LP:602288]]: Leave test in-place. Change was backed out
* [[LP:602190]]: will set options in test case
* Ulrich:
* Investigating test failures
* getfem++ failure is triggered in wrapped library
* May be due to a different environment
* Will investigate further
* Richard:
* Cortex-A9 patches sent upstream
(http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-08/msg00481.html)
* `__sync` primitive patches sent upstream
(http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-08/msg00492.html)
* Peter
* Introduced himself
* Julian:
* Porting patches from 4.4 to the 4.5 CSL branch is ongoing
* Continuing with the misalignment patch issues
* Looking into failures on the 4.5 CSL branch
* Michael asked Julian to look at the 4.5 tests on Linaro as well
* Marcin:
* All stages of the cross compiler are done
* Sent a link to the PPA over IRC
* Mentioned that configure objcopy issue. Michael says that the
TCWG will take it over
* Vacation is coming up in about a week
* Chung-Lin:
* Now running the libffi test suite
* Four regressions so far
* Andrew is organising access to the benchmark suite
* Michael: do want to be able to reproduce these results in the
future. Please record everything needed to reproduce (compiler, host,
environment, scripts, etc.)
* Michael:
* Extending the builds further. Added eglibc.
* Thinking about what's next
* Discuss on Monday
LP:602190(https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/602190) and
LP:602285(https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/602285) are
related to this patch below. You can get more details from comments
of these bugs, since I've added my understand of the cause in
comments.
This patch is to improve the performance of generated code, however,
these two bugs are related to this patch(, correct me if I am wrong).
Now, we have two options, 1) revert this patch, and make these test
case pass; 2) keep this patch and fix test cases, 3) fix bugs and keep
this patch,
What do you think?
2009-08-26 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan(a)codesourcery.com>
Issue #6131 - Enable additional optimizations by default in Lite
Issue #6103 - Reduce default unrolling parameters at -O3
* release-notes-csl.xml (Improved optimization for ARM): New note.
gcc/
* config/arm/arm.c (arm_override_options): If flag_unroll_loops has
the default value, adjust unrolling parameters.
(arm_optimization_options): Set flag_unroll_loops to a default value.
Enable flag_promote_loop_indices.
Modified: gcc/config/arm/arm.c
==============================================================================
--- gcc/config/arm/arm.c (original)
+++ gcc/config/arm/arm.c Fri Aug 28
14:41:19 2009
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
#include "langhooks.h"
#include "df.h"
#include "intl.h"
+#include "params.h"
/* Forward definitions of types. */
typedef struct minipool_node Mnode;
@@ -1857,6 +1858,29 @@
warning (0,
"-low-irq-latency has no effect when compiling for the
Thumb");
low_irq_latency = 0;
+ }
+
+ /* CSL LOCAL */
+ /* Loop unrolling can be a substantial win. At -O2, limit to 2x
+ unrolling by default to prevent excessive code growth; at -O3,
+ limit to 4x unrolling by default. We know we are not optimizing
+ for size if this is set (see arm_optimization_options). */
+ if (flag_unroll_loops == 2)
+ {
+ if (optimize == 2)
+ {
+ flag_unroll_loops = 1;
+ if (!PARAM_SET_P (PARAM_MAX_UNROLL_TIMES))
+ set_param_value ("max-unroll-times", 2);
+ }
+ else if (optimize > 2)
+ {
+ flag_unroll_loops = 1;
+ if (!PARAM_SET_P (PARAM_MAX_UNROLL_TIMES))
+ set_param_value ("max-unroll-times", 4);
+ }
+ else
+ flag_unroll_loops = 0;
}
}
@@ -21175,6 +21199,17 @@
set_param_value ("max-inline-insns-single", 1);
set_param_value ("max-inline-insns-auto", 1);
}
+ else
+ {
+ /* CSL LOCAL */
+ /* Set flag_unroll_loops to a default value, so that we can tell
+ if it was specified on the command line; see
+ arm_override_options. */
+ flag_unroll_loops = 2;
+ /* Promote loop indices to int where possible. Consider moving this
+ to -Os, also. */
+ flag_promote_loop_indices = 1;
+ }
}
--
Yao Qi
CodeSourcery
yao(a)codesourcery.com
(650) 331-3385 x739
Hi Peter. Further to our call yesterday, I've created four blueprints
that cover the initial QEMU work:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/qemu-linaro
virtio-system and qemu-focused-kernel should be done first, but you
might as well start looking at merge-other-branches in the background.
I haven't gone into great detail - feel free to flesh out the
blueprints as you go, and don't hesitate to ask if you need more
information.
-- Michael
