linaro-toolchain January 2013

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by Peter Maydell

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

11 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] 14-18 January 2013

by Yvan Roux

== 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.

11 years, 10 months

[Activity] Week 03

by Zhenqiang Chen

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

11 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] 14-18 January 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== 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

11 years, 10 months

[ACTIVITY] 14-18 Jan

by Renato Golin Linaro

== 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

11 years, 10 months

[ANNOUNCE] Linaro GCC 4.7 and 4.6 2013.01 released

by Zhenqiang Chen

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/4.7-2013.01 https://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/4.7/4.7-2013.01 https://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

11 years, 10 months

Thursday 17th January 2013 1600 UTC Performance Call cancelled

by Matthew Gretton-Dann

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 -- Matthew Gretton-Dann Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

11 years, 10 months

[PATCH] Cortex Strings AArch64 strnlen.S fix

by Marcus Shawcroft

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

11 years, 10 months

[PATCH] Cortex Strings AArch64 fix for strncmp.S

by Marcus Shawcroft

This patch fixes an issue in the AArch64 strncmp implementation which occurs if ULONG_MAX-15 <= n <= ULONG_MAX. /Marcus

11 years, 10 months

AArch64 NEON polynomial types

by Renato Golin Linaro

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

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