== Week of February 10th ==
- Reproduced STREAM performance regression. Started investigation. (3/10)
- Setup development environment on HP Chromebook 11. (3/10)
-- Chrome OS + crouton + ubuntu 12.04 + ppa/chromebook-arm -- produced a nice dev board environment.
- Continued account setup and preparations for Connect. (2/10)
- Misc. (2/10)
-- Various meetings.
-- Volunteered as admin for GCC's GSoC 2014. Filled in the application, started to stir up buzz in the GCC community.
== Week of February 17th ==
- Continue investigation of STREAM performance regression.
- Prepare FSF GCC 4.10 presentation for Connect.
- Look more into how LAVA does things and how to customize rootfs'es for boards.
-- In particular I'm interested in how to boot rootfs with matching kernel and linux-tools (perf is what I need) with ssh server on keystone board.
--
Maxim Kuvyrkov
www.linaro.org
== Progress ==
* Updated, tested and re-submitted patch for arm native
watchpoint/hwbreak rework. [2/10]
* Updated, split-up and tested patches for process record ASIMD, VFP
etc support. [TCWG-251] [TCWG-252] [3/10]
* Tried setting up gdb for aarch64, no luck yet. [TCWG-389] [1/10]
* Investigation of work required for catchpoints support for remote
gdb and gdbserver. [TCWG-263] [2/10]
* Study armv8 instruction set for record replay support. [TCWG-389] [2/10]
== Plan ==
* Follow up on upstream patches.
* Study aarch64 code and create task breakdown for record/replay
support. [TCWG-389]
* Setup gdb for aarch64 and try to run a demo application. [TCWG-389]
* Write how-to for using scripts to compare two gdb testsuite runs. [TCWG-96]
* Out of office on Tuesday and Wednesday for follow up on Macau visa
application.
== Issues ==
* none
== Progress ==
* 4.8 2014.02 Engineering release. (3/10)
* TCWG-58 : AArch64: Enable libsanitizer (2/10)
o re-based christophe's patch on fresh LLVM sources.
o committed in LLVM (Thanks Renato for your help)
o Progress stopped on this card until 4.10 GCC is opened
* LRA on AArch32:
o TCWG-343 : Make LRA the default for the ARM backend (0/10)
- No progress this week on my side.
- Vladimir upstreamed a fix for Thumb code size regression
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59535
o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (1/10)
- re-run Spec2K on Cortex-a15.
* Misc:
o LCA'14 : AArch64 toolchain status session. (1/10)
o Support Christian Bruel in his Linaro ramp up. (1/10)
o Various meetings. (2/10)
== Next ==
* Continue the on-going tasks
* backports review
== Issues ==
* None
== Progress ==
* Take care lp: 1270040, lp:1278337 and Beagleboard "Abort" issue.
* Respawn 2014.01 release to use newlib-linaro-2.1.0-2014.02 for
baremetal toolchains
(http://cbuild.validation.linaro.org/binaries/2014.01-01/)
* Test codes to duplicate shared compares to get more conditional
compares. Fix the bootstrap issue. But the latest test does not show
performance improvement in Spec2K.
* Rebase and test the CCMP patch.
* Read document about aarch64 CCMP/CCMN instructions and write
codes/patterns to generate the instructions. Test is ongoing.
== Plans ==
* Ccmp for AARCH64.
== Progress ==
* Figure how to have tcwgweb and cbuild-tools process the test
results from Jenkins and produce the diffs for comparison.
(TCWG-391 6/10)
* Wrote script to convert Jenkins produced data files to tcwgweb format.
(TCWG-391 1/10)
* Meetings and misc. (3/10)
- Worked on LCA14 presentation.
== Plan ==
* Continue fighting with tcwgweb to run test comparisons for Jenkins
builds. TCWG-391)
* Now that SSH is setup correctly in the TCWG build farm, GCC
testing tries to execute the remote tests, but hit's an error in
DejaGnu, which needs to be debugged and fixed. (TCWG-324)
== Leave ==
* Off to Nepal & Mt Everest after Connect.
== This week ==
Monday - Off
Reworked backports off origin instead of crypto-backport branch. Also used read/write git branch to push
- Affected backports 201164-206168, 201170, 201175, 201261, 201263 and 202020
Submitted backports for code review via git review
- Aarch64 ILP backports: 201164-206168, 201170, and 201175
- Aarch64 support for NEG in vectors registers: 201261 and 201263
- Aarch64 support for SISD shifts: 202020
== Next week ==
Submit backport 202256 for code review
Backport 202407 assigned to me
== Future ==
Things you plan to do in the future.
--
Michael Collison
Linaro Toolchain Working Group
michael.collison(a)linaro.org
== Progress ==
* IAS (TCWG-377)
- Stopping progress on .dn/.qn aliases, not suitable for IAS atm.
- Working on softvfp+vfp aliases (PR18689)
* EHABI (TCWG-124)
- Removed -arm-disable-ehabi
- Waiting for Keith's patch to work on EHABI respecting uwtables
* Compiler-RT (TCWG-125)
- Adding sanitizer guidelines for GCC developers
- Implemented --rtlib=compiler-rt for Linux targets
- Test-suite runs fine, only one error (PR18812)
* AArch64 (TCWG-387)
- First native builds, updating config.guess/sub (license issues)
- Found some JIT problems, unittests should be disabled
- Found some memory test failures
- Found 20 failures in test-suite
* Background
- Usual patch reviews & discussions
- Started a fire on GCC list, will monitor interactions closer
- Had a BoF accepted at the GNU Cauldron about GCC+LLVM collaboration
- Discussing possible LTO changes to binutils with GCC devs
- Helping Christophe/Yvan add AArch64 support for asan
* Time
- CARD-862 8/10
- Others 2/10
== Plan ==
* Continue softvfp in Clang's driver
* Work on Dwarf unwind tables
* Investigate RT and AArch64 failures
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2014.02
engineering release of Linaro GCC 4.8.
As announced at Linaro Connect USA 2013 Linaro GCC is moving to a
pattern of quarterly stable releases, with engineering releases in the
intervening months. This is the first engineering release. The next stable
release will be the 2014.04 release.
Linaro GCC 4.8 2014.02 is the eleventh release in the 4.8 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.8.3+svn207411 release, it includes performance
improvements and bug fixes.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to GCC 4.8.3+svn207411
* ARM-v8 crypto intrinsics support
* New vectorizer cost model
The source tarball is available from:
http://releases.linaro.org/14.02/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.8
Downloads are available from the Linaro Releases website:
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/
More information on the features and issues are available from the
release page:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.8/4.8-2014.02
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
This should match what we have in meta-linaro/dora, which is the linaro
2013.12 toolchain release.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Koen Kooi <koen(a)dominion.thruhere.net>
Date: 17 January 2014 19:35
Subject: Fwd: seemingly bug in Linaro gcc 4.8
To: Koen Kooi <koen.kooi(a)linaro.org>
Begin doorgestuurd bericht:
> Van: Khem Raj <raj.khem(a)gmail.com>
> Onderwerp: seemingly bug in Linaro gcc 4.8
> Datum: 17 januari 2014 17:56:23 CET
> Aan: Koen Kooi <koen(a)dominion.thruhere.net>
>
> Hey Koen
>
> I am seeing a problem with linaro gcc-48 basically angstrom/2013.12
release
> The issue is attached sample C file. When compiled and run on my ArchLinux
> box which is running upstream gcc 4.8.2 it works ok
>
> but on beagleboard it fails.
>
>
> to compile
>
> $CXX -pthread -std=gnu++11 a.cpp
>
> on ARCH
>
> kraj@leo ~ > g++ b.cpp -std=gnu++11 -pthread
> kraj@leo ~ > ./a.out
> 140309495478016 i: 1
> 140309503870720 i: 2
>
> on Beagleboard
>
> root@beagleboard:~# ./std-thread
> pure virtual method called
> terminate called without an active exception
> Aborted
>
> Can you pass this to right folks in Linaro and get some help in resolving
it
>
> I havent yet trried it with OE-Core gcc which is also gcc 4.8
>
> The issue is most probably ARM related as it seems to me.
>
> Thanks for help
>
> -Khem
>
