Hello,
# [GNU-767] Support changing SVE vector length in remote debugging
- Implemented support for expressing variable-sized vector registers in
the XML target description. Now making some changes in GDB's handling
of the expedited registers in the remote protocol and adjusting of the
g/G packet size.
# TCWG CI
- Analysed and closed LLVM code size regression GNU-963.
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Thiago
Progress:
* UM-2 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
- post-holiday catchup on email and code review
- respin and resend of a patch fixing a bug in rdma code
- sent a target-arm pull request
* QEMU-292 [ARMv8.3 FEAT_NV, Nested Virtualization]
- did an initial read-through of the relevant portions of
the Arm ARM to identify the work required here
thanks
-- PMM
Hello,
# TCWG CI
- Flakiness in gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp causes false positives on
tcwg_check_gdb--master-arm-precommit, so started investigating its
failures.
- Investigated regressions reported by the CI:
- GCC regression GNU-935: Not a real regression, just already existing
failures being reported for a new version of the C++ standard.
- linux-next regression GNU-936: Fixed in the newest linux-next tree.
- GCC regression GNU-962: Opened GCC bug 111802 ("New analyser diagram
failures since commit b365e9d57ad4").
- GCC regression GNU-965: Arm already opened GCC bug 111784 ("[14
Regression] aarch64: ldp_stp_{15,16,17,18}.c test failures since
r14-4579.") about this issue.
- GCC regression GNU-966: This problem has been fixed in trunk.
- linux-next regression GNU-967: A patch was sent to fix the error.
# [GNU-767] Support changing SVE vector length in remote debugging
- Working on adapting gdbserver's regcache to support registers with a
variable size.
- Also enabling the target description XML to express vector register
sizes in terms of another register.
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Thiago
+ linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org
Could someone help with this information in Maxim's absence ?
Thanks,
Lina
On Tue, Oct 10 2023 at 10:07 -0600, Lina Iyer wrote:
>Hi Maxim,
>
>Do you have a list of machines and who provided us with those machines
>that we use for WoA projects? I see the list in [1] but not where we got
>them from. Marcus from MS was asking for a list of MS provided machines
>that we have in use.
>
>Thanks,
>Lina
>
>[1].
>https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TCWG/pages/22395192116/Accessing+W…
Hi Dmitriy,
Linaro Benchmarking CI has flagged several interesting code-speed and code-size regressions for your patch -- see [1].
In particular, could you check if below regressions can be avoided:
- grew in size by 21% - 473.astar:[.] _ZN7way2obj12releasepointEii
- slowed down by 61% - 505.mcf_r:[.] price_out_impl
Both of these are for 32-bit ARM, but AArch64 also has code-speed and code-size regressions.
Let me know if you need any assistance in reproducing these problems.
[1] https://linaro.atlassian.net/browse/LLVM-1001
Kind regards,
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Maxim Kuvyrkov
https://www.linaro.org
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: ci_notify(a)linaro.org
> Subject: [Linaro-TCWG-CI] llvmorg-18-init-7933-ge13bed4c5f35: slowed down by 6% - 464.h264ref on aarch64 O2
> Date: October 8, 2023 at 04:26:39 GMT+4
> To: maxim.kuvyrkov(a)linaro.org
> Reply-To: linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org
>
> Dear contributor, our automatic CI has detected problems related to your patch(es). Please find some details below. If you have any questions, please follow up on linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org mailing list, Libera's #linaro-tcwg channel, or ping your favourite Linaro toolchain developer on the usual project channel.
>
> In CI config tcwg_bmk-code_speed-spec2k6/llvm-aarch64-master-O2 after:
>
> | commit llvmorg-18-init-7933-ge13bed4c5f35
> | Author: Dmitriy Smirnov <dmitriy.smirnov(a)arm.com>
> | Date: Fri Oct 6 11:15:00 2023 +0100
> |
> | [PATCH] [llvm] [InstCombine] Canonicalise ADD+GEP
> |
> | This patch tries to canonicalise add + gep to gep + gep.
> |
> | Co-authored-by: Paul Walker <paul.walker(a)arm.com>
> |
> | Reviewed By: nikic
> | ... 2 lines of the commit log omitted.
>
> the following benchmarks slowed down by more than 3%:
> - slowed down by 6% - 464.h264ref - from 11126 to 11766 perf samples
> the following hot functions slowed down by more than 15% (but their benchmarks slowed down by less than 3%):
> - slowed down by 44% - 464.h264ref:[.] FastFullPelBlockMotionSearch - from 1531 to 2206 perf samples
>
> The configuration of this build is:
> Below reproducer instructions can be used to re-build both "first_bad" and "last_good" cross-toolchains used in this bisection. Naturally, the scripts will fail when triggerring benchmarking jobs if you don\'t have access to Linaro TCWG CI.
>
> Configuration:
> - Benchmark:
> - Toolchain: Clang + Glibc + LLVM Linker
> - Version: all components were built from their tip of trunk
> - Target: aarch64-linux-gnu
> - Compiler flags: O2
> - Hardware: NVidia TX1 4x Cortex-A57
>
> This benchmarking CI is work-in-progress, and we welcome feedback and suggestions at linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org . In our improvement plans is to add support for SPEC CPU2017 benchmarks and provide "perf report/annotate" data behind these reports.
>
> -----------------8<--------------------------8<--------------------------8<--------------------------
> The information below can be used to reproduce a debug environment:
>
> Current build : https://ci.linaro.org/job/tcwg_bmk-code_speed-spec2k6--llvm-aarch64-master-…
> Reference build : https://ci.linaro.org/job/tcwg_bmk-code_speed-spec2k6--llvm-aarch64-master-…
>
> Reproduce last good and first bad builds: https://git-us.linaro.org/toolchain/ci/interesting-commits.git/plain/llvm/s…
>
> Full commit : https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/e13bed4c5f3544c076ce57e36d9a11e…
>
> Latest bug report status : https://linaro.atlassian.net/browse/LLVM-1001
>
> List of configurations that regressed due to this commit :
> * tcwg_bmk-code_speed-spec2k6
> ** llvm-aarch64-master-O2
> *** slowed down by 6% - 464.h264ref
> *** https://git-us.linaro.org/toolchain/ci/interesting-commits.git/plain/llvm/s…
> *** https://ci.linaro.org/job/tcwg_bmk-code_speed-spec2k6--llvm-aarch64-master-…
Hello,
Attended two events in a row in September, so had a bit of a time crunch
and the weekly report fell through the cracks...
# TCWG CI
- Investigated and fixed a few false positives in the GDB precommit CI
which were caused by random failures in
gdb.threads/process-dies-while-detaching.exp. Posted upstream and
later committed patch fixing the testcase to be more stable.
- After conversations during GNU Tools Cauldron and following Maxim's
suggestion, changed Linaro's CI to use the read1 library while running
the GDB testsuite to improve the stability of its results.
- After review from Tom Tromey, posted v2 and later committed a patch
which adds '--with-additional-debug-dirs' configure option.
- Committed a couple of changes to our CI scripts which make sure that
the kernel.yama.ptrace_scope and kernel.core_pattern sysctls have
correct values for running the GDB testsuite.
# [GNU-767] Support changing SVE vector length in remote debugging
- Now that Luis pushed his SME and SME2 patches, merged current GDB main
branch into my local branch. It builds but doesn't work yet.
# GDB Upstream
- Reviewed patch series "[PATCH v3 0/4] Dynamic properties of pointers".
- Investigated upstream bugzilla "18898 - Cannot specify non-default
list of directories as argument of --with-auto-load-dir on Windows",
but concluded it's an autoconf limitation that isn't easy to fix.
# Misc
- Prepared for Linaro's Employees Meeting.
- Attended GNU Tools Cauldron.
- Took a few days of vacation.
--
Thiago
Hi Arjun,
Please ignore this report. We had a new machine added to the testing pool, and it behaved differently than the others.
--
Maxim Kuvyrkov
https://www.linaro.org
> On Oct 4, 2023, at 22:30, ci_notify(a)linaro.org wrote:
>
> Dear contributor, our automatic CI has detected problems related to your patch(es). Please find some details below. If you have any questions, please follow up on linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org mailing list, Libera's #linaro-tcwg channel, or ping your favourite Linaro toolchain developer on the usual project channel.
>
> In CI config tcwg_glibc_check/master-arm after:
>
> | 13 patches in glibc
> | Patchwork URL: https://patchwork.sourceware.org/patch/76970
> | 72a0ec189c Move 'rpc' routines from 'inet' into 'nss'
> | e9e10ad39b Move 'protocols' routines from 'inet' into 'nss'
> | e0694af485 Move 'networks' routines from 'inet' into 'nss'
> | 547bcf6d44 Move 'netgroup' routines from 'inet' into 'nss'
> | 6c43eb641a Move 'hosts' routines from 'inet' into 'nss'
> | ... and 8 more patches in glibc
> | ... applied on top of baseline commit:
> | 1056e5b4c3 tunables: Terminate if end of input is reached (CVE-2023-4911)
>
> FAIL: 7 regressions
>
> regressions.sum:
> === glibc tests ===
>
> Running glibc:io ...
> FAIL: io/tst-close_range
>
> Running glibc:misc ...
> FAIL: misc/tst-epoll
> FAIL: misc/tst-epoll-time64
> FAIL: misc/tst-mount
> FAIL: misc/tst-process_mrelease
> ... and 6 more entries
>
> You can find the failure logs in *.log.1.xz files in
> - https://ci.linaro.org/job/tcwg_glibc_check--master-arm-precommit/802/artifa… .
> The full lists of regressions and progressions are in
> - https://ci.linaro.org/job/tcwg_glibc_check--master-arm-precommit/802/artifa… .
> The list of [ignored] baseline and flaky failures are in
> - https://ci.linaro.org/job/tcwg_glibc_check--master-arm-precommit/802/artifa… .
>
>
>
> -----------------8<--------------------------8<--------------------------8<--------------------------
> The information below can be used to reproduce a debug environment:
>
> Current build : https://ci.linaro.org/job/tcwg_glibc_check--master-arm-precommit/802/artifa…
> Reference build : https://ci.linaro.org/job/tcwg_glibc_check--master-arm-build/650/artifact/a…