# Progress #
* Support range stepping on arm-linux. TCWG-518. [4/10]
My patches causes some regressions but my patches just expose the
existing problem in GDBserver. Fix them and post patches upstream.
* Linaro connect. [2/10]
Go to London for visa application.
* GDB 7.11 release. No issues from my side. The tentative date of
release is Feb 26th.
* Fix GDB reverse debugging tests failures.
** Add more test cases, TCWG-183/TCWG-174. [2/10]
** Fix syscall handling in reverse debugging on ARM and AArch64.
TCWG-532/TCWG-167. [2/10]
# Plan #
* Support range stepping on arm-linux. Continue.
* Fix GDB reverse debugging tests failures. Continue.
* Review upstream patches.
* Go to London to collect my passport.
--
Yao
== Progress ==
* Validation
- AArch64 bare metal validation fixed. Patches waiting approval
- noticed a few failures caused by timeouts and failure to download
testcases. Maybe we are causing too much load on the builders/testers
* Connect preparation
- thoughts on extended validation
* GCC
- upstream monitoring, reported a couple a of regressions
- a few backports
- target attributes backport. Still having problems with our branch
* Misc (conf calls, meetings, emails, ....)
== Next ==
Holidays most of next week
Hi Toolchain Group,
I am trying to study the effect of loop buffer size on loop unrolling & the
way gcc (aarch64) handles this.
To my understanding, Loop Buffer is like i-cache which contains pre-decoded
instruction that can be re-used if branch instruction loopbacks to an
instruction
which is still present in the buffer. For example, in Intel’s Nehalem loop
buffer size is 28 u-ops. In LLVM compiler, it seems LoopMicroOpBufferSize
is for the same purpose.
However, I could not find any parameter/variable inside config/aarch64
representing loop buffer size. I am using Linaro gcc 5.2.1
[Question]
1. Is there any example inside aarch64 (or in general) which uses the loop
buffer size in loop unrolling decision? If yes, could you please mention
the relevant files or code section?
2. Otherwise any guidance/input on adding this support in aarch64 backend
assuming architecture has the loop buffer support.
[My Experiments/Code Browsing]
I have collected following information from code browsing. Please correct
if I missed or misunderstood something.
TARGET_LOOP_UNROLL_ADJUST - This target hook return the number of times a
loop can be unrolled.
This can be used to handle the architecture constraint such number of
memory references inside a loop e.g. ix86_loop_unroll_adjust() &
s390_loop_unroll_adjust().
On the same note, can this be used to handle loop buffer size too?
Without above hook, in loop-unroll.c parameters like
PARAM_MAX_UNROLLED_INSNS (default 200), PARAM_MAX_AVERAGE_UNROLLED_INSNS
(default 80) decides the unrolling factor. e.g. nunroll = PARAM_VALUE
(PARAM_MAX_UNROLLED_INSNS) / loop->ninsns;
In config/aarch64.c, I found align_loops variable in
aarch64_override_options_after_change() function.
I guess this an alignment done before starting the loop header in the
executable. This should not play any role in loop unrolling. Right?
So any guidance on how we can instruct aarch64 backend to utilize loop
buffer size in deciding the loop unrolling factor?
Thanks in advance for your time.
--
with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Handling aggregate types return values on arm-linux-gnueabihf ABI.
Patch review and committed upstream. [TCWG-228] [1/10]
-- Debugging of stepping issues on chromebook (arm hard float ABI)
[TCWG-230] [2/10]
-- Progress on vector return values and aggregate types return values
with vector elements. [TCWG-531] [2/10]
-- Started work on complex return values and aggregate types return
values with vector elements. [TCWG-531] [2/10]
-- Started writing test cases handling complex and vector return
values and aggregate types return values with vector and complex
elements. [TCWG-531] [2/10]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Finish work on complex return values and aggregate types return
values with vector elements. [TCWG-531]
-- Finish work on vector return values and aggregate types return
values with vector elements. [TCWG-531]
-- Finish work on test cases handling complex and vector return
values. [TCWG-531]
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [2/10]
* Better reporting/error trapping in dispatch scripts
* Some back and forth with Lab about builder implementation
* Started assessing target stability
* Fixed a few bugs in reporting/bundle generation
Document benchmarking infrastructure - TCWG-496 [2/10]
* All done apart from Jenkins interface
* Need to finish Jenkins interface first...
Generate graphs for benchmarking - TCWG-268 [1/10]
* Generate a bunch of filters and charts to track Coremark-Pro
* Wrote up what I learned about LAVA's reporting interface
EEMBC benchmarks - (no ticket) [2/10]
* Checked over what we had, decided it was probably complete
* Imported to our repos
* Wrote up what I know about this
* Moved Coremark-Pro into its own repo
** Broke some code that had worked by coincidence
** Fixed it
Misc
* Usual meetings/mail/etc
* Some fun with what turned out to be a known bug in the
linaro-media-create now used in main LAVA instance
* Educated guess as to why Jenkins-triggered jobs produced no bundle
** Raised a ticket
** Think I know how to fix on my side
=Plan=
If updated builder becomes available, convert uinstance jobs to use it
Test release benchmark job
Finish backport benchmarking
Document Jenkins interface
Assess target stability
More image reports in microinstance
== This week ==
* Bugzilla 69663 - [ARM] Implement overflow arithmetic standard names (3/10)
- Successfully tested SImode add, sub, and neg overflow patterns
- Developed DImode addv and subv patterns
- Debugging failures in DImode overflow patterns
* TCWG 833 - [ARM] Exploit Wide Add operations when appropriate (2/10)
- Made changes corresponding to upstream review
- Rebased to latest trunk
- Resolved issues with new test cases
- Fixed formatting and style issues
- Resubmitted upstream for final review
- previous review gave conditional support for GCC 7
- Successfully retested
- One remaining expected failure on targets with wide add support
(including aarch64)
- Plan to file a upstream bugzilla
* Misc (1/10)
* Vacation (4/10)
== Next week ==
* Bugzilla 69663 - Debug and resolve DImode pattern failures
* Bugzilla 69008 - Restart investigation
== Progress ==
BUGS (8/10)
- PR69708:
* Posted a patch to fix.
- PR69589:
* Posted a patch to fix.
- PR66726:
* Omitted the patch bu that triggered a bootstrap failure for ppc64.
Reverted the patch and looking into it.
- Misc (2/10)
* gcc/bug list
* Undefined behaviors slides for connect
* Meetings
== Plan ==
* LTO
* bugs
== This Week ==
* LTO/IPA (8/10)
- TCWG-528: patch cross-tested on arm*-*-* and aarch64*-*-*
- Submitted patch upstream to add entry for aarch64 to target-supports.exp
- Experimenting with Kugan's ipa-vrp prototype
- Had a look at ipa-comdat
- Connect slides
* benchmarking (1/10)
- issues with deployment (TICKET-259)
- Using Bernie's workaround for the above issue
* Misc (1/10)
- Meetings
== Next Week ==
- LTO/IPA: tcwg-528, benchmarking, look at ipa-comdat enhancements.
- Investigate tcwg-310 with perf
- Finish connect slides
== Progress ==
* Conference (2/10)
- More EuroLLVM paper reviews, discussions
* Support (5/10)
- Looking at PR16275 (review D17141)
* Background (3/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, general support, etc.
- Buildbots broken, bisects, debugging
- Defining and posting Job ad (wanna work with us?)
# Progress #
* Support range stepping on arm-linux. TCWG-518. [4/10]
Preparatory patches are pushed in. Patches are being tested.
* Linaro connect. [3/10]
** Slides are done.
** Collect documents for visa application.
* GDB 7.11 release. TCWG-509. [1/10]
Release branch is created. Discuss on issue related to big endian,
but ARM is the only user of that code.
* Patch review, especially arm tracepoint support. [2/10].
# Plan #
* TCWG-518, upstream patches if tests are OK.
* TCWG-172, continue look at test parity between arm and x86_64.
* Go to London on Wed for visa application.
--
Yao
