== Progress ==
* glibc patch review (2/10)
* Helping out with aarch64 glibc setjmp/longjmp Systemtap probes testing (1/10)
* Investigated and submitted patch for gas ARM alignment issue (3/10)
* Committed library and script for malloc logging (1/10, TCWG-423)
* Rebased and tidied up malloc microbenchmark (2/10, TCWG-160)
* Various small binutils and glibc patches (1/10)
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* Submit patch for glibc malloc microbenchmark
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
Hi all,
I've just filed a bug on glibc I'd love you to take a look at:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16796
Here's the description to save clicking:
Hi,
There is a test in glibc (tst-tls5) that tests that
((uintptr_t)pthread_self())%16 is zero. But watch this:
(t-mwhudson)mwhudson@am1:~$ cat btp.c
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pthread.h>
int
main(int argc, char** argv)
{
uintptr_t p = (uintptr_t)__builtin_thread_pointer();
uintptr_t q = (uintptr_t)pthread_self();
printf("p: %lx %ld\n", p, p%16);
printf("q: %lx %ld\n", q, q%16);
}
(t-mwhudson)mwhudson@am1:~$ gcc -o btp btp.c -lpthread
(t-mwhudson)mwhudson@am1:~$ ulimit -s unlimited
(t-mwhudson)mwhudson@am1:~$ ./btp
p: 2000028d88 8
q: 2000028698 8
(t-mwhudson)mwhudson@am1:~$ ulimit -S -s 8192
(t-mwhudson)mwhudson@am1:~$ ./btp
p: 7f7fd086f0 0
q: 7f7fd08000 0
So something is clearly wrong; maybe it's just that the test is too
strict, but somehow that seems a bit unlikely. FWIW, this doesn't
happen if you don't link with libpthread so maaaaybe it's a bug in
something that ends up in libpthread's .init section?
Cheers,
mwh
== Week of March 24th ==
- STREAM regression (TCWG-388, 5/10)
-- Finished prototype patch. The patch adds modeling of ARM L2 auto-prefetcher hardware to GCC scheduler (the model is very simple as auto-prefetcher is very lightly documented). Half of the patch cleans up and improves GCC scheduler, and the other half implements the auto-prefetcher model.
-- While looking into ARM scheduling support noticed that ARM doesn't use multipass lookahead scheduling, which surprised me. Enabled it (multipass scheduling) in my patches.
- Looked into lll_timed_wait Glibc/uClibc bug upstream (1/10)
-- https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00905.html
- Various discussions and reviews (4/10)
== Week of March 30th ==
- STREAM regression (TCWG-388)
-- Benchmark patches on SPEC2k and find/confirm best values for tuning parameters:
--- dfa_lookahead: should normally be issue_rate-1.
--- L2 auto-prefetcher queue depth: new tuning knob.
-- Investigate any performance regressions from the patches.
- lll_timed_wait Glibc/uClibc bug
-- Make sure it is fixed upstream. Possibly backport to Linaro branches.
--
Maxim Kuvyrkov
www.linaro.org
== Issues ==
* none
== Progress ==
* Launchpad bugs:
o TCWG-422 : ICE in assign_by_spills building linux btrfs module (1/10)
- created blueprint for :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/1296676
- Reported upstream as :
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60650
- Reduced testcase
- Fix committed by Vladimir as rev208876
- still ICE when configured for arm-none-linux-gnueabihf
o Backported "Internal compiler error in push_reload during
bootstrap stage 2" to GCC 4.7 (1/10)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/1129013
- some testsuite regressions observed. will investigate.
* Backports review: (5/10)
o reviewed backport for pr60264 and rev202663
o cortex-a53 support backport:
- Analysed testsuite regression
- 22K Loc patch under review
* LRA on AArch32:
o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (1/10)
- looked at the perf tool results
* Misc:
o Various meetings (1/10).
o Various support to team members (1/10)
o Cbuildv1 baby-sitting (Calxedas nodes have to be restarted after
each upgrades !)
== Next ==
- continue cortex-a53 review
- continue on backports.
- continue on TCWG-345.
== Progress ==
* Short Week
-- Monday Day Off: Pakistan Day 23rd March public holiday roll over. [2/10]
-- Short leave on Thursday [1/10]
* Work on gdb testing utility [TCWG-96] [7/10]
-- Writing a new gdb testing utility script that automates gdb
testing in various configurations and compares testsuite results.
-- Support for all kind of native, native-gdbserver and
remote-gdbserver gdb configurations has been added.
-- Interactive and configuration file based user input mode has been added.
-- Testing configurations host alive, ssh possible, board file found
and ability to build sources using user defined configure flags has
been added.
== Plan ==
* Work on gdb testing utility [TCWG-96].
-- Add support to run native and native-gdbserver test via ssh on
remote machines like arm-linux.
-- Bug fix and test gdb testing utility by running it various configurations.
-- Update wiki page with testing utility and how to use it.
== This week ==
a53 support
- Fixed regression found in arm testing and resubmitted build and
merge requests
- arrch64 testing passed with no regressions. Testing with a53
support enabled still required
Merged 202663 (vectorizer bug) into 4.7 and 4.8 branches. Submitted
merge and build requests
== Next week ==
- Test aarch64 with a53 support enabled on qemu64
- Work on bug 60657 - [4.9 Regresssion] ICE: error: insn does not
satisfy its constraints
== Future ==
== Issues ==
* None
== Progress ==
* Create prebuilt sysroot based on Linaro eglibc 2014.04 release
(https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries/support/01/+download/linaro…)
(1/10).
* Enable shrink-wrap for apcs. Patch was out for community review. (1/10)
* Reinvestigate shrink-wrap enhancement (4/10, TCWG-133)
- There was improvement in ira to split_live_ranges_for_shrink_wrap
(http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10474). But it still can
not handle the case in 453.povray.
- Investigate to do a simple copy-forward when prepare_shrink_wrap.
* Investigate lp:1296942 (pr60663). Patch is sent out for community
review. (4/10)
* Backporting the fix for pr60264 to Linaro 4..8.
== Plans ==
* Continue on shrink-wrap enhancement.
== Planned leaves ==
* April 7: Qingming holiday.
== Progress ==
- TCWG-413 Spec2006 (7/10)
- Investigated compiler error for 481.wrf with FSF 4.8.2. Issue is
due to aarch64_cm<cmp><mode> pattern (fcmle and fcmlt supports only #0
as third val). This is already fixed in trunk and Linaro 4.8.
- Ran profiling to analyse 4.9 regressions. Started looking into
P7Vitterbui which is one of the functions that performs badly.
- TCWG-291 CRC (3/10)
Came up with a patch for improving vrp for test-case. Some c++ test
cases are failing in regression testing with this patch. Looking into it.
- TCWG-394 / PR60034
Patch committed and card closed.
http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?rev=208949&root=gcc&view=rev
== Plan ==
Continue with Spec2006 and crc
== Progress ==
* Android (no card, 10 minutes. ;)
- Implemented __builtin___clear_cache in Clang
* Kernel (TCWG-417) 6/10
- VLAIS in crypto (last place in kernel)
- __builtin__stack_pointer (new builtin)
- Discussion in GCC list, named registers might be a better option
- Discussion in LLVM list about implementing named registers
- Implementing named register variables...
- Planning on LAVA testing LLVM kernels with LLVMLinux
- __aeabi_memset/cpy/move (both Android and Kernel) will have to be fixed
* Libraries (TCWG-125) 2/10
- libc++abi's unwind routines assume (ARM == SjLj)
- libc++ doesn't work without them
- We'll need to teach it about EHABI (later)
* Background 2/10
- Installed ArchLinux on my laptop, took some time to setup
- Re-org of LLVM Jira Cards (TCWG-417)
- Reviewing some GSoC proposals
== Plan ==
* implement named register variables in LLVM, then Clang
* Continue helping LLVMLinux and Milosz to test the LLVM kernel
* Time allowing, check CBuild2 for an LLVM build
* Two long weeks of holidays...
== Progress ==
* Bugfix aarch64 setcontext patch (2/10, TCWG-410)
* malloc requirements wiki page (2/10, TCWG-414)
* Lots of creating and updating and updating JIRA cards (1/10)
* glibc patch review (1/10)
* Assorted small patches - ld relasz, gnulib obstack, glibc strtod
benchmark (2/10)
* Investigate a couple of issues raised by member services and on lists (2/10)
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* Resurrect glibc malloc benchtest
* More glibc benchmark infrastructure work
* Check status of glibc ARM port build warnings
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
