== Progress ==
* Bugfixing and testing QEMU AArch64 FP patches (7/10, VIRT-183)
* Debugging and submitting a patch for issue with Ruby and ARM pointer
encryption (2/10)
* Other miscellaneous work: glibc patch review, binutils testsuite
patch, expenses (1/10)
== Issues ==
* None
== Plan ==
* 2 day week next week then off until Jan 8th
* Wrap up qemu work to a good state to handover
--
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
== Progress ==
- cross-validation: (1/10). Follow-up, minor maintenance and
discussions on a few regressions. Now able to share top-level
reports.
- backports (1/10):
* multilib_defaults for 4.7
* committed all approved backport
* helped Michael solve some conflicts
- disable peeling: (3/10)
* confirmed it is now done by default on trunk, as part
-fvect-cost-model=XXX.
* Looked at benchmarks, comparing
-fvect-cost-model=cheap (default) and
-fvect-cost-model=unlimited.
- benchmarks on trunk (1/10): observed some variations from one month to
another on a few cases (checked June-November). This confirms
the need to run benchmarks regularly on trunk, in addition to
release branches.
- cbuild2 (3/10): continued working on source release. Submitted a few
small patches for review+integration.
- misc (1/10): various conf-calls and meetings.
== Next ==
- Make 2013.12 releases
- cbuild2: continue testing, try to make 4.7 source release
- libsanitizer on AArch64: resume work
== Issues ==
* Tcpanda03 seems unusable.
== Progress ==
* LRA on AArch32:
o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (5/10)
- Installed Saucy on Chromebook, lot of time wasted due to defective SD card
- Frequency governor now set to performance.
- Benchmark setting ongoing
- Tcpand03 SSH access re-enabled, board setting seems ok, but respawned
benchmarks are stuck and the board is no more reachable
o TCWG-343 : Make LRA the default for the ARM backend (2/10)
- Reduce iWMMXT testcase, analysis ongoing.
- Trunk testsuite with LRA shows a couple new faillures.
* Reviewed some merge requests. (1/10)
* Loop specialization patch review started. (1/10)
* Various meetings. (1/10)
== Next ==
* Continue LRA, merge and patch reviews.
== Progress ==
* Updated, tested and submitted new patches for a couple of gdb
testsuite failure on arm. [TCWG-269] [TCWG-34] [1/10]
* Performed GDB git repository testing suite results comparison:
[TCWG-34] [2/10]
Compared results and prepared googldocsheets for the following:
arm-native Vs arm-remote
arm-native Vs x86-native
arm-remote Vs x86-remote
* Investigated difference/failures in arm-native vs arm-remote
comparison sheet. [TCWG-34] [5/10]
Re-ran timeout failures with different values of timeouts.
Figured out causes of failures.
Figured out why some tests exit without emitting any logical result.
* In response to comments upstream tried to figure out alternate fix for
dwarf2 fortran parameter test. [TCWG-267] [TCWG-34] [1/10]
* Miscellaneous activities [1/10]
== Plan ==
* Analyze new failures in arm-native Vs x86-native and arm-remote Vs
x86-remote test results.
* Fix test suite failures and submit patches if any.
* Spend some time pining/updating/re-submit previous patches.
== Progress ==
- libssp gcc
Initiated mails for upstream discussion on supporting global and TLS
based libssp ABI for Aarch64. Now waiting for feedback from ARM
maintainers.
- Built few benchmarks with Linaro tool chain binaries. Faced some
openmp failures, compiler disabled for libgomp. Looking to rebuild
the linaro cross tool chain.
- Rebased glibc trunk and ran cross glibc tests on V8 foundation
model. With TLS SSP patch glibc's libresolve.so fails to build
because the stage 1 GCC compiler emits global stack_chk_guard. The
glibc dos not export global stack_chk_gaurd, when TLS based stack
guard is set. Now looking at supporting and test both TLS and global
stack guard ABI, but before that waiting for confirmation from ARM
maintainers.
- Reinstalled linux 13.04 ubuntu on my laptop
- Tested the patch
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-12/msg00170.html for
aarch64-none-elf target. No regressions found.
== Plan ==
- Continue upstream discussions and post RFC patches for glibc and gcc libssp
- Explore on cbuildv2
- Cross Build few openmp benchmarks
== Issues ==
* None.
== Progress ==
* 1.5 days off.
* Misc update for Linaro crosstool-ng
- Re-enable parallel build for do_cc_core.
- Add linaro-armeb-none-eabi config.
- Update all CT_TOOLCHAIN_PKGVERSION to "Linaro GCC 2013.11"
* Share toolchain binaries configures to cbuild2 group.
* Backporting r200103 and r205509 to linaro 4.8.
* Collect Spec2k INT results with -fno-move-loop-invariants and
-fira-loop-pressure on X86-64 and ARM Chrome book. Performance of
different cases waves from -2% - 2%. But the overall performance
changes < 0.5%.
== Plan ==
* Continue on CCMP.
== Progress ==
* Setup new git mirror of new binutils-gdb.git repository, and
added a cron job to update it every 10 minutes. (#369, .5/10)
* Started modifying Cbuildv2 to use new binutils-gdb
repository, which changes how we parse URLs. (.5/10)
* Modified Cbuildv2 to produce fully statically linked binaries so
32bit ones run on any distro, including 64 bit. (#368, 3.5/10)
* Worked with LAVA team to set up a private Jenkins for TCWG use
only to protect test and benchmark data. (#379, 2/10)
* Fixed Cbuildv2 bug where the dryrun function wasn't properly
trapping configure and build errors. (.5/10)
* Meetings & Card maintainance. (2/10)
* Quick winter camping trip at the hot springs for my bday, hit -38C !
== Plan ==
* More tweaks to source and binary tarball creation.
* Finish modifying Cbuildv2 to use new binutils-gdb repository.
* Fix all the minor bugs caused by properly trapping errors from
dryrun function.
* Make the new Jenkins build in a 32 bit chroot on the TCWG build
machines
* Figure out why Jenkins doesn't import the Junit files.
* Copy .sum files to remote host.
* If new Arndale or APM boards arrive this week like promised,
start evaluating them.
* Get the S&M team to start using Gerrit for merge requests for
Cbuildv2.
== Progress ==
* TCWG-367 drop --dostep, add --checkout (1/10)
Completed with following git commits:
commit 2d4d7588c1b05801ee5e1a924c8641ff7c322c07
Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org>
Date: Fri Dec 6 11:46:40 2013 -0600
cbuild2.sh: remove --dostep. It's no longer supported.
Also added testcase to make sure it returns an error.
Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org>
Date: Fri Dec 6 10:57:34 2013 -0600
Add cbuild2 --checkout <package>|all support with tests
* misc (1/10)
commit 9fb1c4404f8065ef844154e614ff4e7086fce176
Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org>
Date: Thu Dec 5 12:21:20 2013 -0600
lib/package.sh: git status should be run in the current directory.
commit 7bb4a9ce8ef440655fe45e6819b57da8d61e8728
Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org>
Date: Wed Dec 4 11:47:56 2013 -0600
lib/package.sh: git st should be git status.
* TCWG-356 Unify GIT URL parsing (5/10)
* TCWG-359 Change branch character (2/10)
Closed with following git commits:
commit c9368930e6fb1ad46d08c2dbcc34d8167344ad28
Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org>
Date: Tue Dec 3 16:29:00 2013 -0600
Finish git parser refactoring, use stamp functions, complete
dryrun wrapping.
commit eabbc74e48bc8c3a4addbc53ec6a492521193a0c
Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org>
Date: Wed Nov 27 16:31:20 2013 -0600
Working additions for git parser refactor and stamping.
== Issues ==
*misc (1/10)
- Discovered a bug in glibc when using upstream (4.9) gcc that isn't
present in 4.8. This might have something to do with how binutils
interacts with the compiler instead of simply a compiler issue:
elf/dl-addr.c:152: multiple definition of `_dl_addr_inside_object'
elf/dl-open.c:746: first defined here
== Plan ==
* Create card for new glibc multiple definition problem,
* Start working on glibc related cards
