== Progress ==
* Out of office Friday 17
* Attended Virtual Connect sessions
* Vectorization
* Ran PGO/LTO session
* Lurked on AArch64/OpenEmbedded and Dalvik Performance sessions
* Did the 2012.08 release of the Toolchain
* Ran into infrastructure problems with armv5 builds
* Most of the build process is now done
* Start working on symbol_ref split benchmarking.
* Struggled to get my jobs to spawn
* Started to backport Ramana's fix to PR54212
* Submitted merge request for 4.7 backport
== Next Week ==
* Ensure 2012.08 release is completed
* Get symbol_ref benchmarking going properly
* Complete backports of PR54212
* Follow up to Virtual Connect Sessions
== Future ==
* Get my name against some blue-prints
* Find a small patch to GCC to use to pipeclean the submission process
--
Matthew Gretton-Dann
Linaro Toolchain Working Group
matthew.gretton-dann(a)linaro.org
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of
Linaro QEMU 2012.08.
Linaro QEMU 2012.08 is the latest monthly release of qemu-linaro. Based
off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes
and enhancements.
There are no major changes in this month's release, though
it has been updated to track the latest upstream QEMU changes.
The source tarball is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2012.08
More information on Linaro QEMU is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro
On 15 August 2012 00:45, Matthew Gretton-Dann
<matthew.gretton-dann(a)linaro.org> wrote:
> So looking at the logs this seems to be a transient data transfer error:
>
> The logs (http://builds.linaro.org/toolchain/gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08/logs/armv7l-natty…)
> have:
>
> make[4]: Entering directory `/scratch/cbuild/slave/slaves/tcpanda02'
> make -s -f ../../lib/fetch.mk
> gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08/gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08.tar-spawn 2>&1 | grep -v
> '^make\['
> Trying http://builds.linaro.org/toolchain/snapshots/gcc-linaro-4.7/gcc-linaro-4.7-…
> Trying http://ex.seabright.co.nz/snapshots/gcc-linaro-4.7/gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08.t…
> Trying http://builds.linaro.org/toolchain/snapshots/gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08.tar.xz
> Trying http://ex.seabright.co.nz/snapshots/gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08.tar.xz
> Trying http://builds.linaro.org/toolchain/snapshots/gcc-linaro-4.7/gcc-linaro-4.7-…
> Trying http://ex.seabright.co.nz/snapshots/gcc-linaro-4.7/gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08.t…
> Trying http://builds.linaro.org/toolchain/snapshots/gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08.tar.bz2
> Trying http://ex.seabright.co.nz/snapshots/gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08.tar.bz2
> bunzip2: gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08/gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08.tar.bz2: data
> integrity (CRC) error in data
Not sure here. ex.seabright is the authoritative source. Perhaps
there was a fault with the proxy in the control lab?
The good news is that the test fired and the build failed early. I've
logged LP: #1036867 to see if it happens again.
> The x86_64 build has succeeded OK though, so I (well Ramana really)
> have, eventually, restarted that build. We did encounter some issues
> with restarting the build as follows:
>
> 1) My Launchpad ID doesn't have permissions to spawn jobs through the
> web interface at ex.seabright.co.nz
Fixed.
> 2) So I attempted to spawn the job manually as follows:
>
> $ ssh -p7023 cbuild(a)ex.seabright.co.nz ./cbuild/tools/spawn.sh
> gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08 armv5-builder
> Spawning gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.08 into the queue benchmarks
> Spawned into a9-builder
>
> This wasn't exactly what I expected. What are the correct runes
> here to get a build?
Spawn picks the closest spawn class based on the filename or, if
supplied, the second argument. Here you supplied 'armv5...' which is
closest to 'benchmarks'.
What you want is to click 'Release' beside the job name in the
scheduler view, to respawn through the /spawn interface, or to touch
the .job file in cbuild@orion:~/queue/armv5-builder.
> I've left this job in place as I've probably done enough damage already...
>
> 3) Ramana then attempted to use the web-interface at
> http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/recent to get the job to rebuild
> (http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/scheduler/spawn?queue=armv7l&job=gcc-lina…).
> However, this results in a Python exception.
Real men don't use user-friendly argument checking :) Well, not on
hacks like this tool. There is no armv7l queue so an assert fired.
> 4) Finally we used Ramana's credentials on the spawn interface, and
> that seems to have spawned the rebuild correctly.
Good.
> I'll let this run and see what happens.
>
> Michael, can you just check that things are progressing properly
> please, and also give me appropriate permissions on the web interface?
Checking:
http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/buildlog/gcc-linaro-4.7-2012
shows that the build finished on x86_64 and i686. Checking /scheduler
shows that ARM builds are in progress on a9hf, a9, and armv5. Most
are in the testsuite and have ~6 hours to go.
-- Michael
== Progress ==
Linaro tasks.
* Some work on the intrinsics patches.
* Looked into auto-inc-dec stuff. Not enough improvements with scheduler
changes.
* Helped Matt get up to speed and wrote up some stuff for Christophe
with the vext examples.
* Investigated a bug that Mans reported upstream with the compiler
generating vdupeq . Have a patch being tested.
== Plans ==
* Finish up pending patches upstream. (neon intrinsics patches need to
be committed)
* Finish handing over patches.
* Fix PR54212.
Looks like I missed sending this for 2 weeks in a row.
== Progress ==
Linaro tasks.
* Some upstream discussions on neon testsuite bug. Poked at ML for
quite a bit. Looks like regexps in the neon intrinsics testsuite is
just wrong.
* Looking at a better way of doing the 64 bit arithmetic patches that
carrot proposed. Don't like them.
* Discussed with Richard about ubfx for a while.
* Reviewed the backlog and came up with suggestions for things for
people to do . Thought a bit about some stuff that Michael asked me to
look at .
== Plans ==
* Look at auto-inc-dec patches more and investigate benchmark results.
* Follow up on Intrinsics work.
* Follow-up on my intrinsics patches upstream.
* Finish looking at PR53664 and clean up testsuite further.
* Set up a TC2 for Linaro for benchmarking in the validation lab.
== Absences ==
* 17th Sept - 5th Oct - Vacation approved.
* 29th Oct - 5th Nov - Copenhagen Linaro Connect. Travel and hotel to
be booked.
All,
Is there anything left to go into the branches that needs to be in the
releases this week?
I believe Uli's patches have gone in - is there anything else required?
I will start spinning the releases around 0800 UTC tomorrow if nothing
else is needed for the release.
Thanks,
Matt
--
Matthew Gretton-Dann
Linaro Toolchain Working Group
matthew.gretton-dann(a)linaro.org
I would like to run Ubuntu 12.04 on a A9 Cortex-MP/armv7-a
development system that has *no FPU* hardware floating point unit.
Does this mean the entire toolchain needs to be recompiled?
Could you please shed light on appropriate settings
(toolchain and/or kernel) soft FPU emulation related options
for armv7-a without a FPU?
Thank...Peter
== Progress ==
* Started Linaro ramp up process
* Lots of admin, PC setup, Linaro docs reading
* Still unable to make bzr work. Investigating proxy restrictions.
* Started working on "constant vec permute operation for the vext
instruction"
* Still some pending internal work
== Next week
* Out of office Wed 15, Friday 17 and Monday 20
* Attend appropriate Virtual Connect sessions
* Progress on "constant vec permute operation for the vext instruction"
Virtual Connect is up next week. We've got two sessions lined up: the
first on profile guided optimisation and link time optimisation, and
the second on next steps with the vectoriser. Some other highlights
are the ones on system trace, Dalvik, and Aarch64 via OpenEmbedded
bootstrap.
The schedule is up at:
http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2012/08/07/linaro-announces-virtual-conne…
Our sessions are "Analyzing vectorizer performance regressions in GCC
4.7 and 4.8" at 1000 UTC on Monday and "Exploring The Performance
Impact of PGO and LTO on ARM" at 1000 UTC on Thursday.
You'll need Google Hangout set up to join. For those who can't make
it, the sessions also get recorded out to the Linaro OnAir YouTube
channel.
I've cancelled the Monday regular and Thursday stand up calls. See
you next week!
-- Michael
Current Milestones:
|| || Planned || Estimate || Actual ||
||cp15-rework || 2012-01-06 || 2012-06-23 || 2012-06-24 ||
||a15-lpae-support || 2012-07-13 || 2012-07-20 || 2012-07-20 ||
||clean-up-kvm-patches || || || ||
||track-kvm-abi-changes || || || ||
||fake-trustzone || || || ||
Overall KVM plan for 'do by end August': QEMU parts of this are a mix
of clean-up-kvm-patches and track-kvm-abi-changes blueprints, mostly.
http://cards.linaro.org/browse/CARD-167
== clean-up-kvm-patches ==
* did enough cleanup to be able to send a coherent initial RFC
patchset to qemu-devel/kvmarm.
== other ==
* upstream patch review, in preparation for QEMU 1.2 freeze next week
* put together qemu-linaro 2012.08 tarball (release next week)
KVM blueprint progress tracker:
http://apus.seabright.co.nz/helpers/backlog?group_by=topic&colour_by=state&…
-- PMM
