== Last week and today ==
* Backported fix for returning std::pair<bool, bool>. Unfortunately
this showed up a regression on 4.5. I couldn't reproduce it cross,
and the testcase itself looks innocuous, so I'm wondering whether
the patch might trigger a miscompilation of cc1plus.
* Committed SMS register-scheduling patches upstream and backported
to Linaro 4.6.
* Most of the week spent on -fsched-pressure. Still trying a few
variations in order to get the right balance. (My local haifa-sched.c
now has about 20 new toggles.) Still feel like I'm making progress,
rather than hitting the point of diminishing returns.
Hope Connect goes well. See everyone in a few weeks' time.
Richard
Completed the 4.5 and 4.6 FSF to Linaro merges.
Spun the Linaro GCC release tarballs, uploaded them to the test farm,
and set off the test builds.
Continued looking at the constant reuse optimization. This time I've
build GCC itself with the new pass to see how many optimization
opportunities there are. This shook out a lot more small bugs, which was
useful.
Backported my negative-shifts patch to Linaro 4.6, pushed it to
Launchpad for testing, and then committed it to 4.6 once in was approved.
Experimented with running SPEC2K on A8 and A9 boards in order to
establish a baseline for the generic tuning tweaks. A short test doesn't
give much clue as to what can be achieved, and a long test takes way too
long. The problem is also complicated by the benchmarks where the A8
tuning works better on A9 than A9 tuning does. :S
Received a bug report (GCC bugzilla 50717) for my widening multiplies
patches. Analysed the problem, developed a patch, and posted it to
gcc-patches.
<Short week with 2 days gone on an internal training course>
==Progress===
* Some patch review.
* Spent time looking at LP 836588.
* Tried some different approaches for the vcvt.f64.s32 case and it
looks like the simple solution is the best one unfortunately :(
* 2 days off at internal training course.
=== Plans ===
* continue looking into LP 836588
* Patch review week/
* Work on getting vcvt.f* case done and finish some of the backlog.
Absences.
* 31st Oct - 4th Nov - Linaro Summit Orlando - Travel booked -
* 08 Nov - 11 Nov - Tentatively booked
* Dec 19 - 31st Dec - Tentatively booked
I've just tried rerunning some benchmarks on my panda, which I
reinstalled recently and am getting
some odd behaviour:
The kernel is 3.0.0-1404-linaro-lt-omap
For example:
simple_strlen: ,102400, loops of ,62, bytes=6.054688 MB, transferred
in ,20324707.000000 ns, giving, 297.897898 MB/s
simple_strlen: ,102400, loops of ,32, bytes=3.125000 MB, transferred
in ,7904053.000000 ns, giving, 395.366782 MB/s
simple_strlen: ,102400, loops of ,16, bytes=1.562500 MB, transferred
in ,7354736.000000 ns, giving, 212.448142 MB/s
simple_strlen: ,102400, loops of ,8, bytes=0.781250 MB, transferred in
,91553.000000 ns, giving, 8533.308575 MB/s
simple_strlen: ,102400, loops of ,4, bytes=0.390625 MB, transferred in
,1495361.000000 ns, giving, 261.224547 MB/s
simple_strlen: ,102400, loops of ,2, bytes=0.195312 MB, transferred in
,1983643.000000 ns, giving, 98.461518 MB/s
Note the 8 byte one apparently 40 times faster, and for true oddness:
smarter_strlen_ldrd: ,102400, loops of ,62, bytes=6.054688 MB,
transferred in ,3936768.000000 ns, giving, 1537.984331 MB/s
smarter_strlen_ldrd: ,102400, loops of ,32, bytes=3.125000 MB,
transferred in ,0.000000 ns, giving, inf MB/s
smarter_strlen_ldrd: ,102400, loops of ,16, bytes=1.562500 MB,
transferred in ,4180909.000000 ns, giving, 373.722557 MB/s
Now, while I like infinite transfer rates, I suspect they're wrong.
Anyone else seeing this?
Dave
Implementing estimating register pressure in SMS.
Experimenting with the implementation on libav microbench.
Discussed with Richard some issue raised while implementing.
== GDB ==
* Created and published Linaro GDB 7.3-2011.10 release.
* Fixed LP #871901 (Linaro GDB crashes on 3.x kernels) in
mainline and Linaro GDB 7.3.
* Backported mainline fix for LP #829595 (Separate debuginfo
misidentified with "remote:" access) to Linaro GDB 7.3.
* Completed blueprint "GDB as a cross-debugger".
* Worked on support for cross-platform core file generation.
== GCC ==
* Patch review week.
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards
Ulrich Weigand
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== 64 bit atomics ==
* Thanks to Ramana for OKing my gcc patches; and Richard for
committing them - I've backported these to the gcc-linaro branch
and pushed it - hopefully those will pass OK!
== String routines ==
* Sent my memchr patch to upstream newlib, received comments,
tweeked, and resent
* Sent strlen patch to upstream newlib
* Spent some time getting confused by timing issues on our Panda; it
got reinstalled with 11.09 a few
weeks ago and is now showing some odd behaviours. In particular I'm
seeing some tests show completion in 0ns
(and my code isn't -that- fast!), and others where the times vary
wildly - it's almost as if a timer interrupt is delayed
or missing; my same test binary works fine on one of Michael's Ursa's
running an older install.
== QEMU ==
* Tested Peters QEMU image for release
== Other ==
* Spent an afternoon reading through the System trace docs
On holiday next week; I'll poll email occasionally.
Dave
Hi,
* working through my inbox after being away
* a former patch of mine accidentally broke remote unwinding on IA64
* maintainer made a quick fix that made things worse for ARM
* posted a patch that aims to fix things up for all archs
* identified and submitted libunwind-android patches that could go upstream
* sent patch that lets another testcase pass on ARM Linux
* tried to help people on the mailing list with various issues
Regards
Ken
RAG:
Red:
Amber:
Green:
Current Milestones:
|| || Planned || Estimate || Actual ||
||add-omap3-networking || 2011-10-13 || 2011-10-13 || 2011-10-13 ||
||a15-systemmode-planning || 2011-10-13 || 2011-10-13 || 2011-09-22 ||
||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || ||
||upstream-omap3-cleanup || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || ||
Historical Milestones:
||qemu-linaro 2011-04 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 ||
||qemu-linaro 2011-05 || 2011-05-19 || 2011-05-19 || n/a ||
||close out 1105 blueprints || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-19 ||
||complete 1111 planning || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-27 ||
||qemu-linaro-2011-06 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 ||
||qemu-linaro-2011-07 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 ||
||qemu-linaro 2011-08 || 2011-08-18 || 2011-08-18 || 2011-08-18 ||
||qemu-linaro 2011-09 || 2011-09-15 || 2011-09-15 || 2011-09-15 ||
== add-omap3-networking ==
* patches pushed into qemu-linaro and final testing done
== a15-usermode-support ==
* this is now in qemu-linaro 2011.10; only remaining thing is
for the patches to be taken upstream (no major review issues)
== linaro-qemu-11.11 ==
* qemu-linaro 2011.10 released
== other ==
* completed a desk move
* some sw/hw archaeology to answer a question about the FIFO size of
the PL041 on ARM devboards as part of reviewing audio support patch
* trying to track down a really weird problem where qemu on ARM host
dies with apparent memory corruption
* Working on using pdebuildcross/multistrap when cross compiling Firefox.
With multistrap all dependencies should be sorted out automatically.
The current status is that pdebuild-cross for armel is set up and the
compilation of the Firefox package starts. Does not come all the way though,
because some dependencies (for X11) are not in place after all. Will
continue investigation.
Best Regards
Åsa
