Hello,
I haven't sent a report since week #36. For that reason, this report
covers three weeks.
# [GNU-796] Stabilise GDB testsuite results in the CI
- Implemented CI job to run fast GDB tests based on the list from
Sourceware's builder. Submitted Gerrit change requests for
jenkins-scripts and ci/job/configs.
- Posted Gerrit change request for jenkins-scripts with an improvement
to tcwg_gnu-build.sh to use a default path for the artifacts file if
one isn't given on the command line.
# [GNU-767] Support changing SVE vector length in remote debugging
- Started incorporating suggestions from Luis' review of the patches.
# Community participation
- Reviewed mailing list patch “[PATCH v3] gdb/arm: Handle lazy FPU
register stacking”
- Attended GNU Tools Cauldron 2022.
--
Thiago
Progress:
* UM-2 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
- sent out patch which adds a retry-on-EINTR loop to KVM_CREATE_VM ioctls
- wrote up the draft of the minutes for the QEMU Summit for review
- more code review and pullrequest collation (notably the Arm v8R support
patchset)
* QEMU-471 [QEMU ARM v9.0 Baseline CPU for TCG]
- read up on the remaining unimplemented features under this epic;
closed out one we'd already implemented, and wrote up enough detail
on the others to be happy with putting them all into the current
sprint (they're all small features)
- started looking at FEAT_GTG
thanks
-- PMM
Project Stratos
===============
- held poll for next meeting
- started planning for virtio-camera/sensor
QEMU Upstream Work ([UM-2])
===========================
- posted [PULL for 7.1 0/3] memory leak and testing tweaks Message-Id:
<CAFEAcA8oPjTq9quHxOCSczckwmmBSP0fY6dtCzwrNs59pMrNCw(a)mail.gmail.com>
- sadly one patch had to be reverted as it exposed another race
- posted [PATCH v1 00/10] plugins/next (disas, monitor, docs, execlog)
Message-Id: <20220921160801.1490125-6-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
- posted [PULL 00/30] testing updates (docker, avocado, deprecate
32bit BE MIPS) Message-Id:
<20220920171533.1098094-4-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
[UM-2] <https://linaro.atlassian.net/browse/UM-2>
Update docs
- mention -d plugin
- document features of tests/plugin plugins
- clean up command lines to drop builddir
KVM Forum
=========
- Attended KVM forum, gave a talk, helper with another
Completed Reviews [3/3]
=======================
[PATCH 00/62] target/arm: Implement FEAT_HAFDBS
Message-Id: <20220703082419.770989-1-richard.henderson(a)linaro.org>
[RFC PATCH v2] gdbstub: only send stop-reply packets when allowed to
Message-Id: <ba99db564c3aeb1812bdfbc9116849092334482f.1661362557.git.quic_mathbern(a)quicinc.com>
[RFC 0/4] Support interactions between TCG plugins
Message-Id: <20220901182734.2987337-1-fasano(a)mit.edu>
Absences
========
Current Review Queue
====================
TODO [PATCH v4 0/7] tcg: pc-relative translation blocks
Message-Id: <20220906091126.298041-1-richard.henderson(a)linaro.org>
=========================================================================================================================
TODO [PATCH 00/51] tests/qtest: Enable running qtest on Windows
Message-Id: <20220824094029.1634519-1-bmeng.cn(a)gmail.com>
========================================================================================================================
TODO [PATCH v2 00/33] accel/tcg + target/arm: pc-relative translation
Message-Id: <20220816203400.161187-1-richard.henderson(a)linaro.org>
=======================================================================================================================================
--
Alex Bennée
Progress:
* UM-2 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
- attended KVM Forum
- catching up with code review, email, etc...
- sent out an Arm pullreq now 7.2 has opened up for development
* QEMU-422 [QEMU Arm Neoverse V1 vCPU for TCG]
- diagnosed a regression caused by the recent FEAT_PMUv3p5 changes
and sent out a fix
KVM Forum trip highlights:
* it was good to be able to meet people face-to-face again after
several years
* Cloud use of Arm hardware has now got to the point where big cloud
companies are working through performance issues and then coming to
present about it; e.g. Google did a talk about perf issues during
migration on an Ampere Altra setup. The solutions seem to be a mix
of "apply the lessons and fixes we already went through with x86"
and "architecture fixes coming down the pipe" (in this case
FEAT_TLBIRANGE and FEAT_BBM).
* lots of Google talks about pKVM (using hypervisor hardware on
Android to improve security). In fact lots of Google all over --
apparently they've made a big push to do more upstream kernel work
and as a result a large chunk of the kernel KVM commits come from
them...
* talk from Xilinx (now with AMD) about doing co-simulation of QEMU
and RTL -- basically (with the aid of a lot of non-upstream stuff)
having QEMU talk to a SystemC environment so you can have eg an
emulated ethernet card in FPGA that plugs into a QEMU VM. This kind
of thing is a use-case which historically upstream have not really
been interested in addressing.
* Which brings me to the BoF session on emulation, perhaps the most
interesting bit of the conference for me. There was a lot of
discussion about whether QEMU might move closer to what I call the
"bag of lego bricks" paradigm, where it provides device models and
users might be able to configure it at runtime to stitch them
together, perhaps adding out-of-tree devices of their own. There is
clearly interest in this (eg from attendees from Xilinx and
Qualcomm); the sticking point is that from upstream's perspective
this seems like "you should do this thing that will benefit us and
not you". My take is that whether this goes anywhere will depend on
whether those who would like this are prepared to coordinate
together to present themselves as a group who are willing to dig in
to the necessary upstream refactoring and cleanup that would be a
precondition for having something like this be anywhere near
supportable, i.e. that they're a group who will come and help
rather than merely consume...
* There was also a shorter discussion in the BoF about the idea of
"heterogenous CPU emulation", eg one QEMU model with both Arm and
Microblaze CPUs. This is not conceptually controversial, it's just
a lot of work. It seemed like maybe a few folk now care enough to
have a go at it.
-- PMM
Hello,
# [GNU-767] Support changing SVE vector length in remote debugging
- Made a few last-minute adjustments to the code and fixed a couple of
regressions on x86_64-linux. Re-ran regression tests on x86_64-linux and
aarch64-linux. Wrote cover letter and descriptions for all the patches.
- Finally posted the patch series upstream¹.
# [GNU-796] Stabilize GDB testsuite results in the Linaro CI
- Started working on this issue. Currently adding a new CI job to run the
same small subset of GDB testcases that Sourceware's buildbot runs. This
subset runs quickly and has stable results so the job will be a good
canary to check that the CI infrastructure is working correctly.
--
Thiago
¹https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/20220908064151.3959930-1-thiago.b…
Hello,
# [GNU-767] Support changing SVE vector length in remote debugging
- Cleaned up code for upstream submission, and divided it into patches.
A couple of the patches affect other architectures and OSes, so made
sure the code builds on as many combinations I can test, and now doing
final regression testing on some of them. I'm hoping to finally send
the patches upstream early next week.
--
Thiago
Hello,
# [GNU-767] Support changing SVE vector length in remote debugging
- Finished fixing regressions in my changes to gdbserver for debugging an
inferior which changes the SVE length.
- Started cleaning up code for upstream submission and dividing it into
patches.
# Community participation
- Reviewed mailing list patches:
- [PATCH,v3] [aarch64] Fix removal of non-address bits for PAuth
- [PATCH 1/2] gdb: Fix deleted thread when issuing next command
- [PATCH 2/2] gdb: Improve the resuming of the stepped thread
--
Thiago
Progress (short week, 3 days):
* UM-2 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
- pretty much just tying up loose ends and doing other
miscellaneous bits and pieces
* QEMU-422 [QEMU Arm Neoverse V1 vCPU for TCG]
- respin, resend of PMUv3p5 series
-- PMM
