4 day week 31-Oct local holiday
Bug fix (2/10) * Looking at a register allocation issue with ARMv7 hard float issue. (3/10) Tried changing machine description pattern same as trunk in gcc 4.8 branch. Issue does not occur with trunk and reason is arm64 moved to lra. turning off lra bug occurs. Trying to find out if it is easy to fix in reload or wait for LRA backport.
PGO - AArch64 (TCWG-179) (3/10) * Native CPU2006 runs on V8 foundation model. SPEC runs -O3 -mcpu=cortex-a57. INT benchmark failures seen with mcf and h264ref. rest benchmarks running. * Tried to use ubuntu saucy core image on V8 foundation model and mount NFS is failing. * Trying to install QEMU user static for aarch64 and use them from chroot environment
GLIBC Systemtap (2/10) * Re spined libc systemtap probe patch to glibc. Will newton is testing it in hardware.
Meetings (2/10) * Attend 1-1 with Ryan discuss 2014 goal planning. * Attend 1-1 with Maxim discuss PGO work.