linaro-toolchain April 2011

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by AJ ONeal

I'm just curious as to what "__aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0" is or means. I can't find any explanation by googling. I'm about to post a separate e-mail with my problem concerning it. AJ ONeal

15 years, 1 month

[ACTIVITY] 11th -15th April

by Andrew Stubbs

Reviewed and approved Revital's do-loop patch, and Ira's store sinking patch. More precisely, I reviewed the test results from Michael's test system, and cast my eye over the patch to look for anything obvious. I don't pretend to know exactly what they do. Attended Ramana's thumb2 optimization discussion. Continued work on merging useful patches from CodeSourcery. Pushed the new patch set to Launchpad for testing in Michael's system. Pointed Bernd at lp:758082 - another probable shrink-wrap failure. Bernd responded with a new patch, and asked me to test it. I've pushed it to Launchpad and created a merge request. Posted an old patch of Dan's upstream: http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03144.html Pinged my thumb2 constants patch upstream. Richard E responded with some issues to address. I'll need to change the names of the constraints, at least. At Ramana's request, tested the NEON scheduling patch with SPEC2000. Encountered trouble with time-outs. Fixed those and retested. Posted an updated version of my EABI half-precision patch: http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03210.html Merged my backport of Julian's -fstrict-volatile-bitfields bug fix into Linaro GCC. The testing of the Android patches came back with a few test differences, but they appear to be unrelated to the patch, so are probably environmental. I've merged the changes to Linaro GCC. [Also spent most of Friday working on internal CS tasks.] ---- Upstream patched requiring review: * NEON scheduling patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01431.html * NEON test cases http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03144.html * ARM EABI half-precision functions (reposted) http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg03210.html

15 years, 1 month

[ACTIVITY] Apr.11 -- 17

by Chung-Lin Tang

== Last week == * CoreMark regressions: pushed a merge of my two upstream patches to Linaro 4.5, some current numbers are here: http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-toolchain/2011-April/001087.html. * Continued working on another combine patch for improving CoreMark, hopefully ready to submit this week. * Committed fix for PR48325 (NEON POST_INC/PRE_DEC load/stores for struct modes) upstream. * Committed fix for PR48250 / Launchpad #723185 upstream. * Launchpad #689887, ICE in get_arm_condition_code(). My prior patch was tested to cause native bootstrap failure on Linaro 4.5, though retesting on upstream trunk worked fine. Still investigating. * Booked travel for Linaro-Budapest event. == This week == * Current combine patch. * Some unresolved patches, like PR46888. * Launchpad #689887, hope to figure this out.

15 years, 1 month

First session ideas for the summit

by Michael Hope

I've started up a page with ideas for sessions at next month's summit: https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/1111Blueprints They're a pretty direct map to the TSC technical topics so far which is nice to see. Feel free to add other ideas to the page. Each session is around 45 minutes, needs to be fairly well understood by the drafter beforehand, and should have concrete actions coming out of it. It's fine to have a few future/blue sky sessions but not too many. We'll discuss these at tonights meeting and assign drafters. -- Michael

15 years, 1 month

Some initial notes on the effects of vldN and vstN vectorisation

by Richard Sandiford

I've now submitted the initial vldN and vstN work, so I thought I'd see how often it triggers for natty's libav package. I've put some initial results here: https://wiki.linaro.org/RichardSandiford/Sandbox/NeonLibAv There are more files to go through, so this isn't complete. I've also left out cases that were very similar to the ones given. Some of the code is reasonable, while others are obviously not as good as they could be. I don't think the problems are really to do with the vldN and vstN work itself though. They seem to be due to the underlying interleaved load/store detection, or in the handling of widening operations. Richard

15 years, 1 month

[ACTIVITY] 2011-04-15

by David Gilbert

== Bug triaging == * Bug 745843 (vtk ftbfs) got it down to a bad arm/thumb transition - identified as a linker error and handed off to RichardS * Bug 758082 (augeas ftbfs) tracked it down to overwrite of a parameter in a variadic function before it got stacked; identified by Ramana as another instance of the shrink-wrap bug. * Bug 745861 (petsc ftbfs) isolated the collection of different mpi related problems this is hitting; really need to find an mpi expert on this * Bug 745863 & bug 745891 (ftbfs's) - both were compilations that timed out; verified this was due to using lots of RAM and also using lots of RAM on x86 (> ~500MB) - marked as invalid until the build farm grows more RAM * Bug 757427 gconf seg fault - failed to reproduce under various tests (although Michael has now managed to catch it in the act) == Optimisation == * neon memcpy tweeking; added prefetches and unrolled the core loop - now comparable perf to bionic memcpy in most cases (slower on misaligned destination, faster in other cases) * tweaked latrace to print address/length of argument strings so I can get some stats on routine usage. Dave

15 years, 2 months

[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

by Richard Sandiford

== This week == * Worked on a fix for https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/758082 Submitted the patch upstream. * Finished first cut of vldN and vstN vectorisation. Send the patches upstream. Most of the patches have been approved, but I'll wait for the others before committing. * Looked at how the vectoriser handles natty's libav. Found some nice loops, some OK-but-could-do-better, and some really atrocious. Wrote up the results here: https://wiki.linaro.org/RichardSandiford/Sandbox/NeonLibAv * Started writing micro benchmarks for each loop on that page. I'm about half way through now (starting from the bottom). * Started looking at whether the changes affect DENbench. * Patch review. * Wrote a small follow-up to the fix for LP 758082. * Some patch pinging. == Next week == * More micro benchmarks. * More DENbench. * Submit a merge request for the intrinsics improvements, if the remaining patches are approved. * Look at the poorer libav loops in more detail. Richard

15 years, 2 months

[ACTIVITY] report week 15

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: now only 6 "core ARM emulation" patches in qemu-linaro not yet upstreamed (still lots of omap3 patches, though) Current Milestones: | Planned | Estimate | Actual | qemu-linaro 2011-04 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | | Historical Milestones: finish qemu-cont-integration | 2011-01-25 | 2011-01-25 | handed off | first qemu-linaro release | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | qemu-linaro 2011-03 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 | == maintain-beagle-models == * some early prep for next week's qemu-linaro release == merge-correctness-fixes == * patch to fix Neon UNDEFs sent upstream and committed * patch fixing an overflow in signed VABAL.s32 upstreamed, committed * investigated a bug report which turns out to be that if you try to single step over an instruction which UNDEFs using qemu's gdb stub we execute the insn at the UNDEF vector and stop after it rather than stopping at the UNDEF vector * some investigation of qemu mishandling of FP exception flag setting; putting this on hold though, as it really isn't very high priority * reviewed patches from Aurelien doing some general softfloat cleanup == other == * trying to nail down proposed QEMU work for next cycle; work-in-progress: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/Qemu1111 * two IRC interviews for QEMU Google Summer of Code student to do some work on upstreaming of the Android emulator device models * meetings: toolchain, standup, architecture Q&A, divisional update Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus Absences: Holiday: 22 Apr - 2 May 9-13 May: UDS, Budapest (maybe) 15-16 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver [LinuxCon proper follows on 17-19th]

15 years, 2 months

CoreMark Status

by Chung-Lin Tang

Hi, I've just pushed a merge of the current upstream patches for resolving the CoreMark regressions. (https://code.launchpad.net/~cltang/gcc-linaro/coremark-part1) To give a quick benchmark of the current status, testing Linaro 4.5 before/after the merge of those two patches: Optimization options used were just plain '-O2 -mtune=cortex-a9', tested on one of our Pandaboards running Maverick; all numbers are Iterations/Sec averaged from 3 runs. r99492 r9942+patches improve % -march=armv5te 2786.87 2848.12 2.20 % -march=armv7-a 2474.50 2775.92 12.18 % -march=armv7-a -mthumb 2297.86 2356.59 2.56 % I'll have to re-test to be sure, but the numbers/improvements obtained using upstream trunk should not be too far off, at least the ARM mode ones. As we discussed in prior meetings, there's still one point of regression identified that's in solving, which hopefully will finally bring the ARMv7-A numbers above ARMv5TE. Chung-Lin

15 years, 2 months

[Activity] 10th - 14th April

by Revital Eres

Hello, - Tracking down bugs exposed while testing a patch for SMS to avoid using -fauto-inc-dec flag and preparing fixes for them. Also, prepared a fix for PR47013. - Continue looking into DENbench and updating https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain/Benchmarks. Thanks, Revital

15 years, 2 months

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