Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* updated OE-Core cbuild to pick up a recent snapshot of meta-linaro
* verified the release candidate of the Linaro binary toolchain 12.06
* prepared meta linaro for the upcoming release of our binary toolchain
* started on a linaro-qemu recipe but didn't
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* worked on building oe-core+meta-linaro using the 2012.05 release of
the binary toolchain
* minimal sysroot contains libraries that reference the old
ld-linux.so.3 loader
* created #1011671
* otherwise works fine for oe-core+meta-linaro
* setup
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* fixed the binary toolchain support on master (still 2012.03)
* fixed armhf support for Linaro GCC 4.6 on master
* backport of Linaro GCC 4.7 r114985
* tested the images using QEMU - no failures
* now the master branch supports building images for
On 06/05/2012 01:38 AM, Michael Hope wrote:
On 2 June 2012 04:14, Ken Wernerken.wer...@linaro.org wrote:
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* added a default xorg.conf for the qemuarmv7a MACHINE
* necessary because OE-Core master switched from Xfbdev to Xorg
* noticed that hard float
On 2 June 2012 04:14, Ken Werner ken.wer...@linaro.org wrote:
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* added a default xorg.conf for the qemuarmv7a MACHINE
* necessary because OE-Core master switched from Xfbdev to Xorg
* noticed that hard float with Linaro GCC 4.6 works on denzil but is
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* reverted the gcc 4.7 support from the denzil branch as it's causing
too much trouble
* instead we'll use a oe-core master snaphsot for 4.7
* committed a fix to our kernel bbappend
* started to look into cbuild
* added configurations to support
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* finished script to automate the checkout, build and test of
oe-core+meta-linaro (denzil)
* currently supports GCC 4.6 based toolchains only
* pushed support for Linaro GCC 4.7 to meta-linaro/master
* backported support for GCC 4.7 based toolchains to the
On 05/07/2012 04:07 AM, Michael Hope wrote:
On 5 May 2012 03:40, Ken Wernerken.wer...@linaro.org wrote:
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* created meta-linaro denzil branch to be used in conjunction with the oe
release
Yocto 1.2 is out and this branch seem pretty quiet. Any idea when
On 7 May 2012 20:22, Ken Werner ken.wer...@linaro.org wrote:
On 05/07/2012 04:07 AM, Michael Hope wrote:
On 5 May 2012 03:40, Ken Wernerken.wer...@linaro.org wrote:
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* created meta-linaro denzil branch to be used in conjunction with the
oe
release
On 5 May 2012 03:40, Ken Werner ken.wer...@linaro.org wrote:
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* created meta-linaro denzil branch to be used in conjunction with the oe
release
Yocto 1.2 is out and this branch seem pretty quiet. Any idea when
they'll tag/release?
* added a patch that
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* created meta-linaro denzil branch to be used in conjunction with the
oe release
* added a patch that prevents GCC from installing libssp and
libstdc++-v3 to lib64 on X86_64 Linux
* merged patches that use vexpress defconfig only for qemuarmv7a
* built
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* pushed support for Linaro GCC 4.6.4 2012.04 and for the
2012.03-20120326 binary toolchain
* updated the wiki
* created a branch to support GCC 4.7
* built several images using several GCC 4.7 based toolchains (OE,
linaro 4.7.1, binary toolchain
Hi,
* catching up with emails
* rebased against current OE-core
* OE is planning a release in april (following the yocto schedule)
* noticed the libc of our binary toolchain is lacking i18n
* caused a packaging issue for meta-linaro but easy to workaround
* contents of the i18n
Hi,
OpenEmbedded:
* added initial support for the Linaro GCC 4.6 based toolchain to
the meta-linaro layer.
* allows to build the Linaro toolchain the OE way
* successfully built the core-image-sato
but when running inside QEMU the GUI isn't usable
(needs investigation)
Hi,
libunwind
* discussions about local unwinding on Android
* problem: dl_iterate_phdr isn't available
* idea: parse proc/pid/maps but to find the ELF file for a given IP
and get to the ARM specific unwind info from there
* assisted an Android game developer who is using clang to
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core:
* tested the external-toolchain branch from C. Larson
* changes now upstream
* rebased my changes to the current oe-core trunk
* startet to setup a proper external layer at:
git://git.linaro.org/people/kwerner/meta-linaro.git
* got the minimal, sato and Qt image
Hi,
libunwind
* reviewed small patch from T. R. of Nokia who provided a bugfix
when searching for unwind table entry for an IP
OpenEmbedded
* build the OE-core images (minimal, sato and qt4e) with -O1 and -O0
* collected the ELF size and memory footprint and updated the charts
*
Hi,
* libunwind
* reviewed small patch from T. R. of Nokia who provided a
bugfix in case unwind instructions are popping VFP registers
* exchanged mails with P. W. from Bosch who encountered a crash
in case DWARF info is involved
* OpenEmbedded
* changed Qt build to respect the
Hi,
* hacked the external toolchain recipe to use the latest version of the
binary toolchain
this kind of reverts the multiarch changes since oe doesn't support
it yet
* built the minimal, sato and qt images for armv7-a
in three different flavors (-O2, -O3 -fno-tree-vectorize, -O3)
Hi,
* Android
* migrated my linaro android build environment
* did a small change to the debuggerd patch (thanks Sylvain)
* OpenEmbedded
* the linaro binary toolchain uses multiarch paths while OE doesn't
- setup a workaround to make it look like a classic one
* however, I think what
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core:
* No response on the CSL patches I posted to the ml yet
* khem says someone (other than me) needs to try them
* Linaro binary toolchain
* Runs on Oneiric-X86_64 after installing lsb-core
(interpreter: /lib/ld-lsb.so.3)
* The do_rootfs tasks fails with runtine
Re-submitted the patch to estimate register pressure in SMS to the
gcc-patches ml after discussing the patch with Richard.
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Ken Werner ken.wer...@linaro.org wrote:
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core:
* the CSL 2011.03 recipe works with localization support disabled
* got the OE-Core sato image to built (~250 source packages)
* also built the Qt4 demo image (~100 source packages) to stress
== This week ==
* Got the -fsched-pressure code into a state where it's almost
presentable. Found a few more things to tweak on the way.
Fixed some FIXMEs, notably to honour MAX_SCHED_READY_INSNS.
* More testing on ARM. Tried to get some SPEC2000 results
as well as the usual EEMBC
Hi,
* I've been debugging various errors and warnings that I encountered
with the binary CSL 2011.03 toolchain
* Fleshed out my recipe for the external toolchain; now get a working
core-image-minimal that boots fine within qemu
* Debugged why cmake based recipes (like libproxy) are having
== This week ==
* More on -fsched-pressure. Testing on POWER7 showed a degenerate case
that I'd failed to handle well. Fixed that. Saw that part of the
problem on POWER7 was that IRA was using a combination of GENERAL_REGS
and CR_REGS as a single pressure class, so there appeared to be
Hi,
OpenEmbedded:
* started on creating a receipts to compile the core-image-minimal
using an external prebuilt toolchain (csl arm-2011.03)
* there are still a lot of warnings at the do_package/do_package_qa task
* the good news is that the build process finishes and kernel plus root
file
Hi,
I've spent most of my time to dig into OE. First I started with OE
(classic); then realized that OE-core is where the future happens and
switched to it. I've set up a build system and got a ARM minimal image
to build that boots in QEMU *yay*. In parallel I've been reading the
manual and
Sent the patch which implements register pressure estimation in SMS to
the gcc mailing list as RFC.
I looked at some of the regressions in libav and intend to continue
with that this week.
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Hi,
* rewrote the Android.mk of libunwind to make use of autoreconf and libtool
* finished my work on libunwind
* upgraded my Linaro Android build environment
* debugged Linaro Android build failures (#891753)
* tested backtracing on the Linaro Android 2.3.5 and 2.3.7 branches
* documented
Testing the SMS register pressure estimation on libav micro benchmarks
and eembc.
Discussed with Ayal the implementation. He had some ideas to consider
regarding the it.
Looking into the regressions of SMSed kernels in libav which are not
related to register pressure:
Consulting with Ayal
Hi,
Android:
* managed to remotely debug a system process (like debuggerd) using
gdbserver
libunwind:
* found an error when unwinding via DWARF debug frames when
configured for REMOTE_ONLY
* discussions on the me revealed that libunwind-ptrace should not be
compiled for REMOTE_ONLY
Continue working on the regsiter pressure estimation implementation -
testing the implementation on libav micro benchmarks.
With the patch some SMSed kernels in put-h264-qpel8-hv-lowpass-8,
swscale-rgb24ToY_c mjpegenc benchmarks are identified as having
register pressure.
I'm looking at the
Hi,
* libunwind
* posted small bug fixes
* noticed the unwinding on Android is broken somehow
(need to track down the commit that broke it)
* linaro android
* repo sync fails due invalid bionic commit id (#885792)
* tried to remotely attend the Connect
* +1 for having live streams of
Testing an initial version of the implementation which estimates
register pressure in SMS on libav micro benchmarks.
I see 20% improvements in mjpegenc microbench and 11% on aacsbr-2 with
SMS. However swscale-rgb24ToY_c
still have spills in the final code although it requires maximum 64
VFP_REGS
Hi,
* finished changing libunwind to be more portable
* tested patchset on ARM and X86_64
* now builds on Android without modifications
(Android.mk, config.h and libunwind-common.h are still required)
* verified that the modified debuggerd still works
* discussed backtracing
Hi,
I made some progress on transforming the hacks I did to get libunwind
working on Android into proper patches that can go upstream. Things learned:
* bionic employs OpenBSD header files that therefore lack some GNU and
ARM specific defines (only small fix needed - plan is to change
== Last week and today ==
* Backported fix for returning std::pairbool, 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.
*
Implementing estimating register pressure in SMS.
Experimenting with the implementation on libav microbench.
Discussed with Richard some issue raised while implementing.
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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
== Last week ==
* Patch review.
* Backported second attempt to fix get_arm_condition_code ICE.
* Worked on -fsched-pressure. Experimented with various combinations
of ideas. This is giving some good results (e.g. a 2x improvement
in libav's put_h264_qpel8_hv_lowpass_8) but needs a bit
Continue working on estimating register pressure with SMS:
- Discussed current approach with Richard which gave useful leads.
- Started to implement this approach.
- Doing experiments on libav microbench.
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== This week ==
* Submitted a fix for the performance regression caused by my
arm_comparison_operator patch. Applied upstream after approval
from Ramana (thanks). Will backport to Linaro towards the end
of next week if there are no reported problems.
* Went back to looking at
Hi,
* put the sources of the libunwind android port, the patches for
debuggerd and the Android test app online
* documented things at:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Outputs/LibunwindDebuggerd
* noticed differences between the old (debuggerd) and the new
Continue looking at Richard's micro benchmarks taken from libav w.r.t
SMS and experiment with different patches that Richard wrote to
improve code generation.
Submitted SMS related patch for minor misc fixes
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-09/msg00551.html
Trying to understand why to new
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Richard Sandiford
richard.sandif...@linaro.org wrote:
* Looked at why the backport of lp823708-4.5 retriggered the same
bootstrap failure that Chung-Lin's patch did. Haven't been able
to reproduce yet.
Feel free to use leo1 and leo2. A make -j2 speeds
== This week ==
* Looked at the get_arm_condition_code ICE. Seems to be a popular bug:
was reported as #589887 #823708 and #809761 in Lauchpad and as PR49030
in bugzilla. Sent a patch upstream.
* Submitted SMS register-dependency patch upstream.
* Reviewed Bernd's new shrink-wrap patch.
Continue looking at Richard's micro benchmarks w.r.t SMS.
Wrote a new version to the patch to support instructions with
REG_INC_NOTE in SMS.
(http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-08/msg01216.html)
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== This week ==
* Wrote some patches to make SMS schedule register moves. They made a
significant difference to some libav loops. I'm running a regression
test on pwoerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0 and will submit upstream next week if
all goes OK.
* Looked at why mjpegenc was so much worse with SMS.
Looked at Richard's micro benchmarks w.r.t SMS.
Addressed Ayal's comments to the patch to support instructions with
REG_INC_NOTE in SMS.
(http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-08/msg01216.html)
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On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:38:51PM +0100, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
* Having some problems getting my panda board working reliably. I'm
not sure if its the temperature or what but when it gets hot in the
office as it was on Tuesday keeping it working reliably is hard. The
board locks up and
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Christian Robottom Reis
k...@linaro.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:38:51PM +0100, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
* Having some problems getting my panda board working reliably. I'm
not sure if its the temperature or what but when it gets hot in the
office
On 22 August 2011 13:35, Christian Robottom Reis k...@linaro.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:38:51PM +0100, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
* Having some problems getting my panda board working reliably. I'm
not sure if its the temperature or what but when it gets hot in the
office as it was
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ramana Radhakrishnan
ramana.radhakrish...@linaro.org wrote:
On 22 August 2011 13:35, Christian Robottom Reis k...@linaro.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:38:51PM +0100, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
* Having some problems getting my panda board working
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Amit Kucheria
amit.kuche...@linaro.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ramana Radhakrishnan
ramana.radhakrish...@linaro.org wrote:
On 22 August 2011 13:35, Christian Robottom Reis k...@linaro.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:38:51PM +0100, Ramana
Hi,
* continued to work on getting libunwind support for remote unwinding
upstream
* reworked some of the code to address concerns from the ml
* now upstream!
* made smaller fixes to have another libunwind testcase passing
* interfaced with the Linaro Android group to solve an issue where
Hi,
* worked on getting the remote unwind support for ARM upstream
* noticed when building a recent android image of the
linaro_android_2.3.4 branch for the panda the init.rc attempts to mount
wrong partitions
* tracked down the commit and opened a bug
* linaro android team fixed it real
== This week ==
* Looked a bug report that the fix for LP #736007 had caused regressions
on powerpc-darwin. It turned out to be a target-specific bug; the
backend has the same const_vector code as i386 and spu, but the fix for
PR34856 was never applied there. I'll submit the patch (and
== Last week (Linaro Connect) ==
* Reran libav comparisons after Ira's fix for excessive promotion.
The vectorized versions are now at least as good as the non-vectorised
ones. Updated wiki page with new asm output and microbenchmark results.
* More work on SMS. I have some patches that
* Committed a set of SMS patches to trunk and gcc-linaro branch.
* Implemented a hack to evaluate the potential of SMS on SPEC2006/libqauntum.
* involved in non linaro issue
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* Looking into SMS patches sent to mainline which expands SMS
functionally to avoid using doloop. The patches resolve the recent
bootstrap failure on mainline.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-07/msg01807.html
* Continue looking into 462.libquantum.
- Opened PR49789 to record the bootstrap failure with SMS flags.
- SPEC2006/libquantum: Wrote a hack to apply SMS on the hot loop. Need
to make it more accurate.
- Pinged SMS patches in mainline.
- Looking with Ramana on the effect of the Tree reassociation
improvement patch on bwaves
== This week ==
* Wrote a fix for 809768. Accepted upstream.
* Looked at upstream PR 49742 (the failures seen with predictive commoning).
Accepted upstream.
* More shrink-wrap review.
* Sent auto-inc-dec changes out for comments. Got some good private
feedback (in the sense of being
Hi,
* continued to look into #809768 (ICE when building bionic's libm)
* created some toolchain and android builds for verification purposes
* libunwind
* discussions with Michael and Uli on how to proceed (thanks!)
* started to work on libunwind-ptrace
* also look for
- Tracked the problematic file which contains the loop that causing
bootstrap failure with SMS flags on ARM machine. It is not caused by
SMS but rather due to doloop optimization which is applied when SMS
flags are set. Now working on locating the exact loop and producing a
testcase to reproduce
Hi,
* analyzed/tested toolchain issues the Linaro Android folks are facing
* libquadmath disabled due to configure test fail of the target
libiberty (#809435)
* fix will be in 11.07 release
* ICE when building bionic's libm (#809768)
* not reproducible with a plain Linaro GCC
== This week ==
* Fixed the unnecessary union initialisers that were causing ICEs
with -g. This turned out to be a lot more work than Richard's
one-liner suggested. :-)
* Backported Chung-Lin's arm_legitimize_reload_address patch to 4.5.
* Backported the smallest_mode_for_size patch to 4.5
- Continue Spec2006 analysis:
Looking into SMS opportunities in SPEC2006/462.libquantum.
- Looking into recent bootstrap failure with SMS flags on ARM -- it
seems to be related to do-loop optimization.
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Hi,
* continued to look into how to add remote support for libunwind using
ptrace
* reworked the lookup of the ARM specific unwind tables for local
unwinding
* re-use the existent (dwarf related) infrastructure to find the ARM
specific unwind tables rather than doing it on our own
*
== This week ==
* Catching up on email.
* More experiementation with the auto inc/dec stuff. TBH, this has taken
longer than expected, but I think it's close now.
* Wrote a dejagnu testcase for PR 49196. Tested it on trunk and submitted
it upstream.
== Next week ==
* Backport fix for PR
- Opened PR49385.
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49385
- Committed SMS patch to fix recent bootstrap fail on ARM with SMS flags
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-06/msg00960.html
- Committed SMS patch to Fix calculation of row_rest_count
Tracked a bootstrap failure with SMS flags on ARM machine exposed in
recent trunk.
Fixed and tested a patch for that.
Tested another SMS patch following comments received from gcc ml@
(http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-05/msg02294.html)
Following conversation with Micheal, added SPEC2006
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Richard Sandiford
richard.sandif...@linaro.org wrote:
== This week ==
* Experimented more with A8 and A9 tuning for auto inc/dec addresses.
* More work on the auto inc/dec pass itself.
* Compared the assembly output in the GCC testsuite for a range
of
Hi,
* learning more on andoid (repo tool, some branches, the basics of the
android build system)
* finished to setup my environment to build the android sources
* sucessfully build linaro-android using linaro gcc 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6
* tracked down the libgui.so linaro android issue to the
Fixed an SMS patch following comments received in the gcc@ ml.
While testing the fix I discovered another issue-- latest mainline
ICEs with SMS flags while building libgcc on ARM configured with
--with-arch=armv7-a.
This new failure does not seem to be related to the above fix and I'm
now
== Progress ==
* Finished breaking down the Thumb2 performance blueprint
* Some patch review and bugzilla maintenance.
* Canonicalized vorn and vbic. Bootstrap failure reported . Fixed upstream
* Rewrote parts of the DImode expanders and combined them to two
patterns with alternatives that get
== This week ==
* Spent almost all the week on GCC's auto inc/dec pass. I first
continued with the incremental clean ups and recoding that I'd
started during free time at Budapest, with the idea of bolting the new
optimisations on top of that. However, in the end, I decided it would
be
Hi,
* started to measure the overhead of -funwind-tables
* libunwind text size increase 5%
* firefox4 is still building... :)
* found a small glitch when cross compiling the binutils deb package
* made a small patch, talked with doko, fix upstream
* installed android on the
Hi,
* finished libunwind support of detection and handling of signal frames on
ARM Linux. RT and non-RT signal frames are handled for both =2.6.18 and
2.6.18 kernels. The *test-resume-sig testcases are passing now.
* briefly looked into what needs to be done in order to add 64bit __sync_*
== This week ==
* Iterated with upstream on some of the vectorisation patches. I think
only half a patch (the ARM implementation of array_mode_supported_p)
is still pending review; everything else has been approved.
* Backported the vldN and vstN intrinsics to Linaro 4.5.
* Finished off
Hello,
Submitted the following patches to GCC trunk:
[1] Avoid unfreed memory when SMS fails (committed to trunk GCC) -
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg01204.html
[2] Free sccs field (committed to trunk GCC)-
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg01205.html
[3] New flag to
== 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.
*
Hi,
libunwind:
* started to look on how to resume from a given stack frame:
* other platforms use setcontext
* setcontext is not implemented on ARM (glibc)
* the *context functions have been marked obsolescent in Posix
*
== Last week ==
* Sent a fix for PR target/46329 upstream.
* Discussed with Richard Guenther how to represent the interleaved
load/store functions that we're adding to gimple. Sent a patch
upstream for comments. Richard confirmed on IRC that he was happy
with it, and no-one else has
== Last week ==
* Finished the patch that I was working on last week to use memory operands
rather than register operands in neon.md. Submitted upstream:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01996.html
Among other things, this allows the intrinsics to use post-modified
Hi,
== pandaboard ==
* noticed that hw perf events are not working on 2.6.38-1001-linaro-omap
* it seems that the omap kernel has not configured its PMU properly
* perf_event_open syscall returns ENODEV
* started discussion with agreen (#744458)
* noticed that natty puts its glibc into
== This week ==
* Moved the discussion about the RTL and gimple representation of
strided loads/stores to the gcc@ list. Got some good feedback:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-03/msg00322.html
* Started a subdiscussion about the handling of modes:
Hi,
== libunwind ==
* modified the extbtl-parser to operate on the DWARF model directly
* this adds support for unwinding call stacks with mixed (DWARF and extbl)
frames on ARM
* did a few other fixes and cleanups
* posted the patches on the libunwind ml
* set up a tree on git.linaro.org
== Last week ==
* Committed STT_GNU_IFUNC changes to binutils.
* Submitted the STT_GNU_IFUNC changes to GLIBC ports. Got feedback
on Friday, which I'll deal with this week.
* Worked on the expand and rtl-level parts of the load/store lane
representation, with new optabs for each operation.
== This week ==
* Got the STT_GNU_IFUNC work ready to submit. Split out some preparatory
patches, including fixes for some general ARM inefficiencies that I
noticed this week. Ran the EGLIBC testsuite (including ifunc tests)
and they passed.
* Discussed ideas for representing permuted
== Last week ==
* Backported the fixes for lp693502, lp710623 and lp710652 to linaro 4.6
and linaro 4.5. Tested and sent merge requests.
* Wrote several more ifunc tests, and fixed the bugs they showed up.
Found that ARM generates unnecessary dynamic relocs against GOT entries,
so fixed
Hi,
* I continued to setup the pandaboad but ran into #708883
- tested vaious various hwpacks and headless images
- used different power supplies and several SD cards
- built various test kernels from the linux-linaro-natty.git
* looked into the crash utility
*
Hi,
* I looked into the perf utility with regard to ARMv7 and raw event support
* https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/perf
* testsuite fixes for the OpenCL GDB
* started to setup the pandaboard (currently the headless snapshot hangs
shortly after I got the bash prompt - I'm not sure
== This week ==
* Away Monday, and a fair bit of time on non-Linaro duties.
* Looked at Dave's gromacs bug (693502). Turned out to be a reload
inheritance problem. Tested a patch. Spent some time coming up with
a brute-force testcase that I can submit with the patch.
* Found a bug in the
Hi,
* got llvm+clang working on ARM:
https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/HowToBuildToolchainComponents#llvm+clang
* checked whether llvm inlines the __sync_* builtins on ARM or not:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/AtomicMemoryOperations#LLVM
* developed a patch for
Hi,
* the ARM __sync_* glibc-ports patch was accepted upstream
* posted proposal for consolidating sync primitives but stdatomic seems to be
the future
* used my small gcc testsuite patch to verify __sync_* support of the gcc-
linaro
* created:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 05:57:57PM +, Richard Sandiford wrote:
* More ARM testing of binutils support for STT_GNU_IFUNC.
* Implemented the GLIBC support for STT_GNU_IFUNC. Simple ARM testcases
seem to run correctly.
Coincidentally I was reading about this exact feature at
== This week ==
Started looking at STT_GNU_IFUNC support in BFD. There were a couple
of janitorial changes I needed to make in order to prepare elf32-arm.c
for the main patch. I tested those separately and submitted them upstream:
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-11/msg00330.html
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