Re: [OE-core] GCC 4.9 considered evil

2014-08-15 Thread Martin Jansa
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:24:29AM +0200, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
> On 08/14/2014 10:22 AM, Peter A. Bigot wrote:
> > On 08/14/2014 03:12 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
> >> On 08/14/2014 02:46 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Otavio Salvador 
> >>> mailto:ota...@ossystems.com.br>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gary Thomas  >>> > wrote:
> >>> > I've found that the latest GCC doesn't work very well, at
> >>> > least not on ARM (and obviously other architectures as well [1])
> >>> > When I build Google Chromium browser for my i.MX boards using
> >>> > GCC-4.9.x, no pages can be rendered - massive bloodshed and
> >>> > failures are shown on the console.  If I use the older GCC 4.8.2,
> >>> > everything else the same, all is well.
> >>> >
> >>> > Here's my configuration:
> >>> > BB_VERSION= "1.23.1"
> >>> > BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux"
> >>> > NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
> >>> > TARGET_SYS= "arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi"
> >>> > MACHINE   = "teton-p0382"
> >>> > DISTRO= "amltd"
> >>> > DISTRO_VERSION= "1.6+snapshot-20140812"
> >>> > TUNE_FEATURES = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard
> >>> cortexa9"
> >>> > TARGET_FPU= "vfp-neon"
> >>> > meta  =
> >>> "master:86afd7eb7c679eb065706137f28f44248f3fbc5a"
> >>> > meta-amltd=
> >>> "master:899529b4184dc9e3e291e7fcdbbf157233db056d"
> >>> > meta-teton-imx6-p0382 =
> >>> "master:9188e2f8fafd203c95dcd7a3c79cb38a1568e9b5"
> >>> > meta-fsl-arm  =
> >>> "master:b0cf5c78c5f98c5977ae556d331e7495648f154c"
> >>> > meta-fsl-arm-extra =
> >>> "master:12e560967b7136222c325d11633295fe3a0c701c"
> >>> > meta-browser  =
> >>> "master:da93c8e386133a15eff1414d9307c8f2c7a44787"
> >>> >
> >>> > Should this be filed as a bug?  I don't have much data other
> >>> than it
> >>> > simply breaks (and chrome is not the easiest thing to debug!).
> >>>  Other
> >>> > applications seem OK, but I am loathe to trust it...
> >>> >
> >>> > I'm going to hold onto GCC-4.8.x for my $DISTRO at least (and
> >>> I hope
> >>> > it doesn't vanish like 4.7.x did too quickly).
> >>> >
> >>> > [1]
> >>> >
> >>> 
> >>> http://slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1838219/linus-torvalds-gcc-490-seems-to-be-terminally-broken
> >>> >
> >>> > Note: I've also tried this on qemux86 (a totally different
> >>> > architecture) and chrome bombs just as badly!
> >>>
> >>> I confirm that GCC 4.9 does NOT work for Chromium 35. At this
> >>> moment I
> >>> am not aware of any fix for it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Again Its a broad brush statement. Something concrete is needed if 
> >>> some.action is to taken
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> IIRC the Chromium 37 works though.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Well then its less chance.that someone will fix 35
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> The problem is that narrowing down is very difficult, since the 
> >> problems manifest themselves as seemingly random stack corruptions. I 
> >> have tried to dig into it, but got nowhere. Pointers suddenly became 
> >> null for no apparent reason, or were corrupted, free() calls failed, 
> >> values on the stack suddenly changed without being modified by the 
> >> code etc.
> >>
> >> I wouldn't rule out that Linus Torvald's find isn't the cause here. 
> >> Look at this part of his message:
> >>
> >> "The x86-64 ABI specifies a 128-byte red-zone under the stack 
> >> pointer, and this is ok by that limit. It looks like it's illegal 
> >> (136 > 128), but the fact is, we've had four "pushq"s to update %rsp 
> >> since loading the frame pointer, so it's just *barely* legal with the 
> >> red-zoning."
> >>
> >> Perhaps gcc is pushing further outside of the red zone bounds, thus 
> >> causing the problems. No idea how to check for that at the moment though.
> >
> > Simplest would be to apply the upstream fix to Yocto's gcc and see if 
> > that helps.  You'd want commit 
> > 556537c4ad0df4cbebb74197bb2bdea75cf5dd35 from 
> > git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git.  (The patch went into gcc-4_9-branch 
> > one day after 4.9.1 was released.)
> >
> > I'd add it to the current set but ATT Khem and I both have pending 
> > patches that touch the same gcc files, so it'd just increase the 
> > conflicts.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> To further elaborate, the Chromium de

Re: [OE-core] GCC 4.9 considered evil

2014-08-14 Thread Peter A. Bigot

On 08/14/2014 01:14 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:

On 08/14/2014 10:22 AM, Peter A. Bigot wrote:

On 08/14/2014 03:12 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:

On 08/14/2014 02:46 AM, Khem Raj wrote:



On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Otavio Salvador 
mailto:ota...@ossystems.com.br>> wrote:


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gary Thomas > wrote:
> I've found that the latest GCC doesn't work very well, at
> least not on ARM (and obviously other architectures as well [1])
> When I build Google Chromium browser for my i.MX boards using
> GCC-4.9.x, no pages can be rendered - massive bloodshed and
> failures are shown on the console.  If I use the older GCC 4.8.2,
> everything else the same, all is well.
>
> Here's my configuration:
> BB_VERSION= "1.23.1"
> BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
> TARGET_SYS= "arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE   = "teton-p0382"
> DISTRO= "amltd"
> DISTRO_VERSION= "1.6+snapshot-20140812"
> TUNE_FEATURES = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard
cortexa9"
> TARGET_FPU= "vfp-neon"
> meta  =
"master:86afd7eb7c679eb065706137f28f44248f3fbc5a"
> meta-amltd=
"master:899529b4184dc9e3e291e7fcdbbf157233db056d"
> meta-teton-imx6-p0382 =
"master:9188e2f8fafd203c95dcd7a3c79cb38a1568e9b5"
> meta-fsl-arm  =
"master:b0cf5c78c5f98c5977ae556d331e7495648f154c"
> meta-fsl-arm-extra =
"master:12e560967b7136222c325d11633295fe3a0c701c"
> meta-browser  =
"master:da93c8e386133a15eff1414d9307c8f2c7a44787"
>
> Should this be filed as a bug?  I don't have much data other
than it
> simply breaks (and chrome is not the easiest thing to
debug!).  Other
> applications seem OK, but I am loathe to trust it...
>
> I'm going to hold onto GCC-4.8.x for my $DISTRO at least (and
I hope
> it doesn't vanish like 4.7.x did too quickly).
>
> [1]
>

http://slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1838219/linus-torvalds-gcc-490-seems-to-be-terminally-broken
>
> Note: I've also tried this on qemux86 (a totally different
> architecture) and chrome bombs just as badly!

I confirm that GCC 4.9 does NOT work for Chromium 35. At this
moment I
am not aware of any fix for it.


Again Its a broad brush statement. Something concrete is needed if 
some.action is to taken



IIRC the Chromium 37 works though.


Well then its less chance.that someone will fix 35

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The problem is that narrowing down is very difficult, since the 
problems manifest themselves as seemingly random stack corruptions. 
I have tried to dig into it, but got nowhere. Pointers suddenly 
became null for no apparent reason, or were corrupted, free() calls 
failed, values on the stack suddenly changed without being modified 
by the code etc.


I wouldn't rule out that Linus Torvald's find isn't the cause here. 
Look at this part of his message:


"The x86-64 ABI specifies a 128-byte red-zone under the stack 
pointer, and this is ok by that limit. It looks like it's illegal 
(136 > 128), but the fact is, we've had four "pushq"s to update %rsp 
since loading the frame pointer, so it's just *barely* legal with 
the red-zoning."


Perhaps gcc is pushing further outside of the red zone bounds, thus 
causing the problems. No idea how to check for that at the moment 
though.


Simplest would be to apply the upstream fix to Yocto's gcc and see if 
that helps.  You'd want commit 
556537c4ad0df4cbebb74197bb2bdea75cf5dd35 from 
git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git.  (The patch went into gcc-4_9-branch 
one day after 4.9.1 was released.)


I'd add it to the current set but ATT Khem and I both have pending 
patches that touch the same gcc files, so it'd just increase the 
conflicts.


Peter


Are you sure this is the right patch? Commit message:

[PATCH] 2014-07-17  Richard Biener 

PR rtl-optimization/61801
* sched-deps.c (sched_analyze_2): For ASM_OPERANDS and
ASM_INPUT don't set reg_pending_barrier if it appears in a
debug-insn.

It does not apply cleanly on gcc in either master or master-next . 
Patching ChangeLog fails. I will try to use it with the ChangeLog 
patch part omitted.


Yes, I'm sure.  That's the bug referenced in Torvald's Linux commit 
working around the rant-inducing behavior.


Unmodified upstream patches for gcc never apply cleanly because they are 
based on unreleased versions with ChangeLog entries that aren't present 
in the relea

Re: [OE-core] GCC 4.9 considered evil

2014-08-14 Thread Carlos Rafael Giani

On 08/14/2014 10:22 AM, Peter A. Bigot wrote:

On 08/14/2014 03:12 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:

On 08/14/2014 02:46 AM, Khem Raj wrote:



On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Otavio Salvador 
mailto:ota...@ossystems.com.br>> wrote:


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gary Thomas > wrote:
> I've found that the latest GCC doesn't work very well, at
> least not on ARM (and obviously other architectures as well [1])
> When I build Google Chromium browser for my i.MX boards using
> GCC-4.9.x, no pages can be rendered - massive bloodshed and
> failures are shown on the console.  If I use the older GCC 4.8.2,
> everything else the same, all is well.
>
> Here's my configuration:
> BB_VERSION= "1.23.1"
> BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
> TARGET_SYS= "arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE   = "teton-p0382"
> DISTRO= "amltd"
> DISTRO_VERSION= "1.6+snapshot-20140812"
> TUNE_FEATURES = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard
cortexa9"
> TARGET_FPU= "vfp-neon"
> meta  =
"master:86afd7eb7c679eb065706137f28f44248f3fbc5a"
> meta-amltd=
"master:899529b4184dc9e3e291e7fcdbbf157233db056d"
> meta-teton-imx6-p0382 =
"master:9188e2f8fafd203c95dcd7a3c79cb38a1568e9b5"
> meta-fsl-arm  =
"master:b0cf5c78c5f98c5977ae556d331e7495648f154c"
> meta-fsl-arm-extra =
"master:12e560967b7136222c325d11633295fe3a0c701c"
> meta-browser  =
"master:da93c8e386133a15eff1414d9307c8f2c7a44787"
>
> Should this be filed as a bug?  I don't have much data other
than it
> simply breaks (and chrome is not the easiest thing to debug!).
 Other
> applications seem OK, but I am loathe to trust it...
>
> I'm going to hold onto GCC-4.8.x for my $DISTRO at least (and
I hope
> it doesn't vanish like 4.7.x did too quickly).
>
> [1]
>

http://slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1838219/linus-torvalds-gcc-490-seems-to-be-terminally-broken
>
> Note: I've also tried this on qemux86 (a totally different
> architecture) and chrome bombs just as badly!

I confirm that GCC 4.9 does NOT work for Chromium 35. At this
moment I
am not aware of any fix for it.


Again Its a broad brush statement. Something concrete is needed if 
some.action is to taken



IIRC the Chromium 37 works though.


Well then its less chance.that someone will fix 35

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The problem is that narrowing down is very difficult, since the 
problems manifest themselves as seemingly random stack corruptions. I 
have tried to dig into it, but got nowhere. Pointers suddenly became 
null for no apparent reason, or were corrupted, free() calls failed, 
values on the stack suddenly changed without being modified by the 
code etc.


I wouldn't rule out that Linus Torvald's find isn't the cause here. 
Look at this part of his message:


"The x86-64 ABI specifies a 128-byte red-zone under the stack 
pointer, and this is ok by that limit. It looks like it's illegal 
(136 > 128), but the fact is, we've had four "pushq"s to update %rsp 
since loading the frame pointer, so it's just *barely* legal with the 
red-zoning."


Perhaps gcc is pushing further outside of the red zone bounds, thus 
causing the problems. No idea how to check for that at the moment though.


Simplest would be to apply the upstream fix to Yocto's gcc and see if 
that helps.  You'd want commit 
556537c4ad0df4cbebb74197bb2bdea75cf5dd35 from 
git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git.  (The patch went into gcc-4_9-branch 
one day after 4.9.1 was released.)


I'd add it to the current set but ATT Khem and I both have pending 
patches that touch the same gcc files, so it'd just increase the 
conflicts.


Peter


Are you sure this is the right patch? Commit message:

[PATCH] 2014-07-17  Richard Biener  

PR rtl-optimization/61801
* sched-deps.c (sched_analyze_2): For ASM_OPERANDS and
ASM_INPUT don't set reg_pending_barrier if it appears in a
debug-insn.

It does not apply cleanly on gcc in either master or master-next . 
Patching ChangeLog fails. I will try to use it with the ChangeLog patch 
part omitted.
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Re: [OE-core] GCC 4.9 considered evil

2014-08-14 Thread Gary Thomas

On 2014-08-14 04:02, Peter A. Bigot wrote:

On 08/14/2014 03:24 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:

On 08/14/2014 10:22 AM, Peter A. Bigot wrote:

On 08/14/2014 03:12 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:

On 08/14/2014 02:46 AM, Khem Raj wrote:



On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Otavio Salvador mailto:ota...@ossystems.com.br>> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gary Thomas > wrote:
> I've found that the latest GCC doesn't work very well, at
> least not on ARM (and obviously other architectures as well [1])
> When I build Google Chromium browser for my i.MX boards using
> GCC-4.9.x, no pages can be rendered - massive bloodshed and
> failures are shown on the console.  If I use the older GCC 4.8.2,
> everything else the same, all is well.
>
> Here's my configuration:
> BB_VERSION= "1.23.1"
> BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
> TARGET_SYS= "arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE   = "teton-p0382"
> DISTRO= "amltd"
> DISTRO_VERSION= "1.6+snapshot-20140812"
> TUNE_FEATURES = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard cortexa9"
> TARGET_FPU= "vfp-neon"
> meta  = "master:86afd7eb7c679eb065706137f28f44248f3fbc5a"
> meta-amltd= "master:899529b4184dc9e3e291e7fcdbbf157233db056d"
> meta-teton-imx6-p0382 = "master:9188e2f8fafd203c95dcd7a3c79cb38a1568e9b5"
> meta-fsl-arm  = "master:b0cf5c78c5f98c5977ae556d331e7495648f154c"
> meta-fsl-arm-extra = "master:12e560967b7136222c325d11633295fe3a0c701c"
> meta-browser  = "master:da93c8e386133a15eff1414d9307c8f2c7a44787"
>
> Should this be filed as a bug?  I don't have much data other than it
> simply breaks (and chrome is not the easiest thing to debug!).  Other
> applications seem OK, but I am loathe to trust it...
>
> I'm going to hold onto GCC-4.8.x for my $DISTRO at least (and I hope
> it doesn't vanish like 4.7.x did too quickly).
>
> [1]
> 
http://slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1838219/linus-torvalds-gcc-490-seems-to-be-terminally-broken
>
> Note: I've also tried this on qemux86 (a totally different
> architecture) and chrome bombs just as badly!

I confirm that GCC 4.9 does NOT work for Chromium 35. At this moment I
am not aware of any fix for it.


Again Its a broad brush statement. Something concrete is needed if some.action 
is to taken


IIRC the Chromium 37 works though.


Well then its less chance.that someone will fix 35

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The problem is that narrowing down is very difficult, since the problems 
manifest themselves as seemingly random stack corruptions. I have tried to dig 
into it, but got
nowhere. Pointers suddenly became null for no apparent reason, or were 
corrupted, free() calls failed, values on the stack suddenly changed without 
being modified by the code etc.

I wouldn't rule out that Linus Torvald's find isn't the cause here. Look at 
this part of his message:

"The x86-64 ABI specifies a 128-byte red-zone under the stack pointer, and this is 
ok by that limit. It looks like it's illegal (136 > 128), but the fact is, we've had 
four
"pushq"s to update %rsp since loading the frame pointer, so it's just *barely* legal 
with the red-zoning."

Perhaps gcc is pushing further outside of the red zone bounds, thus causing the 
problems. No idea how to check for that at the moment though.


Simplest would be to apply the upstream fix to Yocto's gcc and see if that 
helps.  You'd want commit 556537c4ad0df4cbebb74197bb2bdea75cf5dd35 from
git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git.  (The patch went into gcc-4_9-branch one day 
after 4.9.1 was released.)

I'd add it to the current set but ATT Khem and I both have pending patches that 
touch the same gcc files, so it'd just increase the conflicts.

Peter












To further elaborate, the Chromium developers know about problems with GCC 4.9. 
Here is an example: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=385729


For what little comfort it might give, that one turns out to be a bug in Chromium 
that was exposed by GCC 4.9, not a GCC 4.9 bug. "Still, the root issue exists 
on every branch and
it's sheer chance that most builds don't appear to be affected."


Note that while a build of Chromium 37 works, I've had internal compiler errors 
happen. I actually had to re-run the run.do_compile script about 30 times until 
the build finished
(the ICE's happen only sometimes, so repeated attempts at compiling eventually 
yields a result.)

Thanks for the link. I'l

Re: [OE-core] GCC 4.9 considered evil

2014-08-14 Thread Peter A. Bigot

On 08/14/2014 03:24 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:

On 08/14/2014 10:22 AM, Peter A. Bigot wrote:

On 08/14/2014 03:12 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:

On 08/14/2014 02:46 AM, Khem Raj wrote:



On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Otavio Salvador 
mailto:ota...@ossystems.com.br>> wrote:


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gary Thomas > wrote:
> I've found that the latest GCC doesn't work very well, at
> least not on ARM (and obviously other architectures as well [1])
> When I build Google Chromium browser for my i.MX boards using
> GCC-4.9.x, no pages can be rendered - massive bloodshed and
> failures are shown on the console.  If I use the older GCC 4.8.2,
> everything else the same, all is well.
>
> Here's my configuration:
> BB_VERSION= "1.23.1"
> BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
> TARGET_SYS= "arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE   = "teton-p0382"
> DISTRO= "amltd"
> DISTRO_VERSION= "1.6+snapshot-20140812"
> TUNE_FEATURES = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard
cortexa9"
> TARGET_FPU= "vfp-neon"
> meta  =
"master:86afd7eb7c679eb065706137f28f44248f3fbc5a"
> meta-amltd=
"master:899529b4184dc9e3e291e7fcdbbf157233db056d"
> meta-teton-imx6-p0382 =
"master:9188e2f8fafd203c95dcd7a3c79cb38a1568e9b5"
> meta-fsl-arm  =
"master:b0cf5c78c5f98c5977ae556d331e7495648f154c"
> meta-fsl-arm-extra =
"master:12e560967b7136222c325d11633295fe3a0c701c"
> meta-browser  =
"master:da93c8e386133a15eff1414d9307c8f2c7a44787"
>
> Should this be filed as a bug?  I don't have much data other
than it
> simply breaks (and chrome is not the easiest thing to
debug!).  Other
> applications seem OK, but I am loathe to trust it...
>
> I'm going to hold onto GCC-4.8.x for my $DISTRO at least (and
I hope
> it doesn't vanish like 4.7.x did too quickly).
>
> [1]
>

http://slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1838219/linus-torvalds-gcc-490-seems-to-be-terminally-broken
>
> Note: I've also tried this on qemux86 (a totally different
> architecture) and chrome bombs just as badly!

I confirm that GCC 4.9 does NOT work for Chromium 35. At this
moment I
am not aware of any fix for it.


Again Its a broad brush statement. Something concrete is needed if 
some.action is to taken



IIRC the Chromium 37 works though.


Well then its less chance.that someone will fix 35

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The problem is that narrowing down is very difficult, since the 
problems manifest themselves as seemingly random stack corruptions. 
I have tried to dig into it, but got nowhere. Pointers suddenly 
became null for no apparent reason, or were corrupted, free() calls 
failed, values on the stack suddenly changed without being modified 
by the code etc.


I wouldn't rule out that Linus Torvald's find isn't the cause here. 
Look at this part of his message:


"The x86-64 ABI specifies a 128-byte red-zone under the stack 
pointer, and this is ok by that limit. It looks like it's illegal 
(136 > 128), but the fact is, we've had four "pushq"s to update %rsp 
since loading the frame pointer, so it's just *barely* legal with 
the red-zoning."


Perhaps gcc is pushing further outside of the red zone bounds, thus 
causing the problems. No idea how to check for that at the moment 
though.


Simplest would be to apply the upstream fix to Yocto's gcc and see if 
that helps.  You'd want commit 
556537c4ad0df4cbebb74197bb2bdea75cf5dd35 from 
git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git.  (The patch went into gcc-4_9-branch 
one day after 4.9.1 was released.)


I'd add it to the current set but ATT Khem and I both have pending 
patches that touch the same gcc files, so it'd just increase the 
conflicts.


Peter












To further elaborate, the Chromium developers know about problems with 
GCC 4.9. Here is an example: 
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=385729


For what little comfort it might give, that one turns out to be a bug in 
Chromium that was exposed by GCC 4.9, not a GCC 4.9 bug. "Still, the 
root issue exists on every branch and it's sheer chance that most builds 
don't appear to be affected."


Note that while a build of Chromium 37 works, I've had internal 
compiler errors happen. I actually had to re-run the run.do_compile 
script about 30 times until the build finished (the ICE's happen only 
sometimes, so repeated attempts at compiling eventually yields a result.)


Tha

Re: [OE-core] GCC 4.9 considered evil

2014-08-14 Thread Carlos Rafael Giani

On 08/14/2014 10:22 AM, Peter A. Bigot wrote:

On 08/14/2014 03:12 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:

On 08/14/2014 02:46 AM, Khem Raj wrote:



On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Otavio Salvador 
mailto:ota...@ossystems.com.br>> wrote:


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gary Thomas > wrote:
> I've found that the latest GCC doesn't work very well, at
> least not on ARM (and obviously other architectures as well [1])
> When I build Google Chromium browser for my i.MX boards using
> GCC-4.9.x, no pages can be rendered - massive bloodshed and
> failures are shown on the console.  If I use the older GCC 4.8.2,
> everything else the same, all is well.
>
> Here's my configuration:
> BB_VERSION= "1.23.1"
> BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
> TARGET_SYS= "arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE   = "teton-p0382"
> DISTRO= "amltd"
> DISTRO_VERSION= "1.6+snapshot-20140812"
> TUNE_FEATURES = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard
cortexa9"
> TARGET_FPU= "vfp-neon"
> meta  =
"master:86afd7eb7c679eb065706137f28f44248f3fbc5a"
> meta-amltd=
"master:899529b4184dc9e3e291e7fcdbbf157233db056d"
> meta-teton-imx6-p0382 =
"master:9188e2f8fafd203c95dcd7a3c79cb38a1568e9b5"
> meta-fsl-arm  =
"master:b0cf5c78c5f98c5977ae556d331e7495648f154c"
> meta-fsl-arm-extra =
"master:12e560967b7136222c325d11633295fe3a0c701c"
> meta-browser  =
"master:da93c8e386133a15eff1414d9307c8f2c7a44787"
>
> Should this be filed as a bug?  I don't have much data other
than it
> simply breaks (and chrome is not the easiest thing to debug!).
 Other
> applications seem OK, but I am loathe to trust it...
>
> I'm going to hold onto GCC-4.8.x for my $DISTRO at least (and
I hope
> it doesn't vanish like 4.7.x did too quickly).
>
> [1]
>

http://slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1838219/linus-torvalds-gcc-490-seems-to-be-terminally-broken
>
> Note: I've also tried this on qemux86 (a totally different
> architecture) and chrome bombs just as badly!

I confirm that GCC 4.9 does NOT work for Chromium 35. At this
moment I
am not aware of any fix for it.


Again Its a broad brush statement. Something concrete is needed if 
some.action is to taken



IIRC the Chromium 37 works though.


Well then its less chance.that someone will fix 35

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The problem is that narrowing down is very difficult, since the 
problems manifest themselves as seemingly random stack corruptions. I 
have tried to dig into it, but got nowhere. Pointers suddenly became 
null for no apparent reason, or were corrupted, free() calls failed, 
values on the stack suddenly changed without being modified by the 
code etc.


I wouldn't rule out that Linus Torvald's find isn't the cause here. 
Look at this part of his message:


"The x86-64 ABI specifies a 128-byte red-zone under the stack 
pointer, and this is ok by that limit. It looks like it's illegal 
(136 > 128), but the fact is, we've had four "pushq"s to update %rsp 
since loading the frame pointer, so it's just *barely* legal with the 
red-zoning."


Perhaps gcc is pushing further outside of the red zone bounds, thus 
causing the problems. No idea how to check for that at the moment though.


Simplest would be to apply the upstream fix to Yocto's gcc and see if 
that helps.  You'd want commit 
556537c4ad0df4cbebb74197bb2bdea75cf5dd35 from 
git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git.  (The patch went into gcc-4_9-branch 
one day after 4.9.1 was released.)


I'd add it to the current set but ATT Khem and I both have pending 
patches that touch the same gcc files, so it'd just increase the 
conflicts.


Peter












To further elaborate, the Chromium developers know about problems with 
GCC 4.9. Here is an example: 
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=385729


Note that while a build of Chromium 37 works, I've had internal compiler 
errors happen. I actually had to re-run the run.do_compile script about 
30 times until the build finished (the ICE's happen only sometimes, so 
repeated attempts at compiling eventually yields a result.)


Thanks for the link. I'll try it out when I have the time. Aside from 
that, I recommend to keep the GCC 4.8 recipes for the time being. At 
least they should not be removed as quickly as the 4.7 ones.
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Re: [OE-core] GCC 4.9 considered evil

2014-08-14 Thread Peter A. Bigot

On 08/14/2014 03:12 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:

On 08/14/2014 02:46 AM, Khem Raj wrote:



On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Otavio Salvador 
mailto:ota...@ossystems.com.br>> wrote:


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gary Thomas > wrote:
> I've found that the latest GCC doesn't work very well, at
> least not on ARM (and obviously other architectures as well [1])
> When I build Google Chromium browser for my i.MX boards using
> GCC-4.9.x, no pages can be rendered - massive bloodshed and
> failures are shown on the console.  If I use the older GCC 4.8.2,
> everything else the same, all is well.
>
> Here's my configuration:
> BB_VERSION= "1.23.1"
> BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
> TARGET_SYS= "arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE   = "teton-p0382"
> DISTRO= "amltd"
> DISTRO_VERSION= "1.6+snapshot-20140812"
> TUNE_FEATURES = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard
cortexa9"
> TARGET_FPU= "vfp-neon"
> meta  =
"master:86afd7eb7c679eb065706137f28f44248f3fbc5a"
> meta-amltd=
"master:899529b4184dc9e3e291e7fcdbbf157233db056d"
> meta-teton-imx6-p0382 =
"master:9188e2f8fafd203c95dcd7a3c79cb38a1568e9b5"
> meta-fsl-arm  =
"master:b0cf5c78c5f98c5977ae556d331e7495648f154c"
> meta-fsl-arm-extra =
"master:12e560967b7136222c325d11633295fe3a0c701c"
> meta-browser  =
"master:da93c8e386133a15eff1414d9307c8f2c7a44787"
>
> Should this be filed as a bug?  I don't have much data other
than it
> simply breaks (and chrome is not the easiest thing to debug!).
 Other
> applications seem OK, but I am loathe to trust it...
>
> I'm going to hold onto GCC-4.8.x for my $DISTRO at least (and I
hope
> it doesn't vanish like 4.7.x did too quickly).
>
> [1]
>

http://slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1838219/linus-torvalds-gcc-490-seems-to-be-terminally-broken
>
> Note: I've also tried this on qemux86 (a totally different
> architecture) and chrome bombs just as badly!

I confirm that GCC 4.9 does NOT work for Chromium 35. At this
moment I
am not aware of any fix for it.


Again Its a broad brush statement. Something concrete is needed if 
some.action is to taken



IIRC the Chromium 37 works though.


Well then its less chance.that someone will fix 35

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The problem is that narrowing down is very difficult, since the 
problems manifest themselves as seemingly random stack corruptions. I 
have tried to dig into it, but got nowhere. Pointers suddenly became 
null for no apparent reason, or were corrupted, free() calls failed, 
values on the stack suddenly changed without being modified by the 
code etc.


I wouldn't rule out that Linus Torvald's find isn't the cause here. 
Look at this part of his message:


"The x86-64 ABI specifies a 128-byte red-zone under the stack pointer, 
and this is ok by that limit. It looks like it's illegal (136 > 128), 
but the fact is, we've had four "pushq"s to update %rsp since loading 
the frame pointer, so it's just *barely* legal with the red-zoning."


Perhaps gcc is pushing further outside of the red zone bounds, thus 
causing the problems. No idea how to check for that at the moment though.


Simplest would be to apply the upstream fix to Yocto's gcc and see if 
that helps.  You'd want commit 556537c4ad0df4cbebb74197bb2bdea75cf5dd35 
from git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git.  (The patch went into gcc-4_9-branch 
one day after 4.9.1 was released.)


I'd add it to the current set but ATT Khem and I both have pending 
patches that touch the same gcc files, so it'd just increase the conflicts.


Peter






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Re: [OE-core] GCC 4.9 considered evil

2014-08-14 Thread Carlos Rafael Giani

On 08/14/2014 02:46 AM, Khem Raj wrote:



On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Otavio Salvador 
mailto:ota...@ossystems.com.br>> wrote:


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gary Thomas > wrote:
> I've found that the latest GCC doesn't work very well, at
> least not on ARM (and obviously other architectures as well [1])
> When I build Google Chromium browser for my i.MX boards using
> GCC-4.9.x, no pages can be rendered - massive bloodshed and
> failures are shown on the console.  If I use the older GCC 4.8.2,
> everything else the same, all is well.
>
> Here's my configuration:
> BB_VERSION= "1.23.1"
> BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
> TARGET_SYS= "arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE   = "teton-p0382"
> DISTRO= "amltd"
> DISTRO_VERSION= "1.6+snapshot-20140812"
> TUNE_FEATURES = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard
cortexa9"
> TARGET_FPU= "vfp-neon"
> meta  =
"master:86afd7eb7c679eb065706137f28f44248f3fbc5a"
> meta-amltd=
"master:899529b4184dc9e3e291e7fcdbbf157233db056d"
> meta-teton-imx6-p0382 =
"master:9188e2f8fafd203c95dcd7a3c79cb38a1568e9b5"
> meta-fsl-arm  =
"master:b0cf5c78c5f98c5977ae556d331e7495648f154c"
> meta-fsl-arm-extra =
"master:12e560967b7136222c325d11633295fe3a0c701c"
> meta-browser  =
"master:da93c8e386133a15eff1414d9307c8f2c7a44787"
>
> Should this be filed as a bug?  I don't have much data other than it
> simply breaks (and chrome is not the easiest thing to debug!).
 Other
> applications seem OK, but I am loathe to trust it...
>
> I'm going to hold onto GCC-4.8.x for my $DISTRO at least (and I hope
> it doesn't vanish like 4.7.x did too quickly).
>
> [1]
>

http://slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1838219/linus-torvalds-gcc-490-seems-to-be-terminally-broken
>
> Note: I've also tried this on qemux86 (a totally different
> architecture) and chrome bombs just as badly!

I confirm that GCC 4.9 does NOT work for Chromium 35. At this moment I
am not aware of any fix for it.


Again Its a broad brush statement. Something concrete is needed if 
some.action is to taken



IIRC the Chromium 37 works though.


Well then its less chance.that someone will fix 35

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The problem is that narrowing down is very difficult, since the problems 
manifest themselves as seemingly random stack corruptions. I have tried 
to dig into it, but got nowhere. Pointers suddenly became null for no 
apparent reason, or were corrupted, free() calls failed, values on the 
stack suddenly changed without being modified by the code etc.


I wouldn't rule out that Linus Torvald's find isn't the cause here. Look 
at this part of his message:


"The x86-64 ABI specifies a 128-byte red-zone under the stack pointer, 
and this is ok by that limit. It looks like it's illegal (136 > 128), 
but the fact is, we've had four "pushq"s to update %rsp since loading 
the frame pointer, so it's just *barely* legal with the red-zoning."


Perhaps gcc is pushing further outside of the red zone bounds, thus 
causing the problems. No idea how to check for that at the moment though.
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Re: [OE-core] GCC 4.9 considered evil

2014-08-13 Thread Khem Raj
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Otavio Salvador 
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gary Thomas  > wrote:
> > I've found that the latest GCC doesn't work very well, at
> > least not on ARM (and obviously other architectures as well [1])
> > When I build Google Chromium browser for my i.MX boards using
> > GCC-4.9.x, no pages can be rendered - massive bloodshed and
> > failures are shown on the console.  If I use the older GCC 4.8.2,
> > everything else the same, all is well.
> >
> > Here's my configuration:
> > BB_VERSION= "1.23.1"
> > BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux"
> > NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
> > TARGET_SYS= "arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi"
> > MACHINE   = "teton-p0382"
> > DISTRO= "amltd"
> > DISTRO_VERSION= "1.6+snapshot-20140812"
> > TUNE_FEATURES = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard cortexa9"
> > TARGET_FPU= "vfp-neon"
> > meta  = "master:86afd7eb7c679eb065706137f28f44248f3fbc5a"
> > meta-amltd= "master:899529b4184dc9e3e291e7fcdbbf157233db056d"
> > meta-teton-imx6-p0382 = "master:9188e2f8fafd203c95dcd7a3c79cb38a1568e9b5"
> > meta-fsl-arm  = "master:b0cf5c78c5f98c5977ae556d331e7495648f154c"
> > meta-fsl-arm-extra = "master:12e560967b7136222c325d11633295fe3a0c701c"
> > meta-browser  = "master:da93c8e386133a15eff1414d9307c8f2c7a44787"
> >
> > Should this be filed as a bug?  I don't have much data other than it
> > simply breaks (and chrome is not the easiest thing to debug!).  Other
> > applications seem OK, but I am loathe to trust it...
> >
> > I'm going to hold onto GCC-4.8.x for my $DISTRO at least (and I hope
> > it doesn't vanish like 4.7.x did too quickly).
> >
> > [1]
> >
> http://slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1838219/linus-torvalds-gcc-490-seems-to-be-terminally-broken
> >
> > Note: I've also tried this on qemux86 (a totally different
> > architecture) and chrome bombs just as badly!
>
> I confirm that GCC 4.9 does NOT work for Chromium 35. At this moment I
> am not aware of any fix for it.


Again Its a broad brush statement. Something concrete is needed if
some.action is to taken

>
> IIRC the Chromium 37 works though.
>
>
Well then its less chance.that someone will fix 35

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Re: [OE-core] GCC 4.9 considered evil

2014-08-13 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gary Thomas  wrote:
> I've found that the latest GCC doesn't work very well, at
> least not on ARM (and obviously other architectures as well [1])
> When I build Google Chromium browser for my i.MX boards using
> GCC-4.9.x, no pages can be rendered - massive bloodshed and
> failures are shown on the console.  If I use the older GCC 4.8.2,
> everything else the same, all is well.
>
> Here's my configuration:
> BB_VERSION= "1.23.1"
> BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
> TARGET_SYS= "arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE   = "teton-p0382"
> DISTRO= "amltd"
> DISTRO_VERSION= "1.6+snapshot-20140812"
> TUNE_FEATURES = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard cortexa9"
> TARGET_FPU= "vfp-neon"
> meta  = "master:86afd7eb7c679eb065706137f28f44248f3fbc5a"
> meta-amltd= "master:899529b4184dc9e3e291e7fcdbbf157233db056d"
> meta-teton-imx6-p0382 = "master:9188e2f8fafd203c95dcd7a3c79cb38a1568e9b5"
> meta-fsl-arm  = "master:b0cf5c78c5f98c5977ae556d331e7495648f154c"
> meta-fsl-arm-extra = "master:12e560967b7136222c325d11633295fe3a0c701c"
> meta-browser  = "master:da93c8e386133a15eff1414d9307c8f2c7a44787"
>
> Should this be filed as a bug?  I don't have much data other than it
> simply breaks (and chrome is not the easiest thing to debug!).  Other
> applications seem OK, but I am loathe to trust it...
>
> I'm going to hold onto GCC-4.8.x for my $DISTRO at least (and I hope
> it doesn't vanish like 4.7.x did too quickly).
>
> [1]
> http://slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1838219/linus-torvalds-gcc-490-seems-to-be-terminally-broken
>
> Note: I've also tried this on qemux86 (a totally different
> architecture) and chrome bombs just as badly!

I confirm that GCC 4.9 does NOT work for Chromium 35. At this moment I
am not aware of any fix for it.

IIRC the Chromium 37 works though.

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Re: [OE-core] GCC 4.9 considered evil

2014-08-13 Thread Khem Raj
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Gary Thomas  wrote:
> I've found that the latest GCC doesn't work very well, at
> least not on ARM (and obviously other architectures as well [1])
> When I build Google Chromium browser for my i.MX boards using
> GCC-4.9.x, no pages can be rendered - massive bloodshed and
> failures are shown on the console.  If I use the older GCC 4.8.2,
> everything else the same, all is well.
>
> Here's my configuration:
> BB_VERSION= "1.23.1"
> BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
> TARGET_SYS= "arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE   = "teton-p0382"
> DISTRO= "amltd"
> DISTRO_VERSION= "1.6+snapshot-20140812"
> TUNE_FEATURES = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard cortexa9"
> TARGET_FPU= "vfp-neon"
> meta  = "master:86afd7eb7c679eb065706137f28f44248f3fbc5a"
> meta-amltd= "master:899529b4184dc9e3e291e7fcdbbf157233db056d"
> meta-teton-imx6-p0382 = "master:9188e2f8fafd203c95dcd7a3c79cb38a1568e9b5"
> meta-fsl-arm  = "master:b0cf5c78c5f98c5977ae556d331e7495648f154c"
> meta-fsl-arm-extra = "master:12e560967b7136222c325d11633295fe3a0c701c"
> meta-browser  = "master:da93c8e386133a15eff1414d9307c8f2c7a44787"
>
> Should this be filed as a bug?  I don't have much data other than it
> simply breaks (and chrome is not the easiest thing to debug!).  Other
> applications seem OK, but I am loathe to trust it...

You need to provide more info to get any traction on this. If you can
narrow it down more that will be helpful.

>
> I'm going to hold onto GCC-4.8.x for my $DISTRO at least (and I hope
> it doesn't vanish like 4.7.x did too quickly).
>
> [1]
> http://slashdot.org/story/14/07/27/1838219/linus-torvalds-gcc-490-seems-to-be-terminally-broken
>

thats probably unrelated to what you are seeing.

> Note: I've also tried this on qemux86 (a totally different
> architecture) and chrome bombs just as badly!
>
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