[ACTIVITY] Week 21

2014-05-23 Thread Bernie Ogden
== Progress== lowlevellock performance bugs - TCWG-435 [5/10] * Tried various methods to build/test glibc for aarch64 * Eventually succeeded (tests passed) cbuild benchmarking - TCWG-360 [3/10] * cbuildized spec2xxx scripts working as far as 'run' Meetings/mail/etc [2/10] == Plan == Holiday

[ACTIVITY] 19 - 23 May 2014

2014-05-23 Thread Will Newton
== Progress == * Investigate and fix building glibc for ARM with -mtls-dialect=gnu2 (3/10) * Investigate ld TLS behaviour for Huawei (1/10) * Refactor scripts to enable benchmarking postgresql malloc performance (2/10, TCWG-441) * Patch review and testing (1/10) * Diagnose and fix glibc testsuite

[ACTIVITY] Week 21

2014-05-23 Thread Renato Golin
== Progress == * Kernel (CARD-1246 4/10) - Named registers committed in Clang - GCC seems to break on local named regs, too. - Trying to change the kernel code to use only globals for non-GPRs - Adding support for pointer types, and structure fields in GNRVs * Benchmarks (CARD-716 0/10) -

[ACTIVITY] 19-23 May 2014

2014-05-23 Thread Christophe Lyon
== Progress == * GCC trunk cross-validation (4/10) - build broken last week-end, because of a new optimization that broke glibc build. - glibc fixed by Joseph mid-week, updated - to help diagnose build failures earlier, I have setup a reduced version of the validation framework,

Parallel cross-testing of GCC

2014-05-23 Thread Maxim Kuvyrkov
Hi, I have tried out a prototype of using binfmt_misc, and it does not appear to be a worthwhile solution at this point. Bottom line: with a nice fast multi-core x86 server and a pool of ARM boards we can test GCC in ~20min. Testing setup: - Core i3 2-core host - Chromebook 2-core target, SSD

Re: Parallel cross-testing of GCC

2014-05-23 Thread Maxim Kuvyrkov
On May 24, 2014, at 5:10 PM, Maxim Kuvyrkov maxim.kuvyr...@linaro.org wrote: Hi, I have tried out a prototype of using binfmt_misc, and it does not appear to be a worthwhile solution at this point. Bottom line: with a nice fast multi-core x86 server and a pool of ARM boards we can test