[VIRT-344 # ARMv8.5-MemTag, Memory Tagging Extension ]
Posted v1.
[VIRT-327 # Richard's upstream QEMU work ]
Posted v6 of linux-user split. Based on Laurent's feedback,
I'm running LTP myself this time, at least for a few guests.
r~
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Upstream Work ([VIRT-109])
==
- posted {PULL 0/5} gitdm updates with final 2018 stats Message-Id:
<20190114160956.7513-1-alex.ben...@linaro.org>
- posted {PULL 00/21} misc testing fixes for Travis and docker
Message-Id:
[LLVM-521] LLD and taking the address of an ifunc
Went through the possible combinations (pic, pie, non-pic, exec,
shared,...) found one relocation that gcc uses that clang doesn't,
hence mc and LLD don't support. Raised upstream pr. Also found that
clang's code-sequence for -fpie doesn't seem to
Progress:
* VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
+ some code review, and another arm pull-request (including
RTH's pointer auth work)
+ sent patch fixing a bug in the gdbstub memory access path that
meant it was always making accesses as NonSecure even if the
guest CPU was
== Progress ==
* FDPIC
- (GNU-411) GDB: gdbserver did not start because of a qemu-user
feature. Worked around it.
* GCC upstream validation:
- reported a few regressions
- dealing with some random results, still
- qemu-3.1 memory consumption. Got some clarifications from IT team
about LSF
== Progress ==
* [ARM GlobalISel] Select complicated G_CONSTANT [LLVM-491]
- Committed upstream
* [ARM & Thumb GlobalISel] Support calls to vararg functions [LLVM-490]
- This gets rid of all the fallbacks in the test-suite related to
calls to printf (which is a lot)
- Committed upstream
*
== Progress ==
* SVE ACLE (6/10)
- Committed patch for svlsl_wide.
* GCC bugs (1/10)
- PR88788: Infinite loop in malloc_candidate_p_1: Fixed in r267933
* Public holiday (2/10)
* Misc (1/10)
- Meetings
== Next Week ==
- Continue ongoing tasks.
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The Linaro Binary Toolchain
The Linaro GCC 7.4-2019.02-rc1 Release-Candidate is now available.
*Notice*: GCC 7.1 ABI change for arm*-*-* targets, and note for
aarch64*-*-* targets
From GCC 7.1 release notes:
On ARM targets (arm*-*-*), a bug introduced in GCC 5 that
