[ACTIVITY] Weekly report for week 28
=== Work done during this week === * Continue work on TCWG-1428 (Support arithmetic on FileCheck regex variable): external review + finish adding comments + add documentation and testcase + respond to feedback and send email to llvm-dev to discuss best syntax for new feature * Started looking into TCWG-1062 (MCF branch prediction overload due to too many consecutive branches): + figure out what machines to run spec on, where to find spec and how to use Linaro scripts to install/configure and run it (thanks to Christophe Lyon) + try to build a native clang toolchain but throw it away since clang does not link (perhaps due to lack of memory (4G machine)) + learn how to build a cross LLVM toolchain (thanks to Peter Smith) + figure out how to get the right privilege to run perf (thanks to Christophe Lyon) * Misc: + LLVM buildbot babysitting with Peter Smith + attend presentation about Windows on Arm + start a full reorganization of my workflow + finish handover of my Arm tickets === Plan for week 28 === * DSGHACK-25 (Support arithmetic on FileCheck regex variable): address comments + rework patch once syntax is agreed * Continue looking into MCF branch prediction overload due to too many consecutive branches: + reproduce/confirm issue + start to investigate a solution ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
[ACTIVITY] report week ending 13 Jul
Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] + tracked down and sent fix for bug in MPU handling of exception frame unstacking that broke a Zephyr test case + sent some patches for minor GICv2 bugs + code review: - large series adding virtualization support to GICv2 * VIRT-164 [improve Cortex-M emulation] + completed patchset that implements execution from small MPU regions and MMIO regions, and sent it out for review + found and fixed a few bugs in the code I was modifying in the process thanks -- PMM ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
[ACTIVITY] 9-13 July 2018
== Progress == * FDPIC - GCC: posted patch series v2. * GCC upstream validation: - looking at some random noise in testing - reported a couple of regressions * Infrastructure: - prototyped native toolchain build job - misc cleanups * misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ) == Next == Holidays for 2 weeks, back on July 30th ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
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4 day week, on holiday monday Submitted a Linaro Connect presentation. [TCWG-1424] Investigate profile feedback for code-size Frustrating week trying to plug profile feedback into builds and benchmarks and get sensible results - First attempt was to use clang 2 stage pgo build -- New pass manager has a bug that prevents clang from linking when I enable clang instrumented profiling (local ref into discarded comdat group containing counters) -- Sample based profiling requires building create_llvm_prof from Google's autofdo repository. Does not build out of the box after it switched to using git submodules for its dependencies, managed to fix up makefile to get it built. -- Tried a sample profiling run but with perf's sampling rate and clang's running time mean that the number of samples is too small to give meaningful results. -- The version of perf on my machine doesn't support incremental profiling so I can't accumulate data from multiple runs. -- Inlining before my pass to mark functions for size optimisation accounts for majority of code size increase. - Second attempt was integrating clang/llvm profiling into spec -- Spent way longer than I'd expected working out how to write a config file that handles sample and instrumentation based profile runs. Both forms require the profile generated from perf or an instrumented build to be post-processed before being used as an input for the next stage. The sample profiling also needs the path to the training executable which isn't obvious how to do. -- Got SpecInt running with all the various combinations that I want to run, haven't had time to do full runs to get results yet ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
[ACTIVITY] week ending Jul. 15 2018
SVE Support ([VIRT-198])
- wrote up abstract for HPC workshop on 26th July
- started on presentation for workshop
- convert [post on SVE development] to jekly blog format and re-check
steps :todo
- trying to get compilers set-up to debug failing Grid Test_simd
testcase
- now have full 1yr armclang license for me and rth
[VIRT-198] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-198
[post on SVE development]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15v1asqk-6de2RtA7ZWdIQ29PkY92gl3nlwG7_SezjoM/edit?usp=sharing
SVE Reviews
- finish reviewing {RFC PATCH 00/16} KVM: arm64: Initial support for
SVE guests Message-Id:
<1529593060-542-1-git-send-email-dave.mar...@arm.com> :todo
- stalled this week due to other activities
Upstream Work ([VIRT-109])
==
- posted {PATCH for 3.0 00/10} various docker fixes Message-Id:
<20180709152117.21585-1-alex.ben...@linaro.org>
- worked on [v2 of docker fixes]
- fixed recent regression in [debootstrap master] which we use
- and then fixed our scripts so we don't *always* use master
- posted {PATCH v2 for 3.0 00/16} various docker fixes Message-Id:
<20180713121741.19262-1-alex.ben...@linaro.org>
[VIRT-109] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-109
[v2 of docker fixes]
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/testing/docker-fixes-for-3.0-v2
[debootstrap master]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903657
Testing and CI
==
- started looking at converting the CI RISU jobs to submit via
qa-reports
- applied for packet.net bare metal machine for docker/kvm testing
QEMU CI Loop ([VIRT-187])
- investigating porting existing RISU tests via qa-reports
- add additional test patterns :todo
[VIRT-187] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-187
KVM CI Loop ([VIRT-2])
- need to sync-up on the current state of this work :todo
- started looking at Xiang's latest auto setup scripts
[VIRT-2] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-2
[our wiki] https://wiki.linaro.org/Core/Virtualization
MTTCG tests ([VIRT-52])
- need to dust these off and get up-streamed if I'm going to add new
tests :todo
[VIRT-52] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-52
Other Tasks
===
- Create an Instrumentation EPIC :todo
[arm64 story a bit more desktopy]
https://github.com/stsquad/gentoo/tree/arm-keywords-so-far
[Kata Containers] https://katacontainers.io/
[CrosVM] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/
Completed Reviews [6/6]
===
{PATCH v2 00/13} iommu: support txattrs, support TCG execution, implement TZ MPC
Message-Id: <20180604152941.20374-10-peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
- CLOSING NOTE [2018-06-14 Thu 19:27]
Looks good.
{PATCH 0/8} Docker improvements
Message-Id: <20180628164643.9668-1-f4...@amsat.org>
- CLOSING NOTE [2018-06-29 Fri 21:38]
Grabbed some patches, commented on others
{Qemu-arm} {PATCH v6 00/35} target/arm SVE patches
Message-Id: <20180627043328.11531-1-richard.hender...@linaro.org>
- CLOSING NOTE [2018-06-29 Fri 21:39]
Looks good
{Qemu-devel} {PATCH v5 00/35} target/arm SVE patches
Message-Id: <20180621015359.12018-1-richard.hender...@linaro.org>
- CLOSING NOTE [2018-06-29 Fri 21:39]
Looking good, stopped to move to v6
{PATCH 0/4} KVM: arm64: FPSIMD/SVE fixes for 4.17
Message-Id: <1528976039-25826-1-git-send-email-dave.mar...@arm.com>
- CLOSING NOTE [2018-06-29 Fri 21:40]
Seems sane to me.
{Qemu-arm} {PATCH v3-a 00/27} target/arm: Scalable Vector Extension
Message-Id: <20180516223007.10256-1-richard.hender...@linaro.org>
- CLOSING NOTE [2018-07-13 Fri 20:02]
Already merged
Absences
- Two days out due to illness
- YVR18 Connect (17th-21st September 2018)
- KVM Forum 2018 (24th-26th October 2018)
Current Review Queue
* {RFC PATCH 00/16} KVM: arm64: Initial support for SVE guests
Message-Id: <1529593060-542-1-git-send-email-dave.mar...@arm.com>
* {PATCH v4 00/19} reverse debugging
Message-Id: <20180528071332.9424.27343.stgit@pasha-VirtualBox>
* {RFC PATCH 00/12} tests/tcg: Add TriCore tests
Message-Id: <2018050114.19154-1-kbast...@mail.uni-paderborn.de>
* {PATCH v4 00/14} fp-test + hardfloat
Message-Id: <1528768140-17894-1-git-send-email-c...@braap.org>
* {Qemu-devel} {RFC PATCH v2 0/7} QEMU binary instrumentation prototype
Message-Id: <152819515565.30857.16834004920507717324.stgit@pasha-ThinkPad-T60>
* {Qemu-devel} {RFC v2 0/2} Add BPF suuport to Qemu
Message-Id: <20180625110706.23332-1-sam...@daynix.com>
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