[Weekly] 23-27 MAR 2015

== This week == * Backports (9/10) - Local backports completed - 218145 - Add Cortex-A17 support - 218146 - Add -mcpu=cortex-a17.cortex-a7 - 219472 - Use Cortex-A17 tuning parameters for Cortex-A12 - 219724 - Add a new scheduling description for the ARM Cortex-

[ACTIVITY] 23rd - 27th March

catomics - TCWG-436 [5/10] * Got pointed at a suitable set of benchmarks, results still underwhelming * However, patches were using relaxed atomics rather than no atomics at all * Fiddled abe into building sysroots for me (I get libstdc++ that way) Misc - [5/10] * Tidied up some 'perf shotgun' scr

[ACTIVITY] 23th - 27th March

One day off on Friday. [2/10] # Progress # * aarch64 gdb, the number of FAIL is reduced to 26 on aarch64-linux! there are still about 10+ FAILs can be fixed. [4/10] ** TCWG-726, fails in gdb.base/break-interp.exp. Fixed. Remove prelink package from juno board as aarch64 isn't supported. *

[ACTIVITY] Week 13

== Issue == * none == Progress == * Infrastructure and Validation (1/10) * GCC Upstream (6/10) - PR63587 and PR64871 committed in FSF 4.9 branch. - PR64208 patch review is OK, but needs to be validate on an iWMMXT platform (pinged some Marvell people). - Submitted a fix for arm_subsi3_i

[ACTIVITY] 23rd - 27th March.

* ASAN/TSAN run on 42 bit VA Aarch64 (TCWG-634) (6/10) Sent a patch that enables ASAN tests with 64 bit allocator on amd-01 (AMD Seattle). All ASAN test passes in LLVM. But on juno platform 39 bit VA does not have enough memory to map hence we need to stay on 32 bit allocator. Discussed