[ACTIVITY] week ending Jul. 1 2018

SVE Support ([VIRT-198]) - posted {PATCH v3 0/5} support reading some CPUID/CNT registers from user-space Message-Id: <20180625160009.17437-1-alex.ben...@linaro.org> - needed for the HPC guys in their test setups - pm has grabbed the CNT patches, the rest

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 29 June

[TCWG-1424] Investigation into profile and size optimisations - Completed the pass and got it working on both the old and new pass managers - Spent quite a bit of time trying to understand how llvm classifies hot and cold functions, a lot of the details are not documented well or at all. - Found a

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 29 Jun

Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] + code review in preparation for 3.0 softfreeze next week: - PMU emulation improvements - last round of SVE patches - i.mx minor code cleanups - put 'address' annotations into DTB node names - virtualization extension support

[ACTIVITY] Weekly report for week 26

=== Work done during this 2.5day week === * 2.5 day off to take care of my sick son * stack-protector failure on GCC ARM: more testing needed + submitted CVE ID request -> will be known as CVE-2018-12886 once published + start testing * Continue work on DSGHACK-25 (Support arithmetic on FileCh