[VIRT-198 # QEMU: SVE Emulation Support ]
Fixed a couple of bugs uncovered by Alex's VQ16 traces.
[VIRT-249 # SVE System Mode ]
Tracked a phantom kernel crash for a while before it
magically went away with a qemu from-scratch rebuild.
(Plus other stuff, maybe? I tried a lot of things.)
Wrote a
[TCWG-1368] Tracked down libfuzzer buildbot failures on aarch64 and raised PR
[TCWG-1424] Use profile information for size optimisation
- Decided to use clang's 2-stage PGO build as next experiment with
compile times on the full test suite as the performance benchmarks
- Spent rather too much time
== Progress ==
* FDPIC
- uclibc-ng: posted patch series.
* GCC upstream validation:
- looking at some random noise in testing
- reported a couple of regressions
* Infrastructure:
- patch reviews
- cleanup/improvements
* misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, )
== Next ==
* FDPIC: ucl
Progress:
* VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
+ softfreeze-related maintenance work
+ investigating reported bug with CMSDK timer device model:
couldn't reproduce hangs, but sent patches which fix
various issues
+ code review:
- various patches by the Outreachy/GSoC interns
=== Work done during this week ===
* PR85434 / CVE-2018-12886 / TCWG-1379 (stack-protector failure on GCC
ARM): external review
+ finish testing and patch clean up (comments + changelog) and
submit for external review
* Continue work on TCWG-1428 (Support arithmetic on FileCheck regex variable):
SVE Support ([VIRT-198])
- wrote up [post on SVE development] with QEMU for for Linaro Blog
- originally planned to publish on QEMU 3.0 release
- HPC team would like it published before their workshop on 26th
July
- write up a abstract for HPC workshop
