[ACTIVITY] 3 - 7 November 2014

2014-11-11 Thread Omair Javaid
== Progress == AArch64 work on tracepoints and watchpoints failures [4/10] -- Review of AArch64 debug hardware architecture -- AArch64 debugging/testing stalled due to lab down time -- Tried compiling and running custom AArch64 kernel with foundation model Work on some arm specific fix of r

[ACTIVITY] 3 - 7 November 2014

2014-11-10 Thread Will Newton
== Progress == * Pushed malloc microbenchmark to glibc (1/10, TCWG-160) * Upstream work (4/10, CARD-341) - glibc patch review (C11 atomics series) - glibc patchwork cleanup * Look into binutils input fuzzing fixes (1/10) * Investigate ARM port of lld (2/10) * Email, meetings, review, etc. (2/10)

[ACTIVITY] 3 - 7 November 2014

2014-11-09 Thread Venkataramanan Kumar
= Progress == * TCWG-544 - Investigate core mark performance with both at -O3 with LTO + PGO (6/10) Different IPA inline decisions happening between Linaro and trunk. No major differences in other IPA passes. Trunk Inlines crcu32 and not inlines crcu16. Inlining crcu16 decreases instruction count

[ACTIVITY] 3-7 November 2014

2014-11-09 Thread Kugan
== Progress == * Zero/sign extension elimination with widening types (TCWG-546 - 9/10) - benchmarked Spec2k and the improvements are very small - Coremark fared worse. Looked into the cases and relaxed some of the constraints. - Subsequent passes are also not optimizing some of the expected case

[ACTIVITY] 3-7 November 2014

2014-11-07 Thread Christophe Lyon
== Progress == * GCC 4.8 and 4.9 releases (2/10) - committed both branch merges after review+checked the validation results - 4.8 needs another branch merge, to get the last errata-related backport * GCC trunk/4.9 cross-validation (1/10) - committed a couple of patches to clean the testsuite