[ACTIVITY] week ending Aug. 5 2018

[Alex Bennée]

SVE Support ([VIRT-198])
========================

- traced the svetest failure from Naoki @ Naist to SVE ABI issue with
dynamic linker
- rth has posted [a fix for glibc] and a bug raised for armclang
w.r.t. noplt
- looking into Nils's SVE enabled Test_simd from Grid failure
- __attribute__((noinline)) makes it go away, so subtle code
difference
- looking through side-by-side traces to find where it went wrong


[VIRT-198] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-198

[a fix for glibc]
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-08/msg00017.html

SVE Reviews

- reviewed {Qemu-devel} {PATCH 0/4} target/arm sve fixes Message-Id:
<20180801123111.3595-1-***@linaro.org>


QEMU ARMv8.3 Support ([VIRT-241])
=================================

- had a [quick run at VHE] which crystallised some of the issues with
register aliasing
- obviously need to sit and think about a design for this


[VIRT-241] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-241

[ARMv8.1 Mandatory Features]
https://projects.linaro.org/browse/TCWG-1434

[ARMv8.1 optional features] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/TCWG-1435

[quick run at VHE] https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/add-vhe-rfc


Upstream Work ([VIRT-109])
==========================

- posted {PATCH v1 for 3.0 0/2} fix for bug 1783362 Message-Id:
<20180726132947.28538-1-***@linaro.org>
- started reviewing {PATCH v5 00/24} Fixing record/replay and adding
reverse debugging Message-Id:
<***@pasha-VirtualBox>
- number of build issues need to be resolved


[VIRT-109] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-109

Completed Reviews [3/3]
=======================

{PATCH 0/3} linux-user/sparc: Fixes for clone
Message-Id: <20180730201553.32423-1-***@linaro.org>

- CLOSING NOTE [2018-08-01 Wed 14:35]
Still some issues with the tests


{PATCH v5 00/24} Fixing record/replay and adding reverse debugging
Message-Id: <***@pasha-VirtualBox>

- CLOSING NOTE [2018-08-01 Wed 14:36]
Bunch of build failures... gave up.


{Qemu-devel} {PATCH 0/4} target/arm sve fixes
Message-Id: <20180801123111.3595-1-***@linaro.org>

- CLOSING NOTE [2018-08-02 Thu 10:28]
Looks good, but hasn't solved all remaining problems.

Absences
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- YVR18 Connect (17th-21st September 2018)
- KVM Forum 2018 (24th-26th October 2018)

Current Review Queue
====================

* {PATCH 0/5} tests/vm: Improvements when KVM is not available
Message-Id: <20180717024827.27897-1-***@amsat.org>
* {RFC PATCH 00/12} tests/tcg: Add TriCore tests
Message-Id: <20180501142222.19154-1-***@mail.uni-paderborn.de>
* {PATCH v4 00/14} fp-test + hardfloat
Message-Id: <1528768140-17894-1-git-send-email-***@braap.org>
* {Qemu-devel} {RFC PATCH v2 0/7} QEMU binary instrumentation prototype
Message-Id: <***@pasha-ThinkPad-T60>
* {Qemu-devel} {RFC v2 0/2} Add BPF suuport to Qemu
Message-Id: <20180625110706.23332-1-***@daynix.com>
* {PATCH 0/4} tests/vm: various trivial fixes
Message-Id: <20180628153535.1411-1-***@amsat.org>
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Alex Bennée