[ACTIVITY] week ending Aug. 12 2018

[Alex Bennée]

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

- continued 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
- posted {RFC PATCH 0/4} add hand-rolled fallback when capstone
fails Message-Id: <20180808123934.17450-1-***@linaro.org>
- finally fixed after Laurent's review comments - see [rth's latest
branch]


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

[rth's latest branch]
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/testing/tgt-arm-sve-c

SVE Reviews

- reviewed {PATCH 00/11} target/arm: sve linux-user patches
Message-Id: <20180809034033.10579-1-***@linaro.org>
- started reviewing {PATCH 00/20} target/arm: sve system mode patches
Message-Id: <20180809042206.15726-1-***@linaro.org>


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

- posted {RFC PATCH 0/3} Tweaks to linux-user -dfilter Message-Id:
<20180809175553.18479-1-***@linaro.org>
- posted {RFC PATCH 0/3} tweaks for QEMU's C standard Message-Id:
<0180810171102.16451-1-***@linaro.org>


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

Other Tasks
===========

- Submitted "My Other Machine is Virtual" abstract for YVR18
- this talk has been accepted
- Drafted the [Instrumentation EPIC]
- started added stories for various use-cases


[Instrumentation EPIC] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/TCWG-1457


Completed Reviews [1/1]
=======================

{PATCH 00/11} target/arm: sve linux-user patches
Message-Id: <20180809034033.10579-1-***@linaro.org>

- CLOSING NOTE [2018-08-09 Thu 12:44]
Looks good, tested on a bunch of stuff

Absences
========

- Holiday (16th-28th August 2018)
- YVR18 Connect (17th-21st September 2018)
- KVM Forum 2018 (24th-26th October 2018)

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

* {PATCH 00/20} target/arm: sve system mode patches
Message-Id: <20180809042206.15726-1-***@linaro.org>
* {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>
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Alex Bennée