[ACTIVITY] 25-29 July 2016

[Yao Qi]

* Off on Tue and Wed [4/10]

# Progress #

* TCWG-655, workaround ARM linux kernel ptrace bug on setting VFP
registers. Pedro isn't happy about the workaround, and inclined to
upgrade kernel.

* TCWG-685, GDB 7.12 release. [4/10]
Fix a bug on threads are disappeared when gdb detach. GDB gets
odd task state (disk sleep) from /proc/<pid>/status, and takes some
time understanding what does "disk sleep" mean for a thread to be
exited. Patch is being tested.

* US visa. [1/10]
Get the visa photo, finish the DS-160 form, and make an interview
appointment.

* Misc, [1/10]

# Plan #

* TCWG-685, GDB 7.12 release. More testing on aarch32.
* TCWG-655.

[Diana Picus]

== Progress ==

* PR24234 - [AArch64] error in backend: fixup value out of range
[TCWG-681] [5/10]
- Wrong instruction size computed for TLS accesses
- Accepted upstream, will commit first thing next week

* [AArch64] Register all AArch64 passes [TCWG-687] [3/10]
- Cleanup that should enable us to run AArch64 passes in llc (incidentally,
this was useful for testing TCWG-681)
- Accepted upstream, will commit first thing next week

* Enable MLx Expansion pass for non-Cortex-A9 targets [TCWG-674] [2/10]
- Started playing with a code snippet so I can understand the pass better

== Plan ==

* Enable MLx Expansion pass for non-Cortex-A9 targets [TCWG-674]
- Brush up the code snippet and do some runs on a Cortex-A15 to see how it
behaves there

* Pick up another AArch64 bug from TCWG-678