Hi, all,
I got some progress for applying Charles's patch sent two weeks ago.
However, I also met some hard issues which I want to ask for suggestions.
I am totally new for harmony development, so I want to hear your valuable
suggestions for my work.
My experiments step are:
1. apply the patch on X86_64 (ubuntu 9.04)
at this step, I also checkout a clean trunk, maintain two directories
trunk and trunk-mips(patched by MIPS patch)
after fixing some problems, I compare the testing result(ant test) for
these two versions, the result is same where I assume the modified patch
work on X86(no regression).
for this step, the main problems of original patch are:
a. there is some problem when using "unless", such as:
--- working_vm/make/vm/interpreter.xml (revision 833674)
+++ working_vm/make/vm/interpreter.xml (working copy)
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
<exclude name="interp_native_ia32.cpp" unless="is.x86"/>
<exclude name="interp_native_ipf.cpp" unless="is.ia64"/>
<exclude name="interp_native_em64t.cpp"
unless="is.x86_64"/>
+ <exclude name="interp_native_mips.cpp" unless="is.mips"/>
</fileset>
b. the original patch has several problems under the
working_vm/vm/jitrino/src/jet directory, so I do not use the diff for that
directory
2. apply the patch on my MIPS machine
at this step, I mainly fix a lot of ant make system error since the
original patch did not include the makefile patch as Charles said.
typical fixes mainly include:
a. copy the linux_ppc32.mk to linux_mips32.mk
b. comment out the ABORT where I can not find the definition
c.
/home/stw/harmony/harmony-nofetch/common_resources/make/platform.xml
+ <condition property="is.mips32">
+ <or>
+ <equals arg1="${os.arch}" arg2="mips32" />
+ <equals arg1="${os.arch}" arg2="mips" />
+ </or>
+ </condition>
+ <condition property="is.mips64">
+ <equals arg1="${os.arch}" arg2="mips64" />
+ </condition>
d: manually build the icu-3.4 library since no prebuilt library package
available
e: vmcore.xml
+ <include
name="vmcore/src/util/mips/base_natives" if="is.mips32"/>
+ <include name="port/src/encoder/mips"
if="is.mips32"/>
+ <include name="vmcore/src/lil/mips/include"
if="is.mips32"/>
...................others minor fixes...........
3. after step 2, I finally can build the whole hdk(working_classlib,
working_vm, working_jdktools), then I tried to run the HelloWorld.java,
however, I met segmentation fault at the very begging of the launcher.
I debug this problem, and the following is my finding now:
a. the gdb backtrace is:
(gdb) bt
#0 0x2aaf5164 in apr_initialize () at misc/unix/start.c:46
#1 0x2aaebecc in hythread_lib_create (lib=0x2ab299b0) at
/home/stw/harmony/harmony-nofetch/working_vm/vm/thread/src/thread_i\
nit.c:176
#2 0x2aaebe54 in hythread_library_init () at
/home/stw/harmony/harmony-nofetch/working_vm/vm/thread/src/thread_init.c:70
b. when I use disass under gdb, I found that one instruction
in apr_initialize caused the problem:
0x2aaf5160 <apr_initialize+28>: lui v0,0x5
0x2aaf5164 <apr_initialize+32>: lw v1,-9760(v0)
c. then I suspect its apr's problem, so I rebuilt the apr with -O0, then
first verify using the test/testall, all tests passed
I even execute the test/sockperf alone, it also pass, note that
sockperf call apr_initialize in its main function, but no segmentation
fault,
so I assume apr has no problems.
d. then I rebuilt the hdk, but the segmentation problem still exists.
e. finally I suspect that there may be some problem with gp issues, but
I have no clues. When checking how the launcher is built, I am confused with
libhythr.so, it seems that the launcher is first built under
working_classlib, link with libhythr.so under
working_classlib/modules/portlib/src/main/native/thread/, then after the
launcher is copied into working_vm, it will be linked with libhythr.so
under working_vm/vm/thread/src/, is that right?
but I still can not figure out the root cause, can anyone give me
some suggestions for this hard issue, or someone also experienced similar
issues before?
the Summary:
1. no regression on X86_64 for the MIPS patch
2. buildable on MIPS for that patch
3. running time error(segmentation fault) at the very begging of the
launcher on MIPS
Thanks.
Tianwei
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Sheng, Tianwei
Inst. of High Performance Computing
Dept. of Computer Sci. & Tech.
Tsinghua Univ.
