Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev
2020-Oct-01 07:22 UTC
[llvm-dev] [Release-testers] [11.0.0 Release] Please help writing release notes!
Committed to 11.x as b6efbd6b5f22d0a251d2fba9a5d24ac21760b1cc. Thanks! On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 3:29 AM Lang Hames <lhames at gmail.com> wrote:> > Hi Hans, > > Apologies if I got here too late, but just in case I didn't here are some JIT release notes for 11.0.0: > > - LLJIT now supports execution of static inits / deinits via the LLJIT::initialize and LLJIT::deinitialize methods > - Static libraries can now be added to a JITDylib using the StaticLibraryDefinitionGenerator class > - A C API has been added for OrcV2 (llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm-c/Orc.h) > - Several OrcV2 example projects have been added to llvm-project/llvm/examples/OrcV2Examples > - Many bug fixes and API improvements > > -- Lang. > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:19 AM Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: >> >> Thanks! Committed in 158581772fc8f3d6c601ceba14a08285e46cb7e9 >> >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 4:23 PM Ahsan Saghir <saghir.ibm at gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Hans, >> > Here are the PowerPC release notes for 11.0.0: >> > >> > Optimization: >> > >> > Improved Loop Unroll-and-Jam legality checks, allowing it to handle more than two level loop nests >> > Improved Loop Unroll to be able to unroll more loops >> > Implemented an option to allow loop fusion to work on loops with different constant trip counts >> > >> > Codegen: >> > >> > POWER10 support >> > >> > Added PC Relative addressing >> > Added __int128 vector bool support >> > >> > Security enhancement via probe-stack attribute support to protect against stack clash >> > Floating point support enhancements >> > >> > Improved half precision and quad precision support, including GLIBC >> > constrained FP operation support for arithmetic/rounding/max/min >> > cleaning up fast math flags checks in DAGCombine, Legalizer, and Lowering >> > >> > Performance improvements from instruction exploitation, especially for vector permute on LE >> > Scheduling enhancements >> > >> > Added MacroFusion for POWER8 >> > Added post-ra heuristics for POWER9 >> > >> > Target dependent passes tuning >> > >> > Updated LoopStrengthReduce to use instruction number as first priority >> > Enhanced MachineCombiner to expose more ILP >> > >> > Code quality and maintenance enhancements >> > >> > Enabled more machine verification passes >> > Added ability to parse and emit additional extended mnemonics >> > Numerous bug fixes >> > >> > AIX Support Improvements: >> > >> > Enabled compile and link such that a simple <stdio.h> "Hello World" program works with standard headers >> > Added support for the C calling convention for non-vector code >> > Implemented correct stack frame layout for functions >> > In llvm-objdump, added support for relocations, improved selection of symbol labels, and added the --symbol-description option >> > >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Regards, >> > Ahsan Saghir. >> > >> > On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 14:00, Hans Wennborg via Release-testers <release-testers at lists.llvm.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> >> >> With the release drawing near, it would be great to get the release >> >> notes into better shape. >> >> >> >> You can see the notes from rc2 online here: >> >> https://prereleases.llvm.org/11.0.0/#rc2 >> >> >> >> The release notes are typically the first thing people look at after >> >> the release, so it's a great opportunity to highlight the work that's >> >> been done since the last release. >> >> >> >> If you can think of anything interesting that happened over the last >> >> six months, please consider adding to the notes by sending me a patch, >> >> committing directly to the notes on the release/11.x branch, or just >> >> sending me some text in an email. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Hans >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Release-testers mailing list >> >> Release-testers at lists.llvm.org >> >> https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/release-testers >> _______________________________________________ >> LLVM Developers mailing list >> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org >> https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev
Yvan Roux via llvm-dev
2020-Oct-01 08:23 UTC
[llvm-dev] [Release-testers] [11.0.0 Release] Please help writing release notes!
Hi Hans, I think that for ARM we can add a word on the support of the Machine Outliner, maybe something like: * The Machine Outliner is now supported for ARM and Thumb2, it is not turned on by default and can be enabled with the -moutline clang flag Yvan On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 09:23, Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:> > Committed to 11.x as b6efbd6b5f22d0a251d2fba9a5d24ac21760b1cc. Thanks! > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 3:29 AM Lang Hames <lhames at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Hans, > > > > Apologies if I got here too late, but just in case I didn't here are some JIT release notes for 11.0.0: > > > > - LLJIT now supports execution of static inits / deinits via the LLJIT::initialize and LLJIT::deinitialize methods > > - Static libraries can now be added to a JITDylib using the StaticLibraryDefinitionGenerator class > > - A C API has been added for OrcV2 (llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm-c/Orc.h) > > - Several OrcV2 example projects have been added to llvm-project/llvm/examples/OrcV2Examples > > - Many bug fixes and API improvements > > > > -- Lang. > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:19 AM Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > >> > >> Thanks! Committed in 158581772fc8f3d6c601ceba14a08285e46cb7e9 > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 4:23 PM Ahsan Saghir <saghir.ibm at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi Hans, > >> > Here are the PowerPC release notes for 11.0.0: > >> > > >> > Optimization: > >> > > >> > Improved Loop Unroll-and-Jam legality checks, allowing it to handle more than two level loop nests > >> > Improved Loop Unroll to be able to unroll more loops > >> > Implemented an option to allow loop fusion to work on loops with different constant trip counts > >> > > >> > Codegen: > >> > > >> > POWER10 support > >> > > >> > Added PC Relative addressing > >> > Added __int128 vector bool support > >> > > >> > Security enhancement via probe-stack attribute support to protect against stack clash > >> > Floating point support enhancements > >> > > >> > Improved half precision and quad precision support, including GLIBC > >> > constrained FP operation support for arithmetic/rounding/max/min > >> > cleaning up fast math flags checks in DAGCombine, Legalizer, and Lowering > >> > > >> > Performance improvements from instruction exploitation, especially for vector permute on LE > >> > Scheduling enhancements > >> > > >> > Added MacroFusion for POWER8 > >> > Added post-ra heuristics for POWER9 > >> > > >> > Target dependent passes tuning > >> > > >> > Updated LoopStrengthReduce to use instruction number as first priority > >> > Enhanced MachineCombiner to expose more ILP > >> > > >> > Code quality and maintenance enhancements > >> > > >> > Enabled more machine verification passes > >> > Added ability to parse and emit additional extended mnemonics > >> > Numerous bug fixes > >> > > >> > AIX Support Improvements: > >> > > >> > Enabled compile and link such that a simple <stdio.h> "Hello World" program works with standard headers > >> > Added support for the C calling convention for non-vector code > >> > Implemented correct stack frame layout for functions > >> > In llvm-objdump, added support for relocations, improved selection of symbol labels, and added the --symbol-description option > >> > > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > Ahsan Saghir. > >> > > >> > On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 14:00, Hans Wennborg via Release-testers <release-testers at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Hello everyone, > >> >> > >> >> With the release drawing near, it would be great to get the release > >> >> notes into better shape. > >> >> > >> >> You can see the notes from rc2 online here: > >> >> https://prereleases.llvm.org/11.0.0/#rc2 > >> >> > >> >> The release notes are typically the first thing people look at after > >> >> the release, so it's a great opportunity to highlight the work that's > >> >> been done since the last release. > >> >> > >> >> If you can think of anything interesting that happened over the last > >> >> six months, please consider adding to the notes by sending me a patch, > >> >> committing directly to the notes on the release/11.x branch, or just > >> >> sending me some text in an email. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks, > >> >> Hans > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> Release-testers mailing list > >> >> Release-testers at lists.llvm.org > >> >> https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/release-testers > >> _______________________________________________ > >> LLVM Developers mailing list > >> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org > >> https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org > https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev
Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev
2020-Oct-05 11:39 UTC
[llvm-dev] [Release-testers] [11.0.0 Release] Please help writing release notes!
Thanks, added in f80e6d63423008ca24aa5d5d9939d0e35a2d7d02, On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:24 AM Yvan Roux <yvan.roux at linaro.org> wrote:> > Hi Hans, > > I think that for ARM we can add a word on the support of the Machine > Outliner, maybe something like: > > * The Machine Outliner is now supported for ARM and Thumb2, it is not > turned on by default and can be enabled with the -moutline clang flag > > Yvan > > On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 09:23, Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev > <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > > > Committed to 11.x as b6efbd6b5f22d0a251d2fba9a5d24ac21760b1cc. Thanks! > > > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 3:29 AM Lang Hames <lhames at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Hans, > > > > > > Apologies if I got here too late, but just in case I didn't here are some JIT release notes for 11.0.0: > > > > > > - LLJIT now supports execution of static inits / deinits via the LLJIT::initialize and LLJIT::deinitialize methods > > > - Static libraries can now be added to a JITDylib using the StaticLibraryDefinitionGenerator class > > > - A C API has been added for OrcV2 (llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm-c/Orc.h) > > > - Several OrcV2 example projects have been added to llvm-project/llvm/examples/OrcV2Examples > > > - Many bug fixes and API improvements > > > > > > -- Lang. > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:19 AM Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > >> > > >> Thanks! Committed in 158581772fc8f3d6c601ceba14a08285e46cb7e9 > > >> > > >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 4:23 PM Ahsan Saghir <saghir.ibm at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > > >> > Hi Hans, > > >> > Here are the PowerPC release notes for 11.0.0: > > >> > > > >> > Optimization: > > >> > > > >> > Improved Loop Unroll-and-Jam legality checks, allowing it to handle more than two level loop nests > > >> > Improved Loop Unroll to be able to unroll more loops > > >> > Implemented an option to allow loop fusion to work on loops with different constant trip counts > > >> > > > >> > Codegen: > > >> > > > >> > POWER10 support > > >> > > > >> > Added PC Relative addressing > > >> > Added __int128 vector bool support > > >> > > > >> > Security enhancement via probe-stack attribute support to protect against stack clash > > >> > Floating point support enhancements > > >> > > > >> > Improved half precision and quad precision support, including GLIBC > > >> > constrained FP operation support for arithmetic/rounding/max/min > > >> > cleaning up fast math flags checks in DAGCombine, Legalizer, and Lowering > > >> > > > >> > Performance improvements from instruction exploitation, especially for vector permute on LE > > >> > Scheduling enhancements > > >> > > > >> > Added MacroFusion for POWER8 > > >> > Added post-ra heuristics for POWER9 > > >> > > > >> > Target dependent passes tuning > > >> > > > >> > Updated LoopStrengthReduce to use instruction number as first priority > > >> > Enhanced MachineCombiner to expose more ILP > > >> > > > >> > Code quality and maintenance enhancements > > >> > > > >> > Enabled more machine verification passes > > >> > Added ability to parse and emit additional extended mnemonics > > >> > Numerous bug fixes > > >> > > > >> > AIX Support Improvements: > > >> > > > >> > Enabled compile and link such that a simple <stdio.h> "Hello World" program works with standard headers > > >> > Added support for the C calling convention for non-vector code > > >> > Implemented correct stack frame layout for functions > > >> > In llvm-objdump, added support for relocations, improved selection of symbol labels, and added the --symbol-description option > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > Thanks, > > >> > > > >> > Regards, > > >> > Ahsan Saghir. > > >> > > > >> > On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 14:00, Hans Wennborg via Release-testers <release-testers at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > >> >> > > >> >> Hello everyone, > > >> >> > > >> >> With the release drawing near, it would be great to get the release > > >> >> notes into better shape. > > >> >> > > >> >> You can see the notes from rc2 online here: > > >> >> https://prereleases.llvm.org/11.0.0/#rc2 > > >> >> > > >> >> The release notes are typically the first thing people look at after > > >> >> the release, so it's a great opportunity to highlight the work that's > > >> >> been done since the last release. > > >> >> > > >> >> If you can think of anything interesting that happened over the last > > >> >> six months, please consider adding to the notes by sending me a patch, > > >> >> committing directly to the notes on the release/11.x branch, or just > > >> >> sending me some text in an email. > > >> >> > > >> >> Thanks, > > >> >> Hans > > >> >> _______________________________________________ > > >> >> Release-testers mailing list > > >> >> Release-testers at lists.llvm.org > > >> >> https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/release-testers > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> LLVM Developers mailing list > > >> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org > > >> https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev > > _______________________________________________ > > LLVM Developers mailing list > > llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org > > https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev