jemalloc on iMX6 ARM

Jason Evans jasone at canonware.com
Sat Feb 20 10:41:55 PST 2016


You need to specify target info a bit differently.  See the sh4.cache attachment in the following email for an example:

	http://jemalloc.net/mailman/jemalloc-discuss/2011-April/000018.html

Jason

> On Jan 30, 2016, at 12:20 AM, Jorge Fernandez Monteagudo <jorgefm at cirsa.com> wrote:
> 
> Another one...
> 
> I don't know why the autogen.sh is getting the properties from the building system not the target???
> 
> I do
> 
> $ source /opt/fsl-imx-fb/3.14.52-1.1.0/environment-setup-cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi
> $ ./autogen.sh --build=x86_64-linux --host=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --target=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --enable-debug
> ...
> checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... (cached) no
> checking size of void *... (cached) 8
> checking size of int... (cached) 4
> checking size of long... (cached) 8
> checking size of intmax_t... 8
> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... arm-poky-linux-gnueabi
> ...
> 
> with this defines the code generated is wrong. The void * is a 32b pointer in the target, but a 64b one in the build machine.
> There are some warnings compiling too
> 
> arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc  -march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 --sysroot=/opt/fsl-imx-fb/3.14.52-1.1.0/sysroots/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi -O2 -pipe -g -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fvisibility=hidden -fPIC -DPIC -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Iinclude -Iinclude -o src/jemalloc.pic.o src/jemalloc.c
> src/jemalloc.c:77:2: warning: left shift count >= width of type
>  SIZE_CLASSES
>  ^
> ...
> arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc  -march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 --sysroot=/opt/fsl-imx-fb/3.14.52-1.1.0/sysroots/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi -O2 -pipe -g -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fvisibility=hidden -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Iinclude -Iinclude -o src/util.o src/util.c
> In file included from include/jemalloc/internal/jemalloc_internal.h:500:0,
>                 from src/util.c:23:
> include/jemalloc/internal/util.h: In function ‘je_pow2_ceil’:
> include/jemalloc/internal/util.h:207:2: warning: right shift count >= width of type
>  x |= x >> 32;
>  ^
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: jemalloc-discuss-bounces at canonware.com [jemalloc-discuss-bounces at canonware.com] On Behalf Of Jorge Fernandez Monteagudo [jorgefm at cirsa.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 7:56 PM
> To: jemalloc-discuss at canonware.com
> Subject: RE: jemalloc on iMX6 ARM
> 
> Another clue. I've generated the library with
> 
> $ ./configure --build=x86_64-linux --host=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --enable-debug
> 
> and now I have
> 
> # export LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/libjemalloc.so.2
> # ls
> <jemalloc>: src/rtree.c:18: Failed assertion: "bits > 0 && bits <= (sizeof(uintptr_t) << 3)"
> Aborted
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: jemalloc-discuss-bounces at canonware.com [jemalloc-discuss-bounces at canonware.com] On Behalf Of Jorge Fernandez Monteagudo [jorgefm at cirsa.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 7:26 PM
> To: jemalloc-discuss at canonware.com
> Subject: jemalloc on iMX6 ARM
> 
> Hi all, this is my first post to this mailing list.
> 
> I'm trying to give a try to jemalloc in a iMX6 ARM board. I've
> downloaded the current master image from
> 
> https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/tree/master
> 
> I've done the cross compilation with no problem and I've deploy
> the lib to the board. Our iMX6 image is using 3.14 linux kernel.
> The library generated with
> 
> ./configure --build=x86_64-linux --host=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi
> scp lib/libjemalloc.so.2 root@<imx6_board_ip>:/tmp/
> 
> when I tried in the board I get:
> 
> # export LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/libjemalloc.so.2
> # ls
> Bus error
> 
> and in dmesg I can see
> 
> Alignment trap: not handling instruction e1b14f9f at [<76f06b14>]
> Unhandled fault: alignment exception (0x011) at 0x76f2cfe4
> 
> 
> If I build the library with
> 
> ./configure --build=x86_64-linux --host=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --disable-fill
> scp lib/libjemalloc.so.2 root@<imx6_board_ip>:/tmp/
> 
> when I tried in the board I get:
> 
> # export LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/libjemalloc.so.2
> # ls
> Segmentation fault
> 
> 
> I guess the jemalloc is able to work on ARM systems. Where should I start looking to
> make it work? Any hint is welcome!
> 
> 
> Pd: This is the configuration the 'configure' process prints on screen
> 
> ===============================================================================
> jemalloc version   : 0.0.0-0-g0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> library revision   : 2
> 
> CONFIG             : --build=x86_64-linux --host=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi build_alias=x86_64-linux host_alias=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi 'CC=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc -march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 --sysroot=/opt/fsl-imx-fb/3.14.52-1.1.0/sysroots/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi' 'CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -g -feliminate-unused-debug-types' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed' CPPFLAGS= 'CPP=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc -E -march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 --sysroot=/opt/fsl-imx-fb/3.14.52-1.1.0/sysroots/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi'
> CC                 : arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc  -march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 --sysroot=/opt/fsl-imx-fb/3.14.52-1.1.0/sysroots/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi
> CFLAGS             :  -O2 -pipe -g -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fvisibility=hidden
> CPPFLAGS           :  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT
> LDFLAGS            : -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed
> EXTRA_LDFLAGS      :
> LIBS               :  -lpthread
> TESTLIBS           :
> RPATH_EXTRA        :
> 
> XSLTPROC           : false
> XSLROOT            :
> 
> PREFIX             : /usr/local
> BINDIR             : /usr/local/bin
> DATADIR            : /usr/local/share
> INCLUDEDIR         : /usr/local/include
> LIBDIR             : /usr/local/lib
> MANDIR             : /usr/local/share/man
> 
> srcroot            :
> abs_srcroot        : /data/develop/hardware/imx6_work/memory_allocator/jemalloc-4.0.4/
> objroot            :
> abs_objroot        : /data/develop/hardware/imx6_work/memory_allocator/jemalloc-4.0.4/
> 
> JEMALLOC_PREFIX    :
> JEMALLOC_PRIVATE_NAMESPACE
>                   : je_
> install_suffix     :
> autogen            : 0
> cc-silence         : 1
> debug              : 0
> code-coverage      : 0
> stats              : 1
> prof               : 0
> prof-libunwind     : 0
> prof-libgcc        : 0
> prof-gcc           : 0
> tcache             : 1
> fill               : 1
> utrace             : 0
> valgrind           : 1
> xmalloc            : 0
> munmap             : 0
> lazy_lock          : 0
> tls                : 1
> cache-oblivious    : 1
> ===============================================================================
> 
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