SFO15-TR9: PSCI, ACPI (and UEFI to boot)
Speaker: Bill Fletcher
Date: September 24, 2015
★ Session Description ★
An introductory session of a system-level overview at Power State Coordination
- Focus on ARMv8
- Goes top-down from ACPI
- A demo based on the current code in qemu
- The specifications are very dynamic - what’s onging for ACPI and PSCI
★ Resources ★
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXzPdpaZVto
Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/linaroorg/sfo15tr9-psci-acpi-and-uefi-to-boot
Etherpad: pad.linaro.org/p/sfo15-tr9
Pathable: https://sfo15.pathable.com/meetings/303087
★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect San Francisco 2015 - #SFO15
September 21-25, 2015
Hyatt Regency Hotel
http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
This slide provides a basic understanding of hypervisor support in ARM v8 and above processors. And these slides (intent to) give some guidelines to automotive engineers to compare and choose right solution!
Rootlinux17: Hypervisors on ARM - Overview and Design Choices by Julien Grall...The Linux Foundation
Hypervisors are used in a broad range of domains ranging from Embedded systems, Automotive to big iron servers. The choice of hypervisor has a strong impact on the overall design of your project and its performance. This talk introduces the state of virtualization on ARM, and provides a description of three popular open source hypervisors: KVM, Jailhouse and Xen. Julien Grall explains respective key features, technical differences and suitability of the hypervisor for different application domains.
Julien Grall is a Software Virtualisation Engineer at ARM.
The talk was delivered at Root Linux Conference 2017. Learn more: http://linux.globallogic.com/materials. The video recording is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZNXtqFJpuc
HKG15-107: ACPI Power Management on ARM64 Servers (v2)Linaro
HKG15-107: ACPI Power Management on ARM64 Servers
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Speaker: Ashwin Chaugule
Date: February 9, 2015
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★ Session Summary ★
Status of CPPC with runtime PM and discussion on idle PM with ACPI
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★ Resources ★
Pathable: https://hkg15.pathable.com/meetings/250767
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDDgYIkUHLI
Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/hkg15-107
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2015 - #HKG15
February 9-13th, 2015
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong Airport
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http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
LCU13: Deep Dive into ARM Trusted Firmware
Resource: LCU13
Name: Deep Dive into ARM Trusted Firmware
Date: 31-10-2013
Speaker: Dan Handley / Charles Garcia-Tobin
The U-Boot is an "Universal Bootloader" ("Das U-Boot") is a monitor program that is under GPL. This production quality boot-loader is used as default boot loader by several board vendors. It is easily portable and easy to port and to debug by supporting PPC, ARM, MIPS, x86,m68k, NIOS, Microblaze architectures. Here is a presentation that introduces U-Boot.
This slide provides a basic understanding of hypervisor support in ARM v8 and above processors. And these slides (intent to) give some guidelines to automotive engineers to compare and choose right solution!
Rootlinux17: Hypervisors on ARM - Overview and Design Choices by Julien Grall...The Linux Foundation
Hypervisors are used in a broad range of domains ranging from Embedded systems, Automotive to big iron servers. The choice of hypervisor has a strong impact on the overall design of your project and its performance. This talk introduces the state of virtualization on ARM, and provides a description of three popular open source hypervisors: KVM, Jailhouse and Xen. Julien Grall explains respective key features, technical differences and suitability of the hypervisor for different application domains.
Julien Grall is a Software Virtualisation Engineer at ARM.
The talk was delivered at Root Linux Conference 2017. Learn more: http://linux.globallogic.com/materials. The video recording is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZNXtqFJpuc
HKG15-107: ACPI Power Management on ARM64 Servers (v2)Linaro
HKG15-107: ACPI Power Management on ARM64 Servers
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Speaker: Ashwin Chaugule
Date: February 9, 2015
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★ Session Summary ★
Status of CPPC with runtime PM and discussion on idle PM with ACPI
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★ Resources ★
Pathable: https://hkg15.pathable.com/meetings/250767
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDDgYIkUHLI
Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/hkg15-107
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2015 - #HKG15
February 9-13th, 2015
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong Airport
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http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
LCU13: Deep Dive into ARM Trusted Firmware
Resource: LCU13
Name: Deep Dive into ARM Trusted Firmware
Date: 31-10-2013
Speaker: Dan Handley / Charles Garcia-Tobin
The U-Boot is an "Universal Bootloader" ("Das U-Boot") is a monitor program that is under GPL. This production quality boot-loader is used as default boot loader by several board vendors. It is easily portable and easy to port and to debug by supporting PPC, ARM, MIPS, x86,m68k, NIOS, Microblaze architectures. Here is a presentation that introduces U-Boot.
HKG15-505: Power Management interactions with OP-TEE and Trusted FirmwareLinaro
HKG15-505: Power Management interactions with OP-TEE and Trusted Firmware
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Speaker: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz
Date: February 13, 2015
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★ Session Summary ★
[Note: this is a joint Security/Power Management session) Understand what use cases related to Power Management have to interact with Trusted Firmware via Secure calls. Walk through some key use cases like CPU Suspend and explain how PM Linux drivers interacts with Trusted Firmware / PSCI
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★ Resources ★
Pathable: https://hkg15.pathable.com/meetings/250855
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ2ITjHZY4s
Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/hkg15-505
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2015 - #HKG15
February 9-13th, 2015
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong Airport
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http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
Embitude's Linux SPI Drivers Training Slides. Contains the details of AM335X specific low level programming, SPI components such as SPI Master Driver, SPI Client Driver, Device Tree for SPI
XPDDS18: CPUFreq in Xen on ARM - Oleksandr Tyshchenko, EPAM SystemsThe Linux Foundation
The motivation of hypervisor based CPUFreq is to enable the one of the main PM use-cases (Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling) in virtualized system powered by Xen hypervisor. Rationale behind this activity is that CPU virtualization is done by hypervisor and the guest OS doesn't actually know anything about physical CPUs because it is running on virtual CPUs.
In this talk Oleksandr will briefly describe the possible approach of generic CPUFreq in Xen on ARM, the advantages and disadvantages of having DVFS support on ARM boards powered by Xen hypervisor and share results of his CPUFreq PoC which implies power consumption measurements with and without CPUFreq enabled on R-Car Gen3 based board as an example.
LCU14 302- How to port OP-TEE to another platformLinaro
LCU14 302- How to port OP-TEE to another platform
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Speaker: Joakim Bech, Jens Wiklander and Pascal Brand
Date: September 17, 2014
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★ Session Summary ★
OP-TEE (Open Portable Trusted Execution Environment) is the source code for the TEE in Linux using the ARM Trustzone technology. This component meets the Global Platform TEE System Architecture specification. Most of the code is generic. However, a number of platform specific characteristics are addressed, such as memory layout or board specific hardware IP. In this session, you can learn the steps to follow to port OP-TEE for your armv7 platform, as the ones that have been defined when porting OP-TEE to A80 (SWG-77). OP-TEE to the Allwinner A80 platform
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★ Resources ★
Zerista: http://lcu14.zerista.com/event/member/137748
Google Event: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cnd044lmnid6jcoj1a9svlhmkj0
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgaGJow7hws&list=UUIVqQKxCyQLJS6xvSmfndLA
Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/lcu14-302
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect USA - #LCU14
September 15-19th, 2014
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
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http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
LCU14-107: OP-TEE on ARMv8
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Speaker: Jens Wiklander
Date: September 15, 2014
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★ Session Summary ★
SWG is porting OP-TEE to ARMv8 using Fixed Virtual Platform. Initially OP-TEE is running secure world in aarch32 mode, but with the normal world code running in aarch64 mode. Since ARMv8 uses ARM Trusted Firmware we have patched it with an OP-TEE dispatcher to be able to communicate between secure and normal world.
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★ Resources ★
Zerista: http://lcu14.zerista.com/event/member/137710
Google Event: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c0ef114n77bhgbns9vb85g9n6ak
Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/linaroorg/lcu14-107-optee-on-ar-mv8
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JViplz-ah9M&list=UUIVqQKxCyQLJS6xvSmfndLA
Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/lcu14-107
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect USA - #LCU14
September 15-19th, 2014
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
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http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
The Linux Block Layer - Built for Fast StorageKernel TLV
The arrival of flash storage introduced a radical change in performance profiles of direct attached devices. At the time, it was obvious that Linux I/O stack needed to be redesigned in order to support devices capable of millions of IOPs, and with extremely low latency.
In this talk we revisit the changes the Linux block layer in the
last decade or so, that made it what it is today - a performant, scalable, robust and NUMA-aware subsystem. In addition, we cover the new NVMe over Fabrics support in Linux.
Sagi Grimberg
Sagi is Principal Architect and co-founder at LightBits Labs.
LCU13: An Introduction to ARM Trusted FirmwareLinaro
Resource: LCU13
Name: An Introduction to ARM Trusted Firmware
Date: 28-10-2013
Speaker: Andrew Thoelke
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q32BEMMxmfw
ATF(ARM Trusted Firmware)は、ARMv8では重要なソフトウェア。
全体を利用するのではなく、その一部を利用可能。
この資料では、BL31(EL3 Runtime Firmware)を単体で使う場合、どうすればいいのかを、Xilinx社のZynq UltraScale+ MPSoCを例に説明しています。
ATF (ARM Trusted Firmware) is an important software in ARMv8.
Instead of using the whole, part of it is available.
This document explains how to do when using BL31 (EL3 Runtime Firmware) alone, for example, with Xilinx's Zynq UltraScale + MPSoC.
HKG15-505: Power Management interactions with OP-TEE and Trusted FirmwareLinaro
HKG15-505: Power Management interactions with OP-TEE and Trusted Firmware
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Speaker: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz
Date: February 13, 2015
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★ Session Summary ★
[Note: this is a joint Security/Power Management session) Understand what use cases related to Power Management have to interact with Trusted Firmware via Secure calls. Walk through some key use cases like CPU Suspend and explain how PM Linux drivers interacts with Trusted Firmware / PSCI
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★ Resources ★
Pathable: https://hkg15.pathable.com/meetings/250855
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ2ITjHZY4s
Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/hkg15-505
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2015 - #HKG15
February 9-13th, 2015
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong Airport
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http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
Embitude's Linux SPI Drivers Training Slides. Contains the details of AM335X specific low level programming, SPI components such as SPI Master Driver, SPI Client Driver, Device Tree for SPI
XPDDS18: CPUFreq in Xen on ARM - Oleksandr Tyshchenko, EPAM SystemsThe Linux Foundation
The motivation of hypervisor based CPUFreq is to enable the one of the main PM use-cases (Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling) in virtualized system powered by Xen hypervisor. Rationale behind this activity is that CPU virtualization is done by hypervisor and the guest OS doesn't actually know anything about physical CPUs because it is running on virtual CPUs.
In this talk Oleksandr will briefly describe the possible approach of generic CPUFreq in Xen on ARM, the advantages and disadvantages of having DVFS support on ARM boards powered by Xen hypervisor and share results of his CPUFreq PoC which implies power consumption measurements with and without CPUFreq enabled on R-Car Gen3 based board as an example.
LCU14 302- How to port OP-TEE to another platformLinaro
LCU14 302- How to port OP-TEE to another platform
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Speaker: Joakim Bech, Jens Wiklander and Pascal Brand
Date: September 17, 2014
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★ Session Summary ★
OP-TEE (Open Portable Trusted Execution Environment) is the source code for the TEE in Linux using the ARM Trustzone technology. This component meets the Global Platform TEE System Architecture specification. Most of the code is generic. However, a number of platform specific characteristics are addressed, such as memory layout or board specific hardware IP. In this session, you can learn the steps to follow to port OP-TEE for your armv7 platform, as the ones that have been defined when porting OP-TEE to A80 (SWG-77). OP-TEE to the Allwinner A80 platform
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★ Resources ★
Zerista: http://lcu14.zerista.com/event/member/137748
Google Event: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cnd044lmnid6jcoj1a9svlhmkj0
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgaGJow7hws&list=UUIVqQKxCyQLJS6xvSmfndLA
Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/lcu14-302
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect USA - #LCU14
September 15-19th, 2014
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
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http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
LCU14-107: OP-TEE on ARMv8
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Speaker: Jens Wiklander
Date: September 15, 2014
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★ Session Summary ★
SWG is porting OP-TEE to ARMv8 using Fixed Virtual Platform. Initially OP-TEE is running secure world in aarch32 mode, but with the normal world code running in aarch64 mode. Since ARMv8 uses ARM Trusted Firmware we have patched it with an OP-TEE dispatcher to be able to communicate between secure and normal world.
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★ Resources ★
Zerista: http://lcu14.zerista.com/event/member/137710
Google Event: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c0ef114n77bhgbns9vb85g9n6ak
Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/linaroorg/lcu14-107-optee-on-ar-mv8
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JViplz-ah9M&list=UUIVqQKxCyQLJS6xvSmfndLA
Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/lcu14-107
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect USA - #LCU14
September 15-19th, 2014
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
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http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
The Linux Block Layer - Built for Fast StorageKernel TLV
The arrival of flash storage introduced a radical change in performance profiles of direct attached devices. At the time, it was obvious that Linux I/O stack needed to be redesigned in order to support devices capable of millions of IOPs, and with extremely low latency.
In this talk we revisit the changes the Linux block layer in the
last decade or so, that made it what it is today - a performant, scalable, robust and NUMA-aware subsystem. In addition, we cover the new NVMe over Fabrics support in Linux.
Sagi Grimberg
Sagi is Principal Architect and co-founder at LightBits Labs.
LCU13: An Introduction to ARM Trusted FirmwareLinaro
Resource: LCU13
Name: An Introduction to ARM Trusted Firmware
Date: 28-10-2013
Speaker: Andrew Thoelke
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q32BEMMxmfw
ATF(ARM Trusted Firmware)は、ARMv8では重要なソフトウェア。
全体を利用するのではなく、その一部を利用可能。
この資料では、BL31(EL3 Runtime Firmware)を単体で使う場合、どうすればいいのかを、Xilinx社のZynq UltraScale+ MPSoCを例に説明しています。
ATF (ARM Trusted Firmware) is an important software in ARMv8.
Instead of using the whole, part of it is available.
This document explains how to do when using BL31 (EL3 Runtime Firmware) alone, for example, with Xilinx's Zynq UltraScale + MPSoC.
Kernel Recipes 2016 - Kernel documentation: what we have and where it’s goingAnne Nicolas
The Linux kernel features an extensive array of, to put it kindly, somewhat disorganized documentation. A significant effort is underway to make things better, though. This talk will review the state of kernel documentation, cover the changes that are being made (including the adoption of a new system for formatted documentation), and discuss how interested developers can help.
Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net
Specification-Based Test Program Generation for ARM VMSAv8-64 MMUsAlexander Kamkin
In this work, a tool for automatically generating test programs for ARM VMSAv8-64 memory management units is described. The solution is based on the MicroTESK framework being developed at ISP RAS. The tool consists of two parts: an architecture-independent test program generation core and VMSAv8-64 specifications. Such separation is not a new principle in the area -- it is applied in a number of industrial test program generators, including IBM's Genesys-Pro. The main distinction is in how specifications are represented, what sort of information is extracted from them, and how that information is exploited. In the suggested approach, specifications comprise descriptions of the memory access instructions, loads and stores, and definition of the memory management mechanisms such as translation lookaside buffers, page tables, and cache units. The tool analyzes the specifications and extracts the execution paths and inter-path dependencies. The extracted information is used to systematically enumerate test programs for a given user-defined template. Test data for a particular program are generated by using symbolic execution and constraint solving techniques.
Sched-freq is the integration of the scheduler with cpufreq to yield scheduler-aware CPU frequency management. The purpose of the project will be briefly explained. The current design will be presented including things like the location of hooks in the scheduler and the implicit policy created by those hooks. Sched-freq will be contrasted with other cpufreq governors such as ondemand and interactive. The latest test results will be presented, along with next steps.
In this talk we discuss the mechanisms of utilizing the eBPF language to perform hardware accelerated network packet manipulation and filtering. P4 programs can be compiled into eBPF scripts for offload in the Linux kernel using the Traffic Classifier (TC) subsystem. We demonstrate how, using eBPF as an intermediate language, it has been possible to extend the TC to either Just In Time (JIT) compile eBPF code to x86 assembler for software offload or to IXP byte code for execution in a trusted hardware environment within the Netronome Agilio intelligent server adapter. We finish by encouraging the audience to experiment with their own eBPF applications within the TC hardware accelerated system. The TC kernel patches are available on the Linux Kernel Networking mailing list as a Request For Comment (RFC) contribution.
Dinan Gunawardena, Director, Software Engineering, Netronome
Dinan Gunawardena is a Software Director focusing on running the driver team at Netronome. Previously, Dinan founded a software startup and was a Senior Research Engineer within the Operating Systems and Networking Group at Microsoft Research for 12 years, shipping technology in several versions of Microsoft Windows and the Bing Search Engine. Dinan has received over 20 patents and is a Chartered Software Engineer. Dinan has a Masters in Computer Science from University of Cambridge and a M.B.A. from WBS.
Jakub Kicinski, Software Engineering, Netronome
Jakub Kicinski is a Software Engineer specializing in the Linux Kernel drivers for Netronome SmartNICs. Jakub has previously worked as an intern for Intel Corporation. Jakub is also a researcher with expertise in Linux kernel. Experience in application development on complex multi-CPU and FPGA platforms. He is interested in high-performance software exploiting hardware capabilities and is passionate about networking. Jakub has a Masters in Computer Science from Gdansk University of Technology.
Agenda:
Have you ever wondered how the kernel knows what hardware your computer has installed? Have you heard about DMI but not sure how is it different than DTB?
In this talk I will introduce you to this the hardware probing process and discuss different methods for probing and the pros and cons of each.
Speaker:
Kfir Gollan, senior embedded developer, Linux kernel hacker and software team leader.
This presentation contains details about power management on x86 based PC from Intel corporation. The details here are taken from ACPI Specification on UEFI forum.
Building PoC ready ODM Platforms with Arm SystemReady v5.2.pdfPaul Yang
The purpose of this technical talk with the demo is to show ODMs, OEMs, and ISVs how to leverage SystemReady Lab, showcase the use-case based on the virtualization platform for the edge, and deploy open-source tools that set up ODMs to develop their Arm platforms.
I have collected all the necessary information about various hardware blocks of Nvidia Tegra K1 processor and put them together. It would be helpful for those who are/going to work on it by giving the details in a very concise fashion.
We discuss the existing and new hardware virtualization features. First, we review the existing hardware features that are not used by Xen today, showing examples for use cases. 1) For example, The "descriptor-table exiting" should be useful for the guest kernels or security agent to enhance security features. 2) The VMX-preemption timer allows the hypervisor to preempt guest VM execution after a specified amount of time, which is useful to implement fair scheduling. The hardware can save the timer value on each successive VMexit, after setting the initial VM quantum. 3) VMFUNC is an operation provided by the processor that can be invoked from VMX non-root operation without a VM exit. Today, EPTP switching is available, and we discuss how we can use the feature. Second, we talk about new hardware features, especially for interrupt optimizations.
AIX VIO tutorial to learn basics. Welcome to VIO introduction demo session. Know its importance and other useful details. AIX VIO server information also have to be receive by you. Know regarding various concepts covered. Be aware of fundamentals from Virtual I/O server tutorial.
Our real time faculty has 8 years of experience in multiple domains. You need to get various details from VIO tutorial. Here I/O is input, output. Participants required find correct information on this AIX VIO tutorial. Take part in this session till end.
After this session you should about to understand.
List the reasons for implementing virtual I/O.
Describe the implementation of virtual I/O.
Install and configure the virtual I/O server product.
Configure a partition to use virtual devices.
Describe and configure virtual optical device backed by file.
Virtual I/O introduction:
What is virtual I/0?
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Deep Learning Neural Network Acceleration at the Edge - Andrea GalloLinaro
Short
The growing amount of data captured by sensors and the real time constraints imply that not only big data analytics but also Machine Learning (ML) inference shall be executed at the edge. The multiple options for neural network acceleration in Arm-based platforms provide an unprecedented opportunity for new intelligent devices. It also raises the risk of fragmentation and duplication of efforts when multiple frameworks shall support multiple accelerators.
Andrea Gallo, Linaro VP of Segment Groups, will summarise the existing NN frameworks, accelerator solutions, and will describe the efforts underway in the Arm ecosystem.
Abstract
The dramatically growing amount of data captured by sensors and the ever more stringent requirements for latency and real time constraints are paving the way for edge computing, and this implies that not only big data analytics but also Machine Learning (ML) inference shall be executed at the edge. The multiple options for neural network acceleration in recent Arm-based platforms provides an unprecedented opportunity for new intelligent devices with ML inference. It also raises the risk of fragmentation and duplication of efforts when multiple frameworks shall support multiple accelerators.
Andrea Gallo, Linaro VP of Segment Groups, will summarise the existing NN frameworks, model description formats, accelerator solutions, low cost development boards and will describe the efforts underway to identify the best technologies to improve the consolidation and enable the competitive innovative advantage from all vendors.
Audience
The session will be useful for executives to engineers. Executives will gain a deeper understanding of the issues and opportunities. Engineers at NN acceleration IP design houses will take away ideas for how to collaborate in the open source community on their area of expertise, how to evaluate the performance and accelerate multiple NN frameworks without modifying them for each new IP, whether it be targeting edge computing gateways, smart devices or simple microcontrollers.
Benefits to the Ecosystem
The AI deep learning neural network ecosystem is starting just now and it has similar implications with open source as GPU and video accelerators had in the early days with user space drivers, binary blobs, proprietary APIs and all possible ways to protect their IPs. The session will outline a proposal for a collaborative ecosystem effort to create a common framework to manage multiple NN accelerators while at the same time avoiding to modify deep learning frameworks with multiple forks.
Huawei’s requirements for the ARM based HPC solution readiness - Joshua MoraLinaro
Talk Title: Huawei’s requirements for the ARM based HPC solution readiness
Talk Abstract:
A high level review of a wide range of requirements to architect an ARM based competitive HPC solution is provided. The review combines both Industry and Huawei’s unique views with the intend to communicate openly not only the alignment and support in ongoing efforts carried over by other ARM key players but to brief on the areas of differentiation that Huawei is investing towards the research, development and deployment of homegrown ARM based HPC solution(s).
Speaker: Joshua Mora
Speaker Bio:
20 years of experience in research and development of both software and hardware for high performance computing. Currently leading the architecture definition and development of ARM based HPC solutions, both hardware and software, all the way to the applications (ie. turnkey HPC solutions for different compute intensive markets where ARM will succeed !!).
Bud17 113: distribution ci using qemu and open qaLinaro
“Delivering a well working distribution is hard. There are a lot of different hardware platforms that need to be verified and the software stack is in a big flux during development phases. In rolling releases, this gets even worse, as nothing ever stands still. The only sane answer to that problem are working Continuous Integration tests. The SUSE way to check whether any change breaks normal distribution behavior is OpenQA. Using OpenQA we can automatically run tests that hard working QA people did manually in the old days. That way we have fast enough turnaround times to find and reject breaking changes This session shows how OpenQA works, what pitfalls we had to make ARM work with OpenQA and what we’re doing to improve it for ARM specific use cases.”
OpenHPC Automation with Ansible - Renato Golin - Linaro Arm HPC Workshop 2018Linaro
Speaker: Renato Golin
Speaker Bio:
He started programming in the late 80's in C for PCs after a few years playing with 8-bit computers, but he only started programming professionally in the late 90's during the .com bubble. After many years working on Internet's back-end, he moved to UK and worked a few years on bioinformatics at EBI before joining ARM, where he worked on the DS-5 debugger and on the EDG-to-LLVM bridge, where he became the LLVM Tech Lead. Recently, he worked with large clusters and big data at HPCC before moving to Linaro.
Talk Title: OpenHPC Automation with Ansible
Talk Abstract: "In order to test OpenHPC packages and components and to use it as a
platform to benchmark HPC applications, Linaro is developing an automated deployment strategy, using Ansible, Mr-Provisioner and Jenkins, to install the
OS, OpenHPC and prepare the environment on varied architectures (Arm, x86). This work is meant to replace the existing ageing Bash-based recipes upstream while still keeping the documents intact. Our aim is to make it easier to vary hardware configuration, allow for different provisioning techniques and mix internal infrastructure logic to different labs, while still using the same recipes. We hope this will help more people use OpenHPC with a better out-of-the-box experience and with more robust results"
HPC network stack on ARM - Linaro HPC Workshop 2018Linaro
Speaker: Pavel Shamis
Company: Arm
Speaker Bio:
"Pavel is a Principal Research Engineer at ARM with over 16 years of experience in development HPC solutions. His work is focused on co-design software and hardware building blocks for high-performance interconnect technologies, development communication middleware and novel programming models. Prior to joining ARM, he spent five years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a research scientist at Computer Science and Math Division (CSMD). In this role, Pavel was responsible for research and development multiple projects in high-performance communication domain including: Collective Communication Offload (CORE-Direct & Cheetah), OpenSHMEM, and OpenUCX. Before joining ORNL, Pavel spent ten years at Mellanox Technologies, where he led Mellanox HPC team and was one of the key driver in enablement Mellanox HPC software stack, including OFA software stack, OpenMPI, MVAPICH, OpenSHMEM, and other.
Pavel is a recipient of prestigious R&D100 award for his contribution in development of the CORE-Direct collective offload technology and he published in excess of 20 research papers.
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Talk Title: HPC network stack on ARM
Talk Abstract:
Applications, programming languages, and libraries that leverage sophisticated network hardware capabilities have a natural advantage when used in today¹s and tomorrow's high-performance and data center computer environments. Modern RDMA based network interconnects provides incredibly rich functionality (RDMA, Atomics, OS-bypass, etc.) that enable low-latency and high-bandwidth communication services. The functionality is supported by a variety of interconnect technologies such as InfiniBand, RoCE, iWARP, Intel OPA, Cray¹s Aries/Gemini, and others. Over the last decade, the HPC community has developed variety user/kernel level protocols and libraries that enable a variety of high-performance applications over RDMA interconnects including MPI, SHMEM, UPC, etc. With the emerging availability HPC solutions based on ARM CPU architecture it is important to understand how ARM integrates with the RDMA hardware and HPC network software stack. In this talk, we will overview ARM architecture and system software stack, including MPI runtimes, OpenSHMEM, and OpenUCX.
It just keeps getting better - SUSE enablement for Arm - Linaro HPC Workshop ...Linaro
Speaker: Jay Kruemcke
Speaker Company: SUSE
Bio:
"Jay is responsible for the SUSE Linux server products for High Performance Computing, 64-bit ARM systems, and SUSE Linux for IBM Power servers.
Jay has built an extensive career in product management including using social media for client collaboration, product positioning, driving future product directions, and evangelizing the capabilities and future directions for dozens of enterprise products.
"
Talk Title: It just keeps getting better - SUSE enablement for Arm
Talk Abstract:
SUSE has been delivering commercial Linux support for Arm based servers since 2016. Initially the focus was on high end servers for HPC and Ceph based software defined storage. But we have enabled a number of other Arm SoCs and are even supporting the Raspberry Pi. This session will cover the SUSE products that are available for the Arm platform and view to the future.
Intelligent Interconnect Architecture to Enable Next Generation HPC - Linaro ...Linaro
Speakers: Gilad Shainer and Scot Schultz
Company: Mellanox Technologies
Talk Title: Intelligent Interconnect Architecture to Enable Next
Generation HPC
Talk Abstract:
The latest revolution in HPC interconnect architecture is the development of In-Network Computing, a technology that enables handling and accelerating application workloads at the network level. By placing data-related algorithms on an intelligent network, we can overcome the new performance bottlenecks and improve the data center and applications performance. The combination of In-Network Computing and ARM based processors offer a rich set of capabilities and opportunities to build the next generation of HPC platforms.
Gilad Shainer Bio:
Gilad Shainer has served as Mellanox's vice president of marketing since March 2013. Previously, Mr. Shainer was Mellanox's vice president of marketing development from March 2012 to March 2013. Mr. Shainer joined Mellanox in 2001 as a design engineer and later served in senior marketing management roles between July 2005 and February 2012. Mr. Shainer holds several patents in the field of high-speed networking and contributed to the PCI-SIG PCI-X and PCIe specifications. Gilad Shainer holds a MSc degree (2001, Cum Laude) and a BSc degree (1998, Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel.
Scot Schultz Bio:
Scot Schultz is a HPC technology specialist with broad knowledge in operating systems, high speed interconnects and processor technologies. Joining the Mellanox team in 2013, Schultz is 30-year veteran of the computing industry. Prior to joining Mellanox, he spent the past 17 years at AMD in various engineering and leadership roles in the area of high performance computing. Scot has also been instrumental with the growth and development of various industry organizations including the Open Fabrics Alliance, and continues to serve as a founding board-member of the OpenPOWER Foundation and Director of Educational Outreach and founding member of the HPC-AI Advisory Council.
Yutaka Ishikawa - Post-K and Arm HPC Ecosystem - Linaro Arm HPC Workshop Sant...Linaro
Yutaka Ishikawa - Post-K and Arm HPC Ecosystem - Linaro Arm HPC Workshop Santa Clara 2018
Bio: "Yutaka Ishikawa is the project leader of developing the post K
supercomputer. From 1987 to 2001, he was a member of AIST (former
Electrotechnical Laboratory), METI. From 1993 to 2001, he was the
chief of Parallel and Distributed System Software Laboratory at Real
World Computing Partnership. He led development of cluster system
software called SCore, which was used in several large PC cluster
systems around 2004. From 2002 to 2014, he was a professor at the
University Tokyo. He led a project to design a commodity-based
supercomputer called T2K open supercomputer. As a result, three
universities, Tsukuba, Tokyo, and Kyoto, obtained each supercomputer
based on the specification in 2008. He was also involved with the
design of the Oakleaf-PACS, the successor of T2K supercomputer in both
Tsukuba and Tokyo, whose peak performance is 25PF."
Session Title: Post-K and Arm HPC Ecosystem
Session Description:
"Post-K, a flagship supercomputer in Japan, is being developed by Riken
and Fujitsu. It will be the first supercomputer with Armv8-A+SVE.
This talk will give an overview of Post-K and how RIKEN and Fujitsu
are currently working on software stack for an Arm architecture."
Andrew J Younge - Vanguard Astra - Petascale Arm Platform for U.S. DOE/ASC Su...Linaro
Event: Arm Architecture HPC Workshop by Linaro and HiSilicon
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Speaker: Andrew J Younge
Talk Title: Vanguard Astra - Petascale Arm Platform for U.S. DOE/ASC Supercomputing
Talk Desc: The Vanguard program looks to expand the potential technology choices for leadership-class High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms, not only for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) but for the Department of Energy (DOE) and wider HPC community. Specifically, there is a need to expand the supercomputing ecosystem by investing and developing emerging, yet-to-be-proven technologies and address both hardware and software challenges together, as well as to prove-out the viability of such novel platforms for production HPC workloads.
The first deployment of the Vanguard program will be Astra, a prototype Petascale Arm supercomputer to be sited at Sandia National Laboratories during 2018. This talk will focus on the arthictecural details of Astra and the significant investments being made towards the maturing the Arm software ecosystem. Furthermore, we will share initial performance results based on our pre-general availability testbed system and outline several planned research activities for the machine.
Bio: Andrew Younge is a R&D Computer Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories with the Scalable System Software group. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Distributed Systems, and energy efficient computing. Andrew has a Ph.D in Computer Science from Indiana University, where he was the Persistent Systems fellow and a member of the FutureGrid project, an NSF-funded experimental cyberinfrastructure test-bed. Over the years, Andrew has held visiting positions at the MITRE Corporation, the University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute, and the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Bachelors and Masters of Science from the Computer Science Department at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 2008 and 2010, respectively.
HKG18-501 - EAS on Common Kernel 4.14 and getting (much) closer to mainlineLinaro
Session ID: HKG18-501
Session Name: HKG18-501 - EAS on Common Kernel 4.14 and getting (much) closer to mainline
Speaker: Chris Redpath
Track: Mobile, Kernel
★ Session Summary ★
This session will introduce the changes to EAS planned for 4.14 kernel, and how Arm hopes that EAS will develop in future. EAS has already evolved from an Arm/Linaro joint project to involving a much wider community of SoC vendors, Google and interested device manufacturers. We will highlight the product-specific pieces remaining in the Android Common Kernel EAS implementation, and our plans to provide an upstreaming plan for each product feature. In particular, the new 'simplified energy model' is designed to provide mainline-friendliness and comparable performance using a simple DT expression of cpu power/performance.
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★ Resources ★
Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-501/
Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-501.pdf
Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-501.mp4
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18)
19-23 March 2018
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong
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Keyword: Mobile, Kernel
'http://www.linaro.org'
'http://connect.linaro.org'
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HKG18-501 - EAS on Common Kernel 4.14 and getting (much) closer to mainlineLinaro
"Session ID: HKG18-501
Session Name: HKG18-501 - EAS on Common Kernel 4.14 and getting (much) closer to mainline
Speaker: Chris Redpath
Track: Mobile, Kernel
★ Session Summary ★
This session will introduce the changes to EAS planned for 4.14 kernel, and how Arm hopes that EAS will develop in future. EAS has already evolved from an Arm/Linaro joint project to involving a much wider community of SoC vendors, Google and interested device manufacturers. We will highlight the product-specific pieces remaining in the Android Common Kernel EAS implementation, and our plans to provide an upstreaming plan for each product feature. In particular, the new 'simplified energy model' is designed to provide mainline-friendliness and comparable performance using a simple DT expression of cpu power/performance.
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★ Resources ★
Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-501/
Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-501.pdf
Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-501.mp4
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18)
19-23 March 2018
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong
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Keyword: Mobile, Kernel
'http://www.linaro.org'
'http://connect.linaro.org'
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Follow us on Social Media
https://www.facebook.com/LinaroOrg
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/1026961"
HKG18-315 - Why the ecosystem is a wonderful thing, warts and allLinaro
"Session ID: HKG18-315
Session Name: HKG18-315 - Why the ecosystem is a wonderful thing warts and all
Speaker: Andrew Wafaa
Track: Ecosystem Day
★ Session Summary ★
The Arm ecosystem is a vibrant place, but it's not always smooth sailing. This presentation will go through the highs and lows of getting the ecosystem fully Arm enabled.
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★ Resources ★
Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-315/
Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-315.pdf
Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-315.mp4
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18)
19-23 March 2018
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong
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Keyword: Ecosystem Day
'http://www.linaro.org'
'http://connect.linaro.org'
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Follow us on Social Media
https://www.facebook.com/LinaroOrg
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/1026961"
HKG18- 115 - Partitioning ARM Systems with the Jailhouse HypervisorLinaro
"Session ID: HKG18-115
Session Name: HKG18-115 - Partitioning ARM Systems with the Jailhouse Hypervisor
Speaker: Jan Kiszka
Track: Security
★ Session Summary ★
The open source hypervisor Jailhouse provides hard partitioning of multicore systems to co-locate multiple Linux or RTOS instances side by side. It aims at low complexity and minimal footprint to achieve deterministic behavior and enable certifications according to safety or security standards. In this session, we would like to look at the ARM-specific status of Jailhouse and discuss applications, to-dos and possible collaborations around it with the ARM community. The session is intended to be half presentation, half Q&A / discussion.
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★ Resources ★
Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-115/
Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-115.pdf
Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-115.mp4
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18)
19-23 March 2018
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong
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Keyword: Security
'http://www.linaro.org'
'http://connect.linaro.org'
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"Session ID: HKG18-TR08
Session Name: HKG18-TR08 - Upstreaming SVE in QEMU
Speaker: Alex Bennée,Richard Henderson
Track: Enterprise
★ Session Summary ★
ARM's Scalable Vector Extensions is an innovative solution to processing highly data parallel workloads. While several out-of-tree attempts at implementing SVE support for QEMU existed, we took a fundamentally different approach to solving key challenges and therefore pursued a from-scratch QEMU SVE implementation in Linaro. Our strategic choice was driven by several factors. First as an ""upstream first"" organisation we were focused on a solution that would be readily accepted by the upstream project. This entailed doing our development in the open on the project mailing lists where early feedback and community consensus can be reached.
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★ Resources ★
Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-tr08/
Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-tr08.pdf
Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-tr08.mp4
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18)
19-23 March 2018
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong
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Keyword: Enterprise
'http://www.linaro.org'
'http://connect.linaro.org'
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HKG18-113- Secure Data Path work with i.MX8MLinaro
"Session ID: HKG18-113
Session Name: HKG18-113 - Secure Data Path work with i.MX8M
Speaker: Cyrille Fleury
Track: Digital Home
★ Session Summary ★
NXP presentation on Secure Data Path work with i.MX8M Soc. Demonstrate 4K PlayReady playback with Android 8.1 running on i.MX8M. Focus on security (MS SL3000 and Widevine level 1)
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★ Resources ★
Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-113/
Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-113.pdf
Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-113.mp4
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18)
19-23 March 2018
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong
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Keyword: Digital Home
'http://www.linaro.org'
'http://connect.linaro.org'
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Follow us on Social Media
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HKG18-120 - Devicetree Schema Documentation and Validation Linaro
"Session ID: HKG18-120
Session Name: HKG18-120 - Structured Documentation and Validation for Device Tree
Speaker: Grant Likely
Track: Kernel
★ Session Summary ★
Devicetree has become the dominant hardware configuration language used when building embedded systems. Projects using Devicetree now include Linux, U-Boot, Android, FreeBSD, and Zephyr. However, it is notoriously difficult to write correct Devicetree data files. The dtc tools perform limited tests for valid data, and there there is not yet a way to add validity test for specific hardware descriptions. Neither is there a good way to document requirements for specific bindings. Work is underway to solve these problems. This session will present a proposal for adding Devicetree schema files to the Devicetree toolchain that can be used to both validate data and produce usable documentation.
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★ Resources ★
Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-120/
Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-120.pdf
Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-120.mp4
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18)
19-23 March 2018
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong
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Keyword: Kernel
'http://www.linaro.org'
'http://connect.linaro.org'
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Follow us on Social Media
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"Session ID: HKG18-223
Session Name: HKG18-223 - Trusted Firmware M : Trusted Boot
Speaker: Tamas Ban
Track: LITE
★ Session Summary ★
An overview of the trusted boot concept and firmware update on the ARMv8-M based platform and how MCUBoot acts as a BL2 bootloader for TF-M.
Trusted Firmware M
In October 2017, Arm announced the vision of Platform Security Architecture (PSA) - a common framework to allow everyone in the IoT ecosystem to move forward with stronger, scalable security and greater confidence. There are three key stages to the Platform Security Architecture: Analysis, Architecture and Implementation which are described at https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/platform-security-architecture.
_Trusted Firmware M, i.e. TF-M, is the Arm project to provide an open source reference implementation firmware that will conform to the PSA specification for M-Class devices. Early access to TF-M was released in December 2017 and it is being made public during Linaro Connect. The implementation should be considered a prototype until the PSA specifications reach release state and the code aligns._
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★ Resources ★
Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-223/
Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-223.pdf
Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-223.mp4
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18)
19-23 March 2018
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong
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Keyword: LITE
'http://www.linaro.org'
'http://connect.linaro.org'
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Follow us on Social Media
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/1026961"
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
2. Overview
● An introductory look at ACPI infrastructure
● How a platform (qemu), a bootloader (uefi)
and the kernel work together to set up the
ACPI configuration
● There's an explanation of what’s been
upstreamed in Linux kernel 4.1
● A simple aarch64 demo based on qemu
● A brief look at what's new
3. Caveats. This is not ...
● An exhaustive tutorial on ACPI
● A reference implementation for PSCI
● “Why to use ACPI instead of device trees”
● “Why to favour UEFI instead of UBoot”
● ...
5. ● "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface” Specification (Currently
v6.0: http://www.uefi.org/acpi/specs)
● "Industry-standard interfaces enabling OS-directed configuration, power
management, and thermal management (since 1996)"
● ACPI is important because hardware and OS vendors have already
worked out the mechanisms for supporting a general purpose
computing ecosystem
● Hence it’s non-negotiable in the Enterprise environment, standardized
with UEFI
● Has three main components: Tables, Drivers and Registers.
● There’s an interpreted element in ACPI Machine Language (AML)
bytecode stored in the ACPI tables.
ACPI - One Pager
6. RSD Ptr
Pointer
Pointer
Header
FACP
Table entry
Table entry
XSDT
...
Header
Static Info
...
DSDT
“FACP”
BLKs
RSD Ptr
Differentiated
Definition
Block
DSDT
RSD Ptr
Entry
Sig
Header
Contents
Sig
ACPI
drivers
OEM Specifics
Hardware
Register
Accesses
Root System
Description
Pointer
Extended System Description Table
Fixed ACPI
Description
Table
Other tables
...
Device I/O
Configuration
Device Memory
Controller Space
Register access mechanism
system software
hardware/firmware
What ACPI looks like - a chain of tables
Differentiated System Description Table
Devices:
Interrupts
Registers
Driver entry points
7. ● It’s an ARM standard
● The official/only way for power management on ARM64
● A generic interface that low-level supervisory software can use to
manage power
● Lives under CPU Ops, which itself lives under CPU Idle and the
CPU Governors
● Covers: Core idle management, dynamic addition and removal of
cores, and secondary core boot, core migration, system shutdown
and reset
● Has both Device Tree and ACPI bindings
"Power State Coordination Interface"
9. Basic Boot and ACPI/PSCI Discovery
Root
system
description
(pointer)
ACPI
tablesACPI
tablesACPI
tables
ACPI-aware
boot
ARM-
specific
PSCI
information
1
2
FACP Table
DSDT Table
APIC Table
Described in
the ACPI 5.1
Spec and
available in
the 4.1 kernel
10. Practical boot and ACPI/PSCI discovery
Root
system
description
(pointer)
ACPI
tablesACPI
tablesACPI
tables
EFIstub PSCI
information
ACPI=force
EDK2
UEFI
bootloader
"The generic interface for discovering
ACPI tables is to boot as an EFI
application and then to query the tables
from UEFI. That is the interface others are
likely to follow, and ACPI without UEFI is
unlikely to be of much use to anyone else
(ARM)"
qemu
Kernel with
ACPI
patches
InstallQemuFwCfgTables
11. What about dtb?
● The EFI stub loader makes the Linux kernel image into a
UEFI application.
● This application uses the Flattened Device-Tree (FDT) format
to pass information about how to access UEFI to the Linux
kernel.
● If no device-tree blob (using dtb= ) is available as in our case
when using ACPI for hardware description the loader stub
will create a new dtb containing only this information.
See: https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Kernel/UEFI/Architecture and
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c (leading to efi.h)
12. Basic Feature Set
Having booted successfully and loaded the ACPI tables … what functionality do we have?
13. 4.1 ARM ACPI Kernel functionality
● Basic support to run ACPI on ARM64
● ARM SMP and GICv2 init using MADT
● PSCI announced in the FADT table
● ARM timer init using GTDT
● Kernel documentation why/how to use ACPI
on ARM64
14. ● The ACPI Spec (5.1) supported ARM specifically
for the first time this year
● ACPI on ARM is a major and continuing LEG
collaboration between ARM and Linaro
● “There is no longer any reason to feel that ACPI
only belongs to Windows or that Linux is in any
way secondary to Microsoft in this arena” (kernel
arm-acpi.txt)
Why talk about this now?
15. Comprises:
● qemu built from sources
● kernel with ACPI 5.1 built
from source
● UEFI built from EDK2 source
● uefi-tools
● iasl, the ACPI table
assembler/disassembler
ACPI Boot Demo
Allows to:
● Boot UEFI as a guest in
aarch64 qemu
● Boot the Linux image from
the UEFI shell
● Confirm ACPI is enabled
● Dump and read (via iasl) the
ACPI tables
● Modify the ACPI data in
qemu, rinse and repeat …
17. UEFI Booting and reading the
ACPI tables
● UEFI has platform-specific functionality to load the
tables - in this case to interface with qemu
● Notice that PCI enumeration blocks ACPI table loading
18. Confidential
Linux Boot
● Boot from UEFI with
ACPI=force
● ACPI entry in /proc
● ACPI tables in
/sys/firmware/acpi/t
ables
19. Devices are reported - CPUs, Comms (DSDT table)
PSCI is present (FADT/FACP table)
Way to access PSCI is stated as HVC (FADT/FACP
table)
Interrupt structures are reported (APIC table)
All tables in AML bytecode - disassembled with iasl
AML data generated by qemu - see ./hw/arm/virt-acpi-
build.c
Some more about the tables
21. FADT
[000h 0000 4] Signature : "FACP" [Fixed ACPI Description Table (FADT)]
<snip>
[074h 0116 12] Reset Register : [Generic Address Structure]
[074h 0116 1] Space ID : 00 [SystemMemory]
[075h 0117 1] Bit Width : 00
[076h 0118 1] Bit Offset : 00
[077h 0119 1] Encoded Access Width : 00 [Undefined/Legacy]
[078h 0120 8] Address : 0000000000000000
[080h 0128 1] Value to cause reset : 00
[081h 0129 2] ARM Flags (decoded below) : 0003
PSCI Compliant : 1
Must use HVC for PSCI : 1
Fixed ACPI Description Table (“FACP”)
Part of the chain that gets to the DSDT
Register blocks relating to power management … and PSCI
The full table dumps are reproduced here:
http://people.linaro.org/~bill.fletcher/SFO15-TR9_ACPI_PSCI_and_UEFI_To_Boot_supporting_material/
22. MADT
[000h 0000 4] Signature : "APIC" [Multiple APIC Description Table (MADT)]
<snip>
[02Ch 0044 1] Subtable Type : 0B [Generic Interrupt Controller]
...
[038h 0056 4] Flags (decoded below) : 00000001
Processor Enabled : 1
Performance Interrupt Trigger Mode : 0
Virtual GIC Interrupt Trigger Mode : 0
[03Ch 0060 4] Parking Protocol Version : 00000000
[040h 0064 4] Performance Interrupt : 00000000
...
[070h 0112 8] ARM MPIDR : 0000000000000000
Multiple APIC Description Table (“APIC”)
APIC = Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (8259+)
Interrupt controllers and CPU affinity
There can be a system MADT referenced from the XSDT
Peripherals with their own interrupt controllers can have a method in their DSDT entry for you to
get a local MADT
24. ATF PSCI functionality (it’s the reference)
Handles SMCs
(Secure Monitor
Calls) conforming to
the SMC Calling
Convention PDD
There’s extensive
design
documentation
available.
Source is published
under a BSD license.
25. either ARM trusted firmware,
platform-specific
implementation in hypervisor, or
qemu emulation
Calling PSCI from an ACPI context
ACPI-aware
application
PSCI
information
ACPI
tablesACPI
tablesACPI
tables
PSCI driver
calls
21
3
HVC or
SMC trap
PSCI implementation assumes
either a Hypervisor running at
EL2 or a Secure Monitor running
at EL3
Requires a platform running the
Secure Monitor at EL3, which
implements PSCI.
Alternatively if there's no EL3 but
a hypervisor instead you can
emulate this with a HVC call
This HVC mechanism is also
emulated in qemu
27. Enough in ACPI "to boot a server, support ARM’s latest IP (GICv2m,
GICv3, SMMUv2) and do decent idle management."
What’s next? DVFS performance management ...
… for an ARM server to implement DVFS in an architecture agnostic
way via “CPPC” (CPPC - Collaborative Processor Performance
Control)
What arrived in the latest ACPI 6.0 spec?
28. ACPI 6.0 introduces Low Power Idle states, which allows an
operating system to manage the power states of the processor
power domain hierarchy.
The ACPI FFH* mechanism is used in ARM-based systems to allow
the operating system to discover: the entry method into a low
power state; how to collect power state residency, and statistics
This ACPI register-based interface is defined in ARM DEN0048A
available on ARM Infocentre portal
*FFH = Functional Fixed Hardware Interface - an ACPI name for the
register address space used for power management)
ARM Low Power Idle (LPI) states
29. CPPC (Collaborative Processor Performance Control)
Provides more autonomy to the CPU subsystem to control power/perf
An abstract interface where the OS specifies performance bounds and
leaves the underlying subsystem some latitude in how it achieves them.
"CPPC implementation designed as shim which allows Cpufreq drivers
to plug into existing governors or alternately implement inbuilt ones"
PCC (Platform Communication Channel)
PCC (Platform Communication Channel) is a generic means for PCC
Clients such as CPPC, to talk to the firmware.
Back to DVFS → CPPC & PCC (1)
30. CPPC & PCC (2)
● CPPC has been used on ARM64 servers successfully.
Some ARM vendors may not have feedback counters
(workaroundable). Missing in CPPC at the moment is
the power-to-performance level mapping. This is to be
addressed in the near future once EAS is upstream
● This patchwork is part of LEG activity. See https://git.
linaro.org/people/ashwin.chaugule/leg-kernel.git
● V9 patches picked up for v4.3 - hoping to upstream by
v4.4
32. ● UEFI is a requirement for ACPI
● Upstream qemu can emulate an aarch64 ACPI platform (with
elementary PSCI)
● You can build a simple ARM64 ACPI-aware system with 4.1
● ARM idle management arrived in the ACPI 6.0 spec
● Interfaces to ARM DVFS (via CPPC) are still "works in
progress".
● Once these arrive, a demonstrator will need more than qemu’
s emulation of PSCI
● ARM trusted firmware is the reference implementation for
PSCI
Wrap-Up
34. ● The full table dumps are reproduced here: http://people.linaro.org/~bill.
fletcher/SFO15-TR9_ACPI_PSCI_and_UEFI_To_Boot_supporting_material
● Useful primer on PSCI (ARM doc): http://events.linuxfoundation.
org/sites/events/files/slides/lp-linuxcon14.pdf
● LEG wiki: https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Kernel/ACPI
● For a comparison of ACPI and FDT, google the presentation done by
Graeme Gregory at Linux Plumbers 2013.
● See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.
kernel/382864/match=cppc for an explanation of how to use ACPI
● Ashwin’s V8 patch set including CPPC via PCC http://thread.gmane.
org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/63697
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