Build Community Android Distribution and Ensure the Quality
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Build Community Android aims to distribute and ensure the quality of Android. It discusses Jim Huang's experience contributing to Android projects and building 0xdroid, an enhanced Android distribution, to address performance and usability issues. 0xdroid provides hardware enablement, full source code, and optimizations for ARM devices. Lessons from AOSP include difficulties contributing upstream and a lack of roadmaps.
Build Community Android Distribution and Ensure the Quality
- 1. Build Community Android Distribution and Ensure the Quality Jim Huang ( 黃敬群 ) <jserv@0xlab.org> Developer & Co-Founder, 0xlab http://0xlab.org/ Oct 28, 2011 / ELC Europe (Prague)
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- 3. 0x1ab = 162+16x10+11 = 427 (founded on April 27, 2009) 0xlab is another Hexspeak.
- 4. About Me (1) Come from Taiwan (2) Contributior of Android Open Source Project (AOSP) (3) Developer, Linaro (4) Contributed to GNU Classpath / Kaffe, Linux internationalization (i18n), Openmoko
- 5. Commercial Partners of 0xlab ARM / Linaro Contribute to Linaro Android since the first line of code AzureWave Build wireless networking & image processing solutions Mediatek Android based consumer products Open Embedded Software Foundation Contribute to the reference implementation Eventually, partners can benefit from open http://0xlab.org/partners.html source efforts and our experience.
- 6. Agenda (1) Build Android distribution (2) Lesson learned from AOSP (3) Ensure the Quality (4) Bring enhancements back to Community
- 7. Build Android Distribution based on non typical open source projects
- 8. The reason why we built community Android Distribution: Initially, we just wanted to enable wireless connectivity features on Android for our hardware partnters. But, we never thought that it was difficult to do things efficiently.
- 9. 0xdroid: enhanced Android distribution Beagleboard DevKit8000 We suffered from performance and usability issues in AOSP. 0xdroid is basically the environment where we can develop and experiment.
- 10. What does 0xdroid deliver? • Hardware enablement: Beagleboard (TI OMAP3), Pandaboard (TI OMAP4), Snowball (ST-Ericsson Ux500; on-going) • Provide full source code for HAL • Usability: software cursor, window manager fix, large screen tweaks, network connectivity fix • Performance: ARM specific optimizations, graphics enhancement • Features: Bluetooth HID (keyboard/mouse), external modem, 3D effects, customized Launcher
- 11. But, 0xlab is not really making yet another Android distribution. We wish to help community. 0xdroid is just a testbed (or reference implementation), and the valuable changes should be merged in upstream or other community projects.
- 12. Strategy and Policy • open source efforts to improve AOSP • We focus on small-but-important area of Android. – toolchain, libc, dynamic linker, skia, software GL, system libraries, HAL, UX • Develop system utilities for Android – benchmark, black-box testing tool, validation infrastructure • Feature driven development – Faster boot/startup time, Bluetooth profile, visual enhancements • Submit and share changes to... – AOSP, CyanogenMod, Android-x86, and Linaro
- 13. Working Model by 0xlab Rowboat CyanogenMod Android-x86
- 14. Lesson Learned from AOSP
- 15. Let's go Upstream! Unfortunately, contributing to AOSP is an __art__. You never know how Google thinks of your patches exactly, even through Gerrit (code review system).
- 16. Problems We faced • AOSP looks like “An Open Source Pretender" • No public roadmap – Therefore, we ignore the modifications against Android framework. • The merged changes usually show up in next 1 or 2 public release. – It is really hard to introduce/track the relevant changes. • Not clear discussions on android-contrib mailing- list. Sometimes, you have to have private communications to Google engineers. • Version control / Code Review on invisible repositories (internal and far-away GIT tree)
- 17. Change represented in Gerrit gerrit upstream Change 123 Patchset 1 dev-b dev-a Commit cdeb34 Create Local % git checkout -b topic-branch Branch Patchset 2 Commit 41dbe5 work Google provides the great code Push % git push gerrit review tool for AOSP, but... to HEAD:refs/for/master Gerrit
- 18. Flow of AOSP submitted changes Create Local Branch Fix work commit rejected rebased! Push to Review Upstream repo Gerrit approved/ submitted Here “upstream” means AOSP master and Google internal tree.
- 19. No explicit change history No explicit change history Android style open source model Android style open source model Gap between Goolge internal GIT/Perforce and AOSP Git
- 20. After Gingerbread, it gets much clear for toolchain part prebuilt/ prebuilt/ commit 81cce608ab19dcd0aaf7d08d57a4460229e43c45 commit 81cce608ab19dcd0aaf7d08d57a4460229e43c45 Author: Jing Yu <jingyu@google.com> Author: Jing Yu <jingyu@google.com> Date: Tue Dec 14 10:55:23 2010 0800 Date: Tue Dec 14 10:55:23 2010 0800 Patched toolchain to fix a few gcc and binutils bugs. Patched toolchain to fix a few gcc and binutils bugs. Sources to build this toolchain are listed on armeabi4.4.3/SOURCES Sources to build this toolchain are listed on armeabi4.4.3/SOURCES linuxx86/toolchain/armeabi4.4.3/SOURCES linuxx86/toolchain/armeabi4.4.3/SOURCES build/ synced to build/ synced to commit 4cc02faaa7e8828f9458b1828a6f85e7791ae2aa commit 4cc02faaa7e8828f9458b1828a6f85e7791ae2aa Author: Jim Huang <jserv@0xlab.org> Author: Jim Huang <jserv@0xlab.org> Date: Fri Aug 20 23:30:37 2010 +0800 Date: Fri Aug 20 23:30:37 2010 +0800 And rollback the following 3 patches. And rollback the following 3 patches. commit de263c26a7680529baca731c003bc58b68d72511 commit de263c26a7680529baca731c003bc58b68d72511 Author: Jing Yu <jingyu@google.com> Author: Jing Yu <jingyu@google.com> Date: Thu Aug 12 15:52:15 2010 0700 Date: Thu Aug 12 15:52:15 2010 0700 Although we can check git log, we Although git log, we still have no idea why they changed still have no idea why changed
- 21. Observed AOSP Working Model • “master” branch in Android is the bridge between AOSP and Google internal tree. There are many contributions merged from companies, organizations, and individuals. But no efficient code review available for non-existing repositories. And, only few Google engineers do review changes. • Master branch = the latest AOSP + Partial changes by Google (bug-fixes from internal tree) – Not fully verified codebase. • The best hints are the opinions written by Google engineers inside Gerrit. – Send patches if possible
- 22. My interpretation of Android: Hardware is Revolution; Sotware is basically Evolution; Android is Hardware-driven Software Revolution
- 23. Functional View (Android 1.5) Applications Applications Gallery Phone Web Browser Google Maps ・・・・・ Android Framework Android Framework Activity Window Content Notification View System Manager Manager Manager Manager Package Telephony Resource Location Manager Manager Manager Manager System Library System Library Android Runtime Android Runtime SurfaceFlinger SurfaceFlinger OpenCORE OpenCORE SQLite Class Library Dalvik Virtual Machine Dalvik Virtual Machine OpenGL|ES OpenGL|ES AudioFlinger AudioFlinger WebKit SGL SGL OpenSSL bionic libc bionic libc Freetype Linux Kernel Linux Kernel
- 24. Functional View (Android 2.3) Applications Applications Gallery Phone Web Browser Google Maps ・・・・・ Android Framework Android Framework Activity Window Content Notification View System Manager Manager Manager Manager Package Telephony Resource Location Manager Manager Manager Manager RenderScript OpenGL|ES 2.x accelerated. System Library System Library Android Runtime Android Runtime Drop 2D accel SurfaceFlinger SurfaceFlinger StageFright SQLite Class Library V8 bridge Dalvik Virtual Machine Dalvik Virtual Machine GLES 2.0 OpenGL|ES OpenGL|ES AudioFlinger AudioFlinger WebKit SMP improvements Skia Skia OpenSSL bionic libc bionic libc Freetype JIT compiler Skia supports GPU backend SMP fixes In Android ICS Linux Kernel Linux Kernel The overall design is consistant, but the current model The overall design is consistant, but the current model prevents from diverse community contributions. prevents from diverse community contributions.
- 25. AOSP statistics for Gingerbread (Dec 2010) 4204 google.com 1354 android.com 17 openbossa.org 98 sonyericsson.com 11 nxp.com 71 gmail.com 11 linux.org.tw 39 codeaurora.org 10 ti.com 39 samsung.com 10 acer.com.tw 38 intel.com 8 themaw.net 32 nokia.com 8 garmin.com 32 holtmann.org 7 snpe.rs 29 0xlab.org 7 motorola.com 25 trusted-logic.com 7 mc.pp.se 7 googlemail.com The number are commits since Froyo release. However, the valuable changes from community such as CyanogenMod are usually absent due to long-time review process.
- 26. Ensure the Quality when building custom Android distribution and merging changes from community
- 27. Mission in our development: Improve UX in SoC UX = User Experience SoC = Integrated Computing Anywhere
- 28. Quality in custom Android Distribution • 0xlab delivers the advantages of open source software and development. – Quality relies on two factors: continuous development + strong user feedback • Several utilities are developed to ensure the quality and released as open source software. – 0xbench (Android benchmarking tool) – ASTER (Android System Testing Environment and Runtime) – LAVA (Linaro Automated Validation Architecture) • In the meanwhile, performance is improved by several patches against essential components.
- 29. LAVA: Automated Validation Infrastructure for Android Android benchmark running on LAVA. Android support on LAVA Automated Validation flow includes https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Validation/LAVA from deploy, then reboot, testing, benchmark running, and result submit. Android related commands in LAVA: * deploy_linaro_android_image * boot_linaro_android_image * test_android_basic * test_android_monkey * test_android_0xbench * submit_results_on_host
- 30. 0xbench: comprehensive open source benchmark suite for Android • A set of system utilities for Android to perform comprehensive system benchmarking • Dalvik VM performance • OpenGL|ES performance • Android Graphics framework performance • I/O performance • JavaScript engine performance • Connectivity performance • Micro-benchmark: stanard C library, system call, latency, Java invocation, ...
- 31. : 0xBench
- 32. Collect and Analyze results on server-side
- 33. Android Functional Testing (1) stress test (2) Automated test
- 34. Stress Test • According to CDD (Compatilbility Definition Document), Device implementations MUST include the Monkey framework, and make it available for applications to use. • monkey is a command that can directly talks to Android framework and emulate random user input. adb shell monkey p your.package.name v 500 • Decide the percentage of touch events, keybord events, etc., then run automatically.
- 35. ASTER: Automated Test • Blackbox-test vs. Whitebox-test • An easy to use automated testing tool.
- 39. Bring Enhancements back to Community
- 40. What do we deliver to communty? • Patches merged in AOSP, CyanogenMod, and Android-x86 • Implement 100% open source OpenGL|ES adaptation based on Mesa/3D into Android – The world-first, important to Android-x86 • Performance: ARM specific optimizations, graphics enhancement • Features: Bluetooth HID (keyboard/mouse), external modem, 3D effects, customized Launcher
- 41. Arithmetic on Nexus S Tune Dalvik VM performance (armv7)
- 42. Apply extra performance tweaks against optimized build 2D on Nexus S (NEON)
- 44. Benchmark: 3D (arm11-custom; no GPU) This explains that we have several system tools and development flow to help customers/community to verify the performance and improve.
- 45. Bionic libc • Android C/C++ library • 0xlab’s Optimizations (merged in Android upstream) – Memory operations: Use ARMv6 unaligned access to optimize usual cases – Endian/Data Type conversion: Use ARMv6 fast endian primitives. Useful for TCP/IP (big endian / little endian converting) – Various ARM optimized string operations • memcpy, strcmp, strcpy, memset
- 47. Why and How? • The major reason to optimize dynamic linker is to speed up application startup time. • Approaches: ● Implement GNU style hash support for bionic linker ● Prelinker improvements: incremental global prelinking – reduce the number of ELF symbol lookup aggressively • Changed parts – apriori, soslim, linker, elfcopy, elfutils
- 48. (normalized) Dynamic Link time 1 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 lp 0.5 gp 0.4 re.gp 0.3 re.pe.gp 0.2 re.pe.pgp.gp re.pe.pgp.gp.are 0.1 0 ation ess ver rild lld on ggerd r ore nage insta -daem iaser proc keyst anim debu cema app_ med dbus boot servi
- 49. (normalized) Symbol Lookup number 1 0.8 0.6 elf.lp elf.gp 0.4 elf.re.gp elf.re.pe.gp 0.2 elf.re.pe.pgp.gp elf.re.pe.pgp.gp.are 0 on lld ation ess ore ggerd rild ver r nage insta -daem iaser proc keyst anim -0.2 debu cema app_ med dbus boot servi
- 50. DT_GNU_HASH: visible dynamic linking improvement = Better hash function (few collisions) + Drop unnecessary entry from hash + Bloom filter void foo (){ libc.so printf(“fooooo”); printf bar(); } libfoo.so foo bar libfoo.so DT_GNU_HASH DT_HASH foo foo bar bar printf
- 51. Symbols lookup# fail# gnu hash filtered by bloom in ELF gnu.gp 3758 23702 19950 23310 18234(78%) gnu.gp.re 3758 20544 16792 19604 14752(75%) gnu.lp 61750 460996 399252 450074 345032(76%) gnu.lp.re 61750 481626 419882 448492 342378(76%) H = {x, y, z} = hash functions Hash function may collision → Bloom filter may got false positives Bit array
- 53. UI customizations • Provide several UI/Launcher combination for small and large screen devices. • Sizing from HVGA, VGA, SVGA (Phone), to 720p/1080p (TV) • Either modified Android Launcher or new replacement • Licensed under Apache Software License
- 54. Some UI Changes • Hardware enablement: Beagleboard (TI OMAP3), • BottomBar Source code: http://gitorious.org/0xdroid/packages_apps_launcher • PositionBar Visible Hint • ThemeSelector http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/wiki/LauncherTheme
- 55. Products with Advanced 3D UI • 3D effects and the ARM optimizations are enabled in Qualcomm platforms: MSM7x27 (with GPU) and MSM7x25 (software only)
- 56. Android Boot Time Optimizations
- 57. Boot loader Qi Boot-loader Qi Boot-oader U-Boot + XLoader Size ~30K ~270K+20K Only one stage boot- Time to Kernel <1s > 5s loader Usage Product Engineering Small footprint ~30K Code Simple Complicated Currently support − iMX31 − Samsung 24xx − Beagleboard KISS concept − Boot device and load kernel
- 58. Optimized ARM Hibernation Based on existing technologies thus requires little modification to userspace – TuxOnIce Release clean-pages before suspend Swap out dirty-pages before save image Image size reduced leads to faster resume time.
- 59. Further Boot Time Optimization Save the heap image (like core dump) of Zygote after preloading classes Modify Dalvik to make hibernation image after system init and before Launcher startup Parallize Android init Cache & Share JITed code fragment
- 60. Resources 聯繫 0xlab/0xdroid 開發團隊 0xdroid Roadmap: http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/wiki/Roadmap Source repository: http://gitorious.org/+0xlab Wiki: http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/w/list Demo videos: http://www.youtube.com/0xlab Mailing-list: General discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/0xlab-discuss Technical / Development: http://groups.google.com/group/0xlab-devel IRC channel (FreeNode): #0xlab
- 61. Thanks for Attending Special thanks to AzureWave, who sponsors me for a long time. Any Questions?