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authorTom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>2022-03-09 10:35:14 +0100
committerTom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>2022-03-22 14:35:34 +0100
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[nvptx] Add warp sync at simt exit
Consider this code (with N defined to 1024): ... float v = 0.0; #pragma omp target map(tofrom: v) #pragma omp parallel for simd for (int i = 0 ; i < N; i++) { #pragma omp atomic update v = v + 1.0; } ... It hangs when executing on target board unix/-foffload=-misa=sm_75, using drivers 470.103.01 and 510.54 on a T400 board (sm_75). I'm tentatively identifying the problem as a bug in -muniform-simt for architectures that support Independent Thread Scheduling (sm_70 and later). The problem -muniform-simt is trying to address is to make sure that a register produced outside an openmp simd region is available when used in any lane inside an simd region. The solution is to, outside an simd region, execute in all warp lanes, thus producing consistent values in result registers in each warp thread. This approach doesn't work when executing in all warp lanes multiplies the side effects from 1 to 32 separate side effects, which is the case for atomic insns. So atomic insns are rewritten to execute only in lane 0, and if there are any results, those are propagated to the other threads in the warp. [ And likewise for system calls malloc, free, vprintf. ] Now, consider a non-atomic update: ld, add, store. The store has side effects, are those multiplied or not? Pre-sm_70 we can assume that at the end of an SIMT region, any divergent control flow has reconverged, and we have a uniform warp, executing in lock step. So: - the load will load the same value into the result register across the warp, - the add will write the same value into the result register across the warp, - the store will write the same value to the same memory location, 32 times, at once, having the result of a single store. So, no side-effect multiplication (well, at least that's the observation). Starting sm_70, the threads in a warp are no longer guaranteed to reconverge after divergence. There's a "Convergence Optimizer" that can can identify that it is safe for a warp to reconverge, but that works only as long as the code does not contain "synchronizing operations". Consequently, the ld, add, store sequence can be executed by a non-uniform warp, which means the side effects can have multiplied, and the registers are no longer guarantueed to be in sync. The atomic update in the example above is translated using an atom.cas loop, which means that we have divergence (because only one thread is allowed to succeed at a time) and the "Convergence Optimizer" doesn't reconverge probably because the atom.cas counts as a "synchronizing operation". So, it seems plausible that the root cause for the mentioned hang is the problem described above. Fix this by adding an explicit warp sync at simt exit. Note that we're assuming here that the warp will stay uniform until the next SIMT region entry. Tested on x86_64 with nvptx accelerator. gcc/ChangeLog: 2022-03-09 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> PR target/104916 PR target/104783 * config/nvptx/nvptx.md (define_expand "omp_simt_exit"): Emit warp sync (or uniform warp check for mptx < 6.0). libgomp/ChangeLog: 2022-03-15 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> PR target/104916 PR target/104783 * testsuite/libgomp.c/pr104783-2.c: New test.
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc/config/nvptx')
-rw-r--r--gcc/config/nvptx/nvptx.md4
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diff --git a/gcc/config/nvptx/nvptx.md b/gcc/config/nvptx/nvptx.md
index 1dec7ca..5550ce2 100644
--- a/gcc/config/nvptx/nvptx.md
+++ b/gcc/config/nvptx/nvptx.md
@@ -1881,6 +1881,10 @@
""
{
emit_insn (gen_omp_simt_exit (Pmode, operands[0]));
+ if (TARGET_PTX_6_0)
+ emit_insn (gen_nvptx_warpsync ());
+ else
+ emit_insn (gen_nvptx_uniform_warp_check ());
DONE;
})