Hi all,
I found this http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-November/118871.html when googling about compiling CUDA code using llvm. Is it still the case that one can’t step into CUDA kernel code compiled by llvm in cuda-gdb? I’m using clang 7.0.
Thanks,
Char
AFAIK there is work under way from IBM (couple of PRs open), but yes Clang 7.0 doesn’t produce the necessary information.
-V
Adding Alexey here who has been driving this effort in llvm.
There are about 5 patches waiting on my review:
-: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54320
-: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46189
-: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51554
-: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46061
-: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45784
After which I think we’re good.
-eric
Hi, yes, these patches are required to have tne basic debug info support. At least 2 more patches are required to be able to get values of the variables without additional manual data type casting in cuda-gdb.
Best regards,
Alexey Bataev
Hi Alex, Eric and Valentin,
Thanks for the information. I don’t mean to push this but I’m in desperate need of debugging some cuda code. I’m not familiar with the llvm internal but it sounds like there’s at least line info now, right? If so, can you point me to a branch of llvm that can help tracing the bug down to certain line of code. I believe my bug is simply a write/read out of array boundary.
Thanks,
Char
在 2018-12-05 07:15:28，“Alexey Bataev” a.bataev@hotmail.com 写道：
Hi Char, sorry, you need to wait a little bit. It is almost ready, but not yet. For now, use nvcc if you need debug info for Cuda.
Are you planning to release this as soon as it’s ready or you want to make it into a major release? Is it possible to let me know (maybe by replying to this thread) once the code is ready? I know sometimes it takes a while to get things in the major release. I greatly appreciate your work on this!
Thanks,
Char
在 2018-12-15 05:19:50，“Alexey Bataev” a.bataev@outlook.com 写道：
Actually, we need to commit just 2 more patches to enable basic debug info support for NVPTX. So, I hope, it is going to be the part of the next 8.0 release. It won’t be backported to 7.0 definitely.
Sure, I will let you know when the patches are committed to the trunk, no problems.
Best regards,
Alexey Bataev
If you only need line-information that information is already present and should be useful. As long as you set -g you should get some and there is a flag to turn ptxas optimisation off to preserve as much debuginformation as possible.
You then can also run your code under cuda-memcheck
Hi Valentin,
I haven’t been able consistently to get line information of device code with -g -O0, sometimes cuda-memcheck can tell which line triggers the error but not always. cuda-gdb can only trace back to the kernel launch. Is --cuda-noopt-device-debug the option you mentioned to turn off ptxas optimisation? What’s the difference between that and simply -O0?
Thanks for helping me out!
It’ll be in within a week 
Hi Alexey,
I tried the b7195a6 from the llvm github mirror, which does include your commit D46189 (see below). But it can’t compile the example program on https://llvm.org/docs/CompileCudaWithLLVM.html#invoking-clang – the error is:
[aznb@asp testcuda]$ clang++ axpy.cu -g -o axpy --cuda-gpu-arch=sm_61 -lcudart_static -ldl -lrt -pthread -v
clang version 9.0.0 (https://git.llvm.org/git/clang.git 4566ed0d7c076ad061168f7c6cb5fa3a793614a8) (https://git.llvm.org/git/llvm.git b7195a6d8d9064c4fac6a7b91826de80df394f69)
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/bin
Found candidate GCC installation: /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.4
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.7
Selected GCC installation: /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0
Candidate multilib: .;@m64
Selected multilib: .;@m64
Found CUDA installation: /net/vol3/software/modules-sw/cuda/10.0/Linux/RHEL6/x86_64, version 10.0
"/home/aznb/mycodes/testcuda -ferror-limit 19 -fmessage-length 0 -pthread -fobjc-runtime=gcc -fcxx-exceptions -fexceptions -fdiagnostics-show-option -o /tmp/59224042.1.login.q/axpy-560f45.s -x cuda axpy.cu
clang -cc1 version 9.0.0 based upon LLVM 9.0.0svn default target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
ignoring nonexistent directory “/include”
ignoring nonexistent directory “/include”
ignoring duplicate directory “/home/aznb/.linuxbrew/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0”
ignoring duplicate directory “/home/aznb/.linuxbrew/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu”
ignoring duplicate directory “/home/aznb/.linuxbrew/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0/backward”
ignoring duplicate directory “/usr/local/include”
ignoring duplicate directory “/home/aznb/.linuxbrew/Cellar/llvm/HEAD-b7195a6/lib/clang/9.0.0/include”
ignoring duplicate directory “/usr/include”
#include “…” search starts here:
#include <…> search starts here:
/home/aznb/.linuxbrew/Cellar/llvm/HEAD-b7195a6/lib/clang/9.0.0/include/cuda_wrappers
/net/vol3/software/modules-sw/cuda/10.0/Linux/RHEL6/x86_64/include
/home/aznb/.linuxbrew/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0
/home/aznb/.linuxbrew/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
/home/aznb/.linuxbrew/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0/backward
/usr/local/include
/home/aznb/.linuxbrew/Cellar/llvm/HEAD-b7195a6/lib/clang/9.0.0/include
/usr/include
End of search list.
“/net/vol3/software/modules-sw/cuda/10.0/Linux/RHEL6/x86_64/bin/ptxas” -m64 -g --dont-merge-basicblocks --return-at-end -v --gpu-name sm_61 --output-file /tmp/59224042.1.login.q/axpy-1ebb06.o /tmp/59224042.1.login.q/axpy-560f45.s
ptxas /tmp/59224042.1.login.q/axpy-560f45.s, line 290; fatal : Parsing error near ‘{’: syntax error
ptxas fatal : Ptx assembly aborted due to errors
clang-9: error: ptxas command failed with exit code 255 (use -v to see invocation)
Maybe it’s related to the illegal assembly code mentioned in https://reviews.llvm.org/D46189 Any idea what’s going on? I’m including other people to see if they have any suggestion. https://reviews.llvm.org/D46189 also mentioned that this is fixed but has the fixed been merged in the trunk yet?
BTW, github mirror’s b7195a6 does include your commit about the debug info on nvptx:
commit d77902a49a06890b97e33515d346c6e4df6b756b
Author: Alexey Bataev a.bataev@hotmail.com
[DEBUGINFO, NVPTX] Enable support for the debug info on NVPTX target.
Summary: Enable full support for the debug info.
Reviewers: echristo
Subscribers: jholewinski, aprantl, JDevlieghere, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46189
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@351846 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
Thanks,
Char
在 2019-01-23 07:59:12，“Alexey Bataev” a.bataev@outlook.com 写道：
Hi Char, could you send the PTX file?
Ok, I found the problem. The patch, that enables debug info, was not applied completely. Will fix this soon.
Hi Char, I found the problem, for some reason the last patch was applied correctly. Just committed the fixed version. Tried to compile axpy.cu, everything works.
Hi Alexey,
Thanks for working on this. I assume the last commit you mentioned is:
commit 48aefa8877713616802d9c90b63f86fe50b9a101 (HEAD → master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Alexey Bataev a.bataev@hotmail.com
[DEBUGINFO, NVPTX] Enable support for the debug info on NVPTX target.
Enable full support for the debug info.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46189
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@351974 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
I’ll check this one out.
Thanks,
Char
Yes, this one.
Hi Alexey,
Thanks for the great work! The version I checked out works most of the time. But I do encounter crashes sometimes. I can’t file a bug report on https://bugs.llvm.org/ because I don’t have an account. I sent an email to bugs-admin@lists.llvm.org for an account already but I haven’t heard back. Meanwhile, can you take a look at the issue? I’m attaching the bug report files here – the clang_error.log has the verbose output from clang and the other files are generated automatically by clang upon the crash. I’m using the above-mentioned commit 48aefa8877713616802d9c90b63f86fe50b9a101 from github mirror. The bug is reproducible on my machine with a nvidia RTX2080 card (sm=Turing75).
Thanks,
Char
bugreport.tar.bz2 (2.68 MB)
Hi Char, unfortunately I cannot help you with these crashes, because they caused not by clang /LLVM, but the NVidia’s PTX-to-SASS translator ptxas. It is ptxas who crashes and I can’t do anything about this. You need to report the bug to NVidia, but you need to manually run the ptxas tool with the generated .s file. Sometimes it helps to compile the code sequentially, not using the parallel builds. Plus, those crashes may disappear from time to time.
Best regards,
Alexey Bataev
Hi Alexey,
Just want to make sure I understand what you said because I’m not familiar with the llvm pipeline, it’s this line:
/net/gs/vol3/software/modules-sw/cuda/10.0/Linux/RHEL6/x86_64/bin/ptxas" -m64 -g --dont-merge-basicblocks --return-at-end -v --gpu-name sm_75 --output-file /tmp/60663577.1.login.q/testparticles-4fd988.o /tmp/60663577.1.login.q/testparticles-1d20c4.s
that segfaults, where the testparticles-1d20c4.s is generated by the command:
/home/aznb/.linuxbrew/Cellar/llvm/HEAD-48aefa8/bin/clang-9" -cc1 -triple nvptx64-nvidia-cuda -aux-triple x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -S -disable-free -disable-llvm-verifier -discard-value-names -main-file-name testparticles.cpp -mrelocation-model static -mthread-model posix -mdisable-fp-elim -no-integrated-as -fuse-init-array -fcuda-is-device -mlink-builtin-bitcode /net/gs/vol3/software/modules-sw/cuda/10.0/Linux/RHEL6/x86_64/nvvm/libdevice/libdevice.10.bc -target-feature +ptx61 -target-cpu sm_75 -dwarf-column-info -debug-info-kind=limited -dwarf-version=2 -debugger-tuning=gdb -v -resource-dir /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/Cellar/llvm/HEAD-48aefa8/lib/clang/9.0.0 -internal-isystem /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/Cellar/llvm/HEAD-48aefa8/lib/clang/9.0.0/include/cuda_wrappers -internal-isystem /net/gs/vol3/software/modules-sw/cuda/10.0/Linux/RHEL6/x86_64/include -include __clang_cuda_runtime_wrapper.h -isystem /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/Cellar/boost/1.68.0_clang/include/boost-1_68 -I /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc -I /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/build_cuda_clang_debug/_deps/kokkos-src/core/src -I /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/build_cuda_clang_debug/_deps/kokkos-src/containers/src -I /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/build_cuda_clang_debug/_deps/kokkos-src/algorithms/src -I /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/build_cuda_clang_debug/_deps/kokkos-build -I /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/…/thrust -I /net/gs/vol3/software/modules-sw/cuda/10.0/Linux/RHEL6/x86_64/include -I /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/build_cuda_clang_debug/_deps/kokkosutils-src -I /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/build_cuda_clang_debug/_deps/alias-src -I /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/build_cuda_clang_debug/_deps/ziggurat-src -I /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/build_cuda_clang_debug/_deps/distribution-src -I /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/build_cuda_clang_debug/_deps/generic-src -internal-isystem /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0 -internal-isystem /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -internal-isystem /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0/backward -internal-isystem /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0 -internal-isystem /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -internal-isystem /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/…/…/…/…/include/c++/5.5.0/backward -internal-isystem /usr/local/include -internal-isystem /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/Cellar/llvm/HEAD-48aefa8/lib/clang/9.0.0/include -internal-externc-isystem /include -internal-externc-isystem /usr/include -internal-isystem /usr/local/include -internal-isystem /home/aznb/.linuxbrew/Cellar/llvm/HEAD-48aefa8/lib/clang/9.0.0/include -internal-externc-isystem /include -internal-externc-isystem /usr/include -O0 -std=c++17 -fdeprecated-macro -fno-dwarf-directory-asm -fdebug-compilation-dir /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/build_cuda_clang_debug -ferror-limit 19 -fmessage-length 0 -fobjc-runtime=gcc -fcxx-exceptions -fexceptions -fdiagnostics-show-option -o /tmp/60663577.1.login.q/testparticles-1d20c4.s -x cuda /home/aznb/mycodes/scbmc/testparticles.cpp
Both of these commands were shown in the error log. How do I replace my original cpp files with the two *.cu files automatically generated by llvm in the above command to reproduce the bug?
Thanks,
Char