[LLVMdev] [icFuzz] Help needed with analyzing randomly generated tests that fail on clang 3.4 trunk

Hal Finkel hfinkel at anl.gov
Fri Jul 26 08:33:25 PDT 2013


----- Original Message -----
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Great job, Hal!
> > 
> > Sure. I'd be happy to run icFuzz and report the fails once these
> > bugs
> > are fixed and thereafter whenever people want new runs. Obviously,
> > this can be automated, but the problem is that icFuzz is not
> > currently open sourced.
> 
> I would be happy to see this open sourced, but I think that we can
> work something out regardless.
> 
> Also, once we get the current set of things resolved, I think it
> would be useful to test running with:
> 
>  -- -O3, LTO (-O4 or -flto),
>  -- -fslp-vectorize, -fslp-vectorize-aggressive (which are actually
>  separate optimizations)
>  -- -ffast-math (if you can do floating point with tolerances, or at
>  least -ffinite-math-only), -fno-math-errno
>  (and there are obviously a whole bunch of non-default
>  code-generation and target options).
> 
> Is it feasible to set up runs with different flags?
> 
> > Once there's a bug in the compiler, there's
> > really no limit in the number of failing tests that can be
> > generated, so it's more productive to run the generator after the
> > previously reported bugs are fixed.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > 
> > We've also seen cases where the results of "clang -O2" are
> > different
> > on Mac vs. Linux/Windows.
> 
> I recall an issue related to default settings for FP, and differences
> with libm implementation. Are there non-floating-point cases?
> 
> > 
> > Just let me know when you want a new run.
> 
> Will do!

Mohammad,

Can you please re-run these now? I know that the original loop-vectorizer bugs causing the miscompiles have been fixed, and the others also seem to have been resolved as well.

Thanks again,
Hal

> 
>  -Hal
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > -moh
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hal Finkel [mailto:hfinkel at anl.gov]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:35 AM
> > To: Haghighat, Mohammad R
> > Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu; Jim Grosbach
> > Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] [icFuzz] Help needed with analyzing randomly
> > generated tests that fail on clang 3.4 trunk
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > 
> > > Hi Moh,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for this. I’m really glad to see the work you’re doing in
> > > this
> > > area and believe it will be extremely helpful in improving the
> > > quality of the compiler.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -Jim
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Jun 24, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Haghighat, Mohammad R <
> > > mohammad.r.haghighat at intel.com > wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I just submitted a bug report with a package containing 107 small
> > > test cases that fail on the latest LLVM/clang 3.4 main trunk
> > > (184563). Included are test sources, compilation commands, test
> > > input files, and results at –O0 and –O2 when applicable.
> > > 
> > > http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16431
> > > 
> > > These tests have been automatically generated by an internal tool
> > > at
> > > Intel, the Intel Compiler fuzzer, icFuzz. The tests are typically
> > > very small. For example, for the following simple loop (test
> > > t5702)
> > > on MacOS X, clang at –O2 generates a binary that crashes:
> > > 
> > > // Test Loop Interchange
> > > for (j = 2; j < 76; j++) {
> > > for (jm = 1; jm < 30; jm++) {
> > > h[j-1][jm-1] = j + 83;
> > > }
> > > }
> > > 
> > > The tests are put in to two categories
> > > - tests that have different runtime outputs when compiled at -O0
> > > and
> > > -O2 (this category also includes runtime crashes)
> > > - tests that cause infinite loops in the Clang optimizer
> > > 
> > > Many of these failing tests could be due to the same bug, thus a
> > > much
> > > smaller number of root problems are expected.
> > > 
> > > Any help with triaging these bugs would be highly appreciated.
> > 
> > I've gone through all of the miscompile cases, used bugpoint to
> > reduce them, and opened individual PRs for several distinct bugs.
> > So
> > far we have: PR16455 (loop vectorizer), PR16457 (sccp), PR16460
> > (instcombine). Thanks again for doing this! Do you plan on
> > repeating
> > this testing on a regular basis? Can it be automated?
> > 
> >  -Hal
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > -moh
> > > 
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> > Leadership Computing Facility
> > Argonne National Laboratory
> > 
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