[llvm] r227983 - Fix program crashes due to alignment exceptions generated for SSE memop instructions (PR22371).

Nadav Rotem nrotem at apple.com
Thu Feb 5 09:30:08 PST 2015


Sanjay’s patch fixes “force SSE on AVX targets”, which is an important use case. I suggest that we merge this patch. Later, when the AVX512 bug is fixed we should merge that as well. 


> On Feb 5, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out whether this is safe to merge for 3.6.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Sanjay Patel <spatel at rotateright.com> wrote:
>> The intent of r227983 is simply to revert the wrong behavior introduced by
>> r224330 for *SSE* codegen.
>> If r224330 was supposed to change behavior of AVX512, it should have
>> included test cases to validate that, right? These should be separate
>> patches.
>> 
>>> You removed FeatureVectorUAMem form HSW, but you did not add
>>> FeatureSSEUnalignedMem
>> 
>> Correct - AFAIK, Haswell doesn't have this feature. Perhaps we need to
>> change 'memop' to 'sse_memop' to make it clearer that memops are only for
>> use with SSE...or just modify the 'load' defs to include this predicate
>> somehow:
>> 
>> // Like 'load', but uses special alignment checks suitable for use in
>> // memory operands in most SSE instructions, which are required to
>> // be naturally aligned on some targets but not on others.  If the subtarget
>> // allows unaligned accesses, match any load, though this may require
>> // setting a feature bit in the processor (on startup, for example).
>> // Opteron 10h and later implement such a feature.
>> def memop : PatFrag<(ops node:$ptr), (load node:$ptr), [{
>>  return    Subtarget->hasSSEUnalignedMem()
>>         || cast<LoadSDNode>(N)->getAlignment() >= 16;
>> }]>;
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Demikhovsky, Elena
>> <elena.demikhovsky at intel.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It can use load, I agree.
>>> 
>>> But AVX512 code should be changed before committing the patch.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -           Elena
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: Craig Topper [mailto:craig.topper at gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 10:04
>>> 
>>> 
>>> To: Demikhovsky, Elena
>>> Cc: Sanjay Patel; llvm-commits
>>> Subject: Re: [llvm] r227983 - Fix program crashes due to alignment
>>> exceptions generated for SSE memop instructions (PR22371).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Why is AVX512 not using load?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Demikhovsky, Elena
>>> <elena.demikhovsky at intel.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We use it in AVX512.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -           Elena
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: Craig Topper [mailto:craig.topper at gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 09:52
>>> To: Demikhovsky, Elena
>>> Cc: Sanjay Patel; llvm-commits
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Subject: Re: [llvm] r227983 - Fix program crashes due to alignment
>>> exceptions generated for SSE memop instructions (PR22371).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I thought we had converted all of AVX/AVX2 to use 'loadXXX' instead of
>>> 'memopXXX'?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Demikhovsky, Elena
>>> <elena.demikhovsky at intel.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> You removed FeatureVectorUAMem form HSW, but you did not add
>>> FeatureSSEUnalignedMem
>>>                                      FeatureAVX2,
>>>                                      FeatureCMPXCHG16B,
>>>                                      FeatureFastUAMem,
>>> -                                     FeatureVectorUAMem,
>>>                                      FeaturePOPCNT,
>>>                                      FeatureAES,
>>>                                      FeaturePCLMUL,
>>> 
>>> How memop should work now on AVX/AVX2? Will it require alignment now?
>>> 
>>> def memop : PatFrag<(ops node:$ptr), (load node:$ptr), [{
>>> -  return    Subtarget->hasVectorUAMem()
>>> +  return    Subtarget->hasSSEUnalignedMem()
>>>          || cast<LoadSDNode>(N)->getAlignment() >= 16;
>>> }]>;
>>> 
>>> -  Elena
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kuperstein, Michael M
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 21:41
>>> To: Hans Wennborg; Nadav Rotem; Demikhovsky, Elena
>>> Cc: Sanjay Patel; llvm-commits
>>> Subject: RE: [llvm] r227983 - Fix program crashes due to alignment
>>> exceptions generated for SSE memop instructions (PR22371).
>>> 
>>> I understand this on roughly the same level as Nadav does (looks correct,
>>> and should be safer than the current situation), but Elena should be able to
>>> give an authoritative answer.
>>> Elena, could you comment?
>>> 
>>> Michael
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: hwennborg at google.com [mailto:hwennborg at google.com] On Behalf Of Hans
>>> Wennborg
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 20:53
>>> To: Nadav Rotem
>>> Cc: Sanjay Patel; llvm-commits; Demikhovsky, Elena; Kuperstein, Michael M
>>> Subject: Re: [llvm] r227983 - Fix program crashes due to alignment
>>> exceptions generated for SSE memop instructions (PR22371).
>>> 
>>> Elena, Michael: is this safe for merging to 3.6?
>>> 
>>> As far as I understand it's basically a revert or r224330.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Nadav Rotem <nrotem at apple.com> wrote:
>>>> The change looks good to me, but I would wait a day and let Elena or
>>>> Michael review it.
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 3, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Sanjay Patel <spatel at rotateright.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Author: spatel
>>>> Date: Tue Feb  3 11:13:04 2015
>>>> New Revision: 227983
>>>> 
>>>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=227983&view=rev
>>>> Log:
>>>> Fix program crashes due to alignment exceptions generated for SSE
>>>> memop instructions (PR22371).
>>>> 
>>>> r224330 introduced a bug by misinterpreting the "FeatureVectorUAMem"
>>>> bit.
>>>> The commit log says that change did not affect anything, but that's
>>>> not correct.
>>>> That change allowed SSE instructions to have unaligned mem operands
>>>> folded into math ops, and that's not allowed in the default
>>>> specification for any SSE variant.
>>>> 
>>>> The bug is exposed when compiling for an AVX-capable CPU that had this
>>>> feature flag but without enabling AVX codegen. Another mistake in
>>>> r224330 was not adding the feature flag to all AVX CPUs; the AMD chips
>>>> were excluded.
>>>> 
>>>> This is part of the fix for PR22371 (
>>>> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=22371 ).
>>>> 
>>>> This feature bit is SSE-specific, so I've renamed it to
>>>> "FeatureSSEUnalignedMem".
>>>> Changed the existing test case for the feature bit to reflect the new
>>>> name and renamed the test file itself to better reflect the feature.
>>>> Added runs to fold-vex.ll to check for the failing codegen.
>>>> 
>>>> Note that the feature bit is not set by default on any CPU because it
>>>> may require a configuration register setting to enable the enhanced
>>>> unaligned behavior.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sanjay requested in [1] that we should merge this to the 3.6 branch.
>>>> I'm not qualified to determine if this is safe or not. Is there somone
>>>> else with X86 expertise that would like to chime in? Nadav, you're
>>>> listed as the code owner here.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Hans
>>>> 
>>>> 1. http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=22374#c3
>>>> 
>>>> 
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