[llvm-dev] crash JIT with AVX intrinsics

[Henning Thielemann via llvm-dev]

Hi all,

I have some old code using the JIT via the LLVM-3.0-C API. I want to 
upgrade to newer versions of LLVM. As a simple example I wrote a C program 
that creates the following function and calls it:

; ModuleID = 'round-avx.bc'
target triple = "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

define void @round(<8 x float>*) {
_L1:
   %1 = load <8 x float>* %0
   %2 = call <8 x float> @llvm.x86.avx.round.ps.256(<8 x float> %1, i32 1)
   store <8 x float> %2, <8 x float>* %0
   ret void
}

; Function Attrs: nounwind readnone
declare <8 x float> @llvm.x86.avx.round.ps.256(<8 x float>, i32) #0

attributes #0 = { nounwind readnone }


I attach the main C file and have collected all required files in this 
archive:
    http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/llvm-tf/avx-instruction-selection.tar.gz


My problem is that the simple C program crashes on newer LLVM versions. 
The preprocessor conditionals show my attempts to replace the AVX 8-float 
vector by a SSE 4-float vector or by a scalar and to replace the rounding 
by a simple addition.

$ make avx-instruction-selection-3.4 avx-instruction-selection-3.5 avx-instruction-selection-3.6 avx-instruction-selection-3.7 avx-instruction-selection-3.8
g++ -Wall -o create-execution-engine-3.4.o -c create-execution-engine.cpp `llvm-config-3.4 --cxxflags` -I.
gcc -Wall -o avx-instruction-selection-3.4 avx-instruction-selection.c `llvm-config-3.4 --cflags --ldflags` -I. create-execution-engine-3.4.o -lLLVM-3.4
g++ -Wall -o create-execution-engine-3.5.o -c create-execution-engine.cpp `llvm-config-3.5 --cxxflags` -I.
gcc -Wall -o avx-instruction-selection-3.5 avx-instruction-selection.c `llvm-config-3.5 --cflags --ldflags` -I. create-execution-engine-3.5.o -lLLVM-3.5
g++ -Wall -o create-execution-engine-3.6.o -c create-execution-engine.cpp `llvm-config-3.6 --cxxflags` -I.
gcc -Wall -o avx-instruction-selection-3.6 avx-instruction-selection.c `llvm-config-3.6 --cflags --ldflags` -I. create-execution-engine-3.6.o -lLLVM-3.6
g++ -Wall -o create-execution-engine-3.7.o -c create-execution-engine.cpp `llvm-config-3.7 --cxxflags` -I.
gcc -Wall -o avx-instruction-selection-3.7 avx-instruction-selection.c `llvm-config-3.7 --cflags --ldflags` -I. create-execution-engine-3.7.o -lLLVM-3.7
g++ -Wall -o create-execution-engine-3.8.o -c create-execution-engine.cpp `llvm-config-3.8 --cxxflags` -I.
gcc -Wall -o avx-instruction-selection-3.8 avx-instruction-selection.c `llvm-config-3.8 --cflags --ldflags` -I. create-execution-engine-3.8.o -lLLVM-3.8
rm create-execution-engine-3.5.o create-execution-engine-3.8.o create-execution-engine-3.7.o create-execution-engine-3.6.o

$ avx-instruction-selection-3.4
7ffe413ec6e0, size 20, align 20

$ avx-instruction-selection-3.5
7fffbf385980, size 20, align 20

$ avx-instruction-selection-3.6
7ffc7fadc220, size 20, align 20
segmentation fault

$ avx-instruction-selection-3.7
7ffcb60c9960, size 20, align 20
segmentation fault

$ avx-instruction-selection-3.8
7ffef88c3500, size 20, align 20
segmentation fault


That is, it works only for LLVM-3.4 and LLVM-3.5. However I can make the 
two versions crash, too, by adding setUseMCJIT(true) to the engineBuilder 
in LLVMCreateExecutionEngineForModuleCPU.

Do you have any idea what might went wrong? How could I investigate the 
crash? Are there equally simple examples that show how to use the current 
LLVM API correctly?


Btw. my problem is a follow-up of this StackOverflow question: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38738123/determining-and-setting-host-target-triple-and-instruction-extensions-in-llvm-c/38801586
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