[llvm-dev] [CUDA] Lost debug information when compiling CUDA code

[Madhur Amilkanthwar via llvm-dev]

Is source level information present in generated IR files?

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Yuanfeng Peng via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I needed to debug some CUDA code in my project; however, although I used
> -g when compiling the source code, no source-level information is available
> in cuda-gdb or cuda-memcheck.
>
> Specifically, below is what I did:
>
> 1) For a CUDA file a.cu, generate IR files: clang++ -g -emit-llvm
> --cuda-gpu-arch=sm_35 -c a.cu;
> 2) Instrument the device code a-cuda-nvptx64-nvidia-cuda-sm_35.bc
> (generated in the previous step), inserting a call to a hook function
> before each device memory access.  The hook function is defined in another
> file, b.cu.  Let's say we get a file named intrumented-a-device.bc after
> this step;
> 3) Generate IR files for b.cu: clang++ -g -emit-llvm
> --cuda-gpu-arch=sm_35 -c b.cu;
> 4) Link instrumented-a.device.bc with the device code generated for b.cu:
> llvm-link intrumented-a-device.bc b-cuda-nvptx64-nvidia-cuda-sm_35.bc -o
> ab-device.bc;
> 5) Use llc, ptxas & fatbinary on ab-device.bc to get ab-device.ptx,
> ab-device.o & ab-device.fatbin;
> 6) Call clang again the generate the host object file ab.o, with
> ab-device.o & ab-device.fatbin embedded;
> 7) Link against libraries and get the final binary: a.out.
>
> The binary a.out fails with an exception I when run it; but when I try to
> debug it with cuda-gdb or cuda-memcheck, no source information was
> available.  Why?
>
> Thanks!
> Yuanfeng Peng
>
>
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Madhur D. Amilkanthwar
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