Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Segfault with volk on 32 bit AMD

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Frederick Stevens <address@hidden> wrote:

Tom,

New run using my simple "trace" See attached files.

Cheers,

Fred

Fred,

A good start. It's only going through half of the data it's supposed before seg faulting, so it's like one of the buffers (probably the bPtr buffer to the 32f input) isn't getting allocated properly.

I've attached a patch that only tests this kernel so no other outputs will confuse things and I've shortened the run length (single iteration, fewer samples). This now spits out the data used to generate the input and output buffers. It also outputs the size of the data types in the test instead of the pointer size.

if you're unfamiliar with working with patches, just reset your git tree (git reset --hard, unless you have some changes you need to / want to keep) and apply this (git apply location/volk_slackware32.diff). I suggest the reset so there aren't any conflicts or problems when applying.

Thanks,

Tom

On 03/19/2012 11:26 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote:

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Frederick Stevens <address@hidden> wrote:

Tom,

See the attached file. I am running volk_profile now. If this is what you need then that is great otherwise I will keep working on this with whatever suggestions you have.

Cheers,

Fred

That'll be a good start. We'll see if that tells us anything.

Thanks,

Tom

On 03/19/2012 08:10 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote:

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Frederick Stevens <address@hidden> wrote:

Volk_profile ran to completion. I am using the git source tree updated just before I did the run. I commented out line 38 of volk_profile.cc as you suggested and ran volk_profile under gdb. The output is in the attached text file. I have also attached the generated volk_config from ~/.volk/volk_config.

Thanks. Strange that it's just that kernel, then. Can you put in some debug lines that will print out the size of the buffers being used and the 'number' variable in volk_32fc_x2_multiply_32fc_a when the crash occurs. I just want to see if the loop is trying to go beyond the bounds of the arrays.

I noted from running gnuradio-companion version 3.5.1, (which works) that when I use a multiply block, this message from python is generated:

./top_block.py
>>> gr_fir_fff: using 3DNow!

but volk_profile does not seem to recognize the 3DNow! processor extensions (produces sse2 and sse3 messages on the Intel Atom 32 bit machine).

Yeah, that's fine. Without a 3DNow! kernel, Volk will just fall back on the generic implementation. The thought being that the generic version will work for everyone. So we need to figure out why that's not true for your...

Hope this helps! Let me know if you want me to try anything else. I'll let you know how things turn out on the other machine as well.

Cheers,

Fred

Thanks.

Tom

On 03/18/2012 04:31 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote:

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Frederick Stevens <address@hidden> wrote:

Well, after a few restarts, here is my output. I did a fresh pull from git because I was getting some errors with missing *.h files in gruel/src/swig or something like that. Hope this helps!

RUN_VOLK_TESTS: volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

0xb7edbb74 in volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a_generic (cVector=0xb7448008,
    aVector=0xb7768008, bVector=0xb78f8008, num_points=204600)
    at /home/fred/extras/gnuradio/gnuradio/volk/include/volk/volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a.h:74
74          *cPtr++ = (*aPtr++) * (*bPtr++);
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb7edbb74 in volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a_generic (cVector=0xb7448008,
    aVector=0xb7768008, bVector=0xb78f8008, num_points=204600)
    at /home/fred/extras/gnuradio/gnuradio/volk/include/volk/volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a.h:74

Alright, Fred, definitely something strange going on here. My only guess is that for some reason on your architecture/OS/whatever, something is being handled incorrectly and the buffers a, b, and c are not getting generated correctly, maybe something like it's not doubling the number of items for the complex data type (before this function test, there are 16ic, or complex shorts, being tested, but this is the first complex float test).

It's hard to tell if it's something about it being an AMD chip, 32-bit, Slackware version, gcc version, etc. And I don't have an AMD chip to test on, but I could load up a 32-bit Slackware VM at least.

How much work are you willing to put into this to help us nail this down?

If you can follow through the volk_profile test code, we can start outputting more debug info. To start with, I'd suggest going into volk/apps/volk_profile.cc and commenting out line 38, rebuild the application, and run this new volk_profile to see if it fails on any other kernels.

Thanks,

Tom

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From:	Tom Rondeau
Subject:	Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Segfault with volk on 32 bit AMD
Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:49:33 -0400