
For a kernel such as kernel void foo(__global double3 *z) { double3 x = {0.6631661088,0.6612268107,0.1513627528}; int3 y = {-1980459213,-660855407,615708204}; *z = pown(x, y); } we were not storing anything to z, because the implementation of pown relied on an floating-point-to-integer conversion where the floating-point value was outside of the integer's range. Although in LLVM IR we permit that operation so long as we end up ignoring its result -- that is the general rule for poison -- one thing we are not permitted to do is have conditional branches that depend on it, and through the call to __clc_ldexp, we did have that. To fix this, rather than changing expv at the end to INFINITY/0, we can change v at the start to values that we know will produce INFINITY/0 without performing such out-of-range conversions. Tested with clang --target=nvptx64 -S -O3 -o - test.cl \ -Xclang -mlink-builtin-bitcode \ -Xclang runtimes/runtimes-bins/libclc/nvptx64--.bc A grep showed that this exact same code existed in three more places, so I changed it there too, though I did not do a broader search for other similar code that potentially has the same problem.
libclc
libclc is an open source implementation of the library requirements of the OpenCL C programming language, as specified by the OpenCL 1.1 Specification. The following sections of the specification impose library requirements:
- 6.1: Supported Data Types
- 6.2.3: Explicit Conversions
- 6.2.4.2: Reinterpreting Types Using as_type() and as_typen()
- 6.9: Preprocessor Directives and Macros
- 6.11: Built-in Functions
- 9.3: Double Precision Floating-Point
- 9.4: 64-bit Atomics
- 9.5: Writing to 3D image memory objects
- 9.6: Half Precision Floating-Point
libclc is intended to be used with the Clang compiler's OpenCL frontend.
libclc is designed to be portable and extensible. To this end, it provides generic implementations of most library requirements, allowing the target to override the generic implementation at the granularity of individual functions.
libclc currently supports PTX, AMDGPU, SPIRV and CLSPV targets, but support for more targets is welcome.
Compiling and installing
(in the following instructions you can use make
or ninja
)
For an in-tree build, Clang must also be built at the same time:
$ cmake <path-to>/llvm-project/llvm/CMakeLists.txt -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="libclc;clang" \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G Ninja
$ ninja
Then install:
$ ninja install
Note you can use the DESTDIR
Makefile variable to do staged installs.
$ DESTDIR=/path/for/staged/install ninja install
To build out of tree, or in other words, against an existing LLVM build or install:
$ cmake <path-to>/llvm-project/libclc/CMakeLists.txt -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-G Ninja -DLLVM_DIR=$(<path-to>/llvm-config --cmakedir)
$ ninja
Then install as before.
In both cases this will include all supported targets. You can choose which
targets are enabled by passing -DLIBCLC_TARGETS_TO_BUILD
to CMake. The default
is all
.
In both cases, the LLVM used must include the targets you want libclc support for
(AMDGPU
and NVPTX
are enabled in LLVM by default). Apart from SPIRV
where you do
not need an LLVM target but you do need the
llvm-spirv tool available.
Either build this in-tree, or place it in the directory pointed to by
LLVM_TOOLS_BINARY_DIR
.