[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/2] nir: Fix non-determinism in nir_lower_vars_to_ssa().

Connor Abbott cwabbott0 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 19:03:19 PDT 2015


Reviewed-by: Connor Abbott <cwabbott0 at gmail.com>

I was in the middle of rewriting this pass for making derefs
instructions, which hasn't been going nearly as nicely as I would like
(ugh...), so if it pans out then I'll have to think about it a little
more to make sure the new version is deterministic too.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> wrote:
> Previously, we stored derefs in a hash table, using the malloc'd pointer
> as the key.  Then, we walked through the hash table and generated code,
> based on the order of the hash table's elements.
>
> Memory addresses returned by malloc are pretty much random, which meant
> that the hash was random, and the hash table's elements would be walked
> in some random order.  This led to successive compiles of the same
> shader using different variable names and slightly different orderings
> of phi-nodes.  Code could not be diff'd, and the final assembly would
> sometimes change slightly too.
>
> It turns out the only point of the hash table was to avoid inserting
> the same node multiple times for different dereferences.  We never
> actually searched the hash table!  This patch uses an intrusive
> linked list instead.  Since exec_list uses head and tail sentinels,
> checking prev or next against NULL will tell us whether the node is
> already in the list.
>
> Pair programming with Jason Ekstrand.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason.ekstrand at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
> ---
>  src/glsl/nir/nir_lower_vars_to_ssa.c | 123 ++++++++---------------------------
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/glsl/nir/nir_lower_vars_to_ssa.c b/src/glsl/nir/nir_lower_vars_to_ssa.c
> index 9e9a418..86e6ab4 100644
> --- a/src/glsl/nir/nir_lower_vars_to_ssa.c
> +++ b/src/glsl/nir/nir_lower_vars_to_ssa.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ struct deref_node {
>
>     bool lower_to_ssa;
>
> +   /* Only valid for things that end up in the direct list.
> +    * Note that multiple nir_deref_vars may correspond to this node, but they
> +    * will all be equivalent, so any is as good as the other.
> +    */
> +   nir_deref_var *deref;
> +   struct exec_node direct_derefs_link;
> +
>     struct set *loads;
>     struct set *stores;
>     struct set *copies;
> @@ -69,7 +76,7 @@ struct lower_variables_state {
>      * wildcards and no indirects, these are precisely the derefs that we
>      * can actually consider lowering.
>      */
> -   struct hash_table *direct_deref_nodes;
> +   struct exec_list direct_deref_nodes;
>
>     /* Controls whether get_deref_node will add variables to the
>      * direct_deref_nodes table.  This is turned on when we are initially
> @@ -83,88 +90,6 @@ struct lower_variables_state {
>     struct hash_table *phi_table;
>  };
>
> -/* The following two functions implement a hash and equality check for
> - * variable dreferences.  When the hash or equality function encounters an
> - * array, all indirects are treated as equal and are never equal to a
> - * direct dereference or a wildcard.
> - */
> -static uint32_t
> -hash_deref(const void *void_deref)
> -{
> -   uint32_t hash = _mesa_fnv32_1a_offset_bias;
> -
> -   const nir_deref_var *deref_var = void_deref;
> -   hash = _mesa_fnv32_1a_accumulate(hash, deref_var->var);
> -
> -   for (const nir_deref *deref = deref_var->deref.child;
> -        deref; deref = deref->child) {
> -      switch (deref->deref_type) {
> -      case nir_deref_type_array: {
> -         nir_deref_array *deref_array = nir_deref_as_array(deref);
> -
> -         hash = _mesa_fnv32_1a_accumulate(hash, deref_array->deref_array_type);
> -
> -         if (deref_array->deref_array_type == nir_deref_array_type_direct)
> -            hash = _mesa_fnv32_1a_accumulate(hash, deref_array->base_offset);
> -         break;
> -      }
> -      case nir_deref_type_struct: {
> -         nir_deref_struct *deref_struct = nir_deref_as_struct(deref);
> -         hash = _mesa_fnv32_1a_accumulate(hash, deref_struct->index);
> -         break;
> -      }
> -      default:
> -         assert("Invalid deref chain");
> -      }
> -   }
> -
> -   return hash;
> -}
> -
> -static bool
> -derefs_equal(const void *void_a, const void *void_b)
> -{
> -   const nir_deref_var *a_var = void_a;
> -   const nir_deref_var *b_var = void_b;
> -
> -   if (a_var->var != b_var->var)
> -      return false;
> -
> -   for (const nir_deref *a = a_var->deref.child, *b = b_var->deref.child;
> -        a != NULL; a = a->child, b = b->child) {
> -      if (a->deref_type != b->deref_type)
> -         return false;
> -
> -      switch (a->deref_type) {
> -      case nir_deref_type_array: {
> -         nir_deref_array *a_arr = nir_deref_as_array(a);
> -         nir_deref_array *b_arr = nir_deref_as_array(b);
> -
> -         if (a_arr->deref_array_type != b_arr->deref_array_type)
> -            return false;
> -
> -         if (a_arr->deref_array_type == nir_deref_array_type_direct &&
> -             a_arr->base_offset != b_arr->base_offset)
> -            return false;
> -         break;
> -      }
> -      case nir_deref_type_struct:
> -         if (nir_deref_as_struct(a)->index != nir_deref_as_struct(b)->index)
> -            return false;
> -         break;
> -      default:
> -         assert("Invalid deref chain");
> -         return false;
> -      }
> -
> -      assert((a->child == NULL) == (b->child == NULL));
> -      if((a->child == NULL) != (b->child == NULL))
> -         return false;
> -   }
> -
> -   return true;
> -}
> -
>  static int
>  type_get_length(const struct glsl_type *type)
>  {
> @@ -195,6 +120,8 @@ deref_node_create(struct deref_node *parent,
>     struct deref_node *node = rzalloc_size(mem_ctx, size);
>     node->type = type;
>     node->parent = parent;
> +   node->deref = NULL;
> +   exec_node_init(&node->direct_derefs_link);
>
>     return node;
>  }
> @@ -297,8 +224,14 @@ get_deref_node(nir_deref_var *deref, struct lower_variables_state *state)
>
>     assert(node);
>
> -   if (is_direct && state->add_to_direct_deref_nodes)
> -      _mesa_hash_table_insert(state->direct_deref_nodes, deref, node);
> +   /* Only insert if it isn't already in the list. */
> +   if (is_direct && state->add_to_direct_deref_nodes &&
> +       node->direct_derefs_link.next == NULL) {
> +      node->deref = deref;
> +      assert(deref->var != NULL);
> +      exec_list_push_tail(&state->direct_deref_nodes,
> +                          &node->direct_derefs_link);
> +   }
>
>     return node;
>  }
> @@ -917,10 +850,8 @@ insert_phi_nodes(struct lower_variables_state *state)
>     unsigned w_start, w_end;
>     unsigned iter_count = 0;
>
> -   struct hash_entry *deref_entry;
> -   hash_table_foreach(state->direct_deref_nodes, deref_entry) {
> -      struct deref_node *node = deref_entry->data;
> -
> +   foreach_list_typed(struct deref_node, node, direct_derefs_link,
> +                      &state->direct_deref_nodes) {
>        if (node->stores == NULL)
>           continue;
>
> @@ -1014,8 +945,7 @@ nir_lower_vars_to_ssa_impl(nir_function_impl *impl)
>     state.deref_var_nodes = _mesa_hash_table_create(state.dead_ctx,
>                                                     _mesa_hash_pointer,
>                                                     _mesa_key_pointer_equal);
> -   state.direct_deref_nodes = _mesa_hash_table_create(state.dead_ctx,
> -                                                      hash_deref, derefs_equal);
> +   exec_list_make_empty(&state.direct_deref_nodes);
>     state.phi_table = _mesa_hash_table_create(state.dead_ctx,
>                                               _mesa_hash_pointer,
>                                               _mesa_key_pointer_equal);
> @@ -1035,18 +965,17 @@ nir_lower_vars_to_ssa_impl(nir_function_impl *impl)
>     /* We're about to iterate through direct_deref_nodes.  Don't modify it. */
>     state.add_to_direct_deref_nodes = false;
>
> -   struct hash_entry *entry;
> -   hash_table_foreach(state.direct_deref_nodes, entry) {
> -      nir_deref_var *deref = (void *)entry->key;
> -      struct deref_node *node = entry->data;
> +   foreach_list_typed_safe(struct deref_node, node, direct_derefs_link,
> +                           &state.direct_deref_nodes) {
> +      nir_deref_var *deref = node->deref;
>
>        if (deref->var->data.mode != nir_var_local) {
> -         _mesa_hash_table_remove(state.direct_deref_nodes, entry);
> +         exec_node_remove(&node->direct_derefs_link);
>           continue;
>        }
>
>        if (deref_may_be_aliased(deref, &state)) {
> -         _mesa_hash_table_remove(state.direct_deref_nodes, entry);
> +         exec_node_remove(&node->direct_derefs_link);
>           continue;
>        }
>
> --
> 2.2.2
>
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