[Mesa-stable] [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 01/12] i965/fs: Unpack count argument to 64-bit shift ops on Atom

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Tue Nov 28 20:35:04 UTC 2017


Also... it looks like only a few patches in this series got reviewed.
Did the whole thing actually land?

On 11/28/2017 05:54 AM, Andres Gomez wrote:
> Matt, this looks like a good candidate to nominate for inclusion in
> the 17.2 stable queue.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> On Thu, 2017-09-28 at 23:05 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
>> 64-bit operations on Atom parts have additional restrictions over their
>> big-core counterparts (validated by later patches).
>>
>> Specifically, the restriction that "Source and Destination horizontal
>> stride must be aligned to the same qword" is violated by most shift
>> operations since NIR uses a 32-bit value as the shift count argument,
>> and this causes instructions like
>>
>>    shl(8)          g19<1>Q         g5<4,4,1>Q      g23<4,4,1>UD
>>
>> where src1 has a 32-bit stride, but the dest and src0 have a 64-bit
>> stride.
>>
>> This caused ~4 pixels in the ARB_shader_ballot piglit test
>> fs-readInvocation-uint.shader_test to be incorrect. Unfortunately no
>> ARB_gpu_shader_int64 test hit this case because they operate on
>> uniforms, and their scalar regions are an exception to the restriction.
>>
>> We work around this by effectively unpacking the shift count, so that we
>> can read it with a 64-bit stride in the shift instruction. Unfortunately
>> the unpack (a MOV with a dst stride of 2) is a partial write, and cannot
>> be copy-propagated or CSE'd.
>> ---
>>  src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_nir.cpp | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_nir.cpp b/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_nir.cpp
>> index d760946e62..8ea4297ceb 100644
>> --- a/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_nir.cpp
>> +++ b/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_nir.cpp
>> @@ -1267,14 +1267,36 @@ fs_visitor::nir_emit_alu(const fs_builder &bld, nir_alu_instr *instr)
>>        unreachable("not reached: should have been lowered");
>>  
>>     case nir_op_ishl:
>> -      bld.SHL(result, op[0], op[1]);
>> -      break;
>>     case nir_op_ishr:
>> -      bld.ASR(result, op[0], op[1]);
>> -      break;
>> -   case nir_op_ushr:
>> -      bld.SHR(result, op[0], op[1]);
>> +   case nir_op_ushr: {
>> +      fs_reg shift_count = op[1];
>> +
>> +      if (devinfo->is_cherryview || gen_device_info_is_9lp(devinfo)) {
>> +         if (op[1].file == VGRF &&
>> +             (result.type == BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_Q ||
>> +              result.type == BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_UQ)) {
>> +            shift_count = fs_reg(VGRF, alloc.allocate(dispatch_width / 4),
>> +                                 BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_UD);
>> +            shift_count.stride = 2;
>> +            bld.MOV(shift_count, op[1]);
>> +         }
>> +      }
>> +
>> +      switch (instr->op) {
>> +      case nir_op_ishl:
>> +         bld.SHL(result, op[0], shift_count);
>> +         break;
>> +      case nir_op_ishr:
>> +         bld.ASR(result, op[0], shift_count);
>> +         break;
>> +      case nir_op_ushr:
>> +         bld.SHR(result, op[0], shift_count);
>> +         break;
>> +      default:
>> +         unreachable("not reached");
>> +      }
>>        break;
>> +   }
>>  
>>     case nir_op_pack_half_2x16_split:
>>        bld.emit(FS_OPCODE_PACK_HALF_2x16_SPLIT, result, op[0], op[1]);



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