Tag: CUDA

Fix cudart::globalState::registerEntryFunction core dump issue

In the past 2 days, I was in trouble handling a program crash dump which uses CUDA:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff73fc559 in cudart::globalState::registerEntryFunction(void**, char const*, char*, char const*, int, uint3*, uint3*, dim3*, dim3*, int*) () from /home/xiaonan/dl2-he/3rdparty/libDSI_FV.so
#1  0x00007ffff73decbc in __cudaRegisterFunction () from /home/xiaonan/dl2-he/3rdparty/libDSI_FV.so
#2  0x00007ffff73d9098 in __nv_cudaEntityRegisterCallback(void**) () from /home/xiaonan/dl2-he/3rdparty/libDSI_FV.so
#3  0x00000000004283d6 in __cudaRegisterLinkedBinary(__fatBinC_Wrapper_t const*, void (*)(void**), void*) ()
#4  0x00000000004282e5 in __cudaRegisterLinkedBinary_66_tmpxft_00002dac_00000000_12_cuda_device_runtime_compute_70_cpp1_ii_8b1a5d37 ()
#5  0x00007ffff7de76ba in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#6  0x00007ffff7de77cb in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#7  0x00007ffff7dd7c6a in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#8  0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#9  0x00007fffffffe7e3 in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Long story to short, my OS is Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS, and CUDA version is:

$ nvcc -V
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2017 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Fri_Sep__1_21:08:03_CDT_2017
Cuda compilation tools, release 9.0, V9.0.176

After tough trial and error, the solution is renaming one file from “.cpp” to “.cu“. But on another Arch Linux with the newest CUDA (V10.0.130), this problem doesn’t exist.

If you are interested in more information, please refer this topic.

Some tips of creating streams in using CUDA

Check following simple program:

cat test_stream.cu
int main()
{
        cudaStream_t st_00, st_01, st_11;

        cudaSetDevice(0);
        cudaStreamCreate(&st_00);
        cudaStreamCreate(&st_01);

        cudaSetDevice(1);
        cudaStreamCreate(&st_11);

        return 0;
}

In my system, device 0 is Nvidia Tesla-V100 GPU while device 1 is Tesla-P100. Use cuda-gdb to debug the program step by step:

(1)

Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at /home/xiaonan/temp/test_stream.cu:2
2       {
(cuda-gdb) i threads
  Id   Target Id         Frame
* 1    Thread 0x7ffff7a74740 (LWP 82365) "test_stream" main () at /home/xiaonan/temp/test_stream.cu:2
(cuda-gdb) n
5               cudaSetDevice(0);
(cuda-gdb)
[New Thread 0x7fffdffff700 (LWP 82532)]
6               cudaStreamCreate(&st_00);
(cuda-gdb) i threads
  Id   Target Id         Frame
* 1    Thread 0x7ffff7a74740 (LWP 82365) "test_stream" main () at /home/xiaonan/temp/test_stream.cu:6
  2    Thread 0x7fffdffff700 (LWP 82532) "test_stream" 0x00007ffff7b743e7 in accept4 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6

When the program was launched, there is only main thread (Id is 1). Then after calling cudaSetDevice(0);, a new thread is spawned (Id is 2).

(2)

(cuda-gdb) i threads
  Id   Target Id         Frame
* 1    Thread 0x7ffff7a74740 (LWP 82365) "test_stream" main () at /home/xiaonan/temp/test_stream.cu:6
  2    Thread 0x7fffdffff700 (LWP 82532) "test_stream" 0x00007ffff7b743e7 in accept4 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
(cuda-gdb) n
[New Thread 0x7fffdf7fe700 (LWP 82652)]
7               cudaStreamCreate(&st_01);
(cuda-gdb) i threads
  Id   Target Id         Frame
* 1    Thread 0x7ffff7a74740 (LWP 82365) "test_stream" main () at /home/xiaonan/temp/test_stream.cu:7
  2    Thread 0x7fffdffff700 (LWP 82532) "test_stream" 0x00007ffff7b743e7 in accept4 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
  3    Thread 0x7fffdf7fe700 (LWP 82652) "test_stream" 0x00007ffff7b67bb1 in poll () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6

On device 0, only first calling cudaStreamCreate will generate a new thread. Check used memory through nvidia-smi command:

$ nvidia-smi
Tue Nov 13 16:53:37 2018
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 410.57                 Driver Version: 410.57                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Tesla P100-PCIE...  On   | 00000000:3B:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   31C    P0    29W / 250W |     10MiB / 16280MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  Tesla P100-PCIE...  On   | 00000000:5E:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   26C    P0    28W / 250W |     10MiB / 16280MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   2  Tesla P100-PCIE...  On   | 00000000:AF:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   29C    P0    29W / 250W |     10MiB / 16280MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   3  Tesla V100-PCIE...  On   | 00000000:D8:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   35C    P0    47W / 250W |    769MiB / 16130MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    3     82365      C   /home/xiaonan/temp/build/test_stream         407MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Create another stream, you will find the memory usage is the same as before.

(3)

(cuda-gdb) n
9               cudaSetDevice(1);
(cuda-gdb)
10              cudaStreamCreate(&st_11);
(cuda-gdb)
[New Thread 0x7fffdeffd700 (LWP 82993)]
12              return 0;
(cuda-gdb) i threads
  Id   Target Id         Frame
* 1    Thread 0x7ffff7a74740 (LWP 82365) "test_stream" main () at /home/xiaonan/temp/test_stream.cu:12
  2    Thread 0x7fffdffff700 (LWP 82532) "test_stream" 0x00007ffff7b743e7 in accept4 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
  3    Thread 0x7fffdf7fe700 (LWP 82652) "test_stream" 0x00007ffff7b67bb1 in poll () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
  4    Thread 0x7fffdeffd700 (LWP 82993) "test_stream" 0x00007ffff7b67bb1 in poll () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6

Switch to another device and create stream; check memory usage now:

$ nvidia-smi
Tue Nov 13 16:54:24 2018
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 410.57                 Driver Version: 410.57                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Tesla P100-PCIE...  On   | 00000000:3B:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   31C    P0    30W / 250W |    291MiB / 16280MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  Tesla P100-PCIE...  On   | 00000000:5E:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   26C    P0    28W / 250W |     10MiB / 16280MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   2  Tesla P100-PCIE...  On   | 00000000:AF:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   29C    P0    29W / 250W |     10MiB / 16280MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   3  Tesla V100-PCIE...  On   | 00000000:D8:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   35C    P0    47W / 250W |    769MiB / 16130MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0     82365      C   /home/xiaonan/temp/build/test_stream         281MiB |
|    3     82365      C   /home/xiaonan/temp/build/test_stream         407MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

You will find different devices consume different memory for creating streams.

Porting CUDA program from ArchLinux to Ubuntu 16.04

Today I ported a CUDA project from Arch Linux to Ubuntu 16.04, and this post records the pitfalls.

(0) Update cmake to newest version (follow this);

(1) Specify nvcc path in CMakeLists.txt:

SET(CMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER /usr/local/cuda-9.0/bin/nvcc)

otherwise, following error may generate:

......
No CMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER could be found.
......

(2) Since Ubuntu 16.04‘s default compiler is still gcc-5, install gcc-6 first, then pass gcc-6 as default compiler for nvcc:

......
SET(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
SET(CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS "-std=c++11 -ccbin gcc-6")
......

(3) Execute cmake command:

cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc-6 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-6 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..

References:
Not Locating CUDA Compiler;
CMake: How to pass mode dependent compile flags to nvcc in visual studio environment;
Tensorflow crashes on build on Ubuntu 16.04 when building for skylake (avx512).

 

CUDA P2P is not guaranteed to be faster than staged through the host

Today, I write a simple test to verify whether CUDA Peer-to-Peer Memory Copy is always faster than using CPU to transfer. At least from my platform, it is not:

(1) Disable P2P, you can see CPU utilization ratio is very high: 86.7%, and the bandwidth is nearly 10.67GB/s:

(2) Enable P2P, CPU utilization drops down to 1.3% only, and the bandwidth is about 1.6GB/s fall behind: 9.00GB/s:

P.S., the full code is here.