On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 5:11 PM Francisco Jerez <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Subject is still inaccurate.  How about "intel/fs: Don't touch
> accumulator destination while applying regioning alignment rule."
>

Sounds good to me.  I'll fix it.


>
> Jason Ekstrand <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > In some shaders, you can end up with a stride in the source of a
> > SHADER_OPCODE_MULH.  One way this can happen is if the MULH is acting on
> > the top bits of a 64-bit value due to 64-bit integer lowering.  In this
> > case, the compiler will produce something like this:
> >
> > mul(8)    acc0<1>UD   g5<8,4,2>UD   0x0004UW      { align1 1Q };
> > mach(8)   g6<1>UD     g5<8,4,2>UD   0x00000004UD  { align1 1Q
> AccWrEnable };
> >
> > The new region fixup pass looks at the MUL and sees a strided source and
> > unstrided destination and determines that the sequence is illegal.  It
> > then attempts to fix the illegal stride by replacing the destination of
> > the MUL with a temporary and emitting a MOV into the accumulator:
> >
> > mul(8)    g9<2>UD     g5<8,4,2>UD   0x0004UW      { align1 1Q };
> > mov(8)    acc0<1>UD   g9<8,4,2>UD                 { align1 1Q };
> > mach(8)   g6<1>UD     g5<8,4,2>UD   0x00000004UD  { align1 1Q
> AccWrEnable };
> >
> > Unfortunately, this new sequence isn't correct because MOV accesses the
> > accumulator with a different precision to MUL and, instead of filling
> > the bottom 32 bits with the source and zeroing the top 32 bits, it
> > leaves the top 32 (or maybe 31) bits alone and full of garbage.  When
> > the MACH comes along and tries to complete the multiplication, the
> > result is correct in the bottom 32 bits (which we throw away) and
> > garbage in the top 32 bits which are actually returned by MACH.
> >
> > This commit does two things:  First, it adds an assert to ensure that we
> > don't try to rewrite accumulator destinations of MUL instructions so we
> > can avoid this precision issue.  Second, it modifies
> > required_dst_byte_stride to require a tightly packed stride so that we
> > fix up the sources instead and the actual code which gets emitted is
> > this:
> >
> > mov(8)    g9<1>UD     g5<8,4,2>UD                 { align1 1Q };
> > mul(8)    acc0<1>UD   g9<8,8,1>UD   0x0004UW      { align1 1Q };
> > mach(8)   g6<1>UD     g5<8,4,2>UD   0x00000004UD  { align1 1Q
> AccWrEnable };
> >
> > Fixes: efa4e4bc5fc "intel/fs: Introduce regioning lowering pass"
> > Cc: Francisco Jerez <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_lower_regioning.cpp | 24 ++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_lower_regioning.cpp
> b/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_lower_regioning.cpp
> > index cc4163b4c2c..00cb5769ebe 100644
> > --- a/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_lower_regioning.cpp
> > +++ b/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_lower_regioning.cpp
> > @@ -53,7 +53,21 @@ namespace {
> >     unsigned
> >     required_dst_byte_stride(const fs_inst *inst)
> >     {
> > -      if (type_sz(inst->dst.type) < get_exec_type_size(inst) &&
> > +      if (inst->dst.is_accumulator()) {
> > +         /* If the destination is an accumulator, insist that we leave
> the
> > +          * stride alone.  We cannot "fix" accumulator destinations by
> writing
> > +          * to a temporary and emitting a MOV into the original
> destination.
> > +          * For multiply instructions (our one use of the accumulator),
> the
> > +          * MUL writes the full 66 bits of the accumulator whereas the
> MOV we
> > +          * would emit only writes 33 bits ane leaves the top 33 bits
>
> and*
>
> > +          * undefined.
> > +          *
> > +          * It's safe to just require the original stride here because
> the
> > +          * lowering pass will detect the mismatch in
> required_src_byte_stride
> > +          * just fix up the sources of the multiply instead of the
> destination.
>
> There isn't such a thing as "required_src_byte_stride".  Conjunction
> missing between that sentence and the "just fix up..." one.
>
> Code is still:
>
> Reviewed-by: Francisco Jerez <[email protected]>
>

Thanks!  I'll do one more Jenkins run and push it.

--Jason


> > +          */
> > +         return inst->dst.stride * type_sz(inst->dst.type);
> > +      } else if (type_sz(inst->dst.type) < get_exec_type_size(inst) &&
> >            !is_byte_raw_mov(inst)) {
> >           return get_exec_type_size(inst);
> >        } else {
> > @@ -316,6 +330,14 @@ namespace {
> >     bool
> >     lower_dst_region(fs_visitor *v, bblock_t *block, fs_inst *inst)
> >     {
> > +      /* We cannot replace the result of an integer multiply which
> writes the
> > +       * accumulator because MUL+MACH pairs act on the accumulator as a
> 66-bit
> > +       * value whereas the MOV will act on only 32 or 33 bits of the
> > +       * accumulator.
> > +       */
> > +      assert(inst->opcode != BRW_OPCODE_MUL ||
> !inst->dst.is_accumulator() ||
> > +             brw_reg_type_is_floating_point(inst->dst.type));
> > +
> >        const fs_builder ibld(v, block, inst);
> >        const unsigned stride = required_dst_byte_stride(inst) /
> >                                type_sz(inst->dst.type);
> > --
> > 2.20.1
>
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