[PATCH 0/4] openacc: Async fixes

[Julian Brown]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:40:33 +0100
Julian Brown <julian@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:28:00 +0200
> Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> 
> > >  - The OpenACC profiling-interface implementation did not measure
> > >    asynchronous operations properly.    
> > 
> > We'll need to be careful: (possibly, an older version of) that one
> > we internally had identified to be causing some issues; see the
> > "acc_prof-parallel-1.c intermittent failure on og10 branch" emails,
> > 2020-07.  
> 
> Hmm, I'll check those.

The problem here is that the async callbacks now execute in a different
thread to the main program, so the direct sharing of the 'state'
variable isn't safe. (I verified that by observing the
result of "pthread_self ()" calls from the main thread and from the
callback.)

The attached patch appears to make the test run reliably on mainline
(which still exhibits the failure with the parent patch series, very
intermittently). A better solution might be to use the memory-model
builtins for all 'state' variable accesses though.

I think the async profiling callbacks *have to* run in a different
thread to the main program, which would make this a testcase bug (the
spec doesn't explicitly say this as of 3.0 though). However there might
be an argument for making "acc_wait" and friends thread barriers with
respect to the host (i.e. calling __atomic_thread_fence in the
appropriate place in libgomp) -- otherwise you have "break out of the
abstraction" provided by OpenACC and rely on a non-OpenACC API in order
to observe any results measured in the async profiling callbacks. OTOH
the memory-model stuff is part of C now, so maybe that's fine (and also,
I'm doubtful that just adding the barrier and using regular global
variable accesses is sufficient to ensure thread safety anyway).

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Julian
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