Details:
- Added 'skx' and 'knl' sub-configurations to the 'x86_64' configuration
family in the config_registry file.
- Added logic to configure that avoids committing certain sub-configs to
the configuration/kernel registries if those sub-configs cannot be
handled properly by the chosen compiler. (This was modeled after
similar logic in TBLIS's configure; thanks to Devin Matthews for
pointing this out.) First, the compiler and its version are inspected
and, based on the results, certain configurations are added to a
"blacklist". Then, as the configuration registries are being created,
configurations and/or kernels that match items in the blacklist are
skipped over and not commited to the registries. Under certain
circumstances, omitting a blacklisted configuration will indirectly
invalidate other configurations due to the loss of availability of
the original blacklisted configuration's kernel set. This additional
indirect blacklist is also accounted for.
- Added output to the beginning of configure that echos information
about the chosen compiler as well as the configurations that are
blacklisted and must be stripped from the registries.
- Various other cleanups in configure, especially with respect to
explicitly declaring local variables in functions.
- Comment updates to config/zen/make_defs.mk regarding choice of -march
flags based on compiler version.
Details:
- Fixed a compiler warning concerning a type mismatch between the
format specifier of the printf() call in cblas_xerbla.c and its
corresponding (info) argument. The warning manifested when the CBLAS
layer was enabled and the BLAS/CBLAS integer type siwas is set to 64
(the default is 32). The warning was fixed by changing the specifier
from %d to %jd and typecasting the argument to intmax_t. Thanks to
Dave Love for reporting this issue and submitting the patch.
Details:
- Split the main loop bodies of zen's [sd]dotxf kernels into two cases:
one to handle a column-stored matrix A and one to handle a row-stored
matrix A. This allows vector instructions to be employed even if A is
stored by rows (and A^T appears stored as columns). Both storage cases
use a common edge case loop. Thanks to Devin Matthews for this idea
and for prototyping the change needed for sdotxf kernel.
Details:
- Changed the declaration of k_iter and k_left for d, c, z microkernels
from dim_t to uint64_t. This is needed to ensure compatibility with
the movq instruction used to load the value into registers. This
change should have been made a long time ago, but for some reason
only recently began showing up via Travis CI.
Details:
- Fixed a compile-time error that occurred due to the fact that
BLIS_ENABLE_MEMKIND, defined in bli_config.h, was not being defined
soon enough to be used in bli_system.h where it is needed to determine
whether hbwmalloc.h should be #included. bli_system.h is now included
after bli_config.h (and bli_config_macro_defs.h). Thanks to Dave Love
for reporting this issue.
- Tweaked the language used by configure to echo the status of the
--with[out]-memkind option.
Details:
- Fixed a bug in the zen (also used by haswell) dotxf kernels whereby a
vzeroupper instruction destoryed part of the intermediate result
stored by the vdpps instructions that came right before. (The
vzeroupper instrinsic was removed.)
- Removed remaining vzeroupper instrinsics from other zen kernels.
Previously, the vzeroupper instructions were included because BLIS is
typically compiled with -mfpmath=sse. But it was brought to my
attention that inserting these vzeroupper instructions is unnecessary
for our purposes, since (a) -mfpmath=sse results in VEX-encoded scalar
code rather than literal SSE instructions, and (b) compilers already
(likely) insert vzeroupper instructions where necessary. Thanks to
Devin Matthews for zeroing in on the dotxf bug.
- Removed -malign-double from bulldozer make_defs.mk. This alignment
was already happening by default since bulldozer is an x86_64 system.
Details:
- Added support for libmemkind to configure. configure attempts to
detect the presence of libmemkind by compiling a small program
containing #include <hbwmalloc.h> and a call to hbw_malloc(). If
successful, it is assumed that libmemkind is present and available.
If present, use of libmemkind is enabled by default, and otherwise
use is disabled by default. If libmemkind is present, the user may
explicitly disable use of the library by running configure with the
--without-memkind option. Furthermore, a configuration may disable
libmemkind, perhaps conditional on some aspect of the build system,
by including -DBLIS_DISABLE_MEMKIND in the configuration's CPPROCFLAGS
make variable and setting the BLIS_ENABLE_MEMKIND makefile variable,
set in config.mk, to 'no'. (The knl configuration makes use of this
latter feature; see below.)
- If enabled at configure-time, bli_system.h will #include <hbwmalloc.h>
and bli_kernel_macro_defs.h will define BLIS_MALLOC_POOL and
BLIS_FREE_POOL to use hbw_malloc() and hbw_free(), respectively.
- Deprecated explicit use of BLIS_NO_HBWMALLOC in
config/knl/bli_family.knl.h and replaced use of -DBLIS_NO_HBWMALLOC in
config/knl/make_defs.mk with -DBLIS_DISABLE_MEMKIND, which overrides
(#undefs) the definition of BLIS_ENABLE_MEMKIND in bli_system.h, if it
would otherwise be defined. Also, set the BLIS_ENABLE_MEMKIND makefile
variable to 'no'.
- common.mk now adds libmemkind to LDFLAGS if libmemkind is enabled.
Details:
- Added logic to common.mk that will choose a BLIS library against which
to link (LIBBLIS_LINK). The default choice is the static (.a) library;
the shared (.so) library is chosen only if the shared library build was
enabled and the static one was disabled.
- Updated the various test driver Makefiles to reference this common,
pre-chosen library against which to link. (Previously, these drivers
unconditionally linked against the static library and would have
failed if the static library build was disabled at configure-time.)
- Renamed many of the variables in common.mk and the top-level Makefile
so that variables relating to the libblis.[a|so] files, including
paths to those files, begin with "LIBBLIS".
- Shuffled around some of the library definitions from the top-level
Makefile to common.mk.
- Renamed BLIS_ENABLE_DYNAMIC_BUILD to BLIS_ENABLE_SHARED_BUILD, and
the @enable_dynamic@ anchor to @enable_shared@ in build/config.mk.in
and in configure.
- A few other cleanups in the top-level Makefile.
Details:
- Added an 'input.operations.fast' file to testsuite directory to go
along with the 'input.general.fast' file used by the 'make check'
target in the top-level Makefile. This will allow the "fast" check
to prune operations and/or parameter combinations from the test
space in order to save time.
- Currently, input.operations.fast prunes trmm3 and all transposition
and conjugation parameters from the level-3 test space.
- Reduced problem size tested in input.general.fast to 100 and disabled
testing of 1m method.
Details:
- Added an empty file named '.gitkeep' to blastest/obj/ so that git will
track the otherwise empty directory. (This is already done for the BLIS
testsuite in testsuite/obj.)
Details:
- Invoke the full BLIS testsuite via 'make testblis' instead of the fast
version via 'blistest-fast' (which was wrong anyway, since the correct
fast traget is 'testblis-fast').
- Invoke the BLAS tests via 'make testblas' instead of 'blastest'.
Details:
- Created a new test suite that exercises only the BLAS compatibility
found in BLIS. The test suite is a straightforward port of code
obtained from netlib LAPACK, run through f2c and linked to a stripped-
down version of libf2c that is compiled along with the test drivers
(to prevent any obvious ABI issues). The new BLAS test suite can be
run from within its new local directory, 'blastest' (through its local
'make ; make run' targets) or from the top-level Makefile (via the
'make testblas' target). Output files are created in whatever directory
the test drivers are run, whether it be the 'blastest' directory, the
top-level source distribution directory, or the out-of-tree directory
in which 'configure' was run. Also, the results of the BLAS test suite
can be checked via 'make checkblas', which summarizes the presence or
absence of test failures in a single line printed to stdout.
- Updated the 'test' target to run both 'testblis' and 'testblas'.
- Added a new 'testblis-fast' target that runs the BLIS testsuite with
smaller problem sizes, allowing it to finish more quickly.
- Added a 'make check' target, which runs 'checkblis-fast' and
'checkblas'.
- Changed .travis.yml so that Travis CI runs 'testblis-fast' instead of
'testblis' before (calling the check-blistest.sh script to check the
result manually).
- Renamed some targets in the top-level Makefile to be consistent between
BLAS and BLIS.
Details:
- Fixed a missing parameter in the definition of sdsdot_(). The 'sb'
argument was missing. Strangely, the argument is omitted from dsdot_()
in the BLAS API.
- Fixed the missing 'c' or 'u' in the "?gerc" or "?geru" operation string
passed to xerbla_() by the bla_ger_check() macro.
- For bla_syrk_check() and bla_syr2k_check() macros, only allow
conjugate-transpose (trans='c') as a valid argument for the real
domain functions [sd]syrk_() and [sd]syr2k_(). (Previously, the
argument was allowed even for the complex domain equivalents, which
was inconsistent with the BLAS API.)
Details:
- Previously, the BLAS routine-generating macro in bla_ger.c was
incorrectly passing MKSTR(ch) into the _check() macro when it
should have been passing in the char that was available, chxy.
I've instead changed the name of the macro parameter from chxy
to ch. Similar change as made to bla_ger.h for consistency.
Thanks to Dave Love in helping track this down. (NOTE: This is
actually the root cause of the bug that was first patched by
increasing the length of the operation name strings passed into
xerbla_(), as defined by the constant BLIS_MAX_BLAS_FUNC_STR_LENGTH,
in 3d1a5a7. In theory, that change could be backed out now.)
- Applied aforementioned chxy->ch change to bla_dot.[ch], as well as
frame/compat/cblas/f77_sub/f77_dot_sub.[ch] (not because it needed
to happen, but for naming consistency).
- Reformatted function signatures/prototypes of CBLAS functions and
function calls to BLAS in frame/compat/cblas/f77_sub/*.c.
Details:
- Defined a new function, bli_string_mkupper(), that calls toupper() on
every non-NULL character in a string.
- Call bli_string_mkupper() prior to calling xerbla_() in the level-2/-3
BLAS _check() macros. This prevents the BLAS testsuite from complaining
that the operation name (e.g. "dgemm") does not match the expected
value (e.g. "DGEMM"). Thanks to Dave Love for reporting this issue.
Details:
- Increased the length of operation name strings passed to xerbla_() in
the level-2 and level-3 operation _check() functions, found in
frame/compat/check. This avoids a format specifier overflow warning by
gcc 7. Thanks to Dave Love for reporting this issue and suggesting the
fix.
Details:
- Previously, when calling the BLAS compatibility layer, discovering a
parameter check failure would result in the proper setting of the
info parameter (printed by xerbla_()), but would also come with an
immediate abort() rather than a return. This was incorrect behavior
for two overlapping reasons.
(1) BLAS should return gracefully to the caller in the event of a
bad set of parameters, not abort().
(2) When BLIS was being tested via the BLAS testsuite, BLIS's
xerbla_() would correctly get preempted/overridden by the
xerbla_() in the BLAS testsuite, but execution would then
erroneously continue on to the BLIS implementation with bad
parameter values.
- The previous issue was addressed by disabling the abort() in BLIS's
xerbla_(), changing all of the BLAS _check() functions to cpp macros,
and adding a return statement to the end of each _check() macro's
"if ( info != 0 )" conditional.
Thanks to Dave Love for reporting this issue.
Details:
- Mistakenly was calling bli_cpuid_query_id() instead of
bli_arch_query_id() in the recent addition to the testsuite output
that prints the active sub-configuration. The former function is
only used for multi-architecture builds, whereas the latter is the
more general option that also works for single configuration
(including 'configure auto') builds.
Details:
- Added a line to the testsuite output that prints the name of the
current/active sub-configuration. This is useful when linking the
testsuite against multi-configuration builds because it confirms
the sub-configuration that is actually being employed at runtime.
Thanks to Devin Matthews for suggesting this feature.
Details:
- Updated configure so that configuration families specified in the
config_registry are no longer constrained as being only one level
deep. For example, previously the x86_64 family could not be defined
concisely in terms of, say, intel64 and amd64 families, and instead
had to be defined as containing "haswell, sandybridge, penryn, zen,
etc." In other words, families were constrained to only having
singleton configurations as their members. That constraint is now
lifted.
- Redefined x86_64 family in config_registry in terms of intel64 and
amd64.
Details:
- Updated/clarified the ARM preprocessor macro branch of bli_cpuid.c.
Going forward, cortexa57 (64-bit), cortexa15, and cortexa9 (32-bit)
sub-configurations are supported. However, the functions that detect
features specific to a15 and a9 are identical, and since a15 is tested
first, it will always be chosen for arm32 hardware (even if both
sub-configurations were enabled at configure-time and the library is
linked and run on an a9). Thus, more work needs to be done to
distinguish these two.
- Added cpp guard around x86_64 portions of bli_cpuid.c. Now, either
the x86_64 or ARM code will be compiled (or neither, if neither
environment is detected).
- In bli_arch_query_id(), call bli_cpuid_query_id() when the
BLIS_FAMILY_ARM64 or BLIS_FAMILY_ARM32 macros are defined.
- Added arm64 and arm32 configuration families to config_registry.
- Added a note to the arch_t typedef enum in bli_type_defs.h reminding
the developer to update the string array in bli_arch.c whenever new
enum values are added or existing values are reordered.
Details:
- Changed incorrect kernel function names in bli_cntx_init_cortexa57.c:
bli_sgemm_cortexa57_asm_8x12 -> bli_sgemm_armv8a_asm_8x12
bli_dgemm_cortexa57_asm_6x8 -> bli_dgemm_armv8a_asm_6x8
Thanks to Jacob Gorm Hansen for reporting this issue.
Details:
- Reorganized linker-related section of common.mk so that LDFLAGS set
in a sub-configuration's make_defs.mk file will not be immediately
(and erroneously) overridden by the default values.
- Re-enabled redirected (to file) output of the testsuite when run from
the top-level Makefile via 'make test'. (For some reason, it was
commented-out for the non-verbose case.)
- Removed old/unnecessary code from the make_defs.mk files of skx and
knl sub-configurations.
Details:
- Fixed a bug in common.mk that caused warning, position-independent
code, miscellaneous, and general preprocessor flags to be omitted
from the configuration family-specific variables that hold those
values, as registered by the family's make_defs.mk file. This would
most obviously manifest when targeting a configuration family such as
'intel64' while simultaneously configuring for a shared object build,
as the key '-fPIC' flag would be omitted at compile-time and prevent
successful linking. Thanks to Dave Love for reporting this bug.
- Other cleanups to common.mk for readability and clarity.
Details:
- Changed the mc blocksize for double real execution in the knl sub-
configuration from 160 to 148. The old value was not a multiple of
mr (which is 24), and thus the safeguards in bli_gks_register_cntx()
were tripping. Thanks for Dave Love for reporting this issue.
- Switch knl sub-configuration to use default blocksizes for datatypes
not supported by native kernels.
- Fixed typos in bli_error.c that prevented certain error strings
(which report maximum cache blocksizes not being multiples of their
corresponding register blocksize) from properly initializing.
Details:
- Added the missing cntx_t* argument to the function signature of packm
kernels in kernels/knl/1m/. Thanks to Dave Love for reporting this
issue.
Details:
- Change "vector storage schemes to test" parameter in testsuite's
input.general file to "cj". This means that both unit stride column
vectors and non-unit stride column vectors will be tested in
operations with vector operands (e.g. level-1v, level-1f, level-2).
- Very minor comment (typo) changes to input.operations.
Details:
- Updated the testsuite driver so that setting one or more individual
operation test switches to "2" in input.operations will enable ONLY
those operations and disable all others, regardless of the values of
the section overrides and other operation switches. This makes it
every easy to quickly test only one or two operations, and equally
easy to revert back to the previous combination of operation tests.
- Added more comments to input.operations describing the use of
individual "enable only" overrides.
Details:
- Register use of level-1v zen intrinsic kernels for amaxv, axpyv, dotv,
dotxv, and scalv, as well asl level-1f zen intrinsic kernels for axpyf
and dotxf. This works because these kernels simply target AVX/AVX2,
and therefore work without modification on haswell hardware.
- Switch to use of zen microkernels in bli_cntx_init_haswell.c. The zen
kernels are essentially identical to those used by haswell, except that
now zen kernels are a bit more up-to-date. In the future, I may
continue to maintain duplicates, or I may keep the kernels named after
one architecture (zen or haswell) but used by both sub-configurations.
- In config_registry, enable use of both haswell and zen kernels for the
haswell sub-configuration. This is necessary in order to make zen
kernels visible when registering kernels in bli_cntx_init_haswell.c.
- Enable use of assembly-based complex gemm microkernels for zen,
bli_cgemm_zen_asm_3x8() and bli_zgemm_zen_asm_3x4(), in
bli_cntx_init_zen.c. This was actually intended for 1681333.
Details:
- Applied the read-beyond-bounds bugfix in 34b72a3 to other haswell and
zen kernels (ie: other microtile shapes) which are not used by default.
This was done mostly in case someone decided to pick up these kernels
and start using them, not because it affects BLIS's behavior
out-of-the-box.
Details:
- Fixed an obscure bug in the bli_sgemm_haswell_asm_6x16 and
bli_sgemm_zen_asm_6x16 microkernels when the input/output matrix C
is stored with general stride (ie: both rs and cs are non-unit). The
bug was rooted in the way those microkernels read from matrix C--
namely, they used vmovlps/vmovhps instead of movss. By loading two
floats at a time, even if one of them was treated as junk, the
assembly code could be written in a more concise manner. However,
under certain conditions--if m % mr == 0 and n % nr == 0 and the
underlying matrix is not an internal "view" into a larger matrix--
this could result in the very last vmovhps of the last (bottom-right)
microkernel invocation reading beyond valid memory. Specifically, the
low 32 bits read would always be valid, but the high 32 bits could
reside beyond the bounds of the array in which the output C matrix is
contained. To remedy this situation, we now selectively use movss to
load any element that could be the last element in the matrix.
Details:
- Added missing 'restrict' keyword to cntx_t* argument of function
signatures corresponding to level-1v, level-1f, and level-1m kernels.
This affected bli_l1v_ker_prot.h, bli_l1f_ker_prot.h, and
bli_l1m_ker_prot.h. (The 'restrict' was already being used to
qualify cntx_t* arguments for kernels defined in bli_l3_ker_prot.h.)
- Added comments to bli_l1v_ker.h, bli_l1f_ker.h, bli_l1m_ker.h, and
bli_l3_ukr.h that help explain how those headers function to produce
kernel prototypes using the prototype macros defined in the files
mentioned above.
Details:
- Merged contributions made by AMD via 'amd' branch (see summary below).
Special thanks to AMD for their contributions to-date, especially with
regard to intrinsic- and assembly-based kernels.
- Added column storage output cases to microkernels in
bli_gemm_zen_asm_d6x8.c and bli_gemmtrsm_l_zen_asm_d6x8.c. Even with
the extra cost of transposing the microtile in registers, this is
much faster than using the general storage case when the underlying
matrix is column-stored.
- Added s and d assembly-based zen gemmtrsm_u microkernel (including
column storage optimization mentioned above).
- Updated zen sub-configuration to reflect presence of new native
kernels.
- Temporarily reverted zen sub-configuration's level-3 cache blocksizes
to smaller haswell values.
- Temporarily disabled small matrix handling for zen configuration
family in config/zen/bli_family_zen.h.
- Updated zen CFLAGS according to changes in 1e4365b.
- Updated haswell microkernels such that:
- only one vzeroupper instruction is called prior to returning
- movapd/movupd are used in leiu of movaps/movups for double-real
microkernels. (Note that single-real microkernels still use
movaps/movups.)
- Added kernel prototypes to kernels/zen/bli_kernels_zen.h, which is
now included via frame/include/bli_arch_config.h.
- Minor updates to bli_amaxv_ref.c (and to inlined "test" implementation
in testsuite/src/test_amaxv.c).
- Added early return for alpha == 0 in bli_dotxv_ref.c.
- Integrated changes from f07b176, including a fix for undefined
behavior when executing the 1m method under certain conditions.
- Updated config_registry; no longer need haswell kernels for zen
sub-configuration.
- Tweaked marginal and pass thresholds for dotxf.
- Reformatted level-1v, -1f, and -3 amd kernels and inserted additional
comments.
- Updated LICENSE file to explicitly mention that parts are copyright
UT-Austin and AMD.
- Added AMD copyright to header templates in build/templates.
Summary of previous changes from 'amd' branch.
- Added s and d assembly-based zen gemm microkernels (d6x8 and d8x6) and
s and d assembly-based zen gemmtrsm_l microkernels (d6x8).
- Added s and d intrinsics-based zen kernels for amaxv, axpyv, dotv, dotxv,
and scalv, with extra-unrolling variants for axpyv and scalv.
- Added a small matrix handler to bli_gemm_front(), with the handler
implemented in kernels/zen/3/bli_gemm_small_matrix.c.
- Added additional logic to sumsqv that first attempts to compute the
sum of the squares via dotv(). If there is a floating-point exception
(FE_OVERFLOW), then the previous (numerically conservative) code is
used; otherwise, the result of dotv() is square-rooted and stored as
the result. This new implementation is only enabled when FE_OVERFLOW
is #defined. If the macro is not #defined, then the previous
implementation is used.
- Added axpyv and dotv standalone test drivers to test directory.
- Added zen support to old cpuid_x86.c driver in build/auto-detect/old.
- Added thread-local and __attribute__-related macros to bli_macro_defs.h.
Details:
- Fixed a bug in the way the bli_gemm1m_cntx_ref() function (defined in
ref_kernels/bli_cntx_ref.c) initializes its context for 1m execution.
Previously, the function probed the context that was in the process of
being updated for use with 1m--this context being previously
initialized/copied from a native context--for its storage preference
to determine which "variant" (row- or column-oriented) of 1m would be
needed. However, the _cntx_ref() function was not updating the method
field of the context until AFTER this query, and the conditional which
depended on it, had taken place, meaning the storage preference query
function would mistakenly think the context was for native execution,
since the context's method field would still be set to BLIS_NAT. This
would lead it to incorrectly grab the storage preference of the complex
domain microkernel rather than the corresponding real domain
microkernel, which could cause the storage preference predicate to
evaluate to the wrong value, which would lead to the _cntx_ref()
function choosing the wrong variant. This could lead to undefined
behavior at runtime. The method is now explicitly set within the
context prior to calling the storage preference query function.
- Updated comments in frame/ind/oapi/bli_l3_3m4m1m_oapi.c.
- Fixed a typo in the commented-out CFLAGS in config/zen/make_defs.mk,
which are appropriate for gcc 6.x and newer. (Mistakenly used
-march=bdver4 instead of -march=znver1.)
