Try out lowered IR validation.

[maleadt]

Trying out the integration from #311 to at least validate lowered IR and, e.g., find references to non-const globals.

[maleadt]

The errors also aren't particularly nice...

ERROR: GPU compilation of kernel #kernel() failed
KernelError: using mutable global: Main.b

Try inspecting the generated code with any of the @device_code_... macros.

Stacktrace:
  [1] (::GPUCompiler.var"#validate#54"{GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter})(x::GlobalRef)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/jlgen.jl:239
  [2] _broadcast_getindex_evalf
    @ ./broadcast.jl:670 [inlined]
  [3] _broadcast_getindex
    @ ./broadcast.jl:643 [inlined]
  [4] getindex
    @ ./broadcast.jl:597 [inlined]
  [5] copyto_nonleaf!(dest::Vector{Nothing}, bc::Base.Broadcast.Broadcasted{Base.Broadcast.DefaultArrayStyle{1}, Tuple{Base.OneTo{Int64}}, GPUCompiler.var"#validate#54"{GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter}, Tuple{Base.Broadcast.Extruded{Vector{Any}, Tuple{Bool}, Tuple{Int64}}}}, iter::Base.OneTo{Int64}, state::Int64, count::Int64)
    @ Base.Broadcast ./broadcast.jl:1055
  [6] copy(bc::Base.Broadcast.Broadcasted{Base.Broadcast.DefaultArrayStyle{1}, Tuple{Base.OneTo{Int64}}, GPUCompiler.var"#validate#54"{GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter}, Tuple{Vector{Any}}})
    @ Base.Broadcast ./broadcast.jl:907
  [7] materialize
    @ ./broadcast.jl:860 [inlined]
  [8] (::GPUCompiler.var"#validate#54"{GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter})(x::Expr)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/jlgen.jl:230
  [9] _broadcast_getindex_evalf
    @ ./broadcast.jl:670 [inlined]
 [10] _broadcast_getindex
    @ ./broadcast.jl:643 [inlined]
 [11] getindex
    @ ./broadcast.jl:597 [inlined]
 [12] copy(bc::Base.Broadcast.Broadcasted{Base.Broadcast.DefaultArrayStyle{1}, Tuple{Base.OneTo{Int64}}, GPUCompiler.var"#validate#54"{GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter}, Tuple{Vector{Any}}})
    @ Base.Broadcast ./broadcast.jl:899
 [13] materialize
    @ ./broadcast.jl:860 [inlined]
 [14] validate_globalrefs(interp::GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter, mi::Core.MethodInstance, src::Core.CodeInfo)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/jlgen.jl:251
 [15] Core.Compiler.InferenceState(result::Core.Compiler.InferenceResult, cached::Symbol, interp::GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/jlgen.jl:223
 [16] typeinf
    @ ./compiler/typeinfer.jl:9 [inlined]
 [17] typeinf_type(interp::GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter, method::Method, atype::Any, sparams::Core.SimpleVector)
    @ Core.Compiler ./compiler/typeinfer.jl:979
 [18] return_type(m::Core.MethodMatch; interp::GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/validation.jl:17

At the least we'd need a valid stack trace. Maybe we should drop some marker that's easy to pick up during LLVM IR validation? Seems hacky though.

[maleadt]

We can do a little better:

julia> empty!(GPUCompiler.GLOBAL_CI_CACHE); main()
ERROR: InvalidIRError: compiling kernel #kernel() resulted in invalid LLVM IR
Reason: unsupported using mutable global: Main.b
Stacktrace:
 [1] kernel()
   @ Main ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/wip.jl:20
Hint: catch this exception as `err` and call `code_typed(err; interactive = true)` to introspect the erronous code
Stacktrace:
  [1] validate_globalrefs(interp::GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter, mi::Core.MethodInstance, src::Core.CodeInfo)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/jlgen.jl:266
  [2] Core.Compiler.InferenceState(result::Core.Compiler.InferenceResult, cached::Symbol, interp::GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/jlgen.jl:223
  [3] typeinf
    @ ./compiler/typeinfer.jl:9 [inlined]
  [4] typeinf_type(interp::GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter, method::Method, atype::Any, sparams::Core.SimpleVector)
    @ Core.Compiler ./compiler/typeinfer.jl:979
  [5] return_type(m::Core.MethodMatch; interp::GPUCompiler.GPUInterpreter)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/validation.jl:17
  [6] check_method(job::CompilerJob)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/validation.jl:36
  [7] macro expansion
    @ ~/Julia/depot/packages/TimerOutputs/LDL7n/src/TimerOutput.jl:252 [inlined]
  [8] macro expansion
    @ ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/driver.jl:145 [inlined]
  [9] emit_julia(job::CompilerJob)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/utils.jl:64
 [10] codegen(output::Symbol, job::CompilerJob; libraries::Bool, deferred_codegen::Bool, optimize::Bool, strip::Bool, validate::Bool, only_entry::Bool, parent_job::Nothing, ctx::Nothing)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/driver.jl:86
 [11] compile(target::Symbol, job::CompilerJob; libraries::Bool, deferred_codegen::Bool, optimize::Bool, strip::Bool, validate::Bool, only_entry::Bool, ctx::Nothing)
    @ GPUCompiler ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/driver.jl:41
 [12] compile
    @ ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/src/driver.jl:37 [inlined]
 [13] main()
    @ Main ~/Julia/pkg/GPUCompiler/wip.jl:30
 [14] top-level scope
    @ REPL[22]:1

I wonder if dropping an error marker and picking it up during codegen is more 'true' to the original runtime semantics of errors (because at least we'd be able to reconstruct more of the backtrace). But the IR isn't trivial to rewrite (to insert an error marker) at that point.

[vchuravy]

I normally for arguing about turning these into runtime errors but the current workflow is a bit painful and requires a restart to get the actual error.

[maleadt]

We can move towards run-time errors, but:

• do we then also want this for other non-compileable constructs (like calls to the Julia runtime, etc)?
• are there utilities for rewriting lowered IR? just replacing the GlobalRef with an Expr(:call, :error) or so already requires inserting a new expression and rewriting references.

[vchuravy]

rewriting lowered IR

I use the Cassette tooling for that, but we would need to pull that out. Unsure what IRTools has these days

[maleadt]

I'm also not convinced we want to move to runtime errors for everything...

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #331 (c2c8a59) into master (fa386cc) will decrease coverage by 1.72%.
The diff coverage is 31.70%.

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- Hits         2015     1914     -101     
- Misses        338      367      +29     

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src/interface.jl	82.75% <ø> (-1.34%)	⬇️
src/validation.jl	83.54% <26.66%> (-13.64%)	⬇️
src/jlgen.jl	77.84% <40.00%> (-2.28%)	⬇️
src/driver.jl	91.52% <100.00%> (-0.37%)	⬇️
src/optim.jl	81.53% <0.00%> (-7.52%)	⬇️
src/reflection.jl	76.37% <0.00%> (-3.94%)	⬇️
src/debug.jl	91.17% <0.00%> (-0.50%)	⬇️
src/reflection_compat.jl	53.75% <0.00%> (-0.47%)	⬇️
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