Hey Tim,
I understand what you are talking about.
Im trying to reproduce the problem. How many processes are your running
with, because with the default (4 for the group) it's passing..
Thanks,
Mohamad
On Thu, August 16, 2007 7:49 am, Tim Prins wrote:
> Sorry, I pushed the wrong button and sent this before it was ready....
>
> Tim Prins wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am running into a problem with the ibm test 'group'. I will try to
>> explain what I think is going on, but I do not really understand the
>> group code so please forgive me if it is wrong...
>>
>> The test creates a group based on MPI_COMM_WORLD (group1), and a group
>> that has half the procs in group1 (newgroup). Next, all the processes
>> do:
>>
>> MPI_Group_intersection(newgroup,group1,&group2)
>>
>> ompi_group_intersection figures out what procs are needed for group2,
>> then calls
>>
>> ompi_group_incl, passing 'newgroup' and '&group2'
>>
>> This then calls (since I am not using sparse groups)
>> ompi_group_incl_plist
>>
>> However, ompi_group_plist assumes that the current process is a member
>> of the passed group ('newgroup'). Thus when it calls
>> ompi_group_peer_lookup on 'newgroup', half of the processes get garbage
>> back since they are not in 'newgroup'. In most cases, memory is
>> initialized to \0 and things fall through, but we get intermittent
>> segfaults in optimized builds.
>>
> Here is a patch to a error check which highlights the problem:
> Index: group/group.h
> ===================================================================
> --- group/group.h (revision 15869)
> +++ group/group.h (working copy)
> @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@
> static inline struct ompi_proc_t* ompi_group_peer_lookup(ompi_group_t
> *group, int peer_id)
> {
> #if OMPI_ENABLE_DEBUG
> - if (peer_id >= group->grp_proc_count) {
> + if (peer_id >= group->grp_proc_count || peer_id < 0) {
> opal_output(0, "ompi_group_lookup_peer: invalid peer index
> (%d)", peer_id);
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim
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