Andreas Kloeckner <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Tomasz,
>
> Tomasz Rybak <[email protected]> writes:
>> I've been packaging PyCUDA for Debian.
>> I run all the tests to ensure that package works on Python 2
>> and Python 3. All tests pass except for on from test_driver.py:
>>
>> $ python test_driver.py 
>> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>> _ _ _ _ 
>>
>> self = <test_driver.TestDriver instance at 0x24e7d88>
>>
>>     @mark_cuda_test
>>     def test_register_host_memory(self):
>>         if drv.get_version() < (4,):
>>             from py.test import skip
>>             skip("register_host_memory only exists on CUDA 4.0 and
>> later")
>>     
>>         import sys
>>         if sys.platform == "darwin":
>>             from py.test import skip
>>             skip("register_host_memory is not supported on OS X")
>>     
>>         a = drv.aligned_empty((2**20,), np.float64, alignment=4096)
>>>       drv.register_host_memory(a)
>> E       LogicError: cuMemHostRegister failed: invalid value
>>
>> test_driver.py:559: LogicError
>> ==================== 1 failed, 20 passed in 116.85 seconds
>> =====================
>>
>> This test fails both on ION (GeForce 9400M, CC 1.1) and GeForce 460
>> (CC 2.1). I've compiled PyCUDA with gcc 4.8, run with kernel 3.9
>> and drivers 304.88.
>
> Oddly enough, I know about this issue already--my CI server keeps
> bugging me about it. I looked into it, but unfortunately I don't quite
> know what to make of it. The pointer that gets fed to CUDA has the right
> alignment. The same code used to work. The docs for cuMemHostRegister
> don't require anything in particular about the arguments passed. I'm
> really at a loss.
>
> My leading theory is "driver bug", but again, I'm not sure. I'd very
> much appreciate any insight...

This issue is now tracked at https://github.com/inducer/pycuda/issues/46
.

Andreas

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