Perhaps someone with a pathscale compiler support contract can investigate this
with them.
Have them contact us if they want/need help understanding our atomics; we're
happy to explain, etc. (the atomics are fairly localized to a small part of
OMPI).
On Feb 9, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Mostyn Lewis wrote:
> All,
>
> FWIW, Pathscale is dying in the new atomics in 1.4.1 (and svn trunk) -
> actually looping -
>
> from gdb:
>
> opal_progress_event_users_decrement () at
> ../.././opal/include/opal/sys/atomic_impl.h:61
> 61 } while (0 == opal_atomic_cmpset_32(addr, oldval, oldval - delta));
> Current language: auto; currently asm
> (gdb) where
> #0 opal_progress_event_users_decrement () at
> ../.././opal/include/opal/sys/atomic_impl.h:61
> #1 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
> #2 0x00002aec4cf6a5e0 in ?? ()
> #3 0x00000000000000eb in ?? ()
> #4 0x00002aec4cfb57e0 in ompi_mpi_init () at
> ../.././ompi/runtime/ompi_mpi_init.c:818
> #5 0x00007fff5db3bd58 in ?? ()
> Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> (gdb) list
> 56 {
> 57 int32_t oldval;
> 58
> 59 do {
> 60 oldval = *addr;
> 61 } while (0 == opal_atomic_cmpset_32(addr, oldval, oldval - delta));
> 62 return (oldval - delta);
> 63 }
> 64 #endif /* OPAL_HAVE_ATOMIC_SUB_32 */
> 65
> (gdb)
>
> DM
>
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I have had terrible luck with the patschale compiler over the years.
> > Repeated attempts to get support from them -- even when I was a paying
> > customer -- resulted in no help (e.g., a pathCC bug with the OMPI C++
> > bindings that I filed years ago was never resolved).
> >
> > Is this compiler even supported anymore? I.e., is there a support
> > department somewhere that you have a hope of getting any help from?
> >
> > I can't say for sure, of course, but if MPI hello world hangs, it smells
> > like a compiler bug. You might want to attach to "hello world" in a
> > debugger and see where it's hung. You might need to compile OMPI with
> > debugging symbols to get any meaningful information.
> >
> > ** NOTE: My personal feelings about the pathscale compiler suite do not
> > reflect anyone else's feelings in the Open MPI community. Perhaps someone
> > could change my mind someday, but *I* have personally given up on this
> > compiler. :-(
> >
> >
> > On Feb 8, 2010, at 2:38 AM, Rafael Arco Arredondo wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> It does work with version 1.4. This is the hello world that hangs with
> >> 1.4.1:
> >>
> >> #include <stdio.h>
> >> #include <mpi.h>
> >>
> >> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> >> {
> >> int node, size;
> >>
> >> MPI_Init(&argc,&argv);
> >> MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &node);
> >> MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &size);
> >>
> >> printf("Hello World from Node %d of %d.\n", node, size);
> >>
> >> MPI_Finalize();
> >> return 0;
> >> }
> >>
> >> El mar, 26-01-2010 a las 03:57 -0500, Åke Sandgren escribió:
> >>> 1 - Do you have problems with openmpi 1.4 too? (I don't, haven't built
> >>> 1.4.1 yet)
> >>> 2 - There is a bug in the pathscale compiler with -fPIC and -g that
> >>> generates incorrect dwarf2 data so debuggers get really confused and
> >>> will have BIG problems debugging the code. I'm chasing them to get a
> >>> fix...
> >>> 3 - Do you have an example code that have problems?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rafael Arco Arredondo
> >> Centro de Servicios de Informática y Redes de Comunicaciones
> >> Universidad de Granada
> >>
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> >
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> >
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