Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] seg fault in volk_32f_s32f_multiply_32f_a_sse gnuradio v 3.6.1

[Tom Rondeau]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:01 PM, ikjtel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> Yes, looks like it. But it's an Atom, which might change things. I
>
>> know we had some issues on Atom's before, but I thought that we worked
>> them out. I'll be interested to see how cmake reports the architecture
>> checks for VOLK here.
>
> Hi Tom
>
> I've made some further progress, and this may be premature, but I'll go so 
> far as to say we can rule this out entirely.
>
> Here's a strawman theory - criticism of the theory is invited, shooting it 
> down would be welcomed ; )
>
> Our app uses lots of disconnect() and connect() calls because our appetite 
> for widgets is bigger than the CPU available.  Also, since the widgets are 
> tab-selectable there is only one widget visible at a time.  So when the user 
> hits a tab we call disconnect and connect (surrounded by lock() / unlock() of 
> course) in order to dynamically create a flow graph that connects up all the 
> elements needed by that tab (and disconnects the elements, filters, demods, 
> FFT's and other blocks that aren't needed by this tab, to conserve CPU.
>
> The theory is that this is "messing up" the boundary alignments of the 
> operands to the SSE instructions, making them no longer properly aligned, 
> resulting in a GPF.
>
> Here's the minimal python app , it seg faults in volk 100% reliably for me.  
> If the call to shuffle() is removed, the script does not crash.
>
> Max

Max,

That's not a bad theory as I've run into the same situation before. I
had a fix for that, though, back before the release of 3.6.0. It's
possible that it's more complicated, though. I'll use your script to
see if I can do more to figure it out.

Tom


> p.s. kindly let me know if this code isn't properly machine-readable
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import math
> import time
> from gnuradio import gr, gru, audio, eng_notation, blks2, optfir
>
> class app_top_block(gr.top_block):
>     def __init__(self):
>         gr.top_block.__init__(self, "mhp")
>
>         self.source = gr.sig_source_f(48000, gr.GR_TRI_WAVE, 1.0, 1.0, 0)
>         self.amp = gr.multiply_const_ff(65.0)
>         self.sink = gr.null_sink(gr.sizeof_float)
>
>         self.connect(self.source, self.amp, self.sink)
>         self.amp_connected = True
>
>     def shuffle(self):
>         self.lock()
>         if self.amp_connected:
>             self.disconnect(self.source, self.amp, self.sink)
>             self.connect(self.source, self.sink)
>         else:
>             self.disconnect(self.source, self.sink)
>             self.connect(self.source, self.amp, self.sink)
>         self.amp_connected = not self.amp_connected
>         self.unlock()
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     tb = app_top_block()
>     tb.start()
>     while True:
>         time.sleep(0.1)
>         tb.shuffle()
>