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animal_magic
Journeyman III

CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE wipes values at indices of >63 in local arrays

I've run into a weird bug in a kernel. I reproduced the bug with a simple kernel:

//data is initialized as {0, 0, 0}
//x has size 128 and is not initialized to anything
__kernel void testBarrier(__global int *data, __local uint* x) {
  x[0] = 1;
  x[63] = 1;
  x[64] = 1;

  barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);

  data[0] = x[0];
  data[1] = x[63];
  data[2] = x[64];
}

I then print off data on the host side and I see

   1, 1, 0


If I comment out "barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);", then I see

   1, 1, 1


The number of work items and work group size doesn't seem to matter. I even tried a single work item. I'm pretty sure I'm using the latest drivers and APP SDK, but I can double-check if it matters.

Any idea as to what's going on?


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maxdz8
Elite

I don't recall having that problem myself. That said, having constant indices across different WIs ... can you post the whole thing?

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I'll post more when I get home from work. I should have a chance tonight. Also, this happened with 1 or many work items, so the constant index shouldn't have been an issue.

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Turns out that x was too small. CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE just happened to wipe the out-of-bounds value.

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Was it 128 Bytes?

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