Making it easier to work with shaders https://git.yummers.dev/slang.git/atom?h=master 2021-01-15T20:10:06+00:00 2021-01-15T20:10:06+00:00 Tim Foley tfoleyNV@users.noreply.github.com 2021-01-15T20:10:06+00:00 urn:sha1:2a5d5b32348c33aac7ca62aa9a4c2bb7cff8e08a This change converts a large number of our existing tests to use the `ShaderObject` support that was added to the `gfx` layer. In many cases, tests were just updated to pass `-shaderobj` and the result Just Worked. In other cases, a `name` attribute had to be added to one or more `TEST_INPUT` lines. For tests that did not work with shader objects "out of the box," I spent a little bit of time trying to get them work, but fell back to letting those tests run in the older mode. Future changes to the infrastructure will be needed to get those additional tests working in the new path. Along with the changes to test files, the following implementation changes were made to get additional tests working: * Because the shader object mode uses explicit register bindings (from reflection), the hacky logic that was offseting `u` registers for D3D12 based on the number of render targets gets disabled (by another hack). * The "flat" reflection information coming from Slang was not correctly reporting "binding ranges" for things that consumed only uniform data (which would be everything on CUDA/CPU), so it was refactored to properly include binding ranges for anything where the type of the field/variable implied a binding range should be created (even if the `LayoutResourceKind` was `::Uniform`). * A few fixes were made to the CUDA implementation of `Renderer`, in order to get additional tests up and running. Most of these changes had to do with texture bindings, which hadn't really been tested previously. In addition, a few changes were made that were attempts at getting more tests working, but didn't actually help. These could be dropped if requested: * As a quality-of-life feature (not being used) the `object` style of `TEST_INPUT` line is upgraded to support inferring the type to use from the type of the input being set. * Any `object` shader input lines get ignored in non-shader-object mode. 2019-11-21T22:06:19+00:00 Tim Foley tfoleyNV@users.noreply.github.com 2019-11-21T22:06:19+00:00 urn:sha1:2ea64ff4f2c7c43b72ff24650330fca79a87500f The `TEST_INPUT` facility allows textual Slang test cases to provide two kinds of information to the `render-test` tool: 1. Information on what shader inputs exist 2. Information on what values/objects to bind into those shader inputs Under the first category of information, there exists supporting for attaching a `dxbinding(...)` annotation to a `TEST_INPUT` which seemingly indicates what HLSL `register` the input uses. There is a similar `glbinding(...)` annotation, used for OpenGL and Vulkan. It turns out that these annotations were, in practice, completely ignored and had no bearing on how `render-test` allocates or bindings graphics API objects. There was some amount of code attempting to validate that explicit registers/bindings were being set appropriately, but the actual values were being ignored. The visible consequence of the `dxbinding` and `glbinding` annotations being ignored is issue #1036: the order of `TEST_INPUT` lines was *de facto* determining the registers/bindings that were being used by `render-test`. This change simply removes the placebo features and strips things down to what is implemented in practice: the `TEST_INPUT` lines do not need target-API-specific binding/register numbers, because their order in the file implicitly defines them. I added logic to the parsing of `TEST_INPUT` lines to make sure I got an error message on any leftover annotations, and went ahead and systematicaly deleted all of the placebo annotations from our test cases. If we decide to make `TEST_INPUT` lines *not* depend on order of declaration in the future, we can build it up as a new and better considered feature. The main alternative I considered was to keep the annotations in place, and change `render-test` and the `gfx` abstraction layer to properly respect them, but that path actually creates much more opportunity for breakage (since every single test case would suddenly be specifying its root signature / pipeline layout via a different path using data that has never been tested). The approach in this change has the benefit of giving me high confidence that all the test cases continue to work just as they had before. 2019-08-22T19:58:28+00:00 jsmall-nvidia jsmall@nvidia.com 2019-08-22T19:58:28+00:00 urn:sha1:06a0e3980fd04fa265bd20eb11f2abc18bd6a215 * Add support for '=' when defining a name in test. * Add support for double intrinsics. * Add support for asdouble Add findOrAddInst - used instead of findOrEmitHoistableInst, for nominal instructions. Support cloning of string literals. C++ working on more compute tests. * Constant buffer support in reflection. Fixed debugging into source for generated C++. buffer-layout.slang works. * Added cpu test result. * Remove some commented out code. Comment on next fixes. * Improvements to reflection CPU code. * C++ working with ByteAddressBuffer. * Enabled more compute tests for CPU. * Enabled more compute tests on CPU. Added support for [] style access to a vector. * Enabled more CPU compute tests. * Handling of buffer-type-splitting.slang Named buffers can be paths to resources * Fix some warnings, remove some dead code. * Fix problem with verification of number of operands for asuint/asint as they can have 1 or 3 operands. asdouble takes 2. * Fix handling in MemoryArena around aligned allocations. That _allocateAlignedFromNewBlock assumed the block allocated has the aligment that was requested and so did not correct the start address. 2019-03-27T14:50:46+00:00 Tim Foley tfoleyNV@users.noreply.github.com 2019-03-27T14:50:46+00:00 urn:sha1:047adbd4dd3dd6e3098adcb63a8ac475ae06d20d * Overhaul the core routines for implicit conversion The main user-visible change is that we have fixed the bug where conversions that should only be allowed explicitly were being allowed implicitly. This might be seen as a regression by users, so we'll have to be careful when rolling out the fix. The core of that fix involves checking whether an `init` declaration that will be invoked as an implicit conversion actually supports implicit conversions. The main visible change in the code is some renamings to try and help make the core type-coercion routines better fit our naming conventions. The main cleanup is to enforce the invariant that any of the implicit-conversion core routines will always emit a diagnostic (or have a subroutine it calls do so) when conversion fails and the `outToExpr` parameter is non-null. This is a small change, but should improve the user experience if an implicit conversion fails in the context of a single element of an initializer list (the error should point at the line in question, and not at the whole list). The big thing that is impacted by removing the ability to use explicit conversions implicitly is conversion of `enum` types to integers. This was intended to be explicit (a la `enum class` in C++), but the bug made it so that implicit conversion was allowed. Closing up that gap meant that some of the checking around user-defined attributes got wonky, because we attempt to check that the attribute argument is an integer constant expression, but an `enum` case can't possible be an integer constant - it is a value of the `enum` type. I added code to work around that issue by having a parallel path for checking compile-time-constant expressions of `enum` type, but it is clear that a more general solution is needed eventually. * fixup: test case needs explicit cast 2019-03-25T21:39:13+00:00 Tim Foley tfoleyNV@users.noreply.github.com 2019-03-25T21:39:13+00:00 urn:sha1:bedcb920045dd68f522e29d90fc3804f84bc08d0 An `enum` case currently lowers to the IR as the value of its tag expression, so if we have: ```hlsl enum E { X = 99, } ``` then `X` will lower as IR for the expression `99` which is just a literal. If instead we have: ```hlsl enum E { X = 99u, } ``` then after type checking the expression is `int(99u)`, which will get emitted to the global (module) scope as a cast/conversion instruction, that then gets referenced at the use sites of `E.X`. The emit logic wasn't set up to handle the case of referencing something directly from the global scope, so this change makes it so that side-effect-free global instructions are treated just like literal constants. This simple handling is fine for now since it will only apply to `enum` tag values (true global constants declared with `static const` have different handling).