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* Use slang- prefix on slang compiler and core source (#973)jsmall-nvidia2019-05-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | * Prefixing source files in source/slang with slang- * Prefix source in source/slang with slang- prefix. * Rename core source files with slang- prefix. * Update project files. * Fix problems from automatic merge.
* Hotfix/improve glsl semantic conversion review (#968)jsmall-nvidia2019-05-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Small changes based on review * Remove the explicit 'nominal' tests * Made isValueEqual and isEqual on on IRConstant take a pointer * Small improvements to comments, and clarity of using 'nominal' * Simplify comparison by just using isTypeOperandEqual as basis for isTypeEqual * Use cross compile to test half-texture.slang on glsl * Don't need half-texture.slang.expected * Fix handling of nominal comparison based on review, ensuring that for nominal insts, they can only be compared by pointer.
* Hotfix/improve glsl semantic conversion (#965)jsmall-nvidia2019-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | * Specify glsl semantic format - such that conversions are possible from hlsl sematics. * Comment improvements. Give appropriate type in glsl for sv_tessfactor. Note that sv_tessfactor is not functional though. * Work in progress for comparison of types. * * Fix type comparison issues around the hash. * Fix tests whos output changed with use of isTypeEqual
* Allow interface types to be used inside of structs (#966)Tim Foley2019-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, interface types were allowed to be used directly as function parameters, local variables, and global shader parameters. Using an interface type as a field of a `struct` type or a `cbuffer` declaration was not implemented. This change adds that support, and fixes several unrelated issues that caused problems in doing so. * The most important work here was adding a case for `IRStructType` to `maybeSpecializeBindExistentialsType` that creates a specialized variant of a `struct` type on-demand based on specialization operands. This logic loops over the fields of the original struct, and creates new fields by binding the existentials/interfaces in the type of each field. Caching is used to ensure that the same `struct` type specialized to the same operands should yield the same result. * To allow subsequent specialization to occur when a `struct` with interface-type fields is used, it was also necessary to specialize field-address and field-extract instructions in cases where the value that the field is being extracted from is a `wrapExistential`. * Similarly, we neede to make sure that the logic for specializing called functions based on the concrete types for interfaces in the argument list would also take into account `struct` types with existential-type fields inside of them. * Doing the above changes revealed some serious flaws in how the `ir-specialize.cpp` logic was tracking which instructions still needed to be processed. It had previously been assuming that it could assume any relevant instructions were on its work list, and when the work list went empty it could exit. This runs into two problems: (1) sometimes we create new instructions when specializing, and it may be impossible to ensure that all the new instructions (e.g., those created by utility routines in other files) get added to the work list, and (2) sometimes the instruction(s) that need to be re-visited when we specialize something aren't its direct users, but instead somethign that transitively depends on the instruction. These issues were fixed by two changes to the pass: (1) we now maintain a list of known "clean" instructions instead of implicitly using the work-list as a list of "dirty" instructions (so that implicitly any new instruction is dirty), and periodically iterating over all instructions to add the non-clean ones to the work list for processing, and (2) when an instruction is specialized/replaced we mark everything that transitively depends on it "dirty" (by removing it from the "clean" list). * Added some logic to "fix up" the type of an IR function after changes that might modify its parameter list. Failing to have this logic meant that certain types were still live (because they were referenced by a function type) that couldn't actually be emitted as legal HLSL/GLSL. * Added some special cases to IR instruction creation for `wrapExistential` and `BindExistentialsType` so that they act as no-ops when there are no "slots" providing specialization information. This helps avoid some special cases when specializing structure fields (since some fields specialization and others don't, so in general there are zero or more operands specific to each field). * Added a test case that uses an interface type in a `cbuffer`, as well as an interface type in a `struct` passed as an entry-point `uniform` parameter. * Fixed up some parts of the `.natvis` files to reflect naming changes from a previous PR and thus restore some of the useful Visual Studio debugging experience for Slang.
* String/List closer to conventions, and use Index type (#959)jsmall-nvidia2019-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * List made members m_ Tweaked types to closer match conventions. * Use asserts for checking conditions on List. Other small improvements. * List<T>.Count() -> getSize() * List<T> Add -> add First -> getFirst Last -> getLast RemoveLast -> removeLast ReleaseBuffer -> detachBuffer GetArrayView -> getArrayView * List<T>:: AddRange -> addRange Capacity -> getCapacity Insert -> insert InsertRange -> insertRange AddRange -> addRange RemoveRange -> removeRange RemoveAt -> removeAt Remove -> remove Reverse -> reverse FastRemove -> fastRemove FastRemoveAt -> fastRemoveAt Clear -> clear * List<T> FreeBuffer -> _deallocateBuffer Free -> clearAndDeallocate SwapWith -> swapWith * List<T> SetSize -> setSize Reserve -> reserve GrowToSize growToSize * UnsafeShrinkToSize -> unsafeShrinkToSize Compress -> compress FindLast -> findLastIndex FindLast -> findLastIndex Simplify Contains * List<T> Removed m_allocator (wasn't used) Swap -> swapElements Sort -> sort Contains -> contains ForEach -> forEach QuickSort -> quickSort InsertionSort -> insertionSort BinarySearch -> binarySearch Max -> calcMax Min -> calcMin * Initializer::Initialize -> initialize List<T>:: Allocate -> _allocate Init -> _init IndexOf -> indexOf * * Put #include <assert.h> in common.h, and remove unneeded inclusions * Small refactor of ArrayView - remove stride as not used * getSize -> getCount setSize -> setCount unsafeShrinkToSize->unsafeShrinkToCount growToSize -> growToCount m_size -> m_count * Some tidy up around Allocator. * Use Index type on List. * Refactor of IntSet. First tentative look at using Index. * Made Index an Int Did preliminary fixes. Made String use Index. * Partial refactor of String. * String::Buffer -> getBuffer ToWString -> toWString * Small improvements to String. String:: Buffer() -> getBuffer() Equals() -> equals * Try to use Index where appropriate. * Fix warnings on windows x86 builds.
* Feature/uint int definition (#954)jsmall-nvidia2019-04-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * * Moved CPU determination macros to slang.h * Determine SlangUInt/SlangInt from the pointer width (determined from CPU macros) * Removed the UnambiguousInt and UnambigousUInt types - as a previous fragile work around * Removed UInt/Int definition from smart-pointer.h as now in common.h * * Remove ambiguity for PrettyWriter and ints * Improve comment around SlangInt/UInt * More fixes around ambiguity with PrettyWriter and integral types. * Disable VK on OSX. * Force CI to rebuild as spurious error.
* Fix handling of arrays of resources in type legalization (#896)Tim Foley2019-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before type legalization we might have code like: (using pseudo-Slang-IR): struct P { ... Texture2D<float>[] t; } global_param p : ParameterBlock<P>; ... // p.t[someIndex].Load(...); // let ptrToArrayOfTextures = getFieldPtr(p, "t") : Ptr<Texture2D<float>[]>; let ptrToTexture = getElementPtr(ptrToArrayOfTextures, someIndex) : Ptr<Texture2D<float>>; let texture = load(ptrToTexture) : Texture2D<float>; let result = call(loadFunc, texture, ...) : float; Legalization needs to move the `t` array there out of the `p` parameter block, so the global declarations become something like: struct P_Ordinary { ... }; // no more "t" field global_param p_ordinary : ParameterBlock<p_ordinary); global_param p_t : Texture2D<float>[]; In terms of the code to access `p.t[someIndex]` the problem is that `p_t` has one less level of indirection than `p.t` had. We solve this in the type legalization pass using "pseudo-types" and "pseudo-values," where one of the cases is `implicitIndirect` which holds a value of type `T`, but indicates that it should act like a value of type `T*`. We then use some basic rules for dealing with `implicitIndirect` values, such as: load(implicitDeref(x)) : T => x : T getFieldPtr(implicitDeref(s), f) => implicitDeref(getField(s, f)) getElementPtr(implicitDeref(a), i) => implicitDeref(getElement(a, i)) The bug here was that for the `getFieldPtr` and `getElementPtr` cases, we weren't computing the type of the `getField` or `getElement` instruction correctly. We were copying the type from the `getFieldPtr` or `getElementPtr` operation over directly, but those will be *pointer* types and we need the type of whatever they point to. Once the types are fixed, we can properly generate legalized IR for `p.t[someIndex].Load(...) that looks like: let arrayOfTextures = p_t : Texture2D<float>[]; let texture = getElement(arrayOfTextures, someIndex) : Texture2D<float>; let result = call(loadFunc, texture, ...) : float; The old was giving the `texture` intermediate a type of `Ptr<Texure2D<float>>`. That didn't actually trip up too many things, because we mostly just went on to emit code from something with slightly incorrect types for intermediates that never show up in the generated HLSL/GLSL. Where this caused a problem is for some of the intrinsic function definitions for the GLSL/Vulkan back-end, because those do things that inspect operand types. In particular the `$z` opcode in our intrinsic function strings triggers logic that looks at a texture operand, and uses its type to try to find the appropriate swizzle to get from a 4-component vector to the appropriate type for the operation (e.g., for a load from a `Texture2D<float>` we need to swizzle with `.x` to get a single scalar out of the matching GLSL texture fetch operation). The main fix in this change is thus to make `getElementPtr` and `getFieldPtr` legalization properly account for the fact that when switching to `getElement` or `getField` we need a result type that is the "pointee" of the original result. There was already logic to extract the pointed-to type from a pointer in `ir-specialize.cpp`, so I extracted that to a re-usable function in the IR as `tryGetPointedToType` (returns null if the type isn't actually a pointer). This logic needed to be extended for type legalization, to deal with the various "pseudo-type" cases. There is another fix in this change which is marking the `NonUniformResourceIndex` function as `[__readNone]`, which enables it to be more aggressively folded into use sites. Without that fix, we risk emitting code like: ```glsl int tmp = nonUniformEXT(someIndex); vec4 result = texelFetch(arrayOfTextures[tmp], ...); ``` The problem with that code is that (at least by my reading of the spec), assigning to the variable `tmp` that isn't declared with the `nonUniformEXT` qualifier effectively loses that qualifier, and drivers are free to assume that `tmp` is uniform when used to index into `arrayOfTextures`. Marking the `NonUniformResourceIndex` function as `[__readNone]` indicates that it has no side effects, which should mean that our emit logic no longer needs to emit it was its own line of code to be safe. The effects of this change are confirmed by both the new test case added, and the existing `non-uniform-indexing` test.
* Improve support for interfaces as shader parameters (#886)Tim Foley2019-03-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Improve support for interfaces as shader parameters This change adds two main things over the existing support: 1. It is now possible to plug in concrete types that actually contain (uniform/ordinary) fields for the existential type parameters introduced by interface-type shader parameters. The `interface-shader-param2.slang` test shows that this works. 2. There is a limited amount of support for doing correct layout computation and generating output code that matches that layout, so that interface and ordinary-type fields can be interleaved to a limited extent. The `interface-shader-param3.slang` test confirms this behavior. There are several moving pieces in the change. * When it comes to terminology, we try to draw a more clear distinction between existial type parameters/arguments and existential/object value parametes/arguments. A simple way to look at it is that an `IFoo[3]` shader parameter introduces a single existential type parameter (so that a concrete type argument like `SomeThing` can be plugged in for the `IFoo`) but introduces three existential object/value parameters (to represent the concrete values for the array elements). * At the IR level, we support a few new operations. A `BindExistentialsType` can take a type that is not itself an interface/existential type but which depends on interfaces/existentials (e.g., `ConstantBuffer<IFoo>`) and plug in the concrete types to be used for its existential type slots. * Then a `wrapExistentials` instruction can take a type with all the existentials plugged in (possibly by `BindExistentialsType`) and wrap it into a value of the existential-using type (e.g., turn `ConstantBuffer<SomeThing>` into a `ConstantBuffer<IFoo>`). * The IR passes for doing generic/existential specialization have been updated to be able to desugar uses of these new operations just enough so that a `ConstantBuffer<IFoo>` can be used. * When we specialize an IR parameter of an interface type like `IFoo` based on a concrete type `SomeThing`, we turn the parameter into an `ExistentialBox<SomeThing>` to reflect the fact that we are conceptually referring to `SomeThing` indirectly (it shouldn't be factored into the layout of its surrounding type). * Parameter binding was updated so that it passes along the bound existential type arguments in a `Program` or `EntryPoint` to type layout, so that we can take them into account. The type layout code needs to do a little work to pass the appropriate range of arguments along to sub-fields when computing layout for aggregate types. * Type layout was updated to have a notion of "pending" items, which represent the concrete types of data that are logically being referenced by existential value slots. The basic idea is that these values aren't included in the layout of a type by default, but then they get "flushed" to come after all the non-existential-related data in a constant buffer, parameter block, etc. * The logic for computing a parameter group (`ConstantBuffer` or `ParameterBlock`) layout was updated to always "flush" the pending items on the element type of the group, so that the resource usage of specialized existential slots would be taken into account. * The type legalization pass has been adapted so that we can derive two different passes from it. One does resource-type legalization (which is all that the original pass did). The new pass uses the same basic machinery to legalize `ExistentialBox<T>` types by moving them out of their containing type(s), and then turning them into ordinary variables/parameters of type `T`. Big things missing from this change include: - Nothing is making sure that "pending" items at the global or entry-point level will get proper registers/bindings allocated to them. For the uniform case, all that matters in the current compiler is that we declare them in the right order in the output HLSL/GLSL, but for resources to be supported we will need to compute this layout information and start associating it with the existential/interface-type fields. - Nothing is being done to support `BindExistentials<S, ...>` where `S` is a `struct` type that might have existential-type fields (or nested fields...). Eventually we need to desugar a type like this into a fresh `struct` type that has the same field keys as `S`, but with fields replaced by suitable `BindExistentials` as needed. (The hard part of this would seem to be computing which slots go to which fields). As a practial matter, this missing feature means that interface-type members of `cbuffer` declarations won't work. The current tests carefully avoid both of these problems. They don't declare any buffer/texture fields in the concrete types, and they don't make use of `cbuffer` declarations or `ConstantBuffer`s over structure types with interface-type fields. * fixup: add override to methods * fixup: typos
* First steps toward supporting interface-type parameters on shaders (#852)Tim Foley2019-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * First steps toward supporting interface-type parameters on shaders What's New ---------- From the perspective of a user, the main thing this change adds is the ability to declare top-level shader parameters (either at global scope, or in an entry-point parameter list) with interface types. For example, the following becomes possible: ```hlsl // Define an interface to modify values interface IModifier { float4 modify(float4 val); } // Define some concrete implementations struct Doubler : IModifier { float4 modify(float4 val) { return val + val; } } struct Squarer : IModifier { ... } // Define a global shader parameter of interface type IModifier gGlobalModifier; // Define an entry point with an interface-type `uniform` parameter void myShader( unifrom IModifier entryPointModifier, float4 inColor : COLOR, out float4 outColor : SV_Target) { // Use the interface-type parameters to compute things float4 color = inColor; color = gGlobalModifier.modify(color); color = entryPointModifier.modify(color); outColor = color; } ``` The user can specialize that shader by specifying the concrete types to use for global and entry-point parameters of interface types (e.g., plugging in `Doubler` for `gGlobalModifier` and `Squarer` for `entryPointModifier`). The "plugging in" process is done in terms of a concept of both global and local "existential slots" which are a new `LayoutResourceKind` that represents the holes where concrete types need to be plugged in for existential/interface types. In simple cases like the above, each interface-type parameter will yield a single existential slot in either the global or entry-point parameter layout. Users can query the start slot and number of slots for each shader parameter, just like they would for any other resource that a parameter can consume. Before generating specialized code, the user plugs in the name of the concrete type they would like to use for each slot using `spSetTypeNameForGlobalExistentialSlot` and/or `spSetTypeNameForEntryPointExistentialSlot`. There are some major limitations to the implementation in this first change: * Parameters must be of interface type (e.g., `IFoo`) and not an array (`IFoo[3]`), or buffer (`ConstantBuffer<IFoo>`) over an interface type. Similarly, `struct` types with interface-type fields still don't work. * The work on interface-type function parameters still doesn't include support for `out` or `inout` parameters, nor for functions that return interface types (that isn't technically related to this change, but affects its usefullness). * No work is being done to correctly lay out shader parameters once the concrete types for existential slots are known, so that this change really only works when the concrete type that gets plugged in is empty. These limitations are severe enough that this feature isn't really usable as implemented in this change, and this merely represents a stepping stone toward a more complete implementation. Implementation -------------- The API side of thing largely mirrors what was already done to support passing strings for the type names to use for global/entry-point generic arguments, so there should be no major surprises there. The logic in `check.cpp` computes the list of existential slots when creating unspecialized `Program`s and `EntryPoint`s (this is logically the "front end" of the compiler), and then checks the supplied argument types against what is expected in each slot when creating specialized `Program`s and `EntryPoint`s. This again mirrors how generic arguments are handled. Type layout was extended to compute the number of existential slots that a type consumes, and will thus automatically assign ranges of slots to top-level and entry-point shader parameters in the same way it already allocates `register`s and `binding`s. The big missing feature is the ability to specialize a layout to account for the concrete types plugged into the existential-type slots. IR generation for specialized programs and entry points was slightly extended so that it attaches information about the concrete types plugged into the existential slots, and the witness tables that show how they conform to the interface for that slot. The linking step needed some small tweaks to make sure that information gets copied over to the target-specific program when we start code generation. The meat of the IR-level work is in `ir-bind-existentials.cpp`, which takes the information that was placed in the IR module by the generation/linking steps and uses it to rewrite shader parameters. For example, if there is a shader parameter `p` of type `IModifier`, and the corresponding existential slot has the type `Doubler` in it, we will rewrite the parameter to have type `Doubler`, and rewrite any uses of `p` to instead use `makeExistential(p, /*witness that Doubler conforms to IModifier*/)`. Once the replacement is done on the parameters, the existing work for specializing existential-based code when the input type(s) are known kicks in and does the rest. Testing ------- A single compute test is added to validate that this feature works. It is narrowly tailored to not require any of the features not supported by the initial implementation (e.g., all of the concrete types used have no members). The test case *does* include use of an associated type through one of these existential-type parameters, which has exposed a subtle bug in how "opening" of existential values is implemented in the front-end. Rather than fix the underlying problem, I cleaned up the code in the front-end to special case when the existential value being opened is a variable bound with `let`, to directly use a reference to that variable rather than introduce a temporary. Similarly, in the IR generation step, I added an optimization to make variables declared with `let` skip introducing an IR-level variable and just use the SSA value of their initializer directly instead. * fixup: missing files * fixup: incorrect type for unreachable return * fixup: actually comment ir-bind-existentials.cpp
* Feature/alloc for ir inst creation review (#839)jsmall-nvidia2019-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Make MemoryArena rewindable. * Add test for rewinding MemoryArena * Use memory rewinding in IRInst lookup instead of malloc/free. * Small tidy. * Don't bother recreating instruction if after lookup it's found it's new. * Fix 32 bit signed compare issue. * Improve documentation around MemoryArena. * * Improve perf of test for hash expansion on Dictionary * First attempt at TryGetOrAdd * Improve comments around findOrEmitHoistableInst * Removed template<T> from Dictionary. Use TryGetValueOrAdd to findOrEmitHoistableInst * Use TryGetValueOrAdd in findOrEmitHoistableInst * Use Type thing = {} to initialize type over Type thing{} style.
* MemoryArena rewindability/Improved IRInst construction (#837)jsmall-nvidia2019-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Make MemoryArena rewindable. * Add test for rewinding MemoryArena * Use memory rewinding in IRInst lookup instead of malloc/free. * Small tidy. * Don't bother recreating instruction if after lookup it's found it's new. * Fix 32 bit signed compare issue.
* Initial support for uniform parameters on entry points (#815)Tim Foley2019-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Initial support for uniform parameters on entry points The basic feature this work adds is the ability to define a shader entry point like: ```hlsl [shader("fragment")] float4 main( uniform Texture2D t, uniform SamplerState s, float2 uv : UV) { return t.Sample(s,uv); } ``` In this example, the `uniform` keyword is used to mark that the given entry point parameters are *not* varying input/output flowing through the pipeline, but rather uniform shader parameters that should function as if the shader was declared more like: ```hlsl Texture2D t, SamplerState s, [shader("fragment")] float4 main( float2 uv : UV) { return t.Sample(s,uv); } ``` Allowing `uniform` parameters on entry points makes it easier to define multiple entry points in one file without accidentally polluting the global scope with shader parameters that only certain entry points care about. This feature is also more or less a prerequisite for allowing generic type parameters directly on entry point functions, since the main use case for those type parameters is for determining what goes in various `ConstantBuffer`s or `ParameterBlock`s. There are two main pieces to the implementation. First, we need to be able to compute appropriate layout information for entry points that include `uniform` parameters. Second, we need to transform the entry point function to move any `uniform` parameters to be ordinary global-scope shader parameters, to make sure that all other back-end passes don't need to worry about this special case. The latter piece of the implementation is, relatively speaking, simpler. The pass in `ir-entry-point-uniforms.{h,cpp}` converts entry point parameters that are determined to be uniform (using the already-computed layout information) into fields of a `struct` type and then declares a global shader parameter based on that `struct` type (and applies already-computed layout information to that parameter). After that, the remaining IR passes (notably including type legalization) will handle things just as for any other global shader parameter. The changes to the layout step are more significant, but most of the changes are just cleanups and fixes to enable the feature. The two major changes that enable entry-point `uniform` parameters are: * In `collectEntryPointParameters` we now dispatch out to a new `computeEntryPointParameterTypeLayout` function, which decided whether to compute the type layout for a `uniform` parameter, or for a varying parameter (what used to be the default behavior handled by `processEntryPointParameterDecl`). * The main `generateParameterBindings` routine was extended so that it allocates registers/bindings to the resources required by each entry point (using `completeBindingsForParameter`) after it has allocated registers/binding to all of the global-scope parameters (this addition is mirrored in `specializeProgramLayout`). The effect of these changes is that the `uniform` parameters of any entry points specified in a compile request will be laid out after the global-scope parameters, in the order the entry points were specified in the compile request. A bunch of smaller changes were made around parameter layout that are worth enumerating so that the diffs make some sense: * The `EntryPointLayout` type was changed so that instead of trying to *be* a `StructTypeLayout`, it instead *owns* one, in the same fashion as `ProgramLayout`. This commonality was factored into a base class `ScopeLayout`, and a bunch of edits followed from that change. * Because `uniform` parameters are moved out of the entry point parameter list early in the IR transformations, the logic in `ir-glsl-legalize.cpp` that tried to look up parameter layout information by index would no longer work if the entry point parameter list had been altered. Instead, that logic now looks for the decorations directly on the parameters. * The `UsedRange` type in `parameter-binding.cpp` was tracking the existing parameter associated with a range using a `ParameterInfo*` (which accounts for the possibility of multiple `VarDecl`s mapping to the same logical shader parameter), when just using a `VarLayout*` is sufficient for all current use cases. The overhead of allocating a `ParameterInfo` seems like overkill for entry-point parameters, where there can't possibly be multiple declarations of the "same" parameter, so avoiding these overheads was a focus when trying to deduplicate code between the global and entry-point parameter cases. * A bunch of parameter binding logic that was specific to GLSL input has been deleted completely. There was no way to even execute this code in the compiler today, and there is pretty much zero chance of us needing (or wanting) to deal with GLSL input in the future. This includes custom `UsedRangeSet`s specific to each translation unit, which were only needed for global-scope `in` and `out` varying declarations in GLSL. * A bunch of functions with `EntryPointParameter` in their names were renamed to use `EntryPointVaryingParameter` to help distinguish that they only apply to the varying case, while entry point `uniform` parameters are handled elsewhere. * The `completeBindingsForParameter` function was re-worked into something that can be used for both global-scope shader parameters (where we have a `ParameterInfo` and possibly explicit bindings) and entry-point parameters (where we expect to have neither). This helps unify the (fairly subtle) logic for how we allocate and assign bindings for resources, constant buffers, parameter blocks, etc. * A small change was made so that the entry-point stage is attached directly to top-level parameters of the entry point, and *not* recursively to every field along the way. This could be a breaking change for some applications, but it makes more logical sense (to me); we'll have to check if this affects Falcor. This change produces different output for several of the reflection tests, but the changes are consistent with no longer attaching stage information to sub-fields of varying `struct`-type parameters. * Because there is a bunch of repeated logic in `parameter-binding.cpp` that has to do with computing a `struct` layout for ordinary/uniform data, I tried to factor that into a single `ScopeLayoutBuilder` type, which handles computing the offsets for any parameters with ordinary data, and then also handles wrapping up the layout in a constant buffer layout if there was any ordinary data at the end. * A similar convenience routine `maybeAllocateConstantBufferBinding` was added because I noticed multiple places in `parameter-binding.cpp` that were trying to allocate a constant buffer binding for global uniforms, and they were wildly inconsistent (and in most cases used logic that would only work for D3D). * The main `generateParameterBindings` routine is significantly shortened by using all of these utilities that were introduced. I tried to comment the places that changed to explain the overall flow correctly. * The `specializeProgramLayout` routine (used to take a `ProgramLayout` from `generateParameterBindings` and specialize it based on knowledge of global generic arguments) had basically been rewritten with more explicit commenting/rationale for what happens in each step. It makes use of the same shared utilities as `generateParameterBindings` and `collectEntryPointParameters`. In terms of testing: * I added a test case to specifically test the new behavior, and in particular I made sure to include a mix of both global and entry-point parameters and also to have entry-point parameters of both ordinary and resource/object types. * I tweaked an existing test for global type parameters to use an entry-point `uniform` parameter instead of a global one, in an effort to migrate it toward being able to use an explicitly generic entry point. * fixups from merge
* Support function parameters of existential (interface) type (#802)Tim Foley2019-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Support function parameters of existential (interface) type The basic idea here is that you can define a function that takes an interface-type parameter: ```hlsl interface IThing { void doSOmething(); } void coolFunction(IThing thing) { ... thing.doSomething() ... } ``` and call it with a concrete value that implements the given interface: ```hlsl struct Stuff : IThing { void doSomething() { /* secret sauce */ } } ... Stuff stuff; coolFunction(stuff); ``` The compiler implementation will specialize `coolFunction` based on the concrete type that was actually passed in, resulting in output code along the lines of: ```hlsl struct Stuff { ... } void Stuff_doSomething(Stuff this) { /* secret sauce */ } void coolFunction_Stuff(Stuff thing) { ... Stuff_doSomething(thing); } ``` In terms of implementation the new specialization approach has been integrated into the existing pass for generic specialization (which has been refactored significantly along the way), because generic specialization can open up opportunities for existential/interface simplification and vice versa, so there is no fixed interleaving of the two passes that can clean up everything. The new logic therefore subsumes the old code for simplifying existential types (which only worked on local variables) in `ir-existential.{h,cpp}`. The local simplification rules from that implementation have become part of the core specialization pass instead, so that they can open up further transformation opportunities enabled by existential-type simplifications. This code in place right now only handles the basic case of a function parameter that directly uses an interface type, and not one that wraps up an interface type in an array, structure, etc. Additional simplifications need to be introduced to deal with those cases as well. * fixup: typos
* Fix IR emit logic for methods in `struct` types (#791)Tim Foley2019-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There was a bug in the logic for emitting initial IR, such that it was neglecting to emit "methods" (member functions) unless they were also referenced by a non-member (global) function, or were needed to satisfy an interface requirement. This would only matter for `import`ed modules, since for non-`import`ed code, anything relevant would be referenced by the entry point so that the problem would never surface. This change fixes the underlying problem by adding a step to the IR lowering pass called `ensureAllDeclsRec` that makes sure that not only global-scope declarations, but also anything nested under a `struct` type gets emitted to the initial IR module. There are also a few unrelated fixes in this PR, which are things I ran into while making the fix: * Deleted support for the (long gone) `IRDeclRef` type in our `slang.natvis` file * Added support for visualizing the value of IR string and integer literals when they appear in the debugger * Fixed IR dumping logic to not skip emitting `struct` and `interface` instructions. Switching those to inherit from `IRType` accidentally affected how they get printed in IR dumps by default. * Fixed up the IR linking logic so that it correctly takes `[export]` decorations into account, so that an exported definition will always be taken over any other (unless the latter is more specialized for the target). I initially implemented this in an attempt to fix the original issue, but found it wasn't a fix for the root cause. It is still a better approach than what was implemented previously, so I'm leaving it in place.
* Initial support for dynamic dispatch using "tagged union" types (#772)Tim Foley2019-01-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Initial support for dynamic dispatch using "tagged union" types Suppose a user declares some generic shader code, like the following: ```hlsl interface IFrobnicator { ... } type_param T : IFrobincator; ParameterBlock<T : IFrobnicator> gFrobnicator; ... gFrobincator.frobnicate(value); ``` and then they have some concrete implementations of the required interface: ```hlsl struct A : IFrobnicator { ... } struct B : IFrobnicator { ... } ``` The current Slang compiler allows them to generate distinct compiled kernels for the case of `T=A` and the case of `T=B`. This means that the decision of which implementation to use must be made at or before the time when a shader gets bound in the application. This change adds a new ability where the Slang compiler can generate code to handle the case where `T` might be *either* `A` or `B`, and which case it is will be determined dynamically at runtime. This means a single compiled kernel can handle both cases, and the decision about which code path to run can be made any time before the shader executes. This new option is supported by defining a *tagged union* type. Via the API, the user specifies that `T` should be specialized to `__TaggedUnion(A,B)` (the double underscore indicates that this is an experimental and unsupported feature at present). We refer to the types `A` and `B` here as the "case" types of the tagged union. Conceptually, the compiler synthesizes a type something like: ```hlsl struct TU { union { A a; B b; } payload; uint tag; } ``` The user can then allocate a constant buffer to hold their tagged union type, and when they pick a concrete type to use (say `B`), they fill in the first `sizeof(B)` bytes of their buffer with data describing a `B` instance, and then set the `tag` field to the appopriate 0-based index of the case type they chose (in this case the `B` case gets the tag value `1`). Actually implementing tagged unions takes a few main steps: * Type parsing was extended to special-case `__TaggedUnion` as a contextual keyword. This is really only intended to be used when parsing types from the API or command-line, and Bad Things are likely to happen if a user ever puts it directly in their code. Eventually construction of tagged unions should be an API feature and not part of the language syntax. * Semantic checking was extended to recognize that a tagged union like `__TaggedUnion(A,B)` shoud support an interface like `IFrobnicator` whenever all of the case types suport it, as long as the interface is "safe" for use with tagged unions (which means it doesn't use a few of the advancd langauge features like associated types). * The IR was extended with instructions to represent tagged union types and to extract their tag and the payload for the different cases as needed. * IR generation was extended to synthesize implementations of interface methods for any interface that a tagged union needs to support. Right now the implementation is simplistic and only handles simple method requirements, which it does by emitting a `switch` instruction to pick between the different cases. * A new IR pass was introduced to "desugar" any tagged union types used in the code. The downstream HLSL and GLSL compilers don't support `union`s, so we have to instead emit a tagged union as a "bag of bits" and implement loading the data for particular cases from it manually. * Final code emit mostly Just Works after the above steps, but we had to introduce an explicit IR instruction for bit-casting to handle the output of the desugaring pass. There are a bunch of gaps and caveats in this implementation, but that seems reasonable for something that is an experimental feature. The various `TODO` comments and assertion failures in unimplemented cases are intended, so that this work can be checked in even if it isn't feature-complete. * fixup: missing files * fixup: typos
* Improve handling of {} initializer list expressions (#778)Tim Foley2019-01-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes #775 It was reported (in #775) that Slang doesn't handle initializer-list syntax when initializing matrix variables. When starting on a fix for that it became apparent that the time was right to fix two broad issues in the compiler's current handling of `{}`-enclosed initializer lists. The first issue was that the front-end checking of initializer lists wasn't handling the C-style behavior where an initializer list can either contain nested `{}`-enclosed lists for sub-arrays/-structures, or directly contain "leaf" values for initializing those aggregates. For example, the following two variable declarations ought to be equivalent: ```hlsl int4 a[] = { {1, 2, 3, 4}, {5, 6, 7, 8} }; int4 b[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 }; ``` Getting this distinction right is important because we want to support initializing a matrix either from a list of vectors for its rows, or a list of scalars for its elements (in row-major order). The front-end semantic checking logic for initializer lists was revamped so that it conceptually tries to "read" an expression of a desired type from the initializer list, and decides at each step whether to consume a single expression by coercing it to the desired type, or to recursively read multiple sub-values to construct the type as an aggregate. The logic for deciding between direct vs aggregate initialization could potentially use some tweaking, but luckily it should always handle the case where users introduce explicit `{}`-enclosed sub-lists to make their intention clear, so that existing Slang code should continue to work as before. The second issue was that initializers without the expected number of elements weren't implemented in code generation, so they would lead to internal compiler errors. This change revamps the codegen logic for initializer lists so that it can synthesize default values for fields/elements that were left out during initialization. This includes an attempt to support default initialization of `struct` fields based on explicitly written initialization expressions.
* Feature/lex memory reduction (#762)jsmall-nvidia2018-12-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Only do scrubbing if needed. When allocating content try to limit size (with scrubbing each token takes up 1k), now it's 16 bytes min size. * Don't allocate for every call to write on the CallbackWriter - use the m_appendBuffer. * Don't allocate memory for CallbackWriter use m_appendBuffer. * Use UnownedStringSlice for suffix output for parsing float/int literals. Fix typo in invalidFloatingPointLiteralSuffix * Using memory arena to hold tokens that are not in SourceManager. * Improve comment on lexing. * Make UnownedStringSlice allocation simpler on SourceManager. * Fix error on gcc around UnownedStringSlice - because VC converted string + UnownedStringSlice automatically into a String. * Fix generateName needing concat string for gcc. * When constructing a Token in parseAttributeName - because it's a Identifier, we have to set the Name. * Remove translation through String on getIntrinsicOp * Make func-cbuffer-param disablable with -exclude compatibility-issue * Move memory leak in render-test. * From review - can just use "?:" instead of performing a concat.
* Refactor several IR passes (#761)Tim Foley2018-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Refactor several IR passes This change takes some IR passes that lived together in `ir.cpp` and moves them into their own files to improve clarity. In most cases these were passes introduced early in the life of the IR, so that it didn't seem like a big deal to have them all in one file, but now that `ir.cpp` has grown unwieldly this seems like an important cleanup to make. To give a quick rundown of the passes involved: * The IR "linking" step has been pulled out to `ir-link.{h,cpp}`. This code for this pass is pretty much identical to what was in `ir.cpp`, and no attempt has been made to clean up or refactor it in the current change. * The GLSL legalization step has been pulled out to `ir-glsl-legalize.{h,cpp}`. This used to be invoked directly from the linking step, but has been made a new top-level pass invoked from `emit.cpp`. Just like with the linking, the code in the new file is just a copy-paste of what was in `ir.cpp`, and no attempt at cleanup has been made. Also note that it might be a good idea to move this pass later in the overall sequence, but this PR doesn't attempt to do that as it could change results. * The generic specialization step has been pulled out to `ir-specialize.{h,cpp}`. The file name does not explicitly reference *generic* specialization because I anticipate this pass having to perform other kinds of specialization as well. The code in this case amounts to a heavy cleanup/refactoring pass and thus deserves careful scrutiny. The reason for the cleanup is that the generic specialization step used to be part of the "linking" step long ago, and continued to share infrastructure with it long after that stopped making sense. The newly cleaned up pass has much simpler logic that should be easy enough to follow from the comments. * In order to reduce code dulication, the IR "cloning" part of the `ir-specialize-resources.{h,cpp}` pass was pulled into its own files (`ir-clone.{h,cpp}`) that both the generic specialization step and the resource-based specialization step now share. The remaining changes then pertain to deleting a bunch of code out of `ir.cpp` and adding the new files to the build. The only test that needed updating was `vkray/raygen`, where some subtle ordering change in the refactored generic specialization logic has lead to the relative order of the specialized `TraceRay` and `saturate` functions beind reversed. * fixup: typo in assert * fixup: typos in comments
* First step toward supporting use of interfaces as existential types (#716)Tim Foley2018-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * First step toward supporting use of interfaces as existential types Traditional generics involve universal quantification. E.g., a declaration like: ``` void drive<T : IVehicle>(T vehicle); ``` indicates for *for all* types `T` that implement the `IVehicle` interface, the `drive()` function is available. In contrast, whend directly using an interface type like: ``` IVehicle v = ...; v.doSomething(); ``` we only know that there *exists* some concrete type (we could call it `E`) such that `v` refers to a value of type `E`, and `E` implements the `IVehicle` interface. In order to perform an operation like `v.doSomething()` we need to "open" the existential value so that we can look at the concrete type and how it implements the `IVehicle.doSomething` requirement. This change adds a very explicit representation of existentials to Slang's IR. An operation like `e = makeExistential(v, w)` creates a value of some existential type (interfaces being our only existential types for now), by wrapping a concrete value `v` (the type of `v` can be seen as an implicit operand) and a witness table `w` showing that the type of `v` implements the requirements of the chosen interface type. In turn, opening of an existential is handled with operations `extractExistential{Value|Type|WitnessTable}` which pull the corresponding piece of information out of a value of existential type (which somewhere in the code had to have been created with `makeExistential`). The change includes a trivial simplification pass that can detect cases where an `extractExistential*` operation is applied direclty to a `makeExistential` operation, so that there is only one possible result that could be extracted. This allows for simplification of existential types used in trivial ways for local variables (this is mostly so I can check in a functional test, rather than to actually support useful code involving interfaces right now). The logic in the semantic checking phase of the compiler is comparatively more complex. When we are about to perform member lookup given an expression like `obj.member` we will first check if `obj` has an existential type, and if it does we will construct a suitable local context in which we extract the value, type, and witness table from the existential (these all become explicit AST expression nodes), and then use the extracted value as the base of the lookup operation. The nature of existential values is that two different values with the same existential (interface) type could wrap concrete values with differnt types, so that we need to carefully refer only to the extracted type/value/witness-table of specific *values*. We handle this right now by conceptually moving the existential-type value into a local variable (by introducing a `LetExpr` that amounts to `let v = <init> in <body>`) and then require that the extract expressions must refer to the (immutable) variable declaration from which they are extracting a value. (Eventually we should expand this so that when using an immutable local variable of existential type we just use that variable as-is rather than introduce a new temporary) A simple test case is included that uses an interface type in an almost trivial way for a local variable; this test can be run and produces the expected results. A more complex test case that passes an existential into a function is included, but left disabled because a more aggressive simplification approach is required to generate working code from it. * Add missing file for expected test output * Fixups for merge from top-of-tree
* Specialize away resource-type function parameters (#759)Tim Foley2018-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Specialize away resource-type function parameters Work on #397. Introduction ------------ Suppose a user writes a function that takes a resource type as a parameter: ```hlsl float4 getThing(RWStructuredBuffer<float4> buffer, int index) { return buffer[index]; } ``` This function creates challenges when generating code for GLSL-based targets, because a global shader parameter of type `RWStructuredBuffer`: ```hlsl RWStructuredBuffer<float4> gBuffer; ``` translates to a global GLSL `buffer` declaration: ```hlsl buffer _S0 { float4 _data[]; } gBuffer; ``` There is no equivalent to that `buffer` declaration that can be used in function parameter position, and it is illegal in GLSL to pass `gBuffer` into a function. (Aside: yes, we could in principle translate a function parameter like `RWStructuredBuffer<float4> buffer` to `float4 buffer[]`, but that will not in turn generalize to arrays of structured buffers; it is a dead-end strategy) The solution employed by many shader compilers is to "inline everything" to eliminate the need for parameters of resource types, and then rely on dataflow optimization to eliminate locals of resource types. This strategy can of course lead to an increase in code size, and it also means that call stacks are lost when doing step-through debugging. Another serious issue is that an "early `return`" from a function can turn into the equivalent of a multi-level `break` when inlined, and not all of our targets support multi-level `break`. The solution implemented in this change works around some, but not all, of the problems with full inlining. The approach here generates specialized versions of a function like `getThing`, adapted to the actual arguments provided at different call sites. Thus if we have code like: ```hlsl RWStructuredBuffer<float4> gA; RWStructuredBuffer<float4> gB[10]; ... getThing(gA, x); getThing(gA, y); getThing(gB[someVal], z); ``` we will generate two specializations of `getThing`: one specialized for the `buffer` parameter being `gA` and the other for `gB`: ```hlsl float4 getThing_gA(int index) { return gA[index]; } float4 getThing_gB(int _val, int index) { return gB[_val][index]; } ``` and the call sites will change to match: ```hlsl getThing_gA(x); getThing_gA(y); getThing_gB(someVal, z); ``` Note how in the case where the argument being passed in was obtained by indexing into an array of resources, the callee is specialized to the identity of the global shader parameter (`gB`), and now accepts a new parameter to indicate the array index into it. While this description motivates the change based on GLSL output, the same basic issue can arise for other targets. For example, while current HLSL has added the `ConstantBuffer<T>` type, it is not supported on older targets, and it turns out that even dxc does not allow functions to have `ConstantBuffer<T>` parameters. Longer-term, we will likely need to do even more aggressive specialization both in order to generate SPIR-V output directly, and also to deal with function that have return values or `out` parameters of resource types. Implementation -------------- The meat of the change is in `ir-specialize-resources.{h,cpp}`, where we have a pass that looks at all call sites (`IRCall` instructions) in the program, and attempts to replace them with calls to specialized functions, where the specializations are generated on-demand. The code in this pass is heavily commented, so hopefully it serves to explain itself all right. After specialization is complete, we may still have functions like the original `getThing` that will produce invalid code when emitted as GLSL, so we need a way to make sure they don't appear in the output. To date we've had some very ad hoc approaches for ignoring IR constructs that we don't want to affect emitted code, but this change goes ahead and adds a more real dead code elimination (DCE) pass in `ir-dce.{h,cpp}`. This pass follows a straightforward approach of tagging instructions that are "live" and then propagating liveness through the whole program, before making a single pass to delete anything that isn't live. When I first added the DCE pass it eliminated *everything* because there were no "roots" for liveness. I solved this for now by adding a new decoration, `IREntryPointDecoration`, to mark shader entry points in the IR which should always be live (as should anything they depend on). A secondary problem that arose was that for GLSL ray tracing shaders it is possible for the incoming/outgoing payload or attributes parameters to be unused, but eliminating them as dead would change the signature of a shader an potential break the rules for how ray tracing programs communicate. I added a very simple `IRDependsOnDecoration` that allows one IR instruction to keep another alive *as if* it used it, without actually using it. There's also a fixup in the IR dumping logic where I was forgetting to store anything in the mapping from instruction to their names, so that the name of an instruction was getting incremented each time it was referenced. Testing ------- There are three different tests added as part of this change: * The `compute/func-resource-param` test covers the basic `RWStructuredBuffer` case above, which we expect to work fine for D3D11/12, but fail for Vulkan without specialization. * The `cross-compile/func-resource-param-array` test covers the case where we don't just have one resource, but an array of them. This is not an end-to-end compute test primarily because our `render-test` application doesn't yet handle arrays of resources correctly in its binding logic. * The `compute/func-cbuffer-param` test covers the case of a function with a `ConstantBuffer<T>` parameter, which requires specialization to become valid for any of our targets. * fixup: warnings/errors from other compilers * fixup: typos and cleanup * fixup: typos
* Represent global shader parameters explicitly in the IR (#756)Tim Foley2018-12-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before this change, global shader parameters were represented in the IR as just being ordinary global variables. The only indication that a particular global represented a parameter was when it got a layotu attached to it (as part of back-end processing), and we've had a number of bugs related to layouts being dropped so that what should have been a shader parameter turned into an ordinary global variable in the output. This change is more strongly motivated by the fact that making shader parameters look like globals means that we cannot easily reason about their value when doing IR transformations. If we see two `load`s from the same global variable can we assume they yield the same value? In the general case we cannot, and this means that any transformation that wants to rely on the fact that an input `Texture2D` shader parameter can't actually change over the life of the program needs to do extra work. The fix here is to introduce a new kind of IR instruction that represents a global shader parameter directly (not a pointer to it as a global would), at which point there isn't even such a notion as a "load" from the parameter, since it represents the value directly. In several cases logic that used to apply to global variables in case they were shader parameters (by looking for a layout) is now moved to apply to these global parameters. The biggest source of issues in this change was that switching from pointers to plain values to represent these shader parameters stresses different cases in type legalization. I also had to deal with the case of legalization for GLSL where we actually *do* need global shader parameters that are writable (since varying output goes in the global scope), but in that case I borrowed the use of pointer-like `Out<...>` and `InOut<...>` types to represent that intent, which we were already using for function parameters representing outputs. A few tests started failing because the changes lead to a slightly different order of code emission, which in some HLSL tests resulted in a function parameter named `s` getting emitted before a global parameter named `s`, leading to the latter getting the name `s_1` instead of `s_0`. A few SPIR-V tests started failing because the new approach means that we no longer end up performing a load from all varying input parameters at the start of `main` and instead reference the varying inputs directly. The resulting code is more idomatic, but it differed from the baselines for those tests.
* Move mangled name out of IRGlobalValue (#752)Tim Foley2018-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Move mangled name out of IRGlobalValue Previously the `IRGlobalValue` type was used as a root for all IR instructions that can have "linkage," in the sense that a definition in one module can satisfy a use in another module. The mangled symbol name was stored in state directly on each `IRGlobalValue`, which created some complications, and also forced IR instructions that wanted to support linkage to wedge into the hierarchy at that specific point. This change moves the mangled name out into a decoration: either an `IRImportDecoration` or an `IRExportDecoration`, both of which inherit from `IRLinkageDecoration` which exposes the mangled name. This change has a few benefits: * We can now have any kind of instruction be exported/imported, without having to inherit from `IRGlobalValue`. This could potentially let `IRStructType` and `IRWitnessTable` be simplified to just have operand lists instead of dummy chldren as they do today. * We can now easily have "global values" like functions that explicitly *don't* get linkage, instead of using a null or empty mangled name as a marker. * We can use the exact opcode on a linkage decoration to distinguish imports from exports, which could be used to more accurately resolve symbols during the linking step. Other than adding the decorations and making sure that AST->IR lowering adds them, the main changes here are around any code that used `IRGlobalValue`. Variables and parameters of type `IRGlobalValue*` were changed to `IRInst*` easily, so the main challenge was around code that *casts* to `IRGlobalValue*. In cases where a cast to `IRGlobalValue` also performed a test for the mangled name being non-null/non-empty, we simply switched the code to check for the presence of an `IRLinkageDecoration`, since that is the new way of indicating a value with linakge. Most of the serious complications arose in `ir.cpp` around the "linking"/target-specialization and generic specialization steps. The "linking" logic was checking for `IRGlobalValue` to opt into some more complicated cloning logic, and just checking for a linkage decoration here wasn't sufficient since the front-end *does* produce global values without linkage in some cases (e.g., for a function-`static` variable we produce a global variable without linkage). This logic was updated to just check for the cases that used to amount to `IRGlobalValue`s directly by opcode. It might be simpler in the short term to have kept `IRGlobalValue` around to make the existing casts Just Work, but I'm confident that this logic could actually be rewritten for much greater clarity and simplicity and that is the better way forward. The generic specialization logic was using some really messy code to generate a new mangled name to represent the specialized symbol, and then searching for an existing match for that name. The original idea there was that an IR module could include "pre-specialized" versions of certain generics to speed up back-end compilation by eliminating the need to specialize in some cases, but this feature has never been implemented so the overhead here is just a waste. Instead, I moved generic specialization to use a simpler dictionary to map the operands to a `specialize` instruction over to the resulting specialized value. This allows for some simplifications in the name mangling logic, because it no longer needs to figure out how to produce mangled names from IR instructions representing types/values. As part of this change I also overhauled the IR emit logic to produce cleaner output by default, borrowing some of the ideas from the logic in `emit.cpp`. IR values are now automatically given names based on their "name hint" decoration, if any, to make the code easier to follow, and I also made it so that types and literals get collapsed into their use sites in a new "simplified" IR dump mode (which is currently the default, with no way to opt into the other mode without tweaking the code). The resulting IR dumps are much nicer to look at, but as a result the one test that involves IR dumping (`ir/string-literal`) doesn't really test what it used to. One weird issue that came up during testing is that the `transitive-interface` test had previously been producing output that made no sense (that is, the expected output file wasn't really sensible), and somehow these changes were altering its behavior. Changing the test to use `int` values instead of `float` was enough to make the output be what I'd expect, and hand inspection of generating DXBC has me convinced we were compiling the `float` case correctly too. There appears to be some issue around tests with floating-point outputs that we should investigate. * fixup: C++ declaration order
* Running tests in slang-test process (#740)jsmall-nvidia2018-12-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * First pass at having an interface to write text to that can be replaced. Simplifed and made more rigerous the interface used to write formatted strings. * Added AppContext to simplify setting up and parsing around of streams. * Added more simplified way to get the std error/out from AppContext. * Work in progress using dll for tools to speed up testing. * First pass at ISlangWriter interface. * Added support for writing VaArgs. Added NullWriter. * Use ISlangWriter for output. * Use ISlangWriter for output - replacing OutputCallback. Make IRDump go to ISlangWriter * SlangWriterTargetType -> SlangWriterChannel Improvements around AppContext * Shared library working with slang-reflection-test. * Dll testing working for render-test. * Include va_list definintion from header. * Fix errors from clang. * Fix typo for linux. * Added -usexes option * Fix typo. * Fix arguments problem on linux. * Fix typo for linux. * Add windows tool shared library projects. * Fix warning from x86 win build. Fix signed warning from slang-test/main.cpp * First attempt at getting premake to work on travis, and run tests. * Try moving build out into script. * Invoke bash scripts so they don't have to be executable. * Drive configuration/tests from env parameters set by travis * Try using source to run travis tests. * Remove the build.linux directory - but doing so will overwrite Makefile. * Made -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks gcc only. * Try to fix warning from -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks * Turn of warnings for unknown switches. * Try to make premake choose the correct tooling. * Disabled missing braces warning. * Disable -Wundefined-var-template on clang. * -Wunused-function disabled for clang. * Fix typo due to SlangBool. * Remove this nullptr tests. * "-Wno-unused-private-field" for clang. * Added "-Wno-undefined-bool-conversion" * Add DominatorList::end fix. * Split scripts into travis_build.sh travis_test.sh * Fix gcc/clang template pre-declaration issue around QualType. * Fix premake to build such that pthread correctly links with slang-glslang
* Decorations are instructions (#748)Tim Foley2018-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Make a test case use IR serialization * Make all IR instructions usable as parents This makes it so that every `IRInst` has the list of children that used to be on `IRParentInst` and eliminates `IRParentInst`. Most places in the code were only checking against `IRParentInst` so that they could know whether there were child instructions to iterate over. This change bloats the size of every instruction by two pointers, but we hope to be able to eliminate that overhead with a better encoding later. * Change IR decorations to be instructions. The main change here is that `IRDecoration` now inherits from `IRInst`, and `IRInst` now has a single linked list that holds both decorations *and* children. At each point where code used to loop over `getChildren()` on an `IRInst`, I checked whether it made sense to leave the operation as processing just the children, or if it should process both decorations and children. The thorniest bit was making sure the logic for inserting an instruction into a parent is correct. For the most part, once IR code is built all insertions are explicitly before/after another instruction, so the ordering can't get messed up. The sticking point is any code that does an explicit `insertAtStart` or `insertAtEnd`, but I surveyed those to make sure they are correct in context, and I also made all insertions bottleneck through one routine that does a better job of asserting the preconditions than what was there before. We may still want a "smart" insertion function at some point so that if somebody does `someDecoration->insertAtEnd(someInst)` the decoration intelligently goes to the end of the decoration list, and not the entire decorations-and-children list. All of the existing decoration types were refactored to provide accessors for their operands, rather than directly exposing fields. In most cases the operands are required to be `IRConstant` nodes of fixed types. Not all of these types need to be kept around in the new approach, but they were left in so that as much existing code as possible can be kept working. The `IRBuilder` was extended with factory functions to make the various decoration types and attach them. All the fields in concrete decorations that were using `StringRepresentation` or `Name` pointers are now using IR-level string operands which provide their value as an `UnownedStringSlice`, so logic that was working with those decoration values needed to be updated here and there. I also needed to add the logic to clone string-literal values to the IR cloning pass, since they are now being used in almost every piece of code. A new type of constant IR instruction for literal pointers was added, to handle the cases where an IR decoration needs an operand that is a raw AST-level pointer. These are even being serialized, although we obviously should not rely on them to round-trip through serialization in the future. Ideally, a follow-on change should add a cleanup pass where we remove any decorations from a module that shouldn't be allowed in the serialized code. The biggest overall cleanup is in the serialization logic, where a lot of code just disappears because it can process the raw "decorations and children" list as the logical children of an IR instruction. The only special cases left are literals (which seem like they will always need special-casing) and global values (because they have a mangled name, which we plan to move into a decoration). One other example of a simplification made possible by this change: the `IRNotePatchConstantFunc` instruction was implemented as an instruction only because it couldn't be encoded as a decoration at the time (it needed to have an operand that referenced an IR function). The IR dumping logic was also updated (which meant a change to the `ir/string-literal` test) to try to make it print out all decorations a bit more systematically now that they are encoded like other instructions. The formatting isn't quite perfect, but it is good enough to be able to read what is going on. I didn't include updates to the validation logic to ensure that decorations are being added in ways that follow the invariants, but that would be a nice thing to add next. * fixup: 64-bit issues * fixup: forward declaration issues
* Remove the "VM" and "bytecode" features (#745)Tim Foley2018-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | * Remove the "VM" and "bytecode" features The "bytecode" in `bc.{h,cpp}` was an initial attempt at a serialized encoding for the Slang IR, but we now have the `ir-serialize.{h,cpp}` approach which was has been kept up to date much better. Similarly, the "VM" in `vm.{h,cpp}` was intended to be a system for interpreting Slang code in the bytecode format directly (so that you could load and evaluate code in a Slang module in a lightweight fashion). This never got used past a single test, which we eventually disabled. There are good ideas in some of this code, but at this point the implementations have bit-rotted to a point where trying to maintain it is more costly than it would be to re-created it if/when we ever decide these features are important again. * fixup: remove slang-eval-test from Makefile
* Change how buffers are emitted (#741)Tim Foley2018-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Change how buffers are emitted This is a change with a lot of pieces, which can't always be separated out cleanly. I'm going to walk through them in what I hope is a logical order. The main goal of this change was to allow arrays of structured buffers to translate to Vulkan. Consider two declarations of structured buffers in HLSL/Slang: ```hlsl StructuredBuffer<X> single; StructuredBuffer<Y> multiple[10]; ``` The current translation logic was handling `single` by translating it into an *unnamed* GLSL `buffer` block like: ```glsl layout(std430) buffer _S1 { X single[]; }; ``` That syntax allows an expression like `single[i]` in Slang to be translated simply as `single[i]` in GLSL. But that naive translating doesn't work for `multiple`, since we need to declare a array of blocks in GLSL, which requires giving the whole thing a name: ```glsl layout(std430) buffer _S2 { Y _data[]; } multiple[10]; ``` Now a reference to `multiple[i][j]` in Slang needs to become `multiple[i]._data[j]` in GLSL. To avoid having way too many special cases around single structured buffers vs. arrays, it makes sense to allows emit things in the latter form, so that we instead lower `single` as: ```glsl layout(std430) buffer _S1 { X _data[]; } single; ``` So that now a reference to `single[i]` becomes `single._data[i]` in GLSL. Most of that can be handled in the standard library translation of the structured buffer indexing operations. The only wrinkle there is that there were some *old* special-case instructions in the IR intended to handle buffer load/store operations (these were added back when I was trying to keep the "VM" path working). These aren't really needed to have structured-buffer operations work; they can be handled as ordinary functions as far as the stdlib is concerned. I removed the old instructions. Along the way, it became clear that a few other cases follow the same pattern. Byte-addressed buffers are an obvious case. We were lowering HLSL/Slang: ```hlsl ByteAddressBuffer b; ... uint x = b.Load(0); ``` to GLSL like: ```glsl layout(std430) buffer _S1 { uint b[]; }; ... uint x = b[0]; ``` That logic would fail for arrays the same way that the structured buffer case was failing. The fix is the same: use named `buffer` blocks and then introduce an explicit `_data` field: ```glsl layout(std430) buffer _S1 { uint _data[]; } b; ... uint x = b._data[0]; ``` Just like with structured buffers, all of the VK translation for operations on byte-addressed buffers can be implemented directly in teh stdlib, so once the emit logic was changed it was just a matter of adding `._data` to a bunch of VK tranlsations. It turns out that arrays of constant buffers have more or less the same problem, and furthermore we have some problems with any code that directly uses the modern HLSL `ConstantBuffer<T>` type. Note: the emit logic around constant buffers sometimes refers to "parameter groups" because that is being used in the compiler as a catch-all term for constant buffers, texture buffers, and parameter blocks. The existing code was going out of its way to reproduce the way that constant buffer declarations are implicitly referenced in HLSL: ```hlsl cbuffer C { float f; } ... float tmp = f; // No reference to `C` here ``` This can be seen in the emit logic with the `isDerefBaseImplicit` function, which is used to take the internal IR representation for a reference to `f` (which is closer to the expression `(*C).f` or `C->f`) and leave off any reference to `C` so that we emit just `f`. That kind of logic just flat out doesn't work in some important cases. Arrays of constant buffers are a clear one: ```hlsl ConstantBuffer<X> cbArray[3]; ... X x = cbArray[0]; ``` There is no way to translate that to an ordinary `cbuffer` declaration at all. The same problem can be created without arrays, though: ```hlsl ConstantBuffer<X> singleCB; ... X x = singleCB; ``` The current strategy for translating constant buffers was translating `singleCB` into a `cbuffer` declaration that reproduced the fields of `X` as its members, which just wouldn't work: ```hlsl cbuffer singleCB { float f; // field of `X` } ... X x = singleCB; // ERROR: there is nothing named `singleCB` in this HLSL ``` The new strategy is more consistent. We still generate a `cbuffer` declaration for a single constant buffer, but we always give it a single field of the chosen element type: ```hlsl cbuffer singleCB { X singleCB; } ... X x = singleCB; // this works fine! ``` And in the array case we generate code that uses the explicit `ConstantBuffer<T>` type: ```hlsl ConstantBuffer<X> cbArray[3]; ... X x = cbArray[0]; ``` The GLSL output is more complicated because unlike with HLSL there is no implicit conversion from a uniform block to its element type (there is no notion of an element type). The array case thus needs a `_data` field similar to what we do for structured buffers: ```glsl layout(std140) uniform _S3 { X _data; } cbArray[3]; ... X x = cbArray[0]._data; ``` And then the non-array case needs to have a similar `_data` field for consistency: ```glsl layout(std140) uniform _S1 { X _data; } singleCB; ... X x = singleCB._data; ``` This is handled by inserting the necessary reference to `_data` whenever we dereference a constant buffer, either as part of a load instruction (loading from the whole CB as a pointer), or an `IRFieldAddress` instruction which forms a pointer into the CB (e.g., `&(singleCB->f)` becomes `singleCB._data.f`). The current emit logic handles `ParameterBlock<X>` differently from `ConstantBuffer<X>`, but really only to allow parameter blocks to be explicitly named in the output, while constant buffers were left implicit by default. Thus the only difference was a legacy one (from back when trying to exactly reproduce the HLSL text we got as input was considered an important goal), and the new approach to emitting constant buffers would get rid of it. I removed the separate logic for emitting `ParameterBlock<X>` and just let the handling for constant buffers deal with it. Note that any resource types inside of a `ParameterBlock<X>` would have been moved out as part of legalization, so that a parameter block is 100% equivalent to a constant buffer when it comes time to emit code. Unsurprisingly, changing the way we generate HLSL and GLSL output for all these buffer types meant that any tests that were directly comparing the output of `slangc` against `fxc`, `dxc`, or `glslang` broke. The basic approach to fixing the breakage in GLSL tests was to update the GLSL baseline to reflect the new output startegy. In some cases I used macros to name the various `_S<digits>` temporaries so that future renaming will hopefully be easier (it would be great if we auto-generated temporary names with a bit more context). There was one GLSL test (`tests/bugs/vk-structured-buffer-binding`) that was using raw GLSL expected output, and this was changed to use a GLSL baseline to generate SPIR-V for comparison. For HLSL tests we were sometimes running the same input file through `slangc` and `fxc`/`dxc`, and in these cases I macro-ized the various `cbuffer` declarations to generate different declarations depending on the compiler. I completely dropped the tests coming from the D3D SDK because they aren't providing much coverage, and updating them would change them so far from the original code that the purported benefit (using a body of existing shaders) would be lost. I also dropped the explicit matrix layout qualifiers in the `matrix-layout` test because the new output strategy breaks those for GLSL (you can't put matrix layout qualifiers on `struct` fields, and now the body of every constant buffer is inside a `struct`). This isn't as big of a loss as it seems, because our handling of those qualifiers wasn't really right to begin with. Slang users should only be setting the matrix layout mode globally (and we should probably switch to error out on the explicit qualifiers for now). The other thing that got dropped is tests involving `packoffset` modifiers. Slang already warns that it doesn't support these, and the way they were used in the test cases is actually misleading. For the binding/layout-related tests, the goal was to show that Slang reproduces the same layout as fxc, in which case explicitly enforcing a layout via `packoffset` seems like cheating (are we sure we enforced the layout fxc would have produced?). The real reason was that Slang used to emit explicit `packoffset` on *every* field of a `cbuffer` it would output, because of an `fxc` bug where you couldn't use `register` on textures/samplers declared inside a `cbuffer` unless *every* field in the `cbuffer` used a `register` or `packoffset` modifier. Slang hasn't required that behavior in a while because it now splits textures and samplers, and the one test case where we needed `packoffset` to work around the `fxc` bug in the baseline HLSL has been macro-ified even more to work around the bug. The amount of churn in the test cases is unfortunate, but it continues to point at the weakness of any testing strategy that checks for exact equivalent between Slang's output and that of other compilers. We need to keep working to replace these tests with better alternatives. In `check.cpp` there is logic to perform implicit dereferencing, so that if you write `obj.f` where `obj` is a `ConstantBuffer<X>` (or some other "pointer-like" type) and `f` is a field in `X`, then this effectively translates as `(*obj).f`. That is, we dereference the value of type `ConstantBuffer<X>` to get a value of type `X`, and then refer to the field of the `X` value. There was a problem where the logic to insert that kind of implicit dereference operation was using a reference (`auto& type = ...`) for the type of the expression being dereferenced, and then clobbering it. This would mean that an expression of type `ConstantBuffer<X>` would have its type overwritten to be just `X` and then codegen would break later on. I'm not sure how we haven't run into that before. The `array-of-buffers` test case was added to confirm that we now support arrays of constant, structured, and byte-address buffers for both DXIL and SPIR-V output. Okay, so that was a lot of stuff, but hopefully it is clear how this all works to make the output of the compiler more consistent and explicit, while also supporting the required new functionality. * fixup: review feedback
* Add support for globallycoherent modifier (#732)Tim Foley2018-11-29
| | | | | | | | | The `globallycoherent` modifier indicates that resource might be read or written by threads outside of the current thread group, so that any memory barriers that affect it should guarantee coherency at the global memory scope, and not just thread-group scope. The equivalent GLSL modifier appears to be `coherent`. This change adds the front-end modifier, transforms it into an IR-level decoration during lowering, and then checks for the modifier during code emit. Note: this logic may not behave correctly when `globallycoherent` is added to a field in a `struct`, since the modifier would then need to be propagated to any variables created during type legalization. Checking up on that is left to future work. Note: it isn't entirely clear if `globallycoherent` should be treated as a declaration modifier or a type modifier. The point is moot for now because Slang doesn't have any support for type modifiers, but when we get around to that we will need to make a decision.
* Feature/early depth stencil (#727)jsmall-nvidia2018-11-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | * First pass support for early depth stencil. * Add a simple test to check if output has attributes. * Use cross compilation to test [earlydepthstencil] on glsl. * If target is dxil, use dxc to test against. Add hlsl to test earlydepthstencil against. * * Added spSessionHasCompileTargetSupport * Made slang-test use spSessionHasCompileTargetSupport to ignore tests that cannot run
* Add callable shader support for Vulkan ray tracing (#718)Tim Foley2018-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Add callable shader support for Vulkan ray tracing This change extends the previous work to update Vulkan ray tracing support for the finished `GL_NV_ray_tracing` spec. One of the features missing in the experimental extension that was added to the final spec is "callable shaders," which allow ray tracing shaders to call other shaders as general-purpose subroutines. Most of the implementation work here mirrors what was done for the `TraceRay()` function to map it to `traceNV()`. We map the generic `CallShader<P>` function to the non-generic `executeCallableNV`, with a payload identifier that indicates a specific global variable of type `P` (the global variable being generated from a `static` local in `CallShader`). A new modifier is added to identify the payload structure, and the parameter binding/layout logic introduces a new resource kind for callable-shader payload data (where previously the logic had assumed ray and callable payloads should use the same resource kind). Two test shaders are included: one for the callable shader (`callable.slang`) and one for a ray generation shader that calls it (`callable-caller.slang`). Just for kicks, the payload data type is defined in a shared file so that we can be sure the two agree (trying to emulate what might be good practice, and ensure that ray tracing support works together with other Slang mechanisms). * Typo fix: assocaited->associated One instance was found in review, but I went ahead and fixed a bunch since I seem to make this typo a lot. * Typo fix: defintiion->definition
* Update Vulkan ray tracing support to final extension spec (#717)Tim Foley2018-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Update version of glslang used * Update VK raytracing support for final extension spec A lot of this change is just plain renaming: The `NVX` suffixes become just `NV`, and the extension name changes from `GL_NVX_raytracing` to `GL_NV_ray_tracing`. The Slang standard library and the GLSL baselines for the tests are consistently updated. The other detail is that the final spec requires the "payload" identifier in a `traceNV()` call to be a compile-time constant, which means it cannot be defined as a local variable first, as in: ```glsl int payloadID = 0; traceNV(..., payloadID); // ERROR ``` In terms of how the original support was implemented, the payload ID is being computed via a special builtin function that maps each global GLSL payload variable to a unique ID. There are a few ways we could try to resolve the problem here: 1. We could aspire to put our equivalent of the `constexpr` modifier on the output of the function, so that the GLSL variable gets declared `const` and thus fits the GLSL rules for a constant expression. 2. We could introduce a pass to replace the payload-location instructions with literal integers. 3. We could use a special-purpose instruction instead of a builtin function call, and have that instruction indicate that it doesn't have side effects (so it can be folded into the call site) 4. We could somehow mark the builtin function as not having side effects. We choose option (4) simply because it provides a feature that could have other applications. This change adds a `[__readNone]` attribute that can be applied to function declarations to express a promise on the part of the programmer that the given function has no side effects and computes its result strictly from the bits of its input arguments (and not things they point to, etc.). This mirrors an equivalent function attribute in LLVM. We mark the function that computes a ray payload location with this attribute, and propagate the attribute through the layers of the IR, so that when the emit logic asks if an operation has side effects (to see if it can be folded into the arguments of a subsequent expression), we get an affirmative response. This change should get all of the features that were present in the experiemntal `NVX` extension working with the final extension spec. It does not address callable shaders, which will come as a subsequent change.
* Fix a crash on function-static variables with initializers (#703)Tim Foley2018-10-30
| | | | | This code path hadn't been used, and it had a crash due to not inserting the basic blocks it created (for initializing the variable) into the parent function. The fix adds a bit more smarts to the `IRBuilder` to help with inserting basic blocks into the flow of a function. The actual user issue was around `static const` declarations, and it is clear that the code is incorrectly treating a function local `static const` as if it were just `static`. That will need to be fixed in another change.
* Feature/premake linux (#689)jsmall-nvidia2018-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Premake work in progress for linux. * Added dump function. * Remove examples on linux Small warning fix. * * Don't build render-test on linux * Removed work around virtual destructor warning, and just used virtual dtor for simplicity * Git ignore obj directories * Fix premake working on windows. * * Fix sprintf_s functions * Make generates arg parsing more robust * Added FloatIntUnion to avoid type punning/strong aliasing issues, and repeated union definitions. * Work around problems building on linux with getClass claiming a strict aliasing issue. * Fix for targetBlock appearing potentiall used unintialized to gcc. * Linux slang link options -fPIC to make dll. * Add -fPIC to build options on linux. * Add -ldl for linux on slang. * Fixes to try and get premake working with .so on linux. * Make core compile with -fPIC * Try to fix linux linking with --no-as-needed before -ldl * Add rpath back. * Remove render-gl from linux build. * Re-add location for linux. * Don't include <malloc.h> except on windows. * Remove unused line to fix warning on osx. * Remove ambiguity on OSX for operator <<. * Fixing ambiguity with operator overloading and Int types for OSX. * Fix ambiguity around UInt and operator * Fix ambiguity of UInt conversion for OSX. * Added UnambiguousInt and UnambiguousUInt to make it easier to work around OSX integer coercion for UInt/Int types.
* Vulkan implicit sampler fixups (#686)Tim Foley2018-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Fix sampler-less texture functions (#685) * Fix sampler-less texeture functions I'm honestly not sure how the original work on this feature in #648 worked at all (probably insufficient testing). We have these front-end modifiers to indicate that a particular function definition requires a certain GLSL version, or a GLSL extension in order to be used, and they are supposed to be automatically employed by the logic in `emit.cpp` to output `#extension` lines in the output GLSL. However, it turns out that nothing is actually wired up right now, so that adding the modifiers to a declaration is a placebo. This change propagates the modifiers through as decorations, and then uses them during GLSL code emit, which allows the functions that require `EXT_samplerless_texture_functions` to work. * fixup: 32-bit warning * Add serialization support for GLSL extension/version decorations
* Add a warning on missing return, and initial SCCP pass (#671)Tim Foley2018-10-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Add a warning on missing return, and initial SCCP pass The user-visible feature added here is a diagnostic for functions with non-`void` return type where control flow might fall off the end. This *sounds* like a trivial diagnostic to add as part of the front-end AST checking, but that can run afoul of really basic stuff like: ```hlsl int thisFunctionisOkay(int a) { while(true) { if(a > 10) return a; a = a*2 + 1; } // no return here! } ``` This function "obviously" doesn't need to have a `return` statement at the end there, but realizing this fact relies on the compiler to understand that the `while(true)` loop can't exit normally, and doesn't contain any `break` statement. One can write "obvious" examples that need more and more complex analysis to rule out. The answer Slang uses for stuff like this is to do the analysis at the IR level right after initial code generation (this would be before serialization, BTW, so that attached `IRHighLevelDeclDecoration`s can be used). When lowering the AST to the IR, we always emit a `missingReturn` instruction (a subtype of `IRUnreachable`) at the end of its body if it isn't already terminated. The IR analysis pass to detect missing `return` statements is then as simple as just walking through all the functions in the module and making sure they don't contain `missingReturn` instructions. For that simple pass to work, we first need to make some effort to remove dead blocks that control flow can never reach. This change adds a very basic initial implementation of Spare Conditional Constant Propagation (SCCP), which is a well-known SSA optimization that combines constant propagation over SSA form with dead code elimination over a CFG to achieve optimizations that are not possible with either optimization along. For the moment, we don't actually implement any constant *folding* as part of the SCCP pass, so we can eliminate the dead block in a case like the function above (and those in the test case added in this change), but will not catch things like a `while(0 < 1)` loop. Handling more "obvious" cases like that is left for future work. * fixup: warning on unreachable code * Handle case where user of an inst isn't in same function/code The code as assuming any instruction in the SSA work list has to come from the function/code being processed, but this misses the case where an instruction in a generic has a use inside the function that the generic produces. This change adds code to guard against that case.
* Support cross-compilation of ray tracing shaders to Vulkan (#663)Tim Foley2018-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Move to newer glslang * Support cross-compilation of ray tracing shaders to Vulkan This change allows HLSL shaders authored for DirectX Raytracing (DXR) to be cross-compiled to run with the experimental `GL_NVX_raytracing` extension (aka "VKRay"). * The GLSL extension spec is marked as experimental, so that any shaders written using this support should be ready for breaking changes when the spec is finalized. * "Callable shaders" are not exposed throug the GLSL extension, so this feature of DXR will not be cross-compiled. * The experimental Vulkan raytracing extension does not have an equivalent to DXR's "local root signature" concept. This does not visibly impact shader translation (because the local/global root signature mapping is handled outside of the HLSL code), but in practice it means that applications which rely on local root signatures on their DXR path will not be able to use the translation in this change as-is; more work will be needed. The simplest part of the implementation was to go into the Slang standard library and start adding GLSL translations for the various DXR operations. In some cases, like mapping `IgnoreHit()` to `ignoreIntersectionNVX()` this is almost trivial. The various functions to query system-provided values (e.g., `RayTMin()`) were also easy, with the only gotcha being that they map to variables rather than function calls in GLSL, and our handling of `__target_intrinsic` assumes that a bare identifier represents a replacement function name, and not a full expression, so we have to wrap these definitions in parentheses. The tricky operations are then `TraceRay<P>()` and `ReportHit<A>()`, because these two are generics/templates in HLSL. GLSL doesn't support generics, even for "standard library" functions, so the raytracing extension implements a slightly complex workaround: the matching operations `traceNVX()` and `reportIntersectionNVX()` pass the payload/attributes argument data via a global variable. That is, shader code for the GLSL extensions writes to the global variable and then calls the intrinsic function. The linkage between the call site and the global is established by a modifier keyword (`rayPayloadNVX` and `hitAttributeNVX`, respectively) and in the case of ray payload also uses `location` number to identify which payload global to use (since a single shader can trace rays with multiple payload types). Our translation strategy in Slang tries to leverage standard language mechanisms instead of special-case logic. For example, to translate the `ReportHit<A>()` function, we provide both a default declaration that will work for HLSL (where the operation is built-in with the signature given), and a *definition* marked with the `__specialized_for_target(glsl)` modifier. The GLSL definition declares a function `static` variable that will fill the role of the required global, and then does what the GLSL spec requires: assigns to the global, and then calls the `reportIntersectionNVX` builtin (which we declare as a separate builtin). Our ordinary lowering process will turn that `static` variable into an ordinary global in the IR, and the `[__vulkanHitAttributes]` attribute on the variable will be emitted as `hitAttributeNVX` in the output. There is no additional cross-compilation logic in Slang specific to `ReportHit<A>()` - the target-specific definition in the standard library Just Works. The case for `TraceRay<P>()` is a bit more complicated, simply because the GLSL `traceNVX()` function needs to be passed the `location` for the payload global. We implement the payload global as a function-`static` variable, with the knowledge that every unique specialization of `TraceRay<P>()` will generate a unique global variable of type `P` to implement our function-`static` variable. We then add a slightly magical builtin function `__rayPayloadLocation()` that can map such a variable to its generated `location`; the logic for this is implemented in `emit.cpp` and described below. We also changed the `RayDesc` and `BuiltinTriangleIntersectionAttributes` types from "magic" intrinsic types over to ordinary types (because the GLSL output needs to declare them as ordinary `struct` types). This ends up removing some cases in the AST and IR type representations. By itself this change would break HLSL emit, because in that case the types really are intrinsic. We added a `__target_intrinsic` modifier to these types to make them intrinsic for HLSL, and then updated the downstream passes to handle the notion of target-intrinsic types. The logic for binding/layout of entry point inputs and outputs was updated so that raytracing stages don't follow the default logic for varying input/output parameters. This is because the input/output parameters of a raytracing entry point aren't really "varying" in the same sense as those in the rasterization pipeline. In particular, the SPIR-V model for raytracing input and output treats "ray payload" and "hit attributes" parameters as being in a distinct storage class from `in` or `out` parameters. We also detect cases where a ray tracing stage declares inputs/outputs that it shouldn't have. This logic could conceivably be extended to other stages (e.g., to give an error on a compute shader with user-defined varying input/output). The type layout logic added cases for handling raytracing payload and hit-attribute data, but this is currently just a stub implementation that follows the same logic as for varying `in` and `out` parameters (it cannot give meaningful byte sizes/offsets right now). To my knowledge the GLSL spec doesn't currently specify anything about layout, and I haven't read the DXR spec language carefully enough to know what it says about layout. A future change should update the layout logic to allow for byte-based layout of ray payloads, etc. so that we can query this information via reflection. The GLSL legalization logic in `ir.cpp` was updated to factor out the per-entry-point-parameter code into its own function, and then that function was updated to special-case the input/output of a ray-tracing shader. While for rasterization stages we typically want to take the user-declared input/output and "scalarize" it for use in GLSL (in part to deal with language limitations, and in part to tease system values apart from user-defined input/output), the GLSL spec for raytracing requires payload and hit attribute parameters to be declared as single variables. There is also the issue that even for an `in out` parameter, a ray payload parameter should only turn into a single global, whereas the handling for varying `in out` parameters generates both an `in` and an `out` global for the GLSL case. Other than the handling of entry point parameters, the GLSL legalization pass doesn't need to do anything special for ray tracing shaders. The trickiest change in the `emit.cpp` logic is that we now generate `location`s for ray payload arguments (the outgoing from a `TraceRay()` call) on demand during code generation. This is a bit hacky, and it would be nice to handle it as a separate pass on the IR rather than clutter up the emit logic, but this approach was expedient. Basically, any of the global variables that got generated from the `static` declarations in the standard library implementation of `TraceRay()` will trigger the logic to assign them a `location`. The logic for emitting intrinsic operations added a few new `$`-based escape sequences. The `$XP` case handles emitting the location of a generated ray payload variable; this is how we emit the matching location at the site where we call `traceNVX`. The `$XT` case emits the appropriate translation for `RayTCurrent()` in HLSL, because it maps to something different depending on the target stage. All of the test cases here consist of a pair of an HLSL/Slang shader written to the DXR spec, plus a matching GLSL shader for a baseline. The GLSL shaders are carefully designed so that when fed into glslang they will produce the same SPIR-V as our cross-compilation process. This kind of testing is quite fragile, but it seems to be the best we can do until our testing framework code supports *both* DXR and VKRay. A bunch of the core changes ended up being blocked on issues in the rest of the compiler, so some additional features go implemented or fixed along the way: The first big wall this work ran into was that the `__specialized_for_target` modifier hasn't actually been working correctly for a while. It turns out that for the one function that is using it, `saturate()`, we have been outputting the workaround GLSL function in *all* cases (including for HLSL output) rather than only on GLSL targets. The problem here is that for a generic function with a `__specialized_for_target` modifier or a `__target_intrinsic` modifier, the IR-level decoration will end up attached to the `IRFunc` instruction nested in the `IRGeneric`, but the logic for comparing IR declarations to see which is more specialized (via `getTargetSpecializationLevel()`) was looking only at decorations on the top-level value (the generic). The quick (hacky) fix here is to make `getTargetSpecializationLevel()` try to look at the return value of a generic rather than the generic itself, so that it can see the decorations that indicate target-specific functions. A more refined fix would be to attach target-specificity decorations to the outer-most generic (to simplify the "linking" logic). The only reason not to fold that into the current fix is that the `__target_intrinsic` modifier currently serves double-duty as a marker of target specialization *and* information to drive emit logic. The latter (the emit-related stuff) currently needs to live on the `IRFunc`, and moving it to the generic could easily break a lot of code. This needs more work in a follow-on fix, but for now target specialization should again be working. The other big gotcha that the simple "just use the standard library" strategy ran into was that function-`static` variables weren't actually implemented yet, and in particular function-`static` variables inside of generic functions required some careful coding. The logic in `lower-to-ir.cpp` has this `emitOuterGenerics()` function that is supposed to take a declaration that might be nested inside of zero or more levels of AST generics, and emit corresponding IR generics for all those levels. This is needed because two different AST functions nested inside a single generic `struct` declaration should turn into distinct `IRFunc`s nested in distinct `IRGeneric`s. The tricky bit to making that all work is that the same AST-level generic type parameter will then map to *different* IR-level instructions (the parameters of distinct `IRGeneric`s) when lowering each function. The existing logic handled this in an idiomatic way by making "sub-builders" and "sub-contexts." This change refactors some of the repeated logic into a `NestedContext` type to help simplify the pattern, and applies it consistently throughout the `lower-to-ir.cpp` file. Besides that cleanup, the major change is `lowerFunctionStaticVarDecl` which, unsurprisingly, handles lower of function-`static` variables to IR globals. The careful handling of nested contexts here is needed because if we are in the middle of lowering a generic function, then a `static` variable should turn into its *own* `IRGeneric` wrapping an `IRGlobalVar`. The body of the function should refer to the global variable by specializing the global variable's `IRGeneric` to the parameters of the *functions* `IRGeneric`. This tricky detail is handled by `defaultSpecializeOuterGenerics`. An additional subtlety not actually required for this raytracing work (and thus not properly tested right now) is handling function-`static` variables with initializers. These can't just be lowered to globals with initializers, because HLSL follows the C rule that function-`static` variables are initialized when the declaration statement is first executed (and this could be visible in the presence of side-effects). The lowering strategy here translates any `static` variable with an initializer into *two* globals: one for the actual storage, plus a second `bool` variable to track whether it has been initialized yet. There are some opportunities to optimize this case, especially for `static const` data, but that will need to wait for future changes. We've slowly been shifting away from the model where a user thinks of a "profile" as including both a stage and a feature level. Instead, the user should think about selecting a profile that only describes a feature level (e.g., `sm_6_1`, `glsl_450`, etc.), and then separately specifying a stage (`vertex`, `raygeneration, etc.) for each entry point. The challenge here is that the command-line processing still only had a single `-profile` switch, and no way to specify the stage. Adding the `-stage` option was relatively easy, but making it work with the existing validation logic for command-line arguments was tricky, because of the complex model that `slangc` supports for compiling multiple entry points in a single pass. * In `slang.h` add new reflection parameter categories for ray payloads and hit attributes, as part of entry point input/output signatures. * A previous change already updated our copy of glslang to one that supports the `GL_NVX_raytracing` extension, so in `slang-glslang.cpp` we just needed to map Slang's `enum` values for the raytracing stage names to their equivalents in the glslang code. * Moved the logic for looking up a stage by name (`findStageByName()`) out of `check.cpp` and into `compiler.cpp`, with a declaration in `profile.h` * Added a `$z` suffix to the GLSL translation of `Texture*.SampleLevel()`, to handle cases where the texture element type is not a 4-component vector. Note that this fix should actually be applied to *all* these texture-sampling operations, but I didn't want to add a bunch of changes that are (clearly) not being tested right now. * The layout logic for entry points was updated to correctly skip producing a `TypeLayout` for an entry point result of type `void`, which meant that the related emit logic now needs to guard against a null value for the result layout. * In `ir.cpp`, dump decorations on every instruction instead of just selected ones, so that our IR dump output is more complete. * Added a command-line `-line-directive-mode` option so that we can easily turn off `#line` directives in the output when debugging. Not all cases where plumbed through because the `none` case is realistically the most important. * Parser was fixed to properly initialize parent links for "scope" declarations used for statements, so that we can walk backwards from a function-scope variable (including a `static`) and see the outer function/generics/etc. * Added GLSL 460 profile, since it is required for ray tracing. Also updated the logic for computing the "effective" profile to use to recognize that GLSL raytracing stages require GLSL 460. * Added some conventional ray-tracing shader suffixes to the handling in `slang-test`. This code isn't actually used, but was relevant when I started by copy-pasting some existing VKRay shaders as the starting point for my testing. * Fixup: typos
* First pass implementation of IR serialization (#653)jsmall-nvidia2018-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * * Change the layout of IROp such that 'main' IROps are 0-x. * Removed MANUAL_RANGE instuction types, as no longer needed. * Work in prog on optimizing. * * Constant time lookup for IROpInfo * Refactor and document a little more the IROp layout * Mark ops that use 'other' bits * Fix typo in definition of kIROpFlag_UseOther * First pass at working out serialization structure. * Work in progress on ir-serialize * Storing strings in IRSerialInfo Split out IRSerialInfo from the IRSerializer - to make more explicit what is actually saved. * First pass at serializing out data. * First pass at serialize reading. * Fix riff fourcc mark order. * First pass at reconstructing IRInst / IRDecoration from serialized data. * Handling of TextureBaseType * Deserializing of constants. * Small changes around ir serialization. * Changed StringIndex indexing to not be an offset into the m_strings array, but an index into strings in order. Doing so makes cache lookup much faster, and makes the 'indicies' themselves smaller and therefore more compressible. * Removed the need for m_arena in IRSerialWriter. Previously it's purpose was to store the string contents that were being used to lookup UnownedStringSlice. Now we keep the StringRepresentation in scope and reference that, and so don't need the copy. * Don't need to construct the IRModuleInst as is created and set on createModule call. * Remove test code for testing serialization. * Fix problem with release build in ir-serialize causing warning. * Use SLANG_OFFSET_OF for offsets in non pod classes to avoid gcc/clang warning. Give storage to integral static variables to avoid linkage problems with gcc/clang. * Fix warnings under x86 win32 debug.
* Improve IROp lookup (#650)jsmall-nvidia2018-09-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | * * Change the layout of IROp such that 'main' IROps are 0-x. * Removed MANUAL_RANGE instuction types, as no longer needed. * Work in prog on optimizing. * * Constant time lookup for IROpInfo * Refactor and document a little more the IROp layout * Mark ops that use 'other' bits * Fix typo in definition of kIROpFlag_UseOther
* Support for IRStringLit (#645)jsmall-nvidia2018-09-19
| | | | | | | | * * Added support for strings in IR with IRStringLit - with storage of chars after it * Added kIRDecorationOp_Transitory - can be used for detecting instructions constructed on stack * Made IRConstant hashing work off type * Fix comment that is out of date about how an instruction is determines to hold a transitory string.
* Improvements around IR representation and memory usage (#635)jsmall-nvidia2018-09-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * * Remove dispose from IRInst * Use MemoryArena instead of MemoryPool * Make all IRInst not require Dtor - by having ref counted array store ptrs that need freeing * Increase block size - typically compilation is 2Mb of IR space(!) * Fix issues around StringRepresentation::equal because null has special meaning. * Don't bother to construct as String to compare StringRepresentation, just used UnownedStringSlice. * Added fromLiteral support to UnownedStringSlice and use instead of strlen version. * Use more conventional way to test StringRepresentation against a String. * Fix gcc/clang template problem with cast.
* Support for Tessellation (#607)jsmall-nvidia2018-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Fix typo OuptutTopologyAttribute -> OutputTopologyAttribute First pass support for handing tesselation shaders - domain and hull. * Added attribute PatchConstantFuncAttribute * Added visitHLSLPatchType(HLSLPatchType* type) such that the patch type template parameters are handled * Added IRNotePatchConstantFunc - such that the patch constant function is referenced within IR * Added support for outputing typical tesselation attributes (although minimal validation is performed) * Added findFunctionDeclByName * Small improvements to diagnostic. * Improved diagnostics and checking for geometry shader attributes. * Added diagnostic if patchconstantfunc is not found Handle assert failure when outputing a domain shader alone and therefore attr->patchConstantFuncDecl is not set. * Simple script tess.hlsl to test out domain/hull shaders. * Added url for where hull shader attributes are defined. * Fix unsigned/signed comparison warning. * Restore removal of fix in "Improve generic argument inference for builtins (#598)" * Update tessellation test case to compare against fxc The test was previously comparing against fixed expected DXBC output, but this caused problems when the test runner tried to execute the test on Linux (where there is no fxc to invoke...), and would also be a potential source of problems down the road if different users run using different builds of fxc. The simple solution here is to convert the test to compare against fxc output generated on the fly. That test type is already filtered out on non-Windows builds, so it eliminates the portability issue (in a crude way). I also changed the test to compile both entry points in one compiler invocation, just to streamline things into fewer distinct tests. * Eliminate unnecessary call to `lowerFuncDecl` In a very obscure case this could cause a bug, if the patch-constant function had somehow already been lowered (because it was called somewhere else in the code). The call should not be needed because `ensureDecl` will lower a declaration on-demand if required, so eliminating it causes no problems for code that wouldn't be in that extreme corner case.
* Fix global atomic functions (#582)Tim Foley2018-05-29
| | | | | | | | | Fixes #581 This change adds a new parameter passing mode `__ref` to exist alongisde `in`, `out`, and `inout`. The `__ref` modifier indicates true by-reference parameter passing (whereas `inout` is copy-in-copy-out). This is not intended to be something that users interact with directly, but rather a low-level feature that lets us provide a correct signature for the `Interlocked*()` operations in the standard library. Most of the support for passing what are logically addresses around already exists in the IR, so the majority of the work here is just in introducing the new type `Ref<T>` and then using it appropriately when lowering `__ref` parameters/arguments to the IR.
* A bunch of work to resolve #569 (#576)Tim Foley2018-05-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * render-test should not fail on HLSL compiler *warnings* The logic in `render-test` that invokes `D3DCompile` was causing a test to fail if it produced any warnings (not just if compilation fails). Warning output can be dealt with by the test runner, since it will compare output between runs anyway, and it is useful to be able to run something through `render-test` that compiles with warnings. * Be more careful about deleting IR instructions There was an `IRInst::deallocate()` method that had a precondition that the instruction should already be removed from its parent and clear out all its operands before calling, but it wasn't checking this and the few call sites weren't doing things right either. I consolidated things on `IRInst::removeAndDeallocate()` which does all the things: removes from the parent, clear out operands, and then deallocates. I also made sure to clear out the type operand. This clears up some crashing issues where passes were removing instructions but those instructions would still show up as users of other instructions. * Don't emit bitwise not for non-Boolean types It seems like the logic in `emit.cpp` messed things up and decided that `Not` (the IR instruction that is equivalent to `!` in the AST) should emit as `!` for Boolean types and `~` for other types, but this makes no sense (e.g., `~(a & 1)` is very different from `!(a & 1)`, even when interpreted as a condition). It seems like this logic was intended for the `BitNot` case, where `~a` and `!a` are actually equivalent for Boolean values (but a target language might not like `~a` on `bool` values). Maybe the original plan was that the `Not` instruction should only apply to Boolean values in the first place, and that other values should be converted to `bool` (or a vector of `bool`) before applying `Not`, but even in that case the emit logic makes no sense. This caused an actual problem for one of my test cases, so it was important to fix it now. * Fix issue with cached resolution for overoaded operators The basic problem was that the lookup logic was forming a key based on the *first* definition it found for the overloaded operator, but that means that when processing a prefix `++a` call we might look up the *postfix* definition of `operator++` and decide to use its opcode as the key. This "fixes" the logic by looking for the first definition with a "compatible" definition (e.g., a `__prefix` function if we are checking a `PrefixExpr`), and then uses its opcode. A better fix in the long run would be to make the cache just be keyed on the operator name and the "fixity" of the expression (prefix, postfix, or infix). * Introduce an intermediate structured control-flow representation The code previously used a single function called `emitIRStmtsForBlocks` in `emit.cpp` that would take a logical sub-graph of the CFG and emit it as high-level statements. It would do this by recognizing operations like coniditional branches that it could turn into high-level `if` statements, etc. The main problem with this function was that it mixed together the logic for how we restructure the program with the logic for how we emit high-level code from that structure. This change splits those two parts of the algorithm by introducing an intermediate data structure: a tree of `Region`s, which represent single-entry regions of the CFG. There are subclasses of `Region` corresponding to various structured control-flow constructs, and then a leaf case that wraps a single `IRBlock`. The new function `generateRegionsForIRBlocks()` (in `ir-restructure.cpp`) now handles the restructuring work, by building one or more `Region`s to represent a sub-graph, while `emitRegion()` handles emitting HLSL/GLSL source code from a region. Splitting things in this way opens up some opportunities for future changes: * We can expand the set of IR control-flow constructs allowed, so long as we can still generate structure `Region`s from them, without having to mess with the emit logic (e.g., we could start to support multi-level `break` by introducing temporaries as needed). In the limit we can generate our `Region`s using something like the "Relooper" algorithm. * We can emit to other representations while retaining the same control-flow restructuring support. E.g., if we drop the structured information from the IR, then emitting to SPIR-V for Vulkan would require us to use the strucured control-flow information from these `Region`s. * We can do analysis that needs to understand `Region` structure. This is relevant to issue #569, which was what prompted me to start on this work. Now that we have a representation of the nesting of `Region`s, we can use it to reason about visibility of values between blocks. During development of this change I ran into a gotcha, in that I had been assuming each IR block would map to a single `Region`, forgetting that our current lowering of "continue clauses" in `for` loops leads to them being duplicated. The `Region` representation handles this by having a linked-list struct mapping IR blocks to the `SimpleRegion`s that represent them. I added a test case that includes a `for` loop with a continue clause that is reached along multiple paths just to make sure that we continue to support that case. The compiler output should not change as a result of this work; this is supposed to be a pure refactoring change. * Add a pass to resolve scoping issues in generated code Fixes #569 The basic problem arises because the structured control flow that we output in high-level HLSL/GLSL doesn't match the "scoping" rules of an SSA IR. In particular, SSA says that a value can be used in any block that is dominated by the definition, but in the presence of `break` and `continue` statements it is easy to construct cases where a block dominates something that is not in its scope for structured control flow. Consider: ```hlsl for(;;) { int a = xyz; if(a) { int b = a; break; } int c = a; } int d = b; ``` This program is invalid as HLSL, because the variable `b` is referenced outside of its scope, but if we look at the CFG for this function, it is clear that the block that computes `b` dominated the block that computes `d`. IR optimizations can easily create code like this, so we need to be ready for it. The previous change added an explicit `Region` structure to represent the structured control flow that we re-form out of the IR, and this change adds a pass that exploits the structuring information to detect cases like the above and introduce temporaries to fix the scoping issue. For example, the pass would change the earlier code block into something like: ```hlsl int tmp; for(;;) { int a = xyz; if(a) { int b = a; tmp = b; break; } int c = a; } int d = tmp; ``` That is, we introduce a new `tmp` variable at a scope "above" both the definition and use of `b`, and then we copy `b` into that temporary right where it is computed, and then use the temporary instead of the original `b` at the use site. A few details that came up during the implementation: * Downstream compilers may get confused by code like the above, and complain that `tmp` may be used before it is initialized, even though the very definition of dominators in a CFG means we don't have to worry about it. Still, I introduced some one-off code to initialize the temporaries just to silence spurious warnings coming from fxc. * We need to be careful not to apply this logic to "phi nodes" (the parameters of basic blocks) since they will already be turned into temporaries by the emit logic, and trying to introduce temporaries with this pass led to broken code (I still need to investigate why). It may be that a future version of this pass should also take the code out of SSA form, so that we can introduce both kinds of temporaries in a single pass (and maybe eliminate some unnecessary variables by doing basic register allocation). There is another transformation that could fix some issues of this kind, by moving code out of a structured control-flow construct and to the "join point" after it. For example, we could turn our loop from the start of this commit message into: ```hlsl for(;;) { int a = xyz; if(a) { break; } int c = a; } int b = a; int d = b; ``` Moving the definition of `b` to after the loop is possible because there is no way to get out of the loop without executing that code anyway. Now the scoping issue for `d`'s use of `b` has gone away, but of course we've introduced a *new* scoping issue for `a`, when it gets used by `b`. Adding a pass to re-arrange control flow like this could reduce the cases where we have to apply the current pass, but it wouldn't eliminate them entirely. That means such a pass can be deferred to future work. This change includes a test case the reproduces the original issue, so that we can confirm the fix works.
* Fix Slang->GLSL translation for entry point with multiple `out` parameters ↵Tim Foley2018-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (#573) Fixes #568 The problem occurs when an entry point declares multiple `out` parameters: ```hlsl void myVS( out float4 a : A, out float4 b : B ) { ... a = whatever; b = somethingElse; ... if(done) { return; // explicit return } ... // implicit return } ``` Slang translates code like this by introducing a GLSL global `out` parameter for each of `a` and `b`, rewriting the logic inside the entry point to use a local temporary instead of the real parameters, and then assigning from the locals to the globals at every `return` site: ```glsl out vec4 g_a; out vec4 g_b; void main() { // insertion location (1) vec4 t_a; vec4 t_b; ... t_a = whatever; t_b = somethingElse; ... if(done) { // insertion location(2) g_a = t_a; g_b = t_b; return; // explicit return } ... // insertion location (3) g_a = t_a; g_b = t_b; // implicit return } ``` Note that there are three different places (for this example) where code gets inserted to make the translation work. We insert declarations of local variables at the top of the function, and then insert the copy from the temporariesto the globals at each `return` site (implicit or explicit). The bug in this case was that the pass was setting the insertion location to (1) outside of the loop for parameters, so that when it was done with `a` and moved on to `b`, it would end up inseting the temporary `t_b` at the last location used (location (3) in this example), and this would result in invalid code, because `t_b` gets used before it is declared. This bug has been around for a while, but it has largely been masked by the fact that so few shaders use multiple `out` parameters, and also because Slang's SSA-ification pass would often be able to eliminate the local variable anyway, so that the bug never bites the user. The reason it surfaced now for a user shader was because we introduced `swizzledStore`, which currently inhibits SSA-ification, so that some temporaries that used to get eliminated are now retained so that they can break things. The fix in this case is small: we use the existing `IRBuilder` only for insertions at location (1) and construct a new builder on the fly for all the insertions at `return` sites. I have not included a test case yet, because our end-to-end Vulkan testing is not yet ready, so this may regress again in the future.
* Cleanups around behavior when the compiler fails (#553)Tim Foley2018-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Cleanups around behavior when the compiler fails * Add another case where we try to `noteInternalErrorLoc()` if an exception in thrown. This one is the in the logic for emitting an IR instruciton. This could be improved by adding another layer at the function level (as a catch-all for instructions with no location), but something is better than nothing. * Change a bunch of `assert()`s over to `SLANG_ASSERT()`s, so that we can theoretically take more control over them (e.g., make release builds with asserts enabled) * Some other small cleanups around the assertions we perform. In the survey I made, I didn't really see many obvious "smoking gun" cases where we could produce a significantly better error message for some of the unimplemented/unexpected paths, other than to actually implement the missing functionality. * fixup
* Allow more complex compound expressions when emitting from IR (#552)Tim Foley2018-05-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The emit logic already had an idea of when an instruction should be "folded" it its use site(s), and this change just expands on that logic to try to be more aggressive. The basic idea is that instead of outputting this: ```hlsl float4 _S3 = a_0 + b_0; float4 _S4 = c_0 * _S3; d_0 = _S4; ``` we can hopefully output something like this: ```hlsl d_0 = c_0 * (a_0 + b_0); ``` The way this works is that after dealing with the various special cases that decide an instruction `I` must/cannot be folded in, we look and see if it has the following properites: * `I` has no side effects * `I` has a single user, `U` * `I` and `U` are in the same block (and `I` comes before `U` in that block) * for every instruction `X` between `I` and `U` (exclusive), `X` has no side effects If all of these conditions are true, then `I` can be folded in as a sub-expression when we emit `U`. This change doesn't affect most of our test output, but there is still a single test with SPIR-V output that we compare against a GLSL baseline, and so that baseline had to be modified to match the GLSL we now generate. Similar to #547, this change is not meant to provide a complete solution, but rather to take a concrete but low-risk step toward improving our output. Opportunities to improve the results further include: * We can/should ensure that when outputting sub-expressions we keep extra parentheses to a minimum. The old logic for emitting from an AST had support for "unparsing" expressions with minimal parentheses, and we should try to do the same. This can be error-prone, because omitting parentheses can lead to silent failures, so it must be done carefully. * We could try to be more aggressive about detecting what operations might have side effects. The most interesting case is function calls, where we should try to check if the callee is a function known to be side-effect-free. We could start by annotating most builtin functions with an attribute/decoration that indicates freedom from side effects. Deriving this attribute for user functions could be interesting, but we'd have to be careful since "nontermination" is technically a side effect. * We could try to be more aggressive about determining what side effects in instructions `X` are "safe" for the instruction `I` to move across. For example, if `I` is a load from variable `a` and `X` is a store to variable `b`, then that would seem to be safe. This starts to get into issues of instruction scheduling, though, and that is probably beyond what we want Slang to be doing.
* Pass through original names for most declarations (#547)Tim Foley2018-05-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The basic idea here is that when lowering to the IR, the front-end will attach a "name hint" to the IR instruction(s) that represent a given declaration, and then the passes that work on the IR will try to preserve and propagate those names, and then finally the emit logic will use them in place of mangled or unique names when available. This change does *not* try to deal with the issues that arise when we try to use those variable names in the output without any modification (e.g., handling cases where they might clash with keywords or builtins in the target language). Instead, it tries to establish baseline behavior for propagating through names, so that a later change can concentrate on the issue of using those names exactly when it is legal to do so. In order to avoid issues around the name "hints" causing problems we take two main steps: 1. We "scrub" each name to reduce it down to the allowed set of identifier characters in C-like languages, and then ensure that it doesn't do things that would be illegal in some downstream languages (e.g., consecutive underscores are not allowed in GLSL) or could clash with Slang's mangled names. This process isn't guaranteed to give distinct results for distinct inputs (it isn't a mangling scheme, after all). 2. We generate a unique ID for each occurence of a given name and always use that as a suffix. This means that even if a name happens to overlap with a keyword (if you somehow have a variable named `do`), we will still add a suffix that makes it not a problem (we'd output `do_0` which is fine). The logic for generating these names is mostly straightforward. For simple variables, we use their given name directly, while for other declarations we try to form a name that includes their parent declaration (e.g. `SomeType.someMethod`). Various IR passes need to propagate or preserve this information. The most interesting is type legalization, when we take a variable with an aggregate type and split some of the fields out into their own variables. In that case we generate "dotted" names like `someVar.someTexture` and rely on the emit logic to turn that into `someVar_someTexture`. During SSA generation, if we are promoting a variable to SSA temporaries, we will try to propagate the name of the variable over to the temporaries (unless they already have a name from some other place). The same applies to block parameters ("phi nodes"). Many of the test changes need their expected output to be updated for this change. Luckily in most cases the output has gotten easier to understand.
* Add support for "swizzled stores" (#544)Tim Foley2018-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This was a known issue in our IR representation, which was now biting a user. The basic problem is that in code like the following: ```hlsl RWStructureBuffer<float4> buffer; ... buffer[index].xz = value; ``` we ideally want to be able to reproduce the original HLSL code exactly, but that requires directly encoding the way that this code writes to two elements of a vector, but not the others. The currently lowering strategy we had produced IR something like: ```hlsl float4 tmp = buffer[index]; tmp.xz = value; buffer[index] = tmp; ``` That transformation might seem valid, but it has some big problems: * It generates UAV reads that are not needed, which could impact performance * It performs read-modify-write operations on memory that the programmer didn't explicitly write, which could create data races The fix here is somewhat obvious: if the "base" of a swizzle operation on a left-hand side resolves to a pointer in our IR, then we can output a "swizzled store" instead of the read-modify-write dance. We currently keep the read-modify-write around since it is potentially needed as a fallback in the general case. Along the way I also tried to make sure that we handle the case where we have a swizzle of a swizzle on the left-hand side: ```hlsl buffer[index].xz.y = value; ``` That code should behave the same as `buffer[index].z = value`. I am currently detecting and cleaning up this logic in the lowering path for `SwizzleExpr`, because that is the only place in the lowering logic that "swizzled l-values" currently get created.
* Fix for global generic parameter substitution (#512)Tim Foley2018-04-25
| | | | | | | The problem here arises when multiple entry points are compiled in one pass. Each entry point has its own arguments for global generic parameters, and leads to us emitting a `bindGlobalGenericParameter(p, val)`. But once the first entry point's substitutions are applied, the second entry point's code gives `bindGlobalGenericParameter(val, val)` and the compiler crashes (in debug builds) because `val` is not a global generic parameter. This change just applies a quick fix. If we see `bindGlobalGenericParameter(x,y)` during specialization, and `x` is not a global generic parameter, then we skip it. The right long-term fix is to change the compiler's representation of global generic arguments so that they live on a `CompileRequest` instead of an `EntryPointRequest`. That is a more significant change (with impact on the public API), so I'm inclined to leave it as a cleanup for another day (given that no customers are using global generic parameters today).
* Fix successor computation for `switch` instruction (#520)Tim Foley2018-04-23
| | | | | | | Fixes #519 The code was leaving out the `default` label from the successor list, which would break any passes that require an accurate CFG (with the big one right now being the SSA-formation pass).
* Fix GS cross-compilation after IR type system change (#507)Tim Foley2018-04-19
| | | | | | | The cross-compilation logic for geometry shaders would look through the user's entry point for calls like `someStream.Emit<X>(val)` and turn that into `outputGlobals = val; EmitVertex();`. It was recognizing the `Emit()` calls by looking at the callee in all `call` instructions and seeing if it was registered to lower to GLSL as `EmitVertex()`. The logic was try to look "through" `specialize` instructions (to deal with the `<X>` bit in the call above), but this wasn't updated for the new IR encoding where the first operand to a `specialize` is the generic being specialized, and not the function nested inside it. The fix here is to properly look through both `specialize` instructions and generics. This is kind of a gross operation and we've done things like it in a few places, so it might be something we try to extract into a utility function in the future.