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2025-10-16Immutable access qualifier for pointers and use `__ldg` on cuda. (#8710)Yong He
This PR implements `Access.Immutable` to allow pointers to immutable data. The new type `ImmutablePtr<T>` is defined as an alias of `Ptr<T, Address.Immutable>`. By forming a immutable pointer, the programmer is conveying to the compiler that the data at the pointer address will never change during the execution of the current program. Therefore loads from immutable pointers can be deduplicated by the compiler, and will translate to `__ldg` when generating code for CUDA. The SPIRV backend is not changed in this PR, since the current SPIRV spec makes it very difficult to specify loads from immutable address without generating tons of wrappers and boilerplate type declarations. We would like to see the spec evolved a bit to around its support of `NonWritable` physical storage pointers or immutable loads before we attempt to express such immutability in SPIRV. For now we simply emit ordinary pointers and loads when generating spirv. --------- Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-10-15Clean up Slang IR representation of undefined values (#8708)Theresa Foley
Prior to this change, the Slang IR used a single opcode (`kIROp_Undefined`) to encode all cases of undefined values. The particular motivation for this change was a need to distinguish those undefined values that represent a load from an uninitialized memory location versus other sorts of undefined values. If transforming a variable into SSA form results in `undefined` values in cases where the a `load` was executed without a prior `store`, that represents an error on the programmer's part, and should be diagnosed. However, other cases of undefined values can arise during program transformation and optimization, and should not typically result in diagnostics being emitted. While it was not the original motivation for this change, it is also worth noting that the LLVM project has transitioned from initially using only a single `undef` instruction to having a more nuanced model, and the same factors that motivated their shift also apply to the Slang IR. Counter-intuitively, the semantics of undefined values actually need to be carefully defined. Concretely, this change splits the pre-existing `undefined` opcode into two sub-cases: - `kIROp_LoadFromUninitializedMemory`, to represent the case of loading from a memory location (such as a local variable) that has not been initialized. - `kIROp_Poison`, corresponding to the LLVM `poison` value. Our poison instruction is intended to have semantics comparable to LLVM's equivalent. Conceptually, any operation that is invoked with a poison value as input will (with a few exceptions) produce a poison value as output. One can think of the behavior of `poison` as similar to how not-a-number values propagate in floating-point computations: by default they "infect" the result of any computation they are involved in. This semantic choice helps to ensure that many optimizations end up being correct in the presence of undefined values, even if they did not specifically account for them. The `kIROp_LoadFromUninitializedMemory` case is comparable to the combination of `freeze` and `undef` in LLVM. An LLVM `undef` value has semantics that allow *each* use of that value to be replaced with a *different* arbitrary value; these semantics cause many optimizations to only be correct in the absence of undefined values. An LLVM `freeze` instruction can take an undefined value as input, and produces a single value that is still arbitrary, but must be consistent across all uses. The latter semantics are what we want, since a given `load` from an uninitialized memory location will yield an arbitrary-but-fixed value. Note that we intentionally do not have a direct analogue to LLVM's `undef` instruction, because of the way that `undef` causes so many complications when trying to write optimizations. We also do not add a `kIROp_Freeze` instruction in this change, but that is simply because we currently have no need for it. Existing code that was creating `IRUndefined` values has been updated to create either `IRPoison` or `IRLoadFromUninitializedMemory` values, as appropriate to the use case. Code that was checking for the `kIROp_Undefined` opcode has been updated to either check for both of the new opcodes (in the case of `switch` statements), or to use `as<IRUndefined>` to perform a dynamic cast to the common base type of the two new instructions. Note that this change does not alter the way that instructions representing undefined values are typically emitted as ordinary instructions in the block that produces an undefined value. While emitting `IRLoadFromUninitializedMemory` as an ordinary instruction is exactly what we want, the `IRPoison` case would actually be better represented in Slang IR as a "hoistable" instruction, so that there would only be a singular `poison` value of each type. Changing `IRPoison` to be hoistable would be a good follow-up change, but might run into more challenges depending on what assumptions (if any) the codebase is making about where undefined values get emitted. --------- Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-10-03Add direct usage support for gl_DrawID (#8594)Copilot
- [x] Add `gl_DrawID` property declaration in `source/slang/glsl.meta.slang` similar to `gl_BaseVertex` and `gl_BaseInstance` - [x] Ensure it maps to `SV_DrawIndex` semantic - [x] Add extension requirements in `slang-ir-glsl-legalize.cpp` (GLSL 460 and GL_ARB_shader_draw_parameters) - [x] Create test case to verify SPIRV output contains `DrawIndex` decoration - [x] Run formatting script before committing - [x] Verify existing tests still pass - [x] Remove accidentally committed temp files (1.glsl, 3.spv-asm) - [x] Update .gitignore to prevent similar files from being committed <!-- START COPILOT CODING AGENT SUFFIX --> <details> <summary>Original prompt</summary> > > ---- > > *This section details on the original issue you should resolve* > > <issue_title>Missing direct usage support for gl_DrawID</issue_title> > <issue_description># Problem Description > Because DirectX does not have support for DrawIndex like vulkan does, i add the support in d3d12 by emulating it and storing it in a root constant. In vulkan though, i should be able to use it directly, but because now i store it as a global variable, i cannot use the SV_DrawIndex semantic either. > > # Preferred Solution > I'd like to be able to use gl_DrawID like you how can use gl_BaseVertex and gl_BaseInstance. > </issue_description> > > <agent_instructions>You can just edit glsl.meta.slang and add a declaration for gl_DrawID in a similar way to gl_BaseVertex, and map it to SV_DrawIndex. > > Create a `//TEST:SIMPLE(filecheck=SPIRV): -target spirv` test case, and use filecheck to verify the output contains the correct SPIRV `DrawIndex` decoration.</agent_instructions> > > ## Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section) > > <comments> > </comments> > </details> Fixes shader-slang/slang#8548 <!-- START COPILOT CODING AGENT TIPS --> --- ✨ Let Copilot coding agent [set things up for you](https://github.com/shader-slang/slang/issues/new?title=✨+Set+up+Copilot+instructions&body=Configure%20instructions%20for%20this%20repository%20as%20documented%20in%20%5BBest%20practices%20for%20Copilot%20coding%20agent%20in%20your%20repository%5D%28https://gh.io/copilot-coding-agent-tips%29%2E%0A%0A%3COnboard%20this%20repo%3E&assignees=copilot) — coding agent works faster and does higher quality work when set up for your repo. --------- Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-10-03Rename some symbols related to pointers types (#8592)Theresa Foley
Note that while this change touched a large numer of files, there are no changes to functionality being made here. The only things being done are renaming various symbols and, in a few cases, updating or adding comments for consistency with the new names. The core of the naming changes are: * Most things named to refer to `OutType` (e.g., `IROutType`, `IRBuilder::getOutType()`, etc.) have been consistently renamed to refer to `OutParamType`, to emphasize that the relevant AST/IR node types are only intended for use to represent `out` parameters. * The same change as described above for `OutType` is also made for `RefType`, which becomes `RefParamType` in most cases. One mess that this exposes is the way that the `ExplicitRef<T>` type in the core module currently lowers to `IRRefParamType`. This change sticks to the rule of not making functional changes, so that mess is left as-is for now. * Names referring to `InOutType` have been changed to instead refer to `BorrowInOutType`. The intention with this naming change is to emphasize that the Slang rules for `inout` are semantically those of a borrow (or at least our interpretation of what a borrow means). * Names referring to `ConstRefType` have been changed to instead refer to `BorrowInType`. This change starts work on clarifying that the existing `__constref` modifier was never intended to be a read-only analogue of `__ref`, and instead is the input-only analogue of `inout`. * The `ParameterDirection` enum type has been changed to `ParamPassingMode`, to reflect the fact that the concept of "direction" fails to capture what is actually being encoded, particularly once we have modes beyond simple `in`/`out`/`inout`. While this change does not alter behavior in any case (the user-exposed Slang language is unchanged), it is intended to set up subsequence changes that will work to make the handling of these types in the compiler more nuanced and correct. Breaking this part of the change out separately is primarily motivated by a desire to minimize the effort for reviewers. --------- Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-09-30Enhance buffer load specialization pass to specialize past field extracts. ↵Yong He
(#8547) This allows us to specialize functions whose argument is a sub element of a constant buffer, instead of being only applicable to entire buffer element. Closes #8421. This change also implements a proper heuristic to determine when to specialize the calls and defer the buffer loads. This PR addresses a pathological case exposed in `slangpy\slangpy\benchmarks\test_benchmark_tensor.py`, which used to take 27ms to finish, and now takes 1.25ms. For example, given: ``` struct Bottom { float bigArray[1024]; [mutating] void setVal(int index, float value) { bigArray[index] = value; } } struct Root { Bottom top[2]; [mutating] void setTopVal(int x, int y, float value) { top[x].setVal(y, value); } } RWStructuredBuffer<Root> sb; [shader("compute")] [numthreads(1, 1, 1)] void compute_main(uint3 tid: SV_DispatchThreadID) { sb[0].setTopVal(1, 2, 100.0f); } ``` We are now able to specialize the call to `setTopVal` into: ``` void compute_main(uint3 tid: SV_DispatchThreadID) { setTopVal_specialized(0, 1, 2, 100.0f); } void setTopVal_specialized(int sbIdx, int x, int y, float value) { Bottom_setVal_specialized(sbIdx, x, y, value); } void Bottom_setVal_specialized(int sbIdx, int x, int y, float value) { sb[sbIdx].top[x].bigArray[y] = value; } ``` And get rid of all unnecessary loads. Achieving this requires a combination of function call specialization and buffer-load-defer pass. The buffer-load-defer pass has been completely rewritten to be more correct and avoid introducing redundant loads. This PR also adds tests to make sure pointers, bindless handles, and loads from structured buffer or constant buffers works as expected.
2025-09-30Rewriting the lower-buffer-element-type pass to avoid unnecessary ↵Yong He
packing/unpacking. (#8526) Part of the effort to improve the performance of generated SPIRV code. The existing lower-buffer-element-type pass works by loading the entire buffer element content from memory, and translate it to logical type stored in a local variable at the earliest reference of a buffer handle. This means that is can generate inefficient code that reads more than necessary. Consider this example: ``` struct BigStruct { bool values[1024]; } ConstantBuffer<BigStruct> cb; void test(BigStruct v) { if (v.values[0]) { printf("ok"); } } [numthreads(1,1,1)] void computeMain() { test(cb); } ``` In IR, the `computeMain` function before lower-buffer-element-type pass is something like following: ``` func test: %v = param : BigStruct %barr = fieldExtract(%v, "values") %element = elementExtract(%barr, 0) ... // uses %element func computeMain: %v = load(cb) call %test %v ``` The existing lower-buffer-element-type pass will rewrite the bool array in `BigStruct` into `int` array so it is legal in SPIRV. However, it does so by inserting the translation on the first `load` of the constant buffer: ``` struct BigStruct_std430 { int values[1024]; } var cb : ConstantBuffer<BigStruct_std430>; func computeMain: %tmpVar : var<BigStruct> call %unpackStorage(%tmpVar, cb) %v : BigStruct = load %tmpVar call %test %v ``` This means that the entire array will be loaded and translated to int, before calling `test`, which only uses one element. It turns out that the downstream compiler isn't always able to optimize out this inefficient translation/copy. This PR completely rewrites the way buffer-element-type lowering is handled to avoid producing this inefficient code. It works in two parts: first we turn on the `transformParamsToConstRef` pass for SPIRV target as well, so we will translate the `test` function to take the `v` parameter as `constref`. The second part is a redesigned buffer-element-type pass that defers the storage-type to logical-type translation until a value is actually used by a `load` instruction. In this example, after `transformParamsToConstRef`, the IR is: ``` func test: %v = param : ConstRef<BigStruct> %barr = fieldAddr(%v, "values") %elementPtr = elementAddr(%barr, 0) %element = load(%elementPtr) ... // uses %element func computeMain: call %test %cb ``` The new `buffer-element-type-lowering` pass will take this IR, and insert translation at latest possible time across the entire call graph, and translate the IR into: ``` func test: %v = param : ConstRef<BigStruct_std430> %barr = fieldAddr(%v, "values") %elementPtr : ptr<int> = elementAddr(%barr, 0) %element_int = load(%elementPtr) %element = cast(%element_int) : %bool ... // uses %element func computeMain: call %test %cb ``` In this new IR, there is no longer a load and conversion of the entire array. See new comment in `slang-ir-lower-buffer-element-type.cpp` for more details of how the pass works. This PR also address many other issues surfaced by turning on `transformParamsToConstRef` pass on SPIRV backend. --------- Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-09-10Squash warnings on gcc 14 (#8377)Ellie Hermaszewska
2025-08-29[CBP] Pointer frontend changes + groupshared pointer support (#7848)ArielG-NV
Resolves #7628 Resolves: #8197 Primary Goals: 1. Add `Access` to pointer 2. AddressSpace::GroupShared support for pointers (SPIR-V) 3. Add `__getAddress()` to replace `&` * `&` is not updated to `require(cpu)` since slangpy uses `&`. This means we must: (1) merge PR; (2) replace `&` with `__getAddress()`; (3) add `require(cpu)` to `&` Changes: * Added to `Ptr` the `Access` generic argument & logic (for `Access::Read`). * Moved the generic argument `AddressSpace` from `Ptr` to the end of the type. * Added pointer casting support between any `Ptr` as long as the `AddressSpace` is the same * Disallow globallycoherent T* and coherent T* * Disallow const T*, T const*, and const T* * Fixed .natvis display of `ConstantValue` `ValOperandNode` * Support generic resolution of type-casted integers * Added `VariablePointer` emitting for spirv + other minor logic needed for groupshared pointers Breaking Changes: * Anyone using the `AddressSpace` of `Ptr` will now have to account for the `Access` argument * we disallow various syntax paired with `Ptr` and `T*` --------- Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-08-21Implement SV_VulkanSamplePosition (#8236)davli-nv
-Adds semantic SV_VulkanSamplePosition that emits corresponding gl_SamplePosition and SpvBuiltinSamplePosition -Adds gl_SamplePosition property to glsl.meta.slang -Adds SPIRV and GLSL tests for the semantic and property -Plan is to later implement SV_SamplePosition that follows HLSL range of -0.5 to +0.5, and emits GetRenderTargetSamplePosition(SV_SampleIndex) which needs more complicated IR manipulation for HLSL and Metal Fixes #7906 --------- Co-authored-by: ArielG-NV <159081215+ArielG-NV@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-08-06Fix noperspective modifier for SV_Barycentrics in SPIRV and GLSL (#8067)davli-nv
* Fix noperspective modifier for SV_Barycentrics in SPIRV and GLSL - Added test case with both regular and noperspective SV_Barycentrics inputs 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) Co-authored-by: davli-nv <davli-nv@users.noreply.github.com> * fixup format * address review https://github.com/shader-slang/slang/pull/8067#pullrequestreview-3090037501 * address review https://github.com/shader-slang/slang/pull/8067#discussion_r2255818595 * add test case from review --------- Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: davli-nv <davli-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-08-05Implement SPV_EXT_fragment_invocation_density (SPV_NV_shading_rate) (#8037)davli-nv
* Implement SPV_EXT_fragment_invocation_density -Adds semantics SV_FragSize and SV_FragInvocationCount and implements them for SPIRV and GLSL using the appropriate target builtins from extensions. -Adds test case checking for expected target builtins from these semantics. -For future work, could implement SV_FragSize using pixel shader input SV_ShadingRate for HLSL, and SV_FragInvocationCount needs research. Fixes #7974 Generated with Claude Code * address review feedback https://github.com/shader-slang/slang/pull/8037#pullrequestreview-3084645845 * fixup format * review feedback https://github.com/shader-slang/slang/pull/8037#pullrequestreview-3086442819
2025-07-31Fix segmentation fault in ray tracing parameter consolidation. (#7997)Copilot
* Initial plan * Fix segfault in ray tracing parameter consolidation Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Fix. * Fix. * Keep entrypoint param layout consistent during `MoveEntryPointUniformParametersToGlobalScope`. * Fix. * fix. * Fix. * Fix pending layout handling. --------- Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Yong He <yonghe@outlook.com>
2025-07-22Fix scalar to array conversion for tessellation factors (#7837)Yong He
* Fix scalar to array conversion for tessellation factors in GLSL legalization Add scalar-to-array conversion support in adaptType() function to handle cases where users declare scalar tessellation factors (e.g., float TessLevelInner) but GLSL requires arrays (float[2] for gl_TessLevelInner). This prevents the generation of BuiltinCast instructions that crash the SPIR-V emitter. Fixes crash: "unimplemented: Unhandled local inst in spirv-emit: BuiltinCast" - Add scalar-to-array case in slang-ir-glsl-legalize.cpp adaptType() - Fill all array elements with the scalar value for tessellation factors - Add test case for scalar tessellation factor conversion Fixes #7000 Co-authored-by: Yong He <csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Apply review feedback fixes - Change test directive to TEST:SIMPLE - Use IRArrayType instead of IRArrayTypeBase - Use MakeArrayFromElement for cleaner scalar-to-array conversion Co-authored-by: Yong He <csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Fix type conversion in scalar-to-array tessellation factor conversion Convert scalar value to array element type before creating array to handle cases where scalar type differs from array element type (e.g., int to float[3]). Co-authored-by: Yong He <csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Use CHECK-DAG for order-independent tessellation factor checks Co-authored-by: Yong He <csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Yong He <csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-07-15Replace [KnownBuiltin] string-based comparisons with enum-based system (#7714)Copilot
* Initial plan * Implement enum-based KnownBuiltin system to replace string comparisons Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Add test for enum-based KnownBuiltin system and verify functionality Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Implement enum-based KnownBuiltin system with direct integer values Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Fix IntVal access and update tests for new enum-based KnownBuiltin system Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Replace hardcoded KnownBuiltin integers with preprocessor enum syntax - Updated all KnownBuiltin attributes to use $( (int)KnownBuiltinDeclName::EnumValue) syntax - Added space between parentheses to avoid preprocessor bug: $( (int) instead of $((int) - Updated both core.meta.slang and hlsl.meta.slang files - Eliminates preprocessor-time integer conversion, baking enum values directly into meta files - Maintains same functionality while using type-safe enum references Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Fix IDifferentiablePtr KnownBuiltin mapping regression Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Remove unused IDifferentiablePtrType enum case from KnownBuiltinDeclName Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Clean up temporary AST dump files from testing Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Replace hardcoded integer with descriptive constant in KnownBuiltin test Replace the hardcoded [KnownBuiltin(0)] with a descriptive named constant GEOMETRY_STREAM_APPEND_BUILTIN to improve code readability and maintainability. The test now clearly indicates which builtin enum value is being tested. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) Co-authored-by: Gangzheng Tong <gtong-nv@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Gangzheng Tong <gtong-nv@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Gangzheng Tong <tonggangzheng@gmail.com>
2025-07-10Fix SV_VertexID and SV_InstanceID crash with -preserve-params in SPIR-V ↵Copilot
emitter (#7691) * Initial plan * Fix SV_VertexID and SV_InstanceID crash with -preserve-params in SPIR-V emitter Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Fix transformation layer to handle unused builtin params properly This ensures that builtin decorations are correctly transformed for unused parameters with -preserve-params, preventing the SPIR-V emitter from seeing un-translated builtins like sv_vertexid. Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> * Format code according to project style Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: csyonghe <2652293+csyonghe@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-06-29Support the GLSL/SPIR-V Built-in variable `DeviceIndex` (#7552)ArielG-NV
* Support DeviceIndex * format code * regenerate command line reference --------- Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-06-06Remove unnecessary compile definitions (#7355)Emil Imbert Villumsen
* Remove unused compile definitions No need for full external path; slang is already linking with the SPIRV-Headers cmake target which adds the proper include flags
2025-06-06Address issues with GLSL style global in/out vars (#6669) (#6998)sricker-nvidia
* Address issues with GLSL style global in/out vars (#6669) Asserts and segfaults were observed trying to compile a simple vertex shader like: ```` in int2 inPos; [shader("vertex")] main(uniform int2 test1, int2 test2, out float4 pos: SV_Position) void main() { // Bogus use of all input vars to prevent optimizing out. pos = float4(inPos.x, test1.x, test2.y, 0); } ```` Further investigation found that while replacing "uniform int2 test1" with "int2 test1" allowed for successful compilation, the resulting output shader would have overlapping location qualifiers. For example, compiling the above with "int2 test1" to glsl might give: ```` ... layout(location = 0) in ivec2 test1_0; layout(location = 1) in ivec2 test2_0; layout(location = 0) in ivec2 translatedGlobalParams_inPos_0; ... ```` This was because Slang does not actually support mixing GLSL style global in/out vars and entry point params. However, this is never checked for or noted in documentation. Slang source also assumes input shaders do not mix these and these assumptions ultimately led to the observed asserts and seg faults when using uniform entry point params. This change makes updates to throw an error when the compiler detects that it is trying to translate global in/out variables into entry point params when an entry point already contains parameters, allowing for compilation to fail gracefully. Certain tests have been updated to avoid mixing GLSL style global in/out vars and entry point params. This was mostly for tests that were using functions like WaveGetLaneIndex which use global in vars for certain platforms (see __builtinWaveLaneIndex). * Address issues with GLSL style global in/out vars - updates 1 (#6669) Update addresses review feedback to support mixing GLSL-flavored global in/out vars and entrypoint parameters when either all global in/out vars or all entry point params have a system value binding semantic. * Address issues with GLSL style global in/out vars - updates 2 (#6669) This update attempts to actually allow mixing GLSL style global in vars and entry point vars. Change attempts to recalculate offsets when adding the global input vars into the recreated entry point params layout. Additional updates were made to: -resolve further issues uncovered with entry point uniform params. -Address improper use of SV_DispatchThreadID in wave-get-lane-index.slang for metal. "thread_position_in_grid" is not supported for signed integer scalars or vectors. -Fix a spirv casting conflict due to the implementation of gl_PrimitiveID.get conflicting with PrimitiveIndex(). -Add a call to remove a global var in replaceUsesOfGlobalVar(). The global var is already replaced in this function and keeping it around can prevent it from being cleaned up by DCE if it still has decorations. * format code --------- Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-05-19Map `SV_VertexID` to `gl_VertexIndex-gl_BaseVertex`, add `SV_Vulkan*ID` ↵Darren Wihandi
semantics (#7150) * Map SV_VertexID to `gl_VertexIndex - gl_BaseVertex`, provide SV_Vulkan* SV semantics * Fix docs * Regenerate toc * Fix affected pointer-2 test * Add tests --------- Co-authored-by: Yong He <yonghe@outlook.com>
2025-04-29Support use of `this` with Mesh Shader Outputs (`IRMeshOutputRef`) (#6920)16-Bit-Dog
* Support `this` use of `IRMeshOutputRef` * Fix SPIR-V val error There was a type mismatch causing a spir-v failiure: `store(var, var)` instead of `store(var, load(var))`
2025-04-22A new approach to AST serialization (#6854)Theresa Foley
* A new approach to AST serialization This change completely overhauls the way that AST nodes are being serialized, and the offline source-code generation steps that enable that serialization. In practice, this ends up being a complete overhaul of the way that *modules* are being serialized (not just the AST part), although things like the serialization format for the Slang IR and for source locations are not affected. The rest of this commit message is broken down in to sections, in an attempt to help guide anybody looking at the code in how to make sense of all the changes. The Old C++ Extractor --------------------- AST serialization used to be driven by information scraped using the `slang-cpp-extractor` tool, which did an ad hoc parse of the C++ declarations of the AST node types and then generated a set of "X macros" that could be for macro-based code generation within the rest of the compiler. While the existing approach was functional, it wasn't easy to understand or maintain, and it has been getting in the way of forward progress on other features we'd like to work on in the language and compiler. This change removes the `slang-cpp-extractor` tool entirely. Marking Up the AST Declarations ------------------------------- The most notable change that contributors to the compiler may notice is the large number of invocations of a macro `FIDDLE()` on the declarations of the AST node types. The basic idea is that only declarations (namespaces, types, fields) that are preceded by `FIDDLE()` are visible to the code generator tool. So if somebody is working with the AST and wondering why a new node type isn't working, or why a field they added isn't being serialized correctly, it is probably because they need to add `FIDDLE()` in front of it. Generating the Boilerplate Code ------------------------------- The file `slang-ast-boilerplate.cpp` provides a good example of how the information extracted from the marked-up AST declarations gets used. In that file, the `FIDDLE TEMPLATE` construct is used to generate type information for each of the AST node types. Similar logic is used in `slang-ast-forward-declarations.h` to generate the declaration of the `ASTNodeType` enumeration, and forward-declare all the AST node classes. For many parts of the code, simply including that file replaces the need for the old `slang-generated-*.h` files. Replacing Visitors and Related Logic ------------------------------------ The old visitor types for the AST used the macros that were generated by `slang-cpp-extractor`, so something new was needed to replace them. The same goes for the `SLANG_AST_NODE_VIRTUAL_CALL` macros. The core of the solution implemented here is in `slang-ast-dispatch.h`. Given a "dispatchable" AST node type (say, `Expr`), a call like: ``` ASTNodeDispatcher<Expr,R>(expr, [&](auto e) { return doSomething(e); }) ``` is an expression of type `R`, which does the equivalent of something like: ``` switch(expr->getTag()) { case ASTNodeType::VarExpr: return doSomething(static_cast<VarExpr*>(expr)); // ... } ``` The `SLANG_AST_NODE_VIRTUAL_CALL` macro is now implemented in terms of `ASTNodeDispatcher`. The implementation of the visitor types is more involved. The code in this change retains some of the macro names from the original version, just to try and make the parallels more clear. The visitor types are all implemented on top of the `ASTNodeDispatcher` approach, and use `FIDDLE TEMPLATE` to generate all the boilerplate `visit*()` method declarations. Refactoring of `Linkage` Module Loading --------------------------------------- Needing to revisit all the places where modules get deserialized made it clear that there is a lot of complexity and apparent duplication in the core routines on the `Linkage` that get used for loading modules. This change tries to clean up some of that logic, but it is worth noting that there are two legacy features that get in the way of making things as clean as they should be: * The `LoadedModuleDictionary` type that gets passed around a lot exists entirely to handle the corner case where somebody uses the Slang API to perform a compilation with multiple `TranslationUnitRequest`s in the same `FrontEndCompileRequest`, and one of the translation units `import`s the module defined by another of the translation units. * There are a lot of special-case behaviors and routines entirely there to support the `ModuleLibrary` feature, although that feature should be considered deprecated (or at least subject to getting entirely re-designed down the line). The basic idea of the cleanup is that all of the (non-deprecated) ways load a module from a serialized binary, or compile one from source should now bottleneck through `loadModuleImpl`, which then bifurcates into `loadSourceModuleImpl` for the compilation case and `loadBinaryModuleImpl` for the deserialization case. High-Level Serialization Approach --------------------------------- The old serialization logic used the [RIFF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Format) format to encode the high-level structure of things, and this change retains that usage (and actually doubles down on the RIFF usage). The old serialization system relied on the idea that for any given type `Foo` that wants to support serialization, there should be something like a `SerialFooData` type in C++, that can represent the state of a `Foo`, and then the actual serialization applied to that `SerialFooData`. This means that in most cases there are four pieces of code written: * During serialization: * Copying the data of a `Foo` in memory over to a `SerialFooData` in memory * Writing the state of a `SerialFooData` into the serialized data stream * During deserialization: * Reading the state of a `SerialFooData` from a serialized data stream * Copying the data of the `SerialFooData` in memory over to a `Foo` The new logic gets rid of the intermediate `SerialFooData`. In the serialization direction, we take a `Foo` and write it to the `RIFFContainer` directly, or using some other utilities layered on top of it. In the deserialization direction, we have additional flexibility. Given a `RIFFContainer::Chunk*` that represents a serialized `Foo`, we often navigate through the in-memory representation of the RIFF data to get to the parts of the serialized value that we actually want/need, without needing to deserialize the entire `Foo`. To support this kind of operation, this change introduces a few helper types like `ContainerChunkRef` an `ModuleChunkRef`, that are little more than typed wrappers around a `RIFFContainer::Chunk*`. The Module "Container" Part --------------------------- A serialized `Module` is encoded as a RIFF chunk, using logic in `slang-serialize-container.cpp` - both before and after this change. This change reorganizes a lot of the code in that file, to account for the way that eliminating the intermediate `SerialContainerData` type streamlines the overall task of writing out the parts of the module. In the deserialization logic... there isn't really much to do in `slang-serialize-container.cpp`. Most of the logic in `slang.cpp` and `slang-module-library.cpp` that pertains to deserializing modules uses the `ModuleChunkRef`-based approach, and simply extracts the pieces of the serialized module that it needs. The Actual Serialization of the AST ----------------------------------- The actual AST serialization logic is in `slang-serialize-ast.cpp`. The basic approach in both the writing and reading directions is: * Use the `FIDDLE TEMPLATE` system to generate a set of functions, one for each AST node type, that recursively invoke the read/write logic on each field of that node (after recursively invoking the case for its direct superclass) * Use the `ASTNodeDispatcher` system to dispatch out to those functions whene reading or writing anything derived from `NodeBase` * For now, handle all types *not* derived from `NodeBase` by hand. There's a lot of room for improvement around that last item: it should be just as easy to generate the serialization and deserialization logic for other types that don't inherit from `NodeBase`, but the current change tries to err on the side of making the logic as explicit and simplistic as possible, rather than trying to get too clever too soon. The actual serialization *format* used for the AST is almost comically simplistic: the code uses hierarchical RIFF chunks to emulate a JSON-like structure. This is a very wasteful representation (e.g., a `bool` or a null pointer each take up *8 bytes*), but the goal for now is to start with the simplest thing that could possibly work, and only add more cleverness once we are sure it won't get in the way of important future improvements (like lazy/on-demand deserialization or IR and AST, to improve compiler startup times). The files `slang-serialize.{h,cpp}` have been co-opted to define a new pair of types `Encoder` and `Decoder` that are used for a more-or-less stream-oriented way or reading or writing RIFF chunks for the JSON-like structure. Almost everything related to the actual AST serialization could do with a cleanup pass, and some time spent on picking good/better names for everything. Smaller Stuff ------------- * Cleaned up a lot of code that was using bare `ASTNodeType` or the extractor's `ReflectClassInfo` type to consistently use `SyntaxClass`. * Fixed an apparent bug in how the destination-driven code genarator was handling `TryExpr`s * Fixed an apparent bug in how the GLSL legalization pass was handling translation of certain `SV_*` semantics. * format code * fixup: template errors caught by non-VS compilers * format code * fixup: more template errors * fixup: more stuff VS didn't catch * fixup: it's amazing VS doesn't catch these... * fixup: yet more template stuff VS ignores * fixup: more VS template nonsense * fixup: unreachable return macro usage * fixup: more unreacable returns * fixup: unused parameter * fixup: strict aliasing * fixup: allow missing entry point list chunk * fixup: wasm build script * fixup: AST changes since this PR was created --------- Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Yong He <yonghe@outlook.com>
2025-04-17Fix SV_InstanceID for emit-spirv-via-glsl path (#6848)Darren Wihandi
2025-04-14Add SV_PointCoord to match gl_PointCoord (#6795)Julius Ikkala
* Add gl_PointCoord support in GLSL compat mode * Add SV_PointCoord * Test on metal as well * Update SPIRV system value semantics table in docs * Update metal docs for SV_PointCoord
2025-04-09Get real value for typeAdapter (#6762)Gangzheng Tong
* Get real value for typeAdapter When the type is mismatch and typeAdapter is used, get the real value from typeAdapter so that we don't get nullptr for irValue. This fixes the assert if uint is used for SV_VertexID, which is an int in the system binding semantic. Fixes: #6525 * Add test case; add nullptr check
2025-02-28Consolidate multiple inouts/outs into struct (#6435)Mukund Keshava
* Consolidate multiple inout/outs into struct Fixes #5121 VUID-StandaloneSpirv-IncomingRayPayloadKHR-04700 requires that there be only one IncomingRayPayloadKHR per entry point. This change does two things: 1. If an entry point has the one inout or out, or has only ins, then stay with current implementation. 2. If there are multiple outs/inouts, then create a new structure to consolidate these fields and emit this structure. These two code paths are split into two separate functions for clarity. This patch also adds a new test: multipleinout.slang to test this. * Address review comments * Refactor code as per review comments * format code * fix failing tests --------- Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Yong He <yonghe@outlook.com>
2025-02-27Map `SV_InstanceID` to `gl_InstanceIndex-gl_BaseInstance` (#6468)Yong He
* Map `SV_InstanceID` to `gl_InstanceIndex-gl_BaseInstance` * Fix ci.
2025-02-24Legalize array size of SV_TessFactor and SV_InsideTessFactor (#6409)Jay Kwak
* Legalize array size of SV_TessFactor and SV_InsideTessFactor When targeting SPIR-V or GLSL, the type for SV_TessFactor must be float[4]; note that it is not a vector but an array. Similarly the type of SV_InsideTessFactor has to be an array of float[2]. When the user shader declare them as arrays smaller than the required size, Slang will legalize them to the required sizes. Note that it is not the user mistake to declare floar[3] when the hull mode is in "tri", as an example. The unused components are expected to be ignored. Note also that HLSL allows the type to be float[2|3|4] whereas GLSL and SPIR-V requires it to be always float[4]. * Change from "quad" domain mode to "tri" * Handle error case --------- Co-authored-by: Yong He <yonghe@outlook.com>
2025-02-14Don't remove in-use globals (#6359)cheneym2
The GLSL interface block implementation accidentally removed global variables which are still in use.
2025-02-13Add support for GLSL interface blocks (#6351)cheneym2
Adds support for input GLSL interface blocks. closes #5535 Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-02-03Auto enable `-fvk-use-entrypoint-name` when there is more than one ↵Yong He
entrypoint. (#6260) * Auto enable `-fvk-use-entrypoint-name` when there is more than one entrypoint. * Fix.
2025-02-02Add support for WGSL subgroup operations (#6213)Darren Wihandi
* initial work * more work * more work on glsl intrinsics * add subgroup broadcast for glsl * wip add wgsl extension tracking * enable tests, enable extensions and added some todos * format and warning fixes * fix wgsl extension tracker --------- Co-authored-by: Yong He <yonghe@outlook.com>
2025-01-10Initial implementation of SP#015 `DescriptorHandle<T>`. (#6028)Yong He
* Initial implementation of `ResourcePtr<T>`. * Update docs * Fix build error. * Add more discussion. * Update documentation. * Update TOC. * Fix. * Fix. * Add test case for custom `getResourceFromBindlessHandle`. * Add namehint to generated descriptor heap param. * Fix. * Fix. * format code * Rename to `DescriptorHandle`, and add `T.Handle` alias. * Fix compiler error. * Fix. * Fix build. * Renames. * Fix documentation. * Documentation fix. --------- Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-01-07Lower varying parameters as pointers instead of SSA values. (#5919)Yong He
* Add executable test on matrix-typed vertex input. * Fix emit logic of matrix layout qualifier. * Pass fragment shader varying input by constref to allow EvaluateAttributeAtCentroid etc. to be implemented correctly.
2024-12-19Add base vertex and base instance system values (#5918)Darren Wihandi
* Add base vertex and base instance system values * Fixed incorrect stage in tests
2024-12-09Add SV_DrawIndex. (#5787)Yong He
Co-authored-by: Ellie Hermaszewska <ellieh@nvidia.com>
2024-11-05Move switch statement bodies to their own lines (#5493)Ellie Hermaszewska
* Move switch statement bodies to their own lines * format --------- Co-authored-by: Yong He <yonghe@outlook.com>
2024-10-29formatEllie Hermaszewska
* format * Minor test fixes * enable checking cpp format in ci
2024-10-28Replace the word stdlib or standard-library with core-module for source code ↵Jay Kwak
(#5415) This commit changes the word "stdlib" or "standard library" to "core module" in the source code.
2024-10-04Allow building using external dependencies (#5076)Tobias Frisch
* Add options to prevent usage of own submodules Signed-off-by: Jacki <jacki@thejackimonster.de> * Allow using external unordered dense headers Signed-off-by: Jacki <jacki@thejackimonster.de> * Link system wide installed unordered dense Signed-off-by: Jacki <jacki@thejackimonster.de> * Allow external header usage for lz4 and spirv Signed-off-by: Jacki <jacki@thejackimonster.de> * Add more options to disable targets Signed-off-by: Jacki <jacki@thejackimonster.de> * Add option to provide explizit path for spirv headers and remove earlier options that break the build process Signed-off-by: Jacki <jacki@thejackimonster.de> * Rename options to use common prefix Signed-off-by: Jacki <jacki@thejackimonster.de> * Fix indentation for the cmake changes Signed-off-by: Jacki <jacki@thejackimonster.de> * Add advanced_option function for cmake * Normalize includes between system and submodule dependencies Fix any before-accidentally-working problems * Add option for enabling/disabling slang-rhi Signed-off-by: Jacki <jacki@thejackimonster.de> * Pass correct include path for cpu tests * Correct include path --------- Signed-off-by: Jacki <jacki@thejackimonster.de> Co-authored-by: Ellie Hermaszewska <ellieh@nvidia.com>
2024-09-27Fix hull shader spirv legalization bug. (#5180)Yong He
2024-09-05Fix SPIRV SV_TessFactor type adaptation logic. (#5010)Yong He
* Fix SPIRV SV_TessFactor type adaptation logic. * Fix compile error.
2024-08-28Metal: Mesh Shaders (#4280)Dynamitos
* Metal: mesh shading skeleton * Metal: fixing mesh payload * Metal: improving mesh shader indices output * Metal: Implementing conditional mesh output set * Metal: Trying to not break other backends * Metal: trying to fix mesh output set * Metal: Fixing MeshOutputSet usages * Metal: Fixing vertex and primitive semantics * Metal: Fixing code style * Metal: Fixed hlsl indices set * Fixed HLSL mesh output set disappearing and GLSL mesh output crashing * Metal: Adjusting task test matching --------- Co-authored-by: Yong He <yonghe@outlook.com>
2024-08-26Fix Varying Variable Location Assignments With Hull Shaders (#4915)ArielG-NV
* Fix Varying Variable Location Assignments With Hull Shaders Fixes: #4913 Fixes: #4540 Changes: 1. Added `kIROp_ControlBarrier` to HLSL/GLSL emitting. 2. Added a method to track 'used' and 'unused' varyings for when legalizing GLSL. This allows us to assign correct offsets to automatically added varyings * Added a `ZeroLSB` check to UIntSet for this purpose * add missing return * code comment adjustment * cleanup * comment and HLSL controlBarrier mistake * assume space for glsl/spriv varying is irrelevant
2024-08-19Remove using SpvStorageClass values casted into AddressSpace values (#4861)Ellie Hermaszewska
* Remove using SpvStorageClass values casted into AddressSpace values Also removes support for specific storage classes in __target_intrinsic snippets * remove SLANG_RETURN_NEVER macro * squash warnings * Make nonexhaustive switch statement error on gcc * Add SLANG_EXHAUSTIVE_SWITCH_BEGIN/END macros --------- Co-authored-by: Yong He <yonghe@outlook.com>
2024-07-24Add generic descriptor indexing intrinsic (#4389)dubiousconst282
* Add ResourceArray intrinsic type * Move aliased parameter generation to GLSL legalization * Add DynamicResourceEntry type for proxying layout of GenericResourceArray * Reimplement as DynamicResource * Add reflection test * Don't reuse alias cache between different parameters * Add dynamic cast extensions for buffer types * Minor format fix * Fix VarDecl diagnostics after finding non-appliable initializer candidates --------- Co-authored-by: Yong He <yonghe@outlook.com>
2024-07-10Specialize address space during spirv legalization. (#4600)Yong He
* Specialize address space during spirv legalization. * Fix. * Fix building doc. * Fix cmake. * Update assert.
2024-06-26Expand upon existing `ImageSubscript` support (Metal, GLSL, SPIRV) (#4408)ArielG-NV
* Add additional `ImageSubscript` features: 1. Added ImageSubscript support for Metal & a test case * Merge GLSL/SPIRV/Metal `ImageSubscript` legalization pass 2. Added multisample support to glsl/spirv/metal for when using ImageSubscript * Added in this PR since the overhaul of the code merges together GLSL/SPIRV/Metal implementation 3. Fixed minor metal texture `Load`/`Read` bugs * [HLSL methods of access do not support subscript accessor for texture cube array](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3dhlsl/texturecubearray) * removed swizzling of uint/int/float * other odd bugs which were causing compile errors note: Compute tests do not work due to what seems to be the GFX backend (causes crash without error report). The tests are disabled. * disable LOD with texture 1d seems that LOD for 1d textures need to be a compile time constant as per an error metal throws * syntax error in hlsl.meta * static_assert alone with intrinsic_asm error provides cleaner errors Note: `static_assert` seems to be unstable and not be fully respected (still require `intrinsic_asm` to avoid a stdlib compile error) * change comment to `// lod is not supported for 1D texture * add `static_assert` in related code gen paths * address review * address review * add asserts as per review comment, NOTE: unclear if these should be release 'asserts' as well
2024-06-13SPIR-V `SV_InstanceId` support in pixel shader (#4368)ArielG-NV
* solve issue by making 'non SV for SPIRV' system semantics, no longer an SV once diagnosed by slang Problem: 1. SV_InstanceID (HLSL) is allowed as an output semantic with HLSL, it is also allowed for input into pixel shader. We need to account for multiple entry points in 1 file using both of these scenarios at once. 2. SPIRV does not allow `SV_InstanceID` as a builtin, `SV_InstanceID` must be passed as a regular `flat` `Input` from vertex shader. Solution: Slang needs to treat these SV objects as non built-in's. As a result: 1. Slang needs to allocate for vertex output and fragment Input binding slots for all SV_InstanceID uses (if the target is SPIRV). This allows Slang to prepare an open slot to bind these SV objects to. 2. Slang needs to not emit built in modifier for these not actual built in variables (under the specific circumstances described). note: `VarLayout` was made not `HOISTABLE` since I don't believe it needs to be `HOISTABLE`. * The code can be made to work even if `VarLayout` is `HOISTABLE`. * fix compile warnings * address review comments and reimplement operand removal 1. remove an operand by selectively copying operands 2. test to ensure `Flat` is in the test shaders * we do not need to manually add `Flat` in the code since this is done for us in emit-spirv. This is the behavior since `uint` on a fragment `Input` must be `Flat`, else it is a VK validation error. * address review remove clone logic * address review remove unused function reserve instead of setCount with ShortList
2024-06-12Capability System: Implicit capability upgrade warning/error (#4241)ArielG-NV
* capability upgrade warning/error adjusted implementation + tests to support a warning/error if capabilities are implicitly upgraded and test accordingly. * add glsl profile caps * add GLSL and HLSL capabilities to the associated capability * syntax error in capdef * only error if user explicitly enables capabilities 1. changed testing infrastructure to not set a `profile` explicitly, 2. Added tests to be sure this works as intended with user API and with slangc command line * Change capability atom definitions and how Slang manages them to fix errors 1. most `glsl_spirv` version atoms have been removed from `.capdef`, instead we will translate `spirv` version atoms into `glsl_spirv` since there is no point in writing the same code twice in `.capdef` files to define `spirv` versions. 2. add spirv version, and hlsl sm version (and equivlent) capability dependencies 3. removed some stage requirments which were set on objects, keep the wrapper capabilities. I am keeping the wrapper capabilities since I am unaware on if there are stage limitations (spec says code in practice does not work). * check internal version instead of version profile (_spirv_1_5 vs. spirv_1_5) * remove unused OpCapability. adjust SPIRV version'ing again for glsl_spirv * apply workaround for glslang bug with rayquery usage * ensure capabilities targetted by a profile and added together by a user are valid * remove additions to `spirv_1_*` wrapper * spirv_* -> glsl_spirv fix * fix bug where incompatable profiles would cause invalid target caps * try to avoid joining invalid capabilities * fix the warning/error & printing * run through tests to fix capability system and test mistakes many mistakes were mesh shaders doing `-profile glsl_450+spirv_1_4`. This is not allowed for a few reasons 1. the test tooling does not handle arguments the same as `slangc` 2. glsl_450 core profile does not support mesh shaders, nor does spirv_1_4. sm_6_5 does work in this senario * set some sm_4_1 intrinsics to sm_4_0 * replace `GLSL_` defs with `glsl_` * swap the unsupported render-test syntax for working syntax * set d3d11/d3d12 profile defaults this is required since sm version changes compiled code & behavior * adjusted nvapi capabilities with atomics + d3d11 set to use sm_5_0 as per default * cleanup * address review * incorrect styling * change `bitscanForward` to work as intended on 32 bit targets --------- Co-authored-by: Yong He <yonghe@outlook.com>
2024-06-11SPIRV backend: add support for tessellation stages, (#4336)Yong He