> On Dec 16, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Richard Wei <rxr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> `sync` is not escaping. Shadow copy causes the device memory to make a copy,
> which can’t be a solution either. I’ll file a radar.
>
>> Note that, independently, this part looks fishy:
>>
>>> try! fill<<<(blockSize, blockCount)>>>[
>>> .pointer(to: &self)
>>
>> UnsafePointers formed by passing an argument inout are not valid after the
>> called function returns, so if this function is forming and returning a
>> pointer, it will likely result in undefined behavior. You should use
>> `withUnsafePointer(&self) { p in ... }` to get a usable pointer.
>
> This part is a semi-"type safe” wrapper to CUDA kernel launcher. The purpose
> is to make explicit which argument gets passed to the kernel as a pointer; in
> this case, self is a `DeviceArray`. `.pointer` is a factory method under
> `KernelArgument`. Since most arguments to the kernel are passed in by
> pointers, IMO using a bunch of `withUnsafe...` clauses would only make it
> look unnecessarily clumsy.
Unfortunately, that's the only defined way to write this code. The pointer you
get as an argument from `&self` is only good until pointer(to:) returns, so it
won't be guaranteed to be valid by the time you use it, and the compiler will
assume that `self` doesn't change afterward, so any mutation done to `self`
through that pointer will lead to undefined behavior. Rewriting this code to
use withUnsafePointer should also work around the capture bug without requiring
a shadow copy:
let blockSize = min(512, count)
let blockCount = (count+blockSize-1)/blockSize
withUnsafePointer(to: &self) { selfPtr in
device.sync { // Launch CUDA kernel
try! fill<<<(blockSize, blockCount)>>>[
.pointer(to: selfPtr), .value(value), .value(Int64(count))
]
}
}
-Joe
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