//===-- GPU memory allocator implementation ---------------------*- C++ -*-===// // // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions. // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information. // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// // // This file implements a parallel allocator intended for use on a GPU device. // The core algorithm is slab allocator using a random walk over a bitfield for // maximum parallel progress. Slab handling is done by a wait-free reference // counted guard. The first use of a slab will create it from system memory for // re-use. The last use will invalidate it and free the memory. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// #include "allocator.h" #include "src/__support/CPP/atomic.h" #include "src/__support/CPP/bit.h" #include "src/__support/CPP/new.h" #include "src/__support/GPU/utils.h" #include "src/__support/RPC/rpc_client.h" #include "src/__support/threads/sleep.h" namespace LIBC_NAMESPACE_DECL { constexpr static uint64_t MAX_SIZE = /* 64 GiB */ 64ull * 1024 * 1024 * 1024; constexpr static uint64_t SLAB_SIZE = /* 2 MiB */ 2ull * 1024 * 1024; constexpr static uint64_t ARRAY_SIZE = MAX_SIZE / SLAB_SIZE; constexpr static uint64_t SLAB_ALIGNMENT = SLAB_SIZE - 1; constexpr static uint32_t BITS_IN_WORD = sizeof(uint32_t) * 8; constexpr static uint32_t MIN_SIZE = 16; constexpr static uint32_t MIN_ALIGNMENT = MIN_SIZE - 1; // A sentinel used to indicate an invalid but non-null pointer value. constexpr static uint64_t SENTINEL = cpp::numeric_limits::max(); // The number of times we will try starting on a single index before skipping // past it. constexpr static uint32_t MAX_TRIES = 512; static_assert(!(ARRAY_SIZE & (ARRAY_SIZE - 1)), "Must be a power of two"); namespace impl { // Allocates more memory from the system through the RPC interface. All // allocations from the system MUST be aligned on a 2MiB barrier. The default // HSA allocator has this behavior for any allocation >= 2MiB and the CUDA // driver provides an alignment field for virtual memory allocations. static void *rpc_allocate(uint64_t size) { void *ptr = nullptr; rpc::Client::Port port = rpc::client.open(); port.send_and_recv( [=](rpc::Buffer *buffer, uint32_t) { buffer->data[0] = size; }, [&](rpc::Buffer *buffer, uint32_t) { ptr = reinterpret_cast(buffer->data[0]); }); port.close(); return ptr; } // Deallocates the associated system memory. static void rpc_free(void *ptr) { rpc::Client::Port port = rpc::client.open(); port.send([=](rpc::Buffer *buffer, uint32_t) { buffer->data[0] = reinterpret_cast(ptr); }); port.close(); } // Convert a potentially disjoint bitmask into an increasing integer per-lane // for use with indexing between gpu lanes. static inline uint32_t lane_count(uint64_t lane_mask) { return cpp::popcount(lane_mask & ((uint64_t(1) << gpu::get_lane_id()) - 1)); } // Obtain an initial value to seed a random number generator. We use the rounded // multiples of the golden ratio from xorshift* as additional spreading. static inline uint32_t entropy() { return (static_cast(gpu::processor_clock()) ^ (gpu::get_thread_id_x() * 0x632be59b) ^ (gpu::get_block_id_x() * 0x85157af5)) * 0x9e3779bb; } // Generate a random number and update the state using the xorshift32* PRNG. static inline uint32_t xorshift32(uint32_t &state) { state ^= state << 13; state ^= state >> 17; state ^= state << 5; return state * 0x9e3779bb; } // Final stage of murmurhash used to get a unique index for the global array static inline uint32_t hash(uint32_t x) { x ^= x >> 16; x *= 0x85ebca6b; x ^= x >> 13; x *= 0xc2b2ae35; x ^= x >> 16; return x; } // Rounds the input value to the closest permitted chunk size. Here we accept // the sum of the closest three powers of two. For a 2MiB slab size this is 48 // different chunk sizes. This gives us average internal fragmentation of 87.5%. static inline uint32_t get_chunk_size(uint32_t x) { uint32_t y = x < MIN_SIZE ? MIN_SIZE : x; uint32_t pow2 = BITS_IN_WORD - cpp::countl_zero(y - 1); uint32_t s0 = 0b0100 << (pow2 - 3); uint32_t s1 = 0b0110 << (pow2 - 3); uint32_t s2 = 0b0111 << (pow2 - 3); uint32_t s3 = 0b1000 << (pow2 - 3); if (s0 > y) return (s0 + MIN_ALIGNMENT) & ~MIN_ALIGNMENT; if (s1 > y) return (s1 + MIN_ALIGNMENT) & ~MIN_ALIGNMENT; if (s2 > y) return (s2 + MIN_ALIGNMENT) & ~MIN_ALIGNMENT; return (s3 + MIN_ALIGNMENT) & ~MIN_ALIGNMENT; } // Rounds to the nearest power of two. template static inline constexpr T round_up(const T x) { static_assert(((N - 1) & N) == 0, "N must be a power of two"); return (x + N) & ~(N - 1); } } // namespace impl /// A slab allocator used to hand out identically sized slabs of memory. /// Allocation is done through random walks of a bitfield until a free bit is /// encountered. This reduces contention and is highly parallel on a GPU. /// /// 0 4 8 16 ... 2 MiB /// ┌────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┐ /// │ chunk │ index │ pad │ bitfield[] │ memory[] │ /// └────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘ /// /// The size of the bitfield is the slab size divided by the chunk size divided /// by the number of bits per word. We pad the interface to ensure 16 byte /// alignment and to indicate that if the pointer is not aligned by 2MiB it /// belongs to a slab rather than the global allocator. struct Slab { // Header metadata for the slab, aligned to the minimum alignment. struct alignas(MIN_SIZE) Header { uint32_t chunk_size; uint32_t global_index; }; // Initialize the slab with its chunk size and index in the global table for // use when freeing. Slab(uint32_t chunk_size, uint32_t global_index) { Header *header = reinterpret_cast
(memory); header->chunk_size = chunk_size; header->global_index = global_index; // This memset is expensive and likely not necessary for the current 'kfd' // driver. Until zeroed pages are exposed by the API we must be careful. __builtin_memset(get_bitfield(), 0, bitfield_bytes(chunk_size)); } // Get the number of chunks that can theoretically fit inside this slab. constexpr static uint32_t num_chunks(uint32_t chunk_size) { return SLAB_SIZE / chunk_size; } // Get the number of bytes needed to contain the bitfield bits. constexpr static uint32_t bitfield_bytes(uint32_t chunk_size) { return ((num_chunks(chunk_size) + BITS_IN_WORD - 1) / BITS_IN_WORD) * 8; } // The actual amount of memory available excluding the bitfield and metadata. constexpr static uint32_t available_bytes(uint32_t chunk_size) { return SLAB_SIZE - bitfield_bytes(chunk_size) - sizeof(Header); } // The number of chunks that can be stored in this slab. constexpr static uint32_t available_chunks(uint32_t chunk_size) { return available_bytes(chunk_size) / chunk_size; } // The length in bits of the bitfield. constexpr static uint32_t usable_bits(uint32_t chunk_size) { return available_bytes(chunk_size) / chunk_size; } // Get the location in the memory where we will store the chunk size. uint32_t get_chunk_size() const { return reinterpret_cast(memory)->chunk_size; } // Get the location in the memory where we will store the global index. uint32_t get_global_index() const { return reinterpret_cast(memory)->global_index; } // Get a pointer to where the bitfield is located in the memory. uint32_t *get_bitfield() { return reinterpret_cast(memory + sizeof(Header)); } // Get a pointer to where the actual memory to be allocated lives. uint8_t *get_memory(uint32_t chunk_size) { return reinterpret_cast(get_bitfield()) + bitfield_bytes(chunk_size); } // Get a pointer to the actual memory given an index into the bitfield. void *ptr_from_index(uint32_t index, uint32_t chunk_size) { return get_memory(chunk_size) + index * chunk_size; } // Convert a pointer back into its bitfield index using its offset. uint32_t index_from_ptr(void *ptr, uint32_t chunk_size) { return static_cast(reinterpret_cast(ptr) - get_memory(chunk_size)) / chunk_size; } // Randomly walks the bitfield until it finds a free bit. Allocations attempt // to put lanes right next to each other for better caching and convergence. void *allocate(uint64_t lane_mask, uint64_t uniform) { uint32_t chunk_size = get_chunk_size(); uint32_t state = impl::entropy(); // The uniform mask represents which lanes contain a uniform target pointer. // We attempt to place these next to each other. void *result = nullptr; for (uint64_t mask = lane_mask; mask; mask = gpu::ballot(lane_mask, !result)) { if (result) continue; uint32_t start = gpu::broadcast_value(lane_mask, impl::xorshift32(state)); uint32_t id = impl::lane_count(uniform & mask); uint32_t index = (start + id) % usable_bits(chunk_size); uint32_t slot = index / BITS_IN_WORD; uint32_t bit = index % BITS_IN_WORD; // Get the mask of bits destined for the same slot and coalesce it. uint64_t match = uniform & gpu::match_any(mask, slot); uint32_t length = cpp::popcount(match); uint32_t bitmask = static_cast((uint64_t(1) << length) - 1) << bit; uint32_t before = 0; if (gpu::get_lane_id() == static_cast(cpp::countr_zero(match))) before = cpp::AtomicRef(get_bitfield()[slot]) .fetch_or(bitmask, cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED); before = gpu::shuffle(mask, cpp::countr_zero(match), before); if (~before & (1 << bit)) result = ptr_from_index(index, chunk_size); else sleep_briefly(); } cpp::atomic_thread_fence(cpp::MemoryOrder::ACQUIRE); return result; } // Deallocates memory by resetting its corresponding bit in the bitfield. void deallocate(void *ptr) { uint32_t chunk_size = get_chunk_size(); uint32_t index = index_from_ptr(ptr, chunk_size); uint32_t slot = index / BITS_IN_WORD; uint32_t bit = index % BITS_IN_WORD; cpp::atomic_thread_fence(cpp::MemoryOrder::RELEASE); cpp::AtomicRef(get_bitfield()[slot]) .fetch_and(~(1u << bit), cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED); } // The actual memory the slab will manage. All offsets are calculated at // runtime with the chunk size to keep the interface convergent when a warp or // wavefront is handling multiple sizes at once. uint8_t memory[SLAB_SIZE]; }; /// A wait-free guard around a pointer resource to be created dynamically if /// space is available and freed once there are no more users. struct GuardPtr { private: struct RefCounter { // Indicates that the object is in its deallocation phase and thus invalid. static constexpr uint64_t INVALID = uint64_t(1) << 63; // If a read preempts an unlock call we indicate this so the following // unlock call can swap out the helped bit and maintain exclusive ownership. static constexpr uint64_t HELPED = uint64_t(1) << 62; // Resets the reference counter, cannot be reset to zero safely. void reset(uint32_t n, uint64_t &count) { counter.store(n, cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED); count = n; } // Acquire a slot in the reference counter if it is not invalid. bool acquire(uint32_t n, uint64_t &count) { count = counter.fetch_add(n, cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED) + n; return (count & INVALID) == 0; } // Release a slot in the reference counter. This function should only be // called following a valid acquire call. bool release(uint32_t n) { // If this thread caused the counter to reach zero we try to invalidate it // and obtain exclusive rights to deconstruct it. If the CAS failed either // another thread resurrected the counter and we quit, or a parallel read // helped us invalidating it. For the latter, claim that flag and return. if (counter.fetch_sub(n, cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED) == n) { uint64_t expected = 0; if (counter.compare_exchange_strong(expected, INVALID, cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED, cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED)) return true; else if ((expected & HELPED) && (counter.exchange(INVALID, cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED) & HELPED)) return true; } return false; } // Returns the current reference count, potentially helping a releasing // thread. uint64_t read() { auto val = counter.load(cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED); if (val == 0 && counter.compare_exchange_strong( val, INVALID | HELPED, cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED)) return 0; return (val & INVALID) ? 0 : val; } cpp::Atomic counter{0}; }; cpp::Atomic ptr{nullptr}; RefCounter ref{}; // Should be called be a single lane for each different pointer. template Slab *try_lock_impl(uint32_t n, uint64_t &count, Args &&...args) { Slab *expected = ptr.load(cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED); if (!expected && ptr.compare_exchange_strong( expected, reinterpret_cast(SENTINEL), cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED, cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED)) { count = cpp::numeric_limits::max(); void *raw = impl::rpc_allocate(sizeof(Slab)); if (!raw) return nullptr; Slab *mem = new (raw) Slab(cpp::forward(args)...); cpp::atomic_thread_fence(cpp::MemoryOrder::RELEASE); ptr.store(mem, cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED); cpp::atomic_thread_fence(cpp::MemoryOrder::ACQUIRE); if (!ref.acquire(n, count)) ref.reset(n, count); return mem; } if (!expected || expected == reinterpret_cast(SENTINEL)) return nullptr; if (!ref.acquire(n, count)) return nullptr; cpp::atomic_thread_fence(cpp::MemoryOrder::ACQUIRE); return ptr.load(cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED); } public: // Attempt to lock access to the pointer, potentially creating it if empty. // The uniform mask represents which lanes share the same pointer. For each // uniform value we elect a leader to handle it on behalf of the other lanes. template Slab *try_lock(uint64_t lane_mask, uint64_t uniform, uint64_t &count, Args &&...args) { count = 0; Slab *result = nullptr; if (gpu::get_lane_id() == uint32_t(cpp::countr_zero(uniform))) result = try_lock_impl(cpp::popcount(uniform), count, cpp::forward(args)...); result = gpu::shuffle(lane_mask, cpp::countr_zero(uniform), result); count = gpu::shuffle(lane_mask, cpp::countr_zero(uniform), count); if (!result) return nullptr; if (count != cpp::numeric_limits::max()) count = count - cpp::popcount(uniform) + impl::lane_count(uniform) + 1; return result; } // Release the associated lock on the pointer, potentially destroying it. void unlock(uint64_t lane_mask, uint64_t mask) { cpp::atomic_thread_fence(cpp::MemoryOrder::RELEASE); if (gpu::get_lane_id() == uint32_t(cpp::countr_zero(mask)) && ref.release(cpp::popcount(mask))) { Slab *p = ptr.load(cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED); p->~Slab(); impl::rpc_free(p); cpp::atomic_thread_fence(cpp::MemoryOrder::RELEASE); ptr.store(nullptr, cpp::MemoryOrder::RELAXED); } gpu::sync_lane(lane_mask); } // Get the current value of the reference counter. uint64_t use_count() { return ref.read(); } }; // The global array used to search for a valid slab to allocate from. static GuardPtr slots[ARRAY_SIZE] = {}; // Tries to find a slab in the table that can support the given chunk size. static Slab *find_slab(uint32_t chunk_size) { // We start at a hashed value to spread out different chunk sizes. uint32_t start = impl::hash(chunk_size); uint64_t lane_mask = gpu::get_lane_mask(); uint64_t uniform = gpu::match_any(lane_mask, chunk_size); Slab *result = nullptr; uint32_t nudge = 0; for (uint64_t mask = lane_mask; mask; mask = gpu::ballot(lane_mask, !result), ++nudge) { uint32_t index = cpp::numeric_limits::max(); for (uint32_t offset = nudge / MAX_TRIES; gpu::ballot(lane_mask, index == cpp::numeric_limits::max()); offset += cpp::popcount(uniform & lane_mask)) { uint32_t candidate = (start + offset + impl::lane_count(uniform & lane_mask)) % ARRAY_SIZE; uint64_t available = gpu::ballot(lane_mask, slots[candidate].use_count() < Slab::available_chunks(chunk_size)); uint32_t new_index = gpu::shuffle( lane_mask, cpp::countr_zero(available & uniform), candidate); // Each uniform group will use the first empty slot they find. if ((index == cpp::numeric_limits::max() && (available & uniform))) index = new_index; // Guaruntees that this loop will eventuall exit if there is no space. if (offset >= ARRAY_SIZE) { result = reinterpret_cast(SENTINEL); index = 0; } } // Try to claim a slot for the found slot. if (!result) { uint64_t reserved = 0; Slab *slab = slots[index].try_lock(lane_mask & mask, uniform & mask, reserved, chunk_size, index); // If we find a slab with a matching chunk size then we store the result. // Otherwise, we need to free the claimed lock and continue. In the case // of out-of-memory we return a sentinel value. if (slab && reserved <= Slab::available_chunks(chunk_size) && slab->get_chunk_size() == chunk_size) { result = slab; } else if (slab && (reserved > Slab::available_chunks(chunk_size) || slab->get_chunk_size() != chunk_size)) { if (slab->get_chunk_size() != chunk_size) start = index + 1; slots[index].unlock(gpu::get_lane_mask(), gpu::get_lane_mask() & uniform); } else if (!slab && reserved == cpp::numeric_limits::max()) { result = reinterpret_cast(SENTINEL); } else { sleep_briefly(); } } } return result; } // Release the lock associated with a given slab. static void release_slab(Slab *slab) { uint32_t index = slab->get_global_index(); uint64_t lane_mask = gpu::get_lane_mask(); uint64_t uniform = gpu::match_any(lane_mask, index); slots[index].unlock(lane_mask, uniform); } namespace gpu { void *allocate(uint64_t size) { if (!size) return nullptr; // Allocations requiring a full slab or more go directly to memory. if (size >= SLAB_SIZE / 2) return impl::rpc_allocate(impl::round_up(size)); // Try to find a slab for the rounded up chunk size and allocate from it. uint32_t chunk_size = impl::get_chunk_size(static_cast(size)); Slab *slab = find_slab(chunk_size); if (!slab || slab == reinterpret_cast(SENTINEL)) return nullptr; uint64_t lane_mask = gpu::get_lane_mask(); uint64_t uniform = gpu::match_any(lane_mask, slab->get_global_index()); void *ptr = slab->allocate(lane_mask, uniform); return ptr; } void deallocate(void *ptr) { if (!ptr) return; // All non-slab allocations will be aligned on a 2MiB boundary. if ((reinterpret_cast(ptr) & SLAB_ALIGNMENT) == 0) return impl::rpc_free(ptr); // The original slab pointer is the 2MiB boundary using the given pointer. Slab *slab = reinterpret_cast( (reinterpret_cast(ptr) & ~SLAB_ALIGNMENT)); slab->deallocate(ptr); release_slab(slab); } } // namespace gpu } // namespace LIBC_NAMESPACE_DECL