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Allow threadsafe access to buffer of type inference profiling trees #47615

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@vilterp vilterp commented Nov 17, 2022

This PR allows accessing the results of type inference profiling (via @snoopi_deep) from a separate background thread.

Note that type inference on multiple threads while snooping is enabled is still not threadsafe as of this PR, since starting in 1.9 type inference can happen in parallel on multiple threads. We will fix this in a follow-up PR.

In the meantime, this is a step in the right direction, and fixes thread safety for the specific case of one profiling thread and one inference thread, and this PR could be backported to 1.8.*.

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  • print deprecation warning (println and @warn are undefined in the compiler)
    • decided not to do this; it's infeasible and it's a compiler internal.

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vilterp commented Nov 18, 2022

@vilterp vilterp marked this pull request as ready for review November 18, 2022 20:58
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vilterp commented Nov 18, 2022

Mysterious error in the tests:

Package EnglishText errored during testing
  | Stacktrace:
  | [1] pkgerror(msg::String)
  | @ Pkg.Types /cache/build/default-amdci5-0/julialang/julia-master/julia-959ef6c00a/share/julia/stdlib/v1.10/Pkg/src/Types.jl:68
  | [2] test(ctx::Pkg.Types.Context, pkgs::Vector{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec}; coverage::Bool, julia_args::Cmd, test_args::Cmd, test_fn::Nothing, force_latest_compatible_version::Bool, allow_earlier_backwards_compatible_versions::Bool, allow_reresolve::Bool)
  | @ Pkg.Operations /cache/build/default-amdci5-0/julialang/julia-master/julia-959ef6c00a/share/julia/stdlib/v1.10/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:1878
  | [3] test

Can't find the actual error message. Anyone know what this is?

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NHDaly commented Nov 18, 2022

Looks like that failing test is coming from here:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/blob/d144b12935c56c0a0fc2f730e2960ae02096f131/test/new.jl#L301-L306

I guess the julia tests must pull in the Pkg.jl tests. And those tests are cloning and testing the EnglishText.jl package 😅

It seems probably unrelated, although it's a little weird that those same tests keep failing on multiple commits.. 🤔

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NHDaly commented Nov 18, 2022

I tried pulling down EnglishText locally to see why it's failing, and it turns out that it's because EnglishText transitively depends on SnoopCompile, using @snoopi_deep through SnoopPrecompile to precompile a package!
So we need to merge our fixes to SnoopCompile to update it for this PR first, before these tests will pass, I think!

Pretty wild that SnoopCompile is part of julia build tests like this. But also very cool!

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Starting in JuliaLang/julia#47615, we are
changing the API for snoopi_deep, to allow for thread safe snooping
in one thread while compiling in another.

This commit changes SnoopPrecompile to work with the new API if it's
available.
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Starting in JuliaLang/julia#47615, we are
changing the API for snoopi_deep, to allow for thread safe snooping
in one thread while compiling in another.

This commit changes SnoopPrecompile to work with the new API if it's
available.

Co-Authored-By: Pete Vilter <pete.vilter@gmail.com>
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print deprecation warning (println and @warn are undefined in the compiler)

@vchuravy or @pchintalapudi: do you have any advice on how best to mark the old functions as deprecated? I was thinking about possibly moving the implementations to base/deprecated.jl, and @evaling them back into Core.Compiler.Timings. This way, we can interpolate in the depwarn call.

Does that seem like the right approach to you?

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vchuravy commented Dec 6, 2022

Eh, at that point Core.Compiler.Timings should be closed. So I think that won't work. Arguably it's a compiler internals so subject to change and doesn't need deprecation.

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NHDaly commented Dec 8, 2022

K, thanks, that's helpful. 👍

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NHDaly commented Dec 8, 2022

Maybe we can still log a deprecation warning via Core.println(), just for good measure. we have a PR out to update SnoopCompile to the new API as well.

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NHDaly commented Dec 8, 2022

or maybe that's worse than no log at all, since you can't turn it off via the no-deprecation-warnings commandline flag. 🤷 no strong opinions here

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NHDaly commented Dec 14, 2022

👍 let us know when this is good for final review

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vilterp commented Jan 4, 2023

Yep, this is ready for review, except that I'm seeing a lot of errors like

Expression: resp isa Response
  | Evaluated: Downloads.RequestError("https://untrusted-root.badssl.julialang.org", 28, "Failed to connect to untrusted-root.badssl.julialang.org port 443 after 15016 ms: Operation timed out", Downloads.Response(nothing, "https://untrusted-root.badssl.julialang.org/", 0, "", Pair{String, String}[])) isa Downloads.Response
  | Error in testset Downloads:
  | Error During Test at /cache/build/default-amdci5-3/julialang/julia-master/julia-b34a42122c/share/julia/stdlib/v1.10/Downloads/test/runtests.jl:515
  | Test threw exception
  | Expression: resp.status == 200
  | type RequestError has no field status

Rebasing on master just in case that fixes it…

Also make check-whitespace seems to fail in CI but not locally, and I didn't see any trailing whitespace on the line it said 🤔 (typeinfer.jl:91)

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NHDaly commented Jan 4, 2023

Thanks! Will do a final review pass

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Thanks @vilterp, this LGTM!

Can you address the last open comments? Then this looks good to merge

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Starting in 1.9, julia does not hold the codegen lock for all of
typeinference! This means that we cannot use a single shared
scratch-space for profiling type inference.

This PR changes the scratch space to use Task Local Storage, so that we
build a separate inference profile tree per Task doing inference, and
then report them to the global results buffer at the end.
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if t.storage === nothing
t.storage = IdDict()
end
return (t.storage)::IdDict{Any,Any}
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@vchuravy / @pchintalapudi / @kpamnany: I finally got around to testing this, and indeed it doesn't work. :(

It turns out that Base.IdDict and Core.Compiler.IdDict are not the same thing. 😢

Does anyone know why that is? Why doesn't Base just reexport the IdDict from Core.Compiler?
I.e. here:

include("iddict.jl")

Why doesn't it just reexport the IdDict from Core.Compiler?

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BUT anyway, the error we encounter is that we're not allowed to set the Task's .storage field to a Core.Compiler.IdDict; it's expected to be a Base.IdDict.

So is there just no way to use task-local storage from Core.Compiler?

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Possibly a more robust solution here, which might also last longer if we parallelize inference, would be to store this on the AbstractInterpreter or InferenceState objects? Does anyone know if that's plausible? We essentially want some object that lives for the lifetime of the inference invocation, and is local to this invocation, where we can store the stack of timers.

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Or we'd have to thread it through every function call, but that seems like possibly a nonstarter.

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So is there just no way to use task-local storage from Core.Compiler?

Nobody needed this before it seems :)

Does anyone know why that is? Why doesn't Base just reexport the IdDict from Core.Compiler?

Likely to isolate the compiler code from Base.

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You can do:

if isdefined(Core, :Main)
  Core.Main.Base.get_task_tls(current_task())
end

to get around the bootstrapping issue.

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It is because the compiler is forbidden from accessing TLS. Since we hijack the current task to run codegen, it could corrupt the running task if it does anything to interact with it.

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(instead, you could perhaps replace the TLS on entry with one from Core.Compiler, and restore it on return)

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NHDaly commented Apr 26, 2023

This still has backport-1.9, but we never managed to finish it up. :(

I think we shouldn't hold up 1.9 on this. Should I remove the backport label? CC: @vchuravy

It means that users will need to be careful not to run @snoopi_deep on a process with multiple threads.. :/ Maybe we should at least backport a warning to the docs?

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NHDaly added a commit to JuliaPerf/ProfileEndpoints.jl that referenced this pull request Aug 14, 2023
… upstream:

JuliaLang/julia#47615 was never merged, so this
feature cannot be used yet anyway. :(

And the compat bounds are currently too strict, and are causing issues
in RelationalAI's build
NHDaly added a commit to JuliaPerf/ProfileEndpoints.jl that referenced this pull request Aug 14, 2023
… upstream:

JuliaLang/julia#47615 was never merged, so this
feature cannot be used yet anyway. :(

And the compat bounds are currently too strict, and are causing issues
in RelationalAI's build
NHDaly added a commit to JuliaPerf/ProfileEndpoints.jl that referenced this pull request Aug 14, 2023
… upstream:

JuliaLang/julia#47615 was never merged, so this
feature cannot be used yet anyway. :(

And the compat bounds are currently too strict, and are causing issues
in RelationalAI's build
NHDaly added a commit to JuliaPerf/ProfileEndpoints.jl that referenced this pull request Aug 14, 2023
… upstream. (#25)

* Remove type inference profiling, since thread safety was never merged upstream:

JuliaLang/julia#47615 was never merged, so this
feature cannot be used yet anyway. :(

And the compat bounds are currently too strict, and are causing issues
in RelationalAI's build

* Bump to version v1.1.0
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Backported PRs:
- [x] #47782 <!-- Generalize Bool parse method to AbstractString -->
- [x] #48634 <!-- Remove unused "deps" mechanism in internal sorting
keywords [NFC] -->
- [x] #49931 <!-- Lock finalizers' lists at exit -->
- [x] #50064 <!-- Fix numbered prompt with input only with comment -->
- [x] #50474 <!-- docs: Fix a `!!! note` which was miscapitalized -->
- [x] #50516 <!-- Fix visibility of assert on GCC12/13 -->
- [x] #50635 <!-- `versioninfo()`: include build info and unofficial
warning -->
- [x] #49915 <!-- Revert "Remove number / vector (#44358)" -->
- [x] #50781 <!-- fix `bit_map!` with aliasing -->
- [x] #50845 <!-- fix #50438, use default pool for at-threads -->
- [x] #49031 <!-- Update inference.md -->
- [x] #50289 <!-- Initialize prev_nold and nold in gc_reset_page -->
- [x] #50559 <!-- Expand kwcall lowering positional default check to
vararg -->
- [x] #49582 <!-- Update HISTORY.md for `DelimitedFiles` -->
- [x] #50341 <!-- invokelatest docs should say not exported before 1.9
-->
- [x] #50525 <!-- only check that values are finite in `generic_lufact`
when `check=true` -->
- [x] #50444 <!-- Optimize getfield lowering to avoid boxing in some
cases -->
- [x] #50523 <!-- Avoid generic call in most cases for getproperty -->
- [x] #50860 <!-- Add `Base.get_extension` to docs/API -->
- [x] #50164 <!-- codegen: handle dead code with unsafe_store of FCA
pointers -->
- [x] #50568 <!-- `Array(::AbstractRange)` should return an `Array` -->
- [x] #50871 <!-- macOS: Don't inspect dead threadtls during exception
handling. -->

Need manual backport:
- [ ] #48542 <!-- Add docs on task-specific buffering using
multithreading -->
- [ ] #50591 <!-- build: fix various makefile bugs -->


Non-merged PRs with backport label:
- [ ] #50842 <!-- Avoid race conditions with recursive rm -->
- [ ] #50823 <!-- Make ranges more robust with unsigned indexes. -->
- [ ] #50663 <!-- Fix Expr(:loopinfo) codegen -->
- [ ] #49716 <!-- Update varinfo() docstring signature -->
- [ ] #49713 <!-- prevent REPL from erroring in numbered mode in some
situations -->
- [ ] #49573 <!-- Implement jl_cpu_pause on PPC64 -->
- [ ] #48726 <!-- fix macro expansion of property destructuring -->
- [ ] #48642 <!-- Use gc alloc instead of alloc typed in lowering -->
- [ ] #48183 <!-- Don't use pkgimage for package if any includes fall in
tracked path for coverage or alloc tracking -->
- [ ] #48050 <!-- improve `--heap-size-hint` arg handling -->
- [ ] #47615 <!-- Allow threadsafe access to buffer of type inference
profiling trees -->
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