On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Frederick Stevens
<sk8tesgr...@gmail.com>wrote:

>  Tom,
>
> See the attached file.  I am running volk_profile now.  If this is what
> you need then that is great otherwise I will keep working on this with
> whatever suggestions you have.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fred
>

That'll be a good start. We'll see if that tells us anything.

Thanks,
Tom



>  On 03/19/2012 08:10 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Frederick Stevens 
> <sk8tesgr...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Volk_profile ran to completion.  I am using the git source tree updated
>> just before I did the run.  I commented out line 38 of volk_profile.cc as
>> you suggested and ran volk_profile under gdb.  The output is in the
>> attached text file.  I have also attached the generated volk_config from
>> ~/.volk/volk_config.
>>
>
>  Thanks. Strange that it's just that kernel, then. Can you put in some
> debug lines that will print out the size of the buffers being used and the
> 'number' variable in volk_32fc_x2_multiply_32fc_a when the crash occurs. I
> just want to see if the loop is trying to go beyond the bounds of the
> arrays.
>
>
>>  I noted from running gnuradio-companion version 3.5.1, (which works)
>> that when I use a multiply block, this message from python is generated:
>>
>>  ./top_block.py
>> >>> gr_fir_fff: using 3DNow!
>>
>> but volk_profile does not seem to recognize the 3DNow! processor
>> extensions (produces sse2 and sse3 messages on the Intel Atom 32 bit
>> machine).
>>
>
>  Yeah, that's fine. Without a 3DNow! kernel, Volk will just fall back on
> the generic implementation. The thought being that the generic version will
> work for everyone. So we need to figure out why that's not true for your...
>
>
>>  Hope this helps!  Let me know if you want me to try anything else.  I'll
>> let you know how things turn out on the other machine as well.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Fred
>>
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  Tom
>
>
>
>>
>> On 03/18/2012 04:31 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Frederick Stevens <sk8tesgr...@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>  Well, after a few restarts, here is my output.  I did a fresh pull from
>>> git because I was getting some errors with missing *.h files in
>>> gruel/src/swig or something like that.  Hope this helps!
>>>
>>>
>>> RUN_VOLK_TESTS: volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a
>>>
>>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>>  0xb7edbb74 in volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a_generic
>>> (cVector=0xb7448008,
>>>     aVector=0xb7768008, bVector=0xb78f8008, num_points=204600)
>>>     at
>>> /home/fred/extras/gnuradio/gnuradio/volk/include/volk/volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a.h:74
>>> 74          *cPtr++ = (*aPtr++) * (*bPtr++);
>>> (gdb) bt
>>> #0  0xb7edbb74 in volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a_generic
>>> (cVector=0xb7448008,
>>>     aVector=0xb7768008, bVector=0xb78f8008, num_points=204600)
>>>     at
>>> /home/fred/extras/gnuradio/gnuradio/volk/include/volk/volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a.h:74
>>>
>>
>>  Alright, Fred, definitely something strange going on here. My only
>> guess is that for some reason on your architecture/OS/whatever, something
>> is being handled incorrectly and the buffers a, b, and c are not getting
>> generated correctly, maybe something like it's not doubling the number of
>> items for the complex data type (before this function test, there are 16ic,
>> or complex shorts, being tested, but this is the first complex float test).
>>
>>  It's hard to tell if it's something about it being an AMD chip, 32-bit,
>> Slackware version, gcc version, etc. And I don't have an AMD chip to test
>> on, but I could load up a 32-bit Slackware VM at least.
>>
>>  How much work are you willing to put into this to help us nail this
>> down?
>>
>>  If you can follow through the volk_profile test code, we can start
>> outputting more debug info. To start with, I'd suggest going into
>> volk/apps/volk_profile.cc and commenting out line 38, rebuild the
>> application, and run this new volk_profile to see if it fails on any other
>> kernels.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
>>
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