cudaPackages: enable cross-compilation (take two) by ConnorBaker · Pull Request #279952 · NixOS/nixpkgs

ConnorBaker · 2024-01-10T02:36:41Z

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gcc: link $lib/lib -> $lib/$targetConfig correctly and consistently #296219
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stdenvAdapters.useLibsFrom: use targetStdenv.cc.override #281371

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#275560 brings in a bunch of additional work that I thought needed to be coupled with support for cross-compilation, but over the break I decided to revisit this. Maybe it doesn't need to be coupled -- this is a second attempt at enabled cross-compilation for cudaPackages.

Of note, both cuda-modules/setup-hooks/extension.nix and cuda-modules/cuda/overrides.nix have been refactored. They are now attribute sets of functions which are invoked with callPackage to create setup hooks and package overrides, respectively. The move to using final.callPackage rather than retrieving required packages directly from final allows us to use the __spliced attribute on derivations when cross-compiling to ensure we're selecting the correct version of a package.

When adding packages to nativeBuildInputs or buildInputs, splicing (largely) happens automatically. That is, there is no need to manually specify which splice a package should be drawn from. Additionally, the default package set the callPackage arguments are drawn from, pkgs (aka pkgsHostTarget), helps minimize breakage. However, there are places where we do need to specify the splice to use:

Using specific package outputs: splices must be manually inserted prior to using a particular output of a package, as otherwise the output will be drawn from the splice corresponding to pkgs (which is to say pkgsHostTarget).
Phases: any usage of a package supplied by nativeBuildInputs in pre/post phases should be spliced so the correct package is made available.
Flags: any usage of a package supplied by nativeBuildInputs in a *Flags-style argument should be spliced, again to ensure the correct package is made available and that the default (pkgs) splice isn't used instead.

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pkgs/development/cuda-modules/generic-builders/manifest.nix

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ConnorBaker · 2024-01-23T03:49:12Z

pkgs/development/cuda-modules/cuda/overrides.nix

TODO @ConnorBaker

ConnorBaker · 2024-01-23T03:51:11Z

pkgs/development/cuda-modules/setup-hooks/extension.nix

TODO @ConnorBaker

Are these correct? Do we need to use a spliced version? Unclear whether makeSetupHook does anything on the backend to draw these from buildPackages (pkgsBuildHost) or uses the default pkgs (pkgsHostTarget).

Thinking locally, yes they should be spliced. The hook is going to reside in the target derivation's nativeBuildInputs, so with splicing I expect the hook to be taken from the buildPackages. I expect the backendStdenv from that splice to contain a compiler for build->build instead of build->host.

Thinking more globally, there are just so many places where we already hard-code the cc at evaluation/rendering time: setupCudaHook, nvcc, backendStdenv. This wrong, redundant, complex, and we better choose just one place

We should use the current host's compiler. Then we take the hook from the BuildHost slice, so its "host" is really our "build"

ConnorBaker · 2024-01-23T03:55:19Z

@yannham current blockers are these:

Building cuda_nvcc will fail because the order of the outputs matters, and lib should not come after static as it will move all the libraries out of the static output and into the lib output, causing an empty static output and a build failure: #279952 (comment)

Fixing that error (either by commenting it out temporarily or inserting lib in the correct position) leads to a new build error when trying to compile legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.cudaPackages.saxpy -- cuda_nvcc from the Jetson (linux-aarch64 is the NVIDIA redist arch name) tarball being built on x86_64-linux fails to link against the libgcc and libc++ libraries from the buildPackages compiler (as expected). However, I have no idea why it's trying to do that.

Unclear whether we're sourcing compilers from the correct package sets in #279952 (comment) and #279952 (comment).

SomeoneSerge · 2024-01-23T13:45:43Z

the order of the outputs matters, and lib should not come after static as it will move all the libraries out of the static output and into the lib output

That's a regression after the cuda12 fixes then, and we should PR a fix separately. I thought we'd just update the manifest generator and remove these outputs = ... ++ ... hacks

SomeoneSerge · 2024-01-23T14:35:12Z

pkgs/development/cuda-modules/generic-builders/manifest.nix

Why? I think we generally want the host system's binaries, except when we handle lib/ and nvvm/lib/ in nvcc (then we do want target)

pkgs/development/cuda-modules/setup-hooks/extension.nix

ConnorBaker · 2024-03-20T03:59:16Z

TODO(@ConnorBaker): NVCC, as well as any dependency which finds itself in nativeBuildInputs, cannot have a dependency on cuda_compat (usually introduced by way of one of our setup hooks) when we are cross-compiling.

Likely for ease of implementation, NVCC is used as a way to inject dependencies on setup hooks. If that's the case, it falls apart when cross-compiling, as our setup hooks need to be able to run on the build platform rather than the host/target.

…pattern

Since, even under cross-compilation, we evaluate this flag on multiple platforms, it makes more sense to move the platform check out of the throw condition and into the boolean return value. The alternative is to restrict all uses of this value to locations which gaurd evaluation so it does not occur when the host platform is still x86_64.

…veBuildInputs

…ostPatch phase

…body like other setup hooks

…to cuda_cudart

…nable structuredAttrs

… output

ConnorBaker · 2024-04-04T02:28:36Z

Closing as this PR is largely superseded by #301416.

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cuda-modules/cuda/overrides: simplify callPackage then overrideAttrs …

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cudaPackages.cuda_nvcc: lib must precede static in outputs

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cuda-modules: add check for duplicate/misordered outputs

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cuda-modules: update note on use of lndir from path

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cudaPackages.saxpy: Jetson should be supported after CUDA 11.4

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cuda-modules/cuda/overrides: remove unused callPackage arguments

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cuda-modules/flags: use cudaAtLeast when possible

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cuda-modules: fix deprecated uses of substituteInPlace replace flag

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cuda-modules/cuda/overrides: backendStdenv.cc is already part of nati…

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cuda-modules/cuda/overrides: specify spliced packages for cuda_nvcc p…

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cuda-modules/generic-builders/manifest: wip cross-compilation

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cuda-modules/saxpy: remove CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE

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cuda-modules/setup-hooks/setup-cuda-hook: factor out cc access

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cuda-modules/setup-hooks/auto-add-cuda-compat-runpath-hook: collapse …

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cuda-modules/setup-hooks: wip rewrite and set NIX_DEBUG=1

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cudaPackages.cuda_nvcc: never has a lib output

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cudaPackages.nccl: remove unneeded makeFlags, specify splicing, and e…

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