[mpich-discuss] Bug in MPI_WIN_SHARED_QUERY using MPICH-3.0.4 from Fortran95-code

[Rajeev Thakur]

I don't see the problem with the latest version of MPICH on my laptop. This is what I get:

 ---Info-print just BEFORE calling MPI_WIN_QUERY:  idisplace_unit=       -6666
 ===Info-print just AFTER calling MPI_WIN_QUERY:   idisplace_unit=           1

Rajeev


On Dec 15, 2014, at 4:21 AM, Michael.Rachner at dlr.de wrote:

> Dear Junchao,
>  
> I attached a downsized  Fortran95 program for testing the MPI-3 shared memory feature (MPI_WIN_ALLOCATE_SHARED, MPI_WIN_SHARED_QUERY).
> You may add it to your MPICH test suite.
> (The program is not secret, so I place it here for everybody, because it may serve also as an example, how to do the shared memory coding in a Ftn-code.)
>  
> In that program I have inserted 2 ad-hoc prints, just before and just after the call of sbr MPI_WIN_SHARED_QUERY,
> which print the value of  the 4th-parameter DISP_UNIT (named   idisplace_unit   in the code)  of that sbr .
>  
> You can run the program by:
>    mpif90 sharedmemtest.f90
>    mpiexec -np 2 -bind-to core -prepend-rank ./a.out
>  
> On our LINUX cluster with MPICH-3.0.4 and Intel-14.0.1  the 2 print-stmts write this:
>  
> [0]  ---Info-print just BEFORE calling MPI_WIN_QUERY:  idisplace_unit=       -6666         ß  -6666 is my arbitrary initialization value
> [0]  ===Info-print just AFTER calling MPI_WIN_QUERY:   idisplace_unit=       -6666
> [1]  ---Info-print just BEFORE calling MPI_WIN_QUERY:  idisplace_unit=       -6666
> [1]  ===Info-print just AFTER calling MPI_WIN_QUERY:   idisplace_unit=       -6666
>  
> You see, that sbr MPI_WIN_SHARED_QUERY does not overwrite the initialized value, but should do it.
> I observed the same wrong behavior also in our Fortran95-CFD-code.
>  
> I cannot easily install another MPICH-version. We have only MPICH-3.0.4 . So, do you find that behavior with that program also with the most recent MPICH-version?
>  
> Greetings
> Michael Rachner
>  
>  
>  
> Von: Junchao Zhang [mailto:jczhang at mcs.anl.gov] 
> Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Dezember 2014 20:50
> An: <discuss at mpich.org>
> Betreff: Re: [mpich-discuss] Bug in MPI_WIN_SHARED_QUERY using MPICH-3.0.4 from Fortran95-code
>  
> Michael,
>  I could not reproduce the problem with MPICH master. I checked MPICH's F90 binding of this routine. It looks good. There are C tests for this routine in MPICH test suite. They also ran fine.
>  Could you either upgrade your MPI to MPICH-3.1.3 or send me your test case?
>  Thanks.
> 
> --Junchao Zhang
>  
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 4:53 AM, <Michael.Rachner at dlr.de> wrote:
> Dear developers of MPICH,
>  
> I am running MPICH-3.0.4 with a Fortran95-code on a LINUX-cluster using the INTEL-14.0.1 Ftn-compiler.
> In that code I employ the shared memory feature (using MPI_WIN_ALLOCATE_SHARED and MPI_WIN_SHARED_QUERY).
> It works fine, but nevertheless I detected a little bug in  MPI_WIN_SHARED_QUERY:
>  
>      MPI_WIN_SHARED_QUERY(WIN, RANK, SIZE, DISP_UNIT, BASEPTR, IERROR)
>  
> The MPI-3.0 Standard document (chapter 11.2, on p. 410)  prescribes that the 4th parameter  DISP_UNIT  is a result from the call of this sbr.
> However, with MPICH no value is returned for DISP_UNIT.
>  
> You can easily test that, by setting  DISP_UNIT  to a control number ( e.g.  DISP_UNIT = -7777 )   just before the call of sbr MPI_WIN_SHARED_QUERY.
> Just after that sbr-call   the variable  DISP_UNIT  still contains that control number, but should not.
>  
> Greetings
> Michael Rachner
>  
>  
>  
> 
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