[mpich-discuss] Intermittent hang in MPI_Finalize with PGI 20.1

Kent Cheung Kent.Cheung at arm.com
Tue Jun 23 08:25:34 CDT 2020


I'm running into an issue where processes sometimes hang when calling MPI_Finalize. This happens with both versions 3.3.2 and 3.4a2 on a single node RedHat 7.5 x86-64 machine, when MPICH is compiled with PGI 20.1 with these configuration flags

 --enable-debug --enable-shared --enable-debuginfo --enable-sharedlib=gcc

If I change the default optimization level (-O2) by configuring with

--enable-fast=O1

as well, the hang doesn't occur. Another data point is that the hang does not occur with PGI 19.5 with either optimization levels.

I have been testing with the cpi.c code in the examples folder built with just

mpicc cpi.c
mpiexec -n 3 ./a.out

Here is a the backtrace from one of the processes that is hanging

(gdb) bt
#0  MPID_nem_mpich_blocking_recv ()
    at /tmp/mpich-3.3.2/build/../src/mpid/ch3/channels/nemesis/include/mpid_nem_inline.h:1038
#1  MPIDI_CH3I_Progress () at ../src/mpid/ch3/channels/nemesis/src/ch3_progress.c:506
#2  0x00000000004fc88d in MPIDI_CH3U_VC_WaitForClose ()
    at ../src/mpid/ch3/src/ch3u_handle_connection.c:383
#3  0x0000000000442364 in MPID_Finalize () at ../src/mpid/ch3/src/mpid_finalize.c:110
#4  0x0000000000408621 in PMPI_Finalize () at ../src/mpi/init/finalize.c:260
#5  0x00000000004023e5 in main () at cpi.c:59

Is there a potential fix to be made to MPICH to prevent processes hanging when MPICH is compiled with the default optimization level?

Thanks,
Kent
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