If CompilerMSL::Options::pad_argument_buffer_resources enabled, Metal argument buffer
struct members are positionally aligned to their argument indexes by adding synthetic
padding members when needed. The types and sizes of these synthetic members are
identified in the resource_bindings vector provided through the API.
Add CompilerMSL::Options::pad_argument_buffer_resources to enable padding
Metal argument buffer structs to positionally match members to argument indexes.
Add MSLResourceBinding::base_type to identify resource type through API.
We only considered invalid names, and overwrote the alias for the
function. The correct fix is to replace illegal names early, do the
reserved fixup, then copy back alias to entry point name.
According to the Metal Shading Language Specification, it's not
supported for vertex functions in any Metal version, only fragment and
kernel functions.
This is necessary to avoid invalid output because of how implicit
dependencies on builtins work.
For example, the fixup for `BuiltInSubgroupEqMask` initializes the
variable based on `builtin_subgroup_invocation_id_id`, a field storing
the ID for a variable with decoration `BuiltInSubgroupLocalInvocationId`.
This could be either a variable that already exists in the input
(spirv_msl.cpp:300) or, if necessary, a newly created one
(spirv_msl.cpp:621). In both cases, though,
`builtin_subgroup_invocation_id_id` is only set under the condition
`need_subgroup_mask || needs_subgroup_invocation_id`.
`need_subgroup_mask` is true if any of the `BuiltInSubgroupXXMask` are
set in `active_input_builtins`.
Normally, if the program contains `BuiltInSubgroupEqMask`,
`Compiler::ActiveBuiltinHandler` will set it in `active_input_builtins`.
But this only happens if the variable is actually used, whereas
`fix_up_shader_inputs_outputs` loops over all variables in the program
regardless of whether they're used.
If `BuiltInSubgroupEqMask` is not used,
`builtin_subgroup_invocation_id_id` is never set, but before this patch
the fixup hook would try to use it anyway, producing MSL that references
a nonexistent variable named `_0`.
Avoid this by changing `fix_up_shader_inputs_outputs` to skip builtins
which are not set in `active_input_builtins` or
`active_output_builtins`. And add a test case.
In Metal, the `[[position]]` input to a fragment shader remains at
fragment center, even at sample rate, like OpenGL and Direct3D. In
Vulkan, however, when the fragment shader runs at sample rate, the
`FragCoord` builtin moves to the sample position in the framebuffer,
instead of the fragment center. To account for this difference, adjust
the `FragCoord`, if present, by the sample position. The -0.5 offset is
because the fragment center is at (0.5, 0.5).
Also, add an option to force sample-rate shading in a fragment shader.
Since Metal has no explicit control for this, this is done by adding a
dummy `[[sample_id]]` which is otherwise unused, if none is already
present. This is intended to be used from e.g. MoltenVK when a
pipeline's `minSampleShading` value is nonzero.
Instead of checking if any `Input` variables have `Sample`
interpolation, I've elected to check that the `SampleRateShading`
capability is present. Since `SampleId`, `SamplePosition`, and the
`Sample` interpolation decoration require this cap, this should be
equivalent for any valid SPIR-V module. If this isn't acceptable, let me
know.
We have been interchanging spv and SPIRV_Cross_ for a while, which
causes weirdness since we don't explicitly ban SPIRV_Cross identifiers,
as these identifiers are generally used for interface variable
workarounds.
Add support for declaring a fixed subgroup size. Metal, like Vulkan with
`VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control`, allows the thread execution width to
vary depending on factors such as register usage. Unfortunately, this
breaks several tests that depend on the subgroup size being what the
device says it is. So we'll fix the subgroup size at the size the device
declares. The extra invocations in the subgroup will appear to be
inactive. Because of this, the ballot mask builtins are now ANDed with
the active subgroup mask.
Add support for emulating a subgroup of size 1. This is intended to be
used by Vulkan Portability implementations (e.g. MoltenVK) when the
hardware/software combo provides insufficient support for subgroups.
Luckily for us, Vulkan 1.1 only requires that the subgroup size be at
least 1.
Add support for quadgroup and SIMD-group functions which were added to
iOS in Metal 2.2 and 2.3. This will allow clients to take advantage of
expanded quadgroup and SIMD-group support in recent Metal versions and
on recent Apple GPUs (families 6 and 7).
Gut emulation of subgroup builtins in fragment shaders. It turns out
codegen for the SIMD-group functions in fragment wasn't implemented for
AMD on Mojave; it's a safe bet that it wasn't implemented for the other
drivers either. Subgroup support in fragment shaders now requires Metal
2.2.
`min_lod_clamp()` was actually added in MSL 2.2 on iOS 13. The
restriction was based on the beta versions which didn't have it. Since
the beta versions didn't support family 6, this leads me to suspect that
the reason they lacked `min_lod_clamp()` is that it requires family 6.
This does not seem to be documented anywhere.
`simd_is_helper_thread()` was added in MSL 2.3 to iOS. I neglected to
update this when I finished up `SPV_EXT_demote_to_helper_invocation`.
`barycentric_coord` and `primitive_id` were added in MSL 2.3 on iOS 14.
They are only supported on family 7.
New in MSL 2.3 is a template that can be used in the place of a scalar
type in a stage-in struct. This template has methods which interpolate
the varying at the given points. Curiously, you can't set interpolation
attributes on such a varying; perspective-correctness is encoded in the
type, while interpolation must be done using one of the methods. This
makes using this somewhat awkward from SPIRV-Cross, requiring us to jump
through a bunch of hoops to make this all work.
Using varyings from functions in particular is a pain point, requiring
us to pass the stage-in struct itself around. An alternative is to pass
references to the interpolants; except this will fall over badly with
composite types, which naturally must be flattened. As with
tessellation, dynamic indexing isn't supported with pull-model
interpolation. This is because of the need to reference the original
struct member in order to call one of the pull-model interpolation
methods on it. Also, this is done at the variable level; this means that
if one varying in a struct is used with the pull-model functions, then
the entire struct is emitted as pull-model interpolants.
For some reason, this was not documented in the MSL spec, though there
is a property on `MTLDevice`, `supportsPullModelInterpolation`,
indicating support for this, which *is* documented. This does not appear
to be implemented yet for AMD: it returns `NO` from
`supportsPullModelInterpolation`, and pipelines with shaders using the
templates fail to compile. It *is* implemeted for Intel. It's probably
also implemented for Apple GPUs: on Apple Silicon, OpenGL calls down to
Metal, and it wouldn't be possible to use the interpolation functions
without this implemented in Metal.
Based on my testing, where SPIR-V and GLSL have the offset relative to
the pixel center, in Metal it appears to be relative to the pixel's
upper-left corner, as in HLSL. Therefore, I've added an offset 0.4375,
i.e. one half minus one sixteenth, to all arguments to
`interpolate_at_offset()`.
This also fixes a long-standing bug: if a pull-model interpolation
function is used on a varying, make sure that varying is declared. We
were already doing this only for the AMD pull-model function,
`interpolateAtVertexAMD()`; for reasons which are completely beyond me,
we weren't doing this for the base interpolation functions. I also note
that there are no tests for the interpolation functions for GLSL or
HLSL.
I kept the code to replace constant zero arguments, because `Bias` and
`Grad` still have some problems on desktop GPUs.
`Bias` works on AMD GPUs. `Grad` does not. Both work on Intel. Still
needs testing on NV. It will definitely work with Apple GPUs.
(GL_EXT_nonuniform_qualifier/SPV_EXT_descriptor_indexing).
MSLResourceBinding includes array size through API, and substitutes
in that size if the image or sampler array is not explicitly sized.
OpCopyObject supports SPIRCombinedImageSampler type in MSL.
Writing to buffers actually works starting in MSL 2.1 (macOS 10.14,
iOS 12). Writing to textures works starting in MSL 2.2 (macOS 10.15, iOS
13).
No tests unfortunately, because the MSL 2.2 compiler and above produce a
warning that cannot be disabled, because it has no associated option.
Metal doesn't support broadcasting or shuffling boolean values, but we
can work around that by casting it to `ushort`, then casting it back to
`bool`. I used `ushort` instead of `uint` because 16-bit values give
better throughput on Apple GPUs.
Only the least *n* bits are significant, where *n* is the subgroup size.
The Vulkan CTS actually checks this.
The `FindLSB` tests weren't actually failing, but I masked that anyway,
in case there's some corner case the CTS is missing.
`SubgroupEqMask` had a fencepost error that gave wrong values for
invocation ID 32.
For `SubgroupGeMask` and `SubgroupGtMask`, I forgot to shift the values
from `extract_bits()` up so that the mask is in the correct position.
Using `insert_bits()` instead should fold these two operations into one.
`SubgroupLtMask` and `SubgroupLeMask` were already correct.
`half` cannot be bitcasted to `float`, because the two types are not the
same size. Use an expanding cast instead.
We were already doing this for stores to the tessellation levels; why I
didn't also do this for loads is beyond me.
Fix reversed coordinates: `y` should be used to calculate the row
address. Align row address to the row stride.
I've made the row alignment a function constant; this makes it possible
to override it at pipeline compile time.
Honestly, I don't know how this worked at all for Epic. It definitely
didn't work in the CTS prior to this.
MSL 2.3 has everything needed to support this extension on all
platforms. The existing `discard_fragment()` function was given demote
semantics, similar to Direct3D, and the `simd_is_helper_thread()`
function was finally added to iOS.
I've left the old test alone. Should I remove it in favor of these?
In some cases, we need to get a literal value from a spec constant op.
Mostly relevant when emitting buffers, so implement a 32-bit integer
scalar subset of the evaluator. Can be extended as needed to support
evaluating any specialization constant operation.
These need to use arrayed texture types, or Metal will complain when
binding the resource. The target layer is addressed relative to the
Layer output by the vertex pipeline, or to the ViewIndex if in a
multiview pipeline. Unlike with the s/t coordinates, Vulkan does not
forbid non-zero layer coordinates here, though this cannot be expressed
in Vulkan GLSL.
Supporting 3D textures will require additional work. Part of the problem
is that Metal does not allow texture views to subset a 3D texture, so we
need some way to pass the base depth to the shader.
Some older iOS devices don't support layered rendering. In that case,
don't set `[[render_target_array_index]]`, because the compiler will
reject the shader in that case. The client will then have to unroll the
render pass manually.
Account for a non-zero base instance when calculating the view index and
the "real" instance index. Before, it was likely broken with a non-zero
base instance, since the calculated instance index could be less than
the base instance.
- Do not silently drop reserved identifiers in the parser. This makes it
possible to reflect identifiers which are reserved by the
cross-compiler module.
- Instead of dropping the name, emit _RESERVED_IDENTIFIER_FIXUP in the
source to make it clear that a name has been rewritten.
- Document what is reserved and not.
Prior to this point, we were treating them as flattened, as they are in
old-style tessellation control shaders, and still are for structs in
new-style shaders. This is not true for outputs; output composites are
not flattened at all. This semantic mismatch broke a Vulkan CTS test.
It should now pass.
In Metal render pipelines don't have an option to set a sampleMask
parameter, the only way to get that functionality is to set the
sample_mask output of the fragment shader to this value directly.
We also need to take care to combine the fixed sample mask with the
one that the shader might possibly output.
This should hopefully reduce underutilization of the GPU, especially on
GPUs where the thread execution width is greater than the number of
control points.
This also simplifies initialization by reading the buffer directly
instead of using Metal's vertex-attribute-in-compute support. It turns
out the only way in which shader stages are allowed to differ in their
interfaces is in the number of components per vector; the base type must
be the same. Since we are using the raw buffer instead of attributes, we
can now also emit arrays and matrices directly into the buffer, instead
of flattening them and then unpacking them. Structs are still flattened,
however; this is due to the need to handle vectors with fewer components
than were output, and I think handling this while also directly emitting
structs could get ugly.
Another advantage of this scheme is that the extra invocations needed to
read the attributes when there were more input than output points are
now no more. The number of threads per workgroup is now lcm(SIMD-size,
output control points). This should ensure we always process a whole
number of patches per workgroup.
To avoid complexity handling indices in the tessellation control shader,
I've also changed the way vertex shaders for tessellation are handled.
They are now compute kernels using Metal's support for vertex-style
stage input. This lets us always emit vertices into the buffer in order
of vertex shader execution. Now we no longer have to deal with indexing
in the tessellation control shader. This also fixes a long-standing
issue where if an index were greater than the number of vertices to
draw, the vertex shader would wind up writing outside the buffer, and
the vertex would be lost.
This is a breaking change, and I know SPIRV-Cross has other clients, so
I've hidden this behind an option for now. In the future, I want to
remove this option and make it the default.
Without this change, code such as:
```
OpStore %param_var_mipLevelSizes_0 %heightmapMipSizes
```
within a function that then forwards the value `%param_var_mipLevelSizes_0` to another function will not have `%heightmapMipSizes` registered as an argument to the function.
On MSL, the compiler refuses to allow access chains into a normal vector type.
What happens in practice instead is a read-modify-write where a vector type is
loaded, modified and written back.
The workaround is to convert a vector into a pointer-to-scalar before
the access chain continues to add the scalar index.
When loading and storing array types which belong to buffer objects, we
need to treat these values as not being value types. Also, need to
handle array load/store from/to more address space combinations.
Metal is picky about interface matching. If the types don't match
exactly, down to the number of vector components, Metal fails pipline
compilation. To support pipelines where the number of components
consumed by the fragment shader is less than that produced by the vertex
shader, we have to fix up the fragment shader to accept all the
components produced.
Otherwise the following lines will never be reached for the other two valid ycbcr_models (RGB_IDENTITY and YCBCR_IDENTITY) as they would cause a SPIRV_CROSS_THROW.
If a buffer rewrites its Offsets, all member references to that struct
are invalidated, and must be redirected, do so in to_member_reference,
but there might be other places where this is needed. Fix as required.
SPIR-V code relying on this is somewhat questionable, but seems to be
in-spec.
DX may emit ArrayStride and MatrixStride of 16, but the size of the
object does not align with that and expect to pack other members inside
its last member.
The workaround is to emit array size/col/row one less than we expect and
rely on padding to carve out a "dead zone" for the last member.
DXVK emits SPIR-V where fragment shader builtins have names derived from
DXBC assembly, e.g. `oDepth` for `FragDepth`. When we declared the
disabled output, we used this name, but when referencing it, we
continued to use the GLSL name. This breaks compilation.
Like with `point_size` when not rendering points, Metal complains when
writing to a variable using the `[[depth]]` qualifier when no depth
buffer be attached. In that case, we must avoid emitting `FragDepth`,
just like with `PointSize`.
I assume it will also complain if there be no stencil attachment and the
shader write to `[[stencil]]`, or it write to `[[color(n)]]` but there
be no color attachment at n.
Without this patch, `gl_FragCoord` is not output for subpass reads in certain cases where `gl_FragCoord` is not used elsewhere in the shader.
I'm not sure why this isn't caught by existing tests (e.g. [input-attachment.frag](shaders-msl/frag/input-attachment.frag)), but I encountered this issue in code generated by DXC and passed through spire-opt.
I cannot find any reference to this flag ever having existed in older
MSL spec documents, and it breaks compilation on any recent SDK for any
iOS/macOS Metal version. Just remove it.
Limit inline blocks to one per descriptor set.
This should avoid the need for complicated code to calculate the
argument buffer ID stride of an inline uniform block. If there's demand
for more inline blocks, we can revisit this.
Here, the inline uniform block is explicit: we instantiate the buffer
block itself in the argument buffer, instead of a pointer to the buffer.
I just hope this will work with the `MTLArgumentDescriptor` API...
Note that Metal recursively assigns individual members of embedded
structs IDs. This means for automatic assignment that we have to
calculate the binding stride for a given buffer block. For MoltenVK,
we'll simply increment the ID by the size of the inline uniform block.
Then the later IDs will never conflict with the inline uniform block. We
can get away with this because Metal doesn't require that IDs be
contiguous, only monotonically increasing.
- Fixes issue with clip_distance flattening in MSL where member to
flatten from would come from to_member_name, where it should have used
the builtin name directly. This member name was modified by this patch
and broke clip distance test shaders.
- Some cleanups with ir.meta, use ir.find_meta instead to not create
unnecessary hashmap nodes.
MSL does not support this, so we have to emulate it by passing it around
as a varying between stages. We use a special "user(clipN)" attribute
for this rather than locN which is used for user varyings.
From UE4 review, does not cause any changes in test output, and should
only change output if we were unpacking arrays or something like that,
which we don't support.
There was a hack to workaround a bug in DXC where control point -> patch
constant phase was passed in Function storage, but we have to use
Workgroup here. We will not support these kinds of hacks for invalid
SPIR-V, so hack the reference files to use the "proper" fix and remove
the hack for time being.
To support loading array of array properly in tessellation, we need a
rewrite of how tessellation access chains are handled.
The major change is to remove the implicit unflatten step inside
access_chain which does not take into account the case where you load
directly from a control point array variable.
We defer unflatten step until OpLoad time instead.
This fixes cases where we load array of {array,matrix,struct}.
Removes the hacky path for MSL access chain index workaround.
Hoist out some conditionals and make it clear that we go into this path
if strip_array is used when declaring resources, i.e. there was no
explicit unflatten step.
Non-patch arrays of IO variables in tesc/tese have their array index
stripped, and access chains are specially handled, we shouldn't attempt
to create "normal" arrays of these.
