CHANGELOG.md

Change Log for HIP

Full documentation for HIP is available at rocm.docs.amd.com

HIP 6.3 for ROCm 6.3

Changes

• Un-deprecated HIP APIs

  • hipHostAlloc
  • hipFreeHost

• New HIP APIs

  • hipGraphExecGetFlags returns the flags on executable graph.
  • hipGraphNodeSetParams updates parameters of a created node.
  • hipGraphExecNodeSetParams updates parameters of a created node on executable graph.
  • hipDrvGraphMemcpyNodeGetParams gets a memcpy node's parameters.
  • hipDrvGraphMemcpyNodeSetParams sets a memcpy node's parameters.
  • hipDrvGraphAddMemFreeNode creates a memory free node and adds it to a graph.
  • hipDrvGraphExecMemcpyNodeSetParams sets the parameters for a memcpy node in the given graphExec.
  • hipDrvGraphExecMemsetNodeSetParams sets the parameters for a memset node in the given graphExec.
  • hipExtHostAlloc preserves the functionality of hipHostMalloc.

• Deprecated HIP APIs

  • hipHostMalloc to be replaced by hipExtHostAlloc.
  • hipHostFree to be replaced by hipFreeHost.

Optimizations

Resolved issues

Known issues

Upcoming changes

HIP 6.2.41134 for ROCm 6.2.1

Resolved issues

• Soft hang when use AMD_SERIALIZE_KERNEL.
• Memory leak in hipIpcCloseMemHandle.

HIP 6.2 (For ROCm 6.2)

Added

• Introduced the _sync() version of crosslane builtins such as shfl_sync(), __all_sync() and __any_sync(). These take a 64-bit integer as an explicit mask argument.

  • In HIP 6.2, these are hidden behind the preprocessor macro HIP_ENABLE_WARP_SYNC_BUILTINS, and will be enabled unconditionally in HIP 6.3.

• Added new HIP APIs

  • hipGetProcAddress returns the pointer to driver function, corresponding to the defined driver function symbol.
  • hipGetFuncBySymbol returns the pointer to device entry function that matches entry function symbolPtr.
  • hipStreamBeginCaptureToGraph begins graph capture on a stream to an existing graph.
  • hipGraphInstantiateWithParams creates an executable graph from a graph.
  • hipMemcpyAtoA copies from one 1D array to another.
  • hipMemcpyDtoA copies from device memory to a 1D array.
  • hipMemcpyAtoD copies from one 1D array to device memory.
  • hipMemcpyAtoHAsync copies from one 1D array to host memory.
  • hipMemcpyHtoAAsync copies from host memory to a 1D array.
  • hipMemcpy2DArrayToArray copies data between host and device.

• Added a new flag integrated support in device property

  The integrated flag is added in the struct hipDeviceProp_t. On the integrated APU system, the runtime driver detects and sets this flag to 1, in which case the API hipDeviceGetAttribute returns enum hipDeviceAttribute_t for hipDeviceAttributeIntegrated as value 1, for integrated GPU device.

  The enum value hipDeviceAttributeIntegrated corresponds to cudaDevAttrIntegrated on CUDA platform.

• Added initial support for 8-bit floating point datatype in amd_hip_fp8.h. These are accessible via #include <hip/hip_fp8.h>

• Add UUID support for environment variable HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES.

Fixed

• Stream capture support in HIP graph. Prohibited and unhandled operations are fixed during stream capture in HIP runtime.
• Fix undefined symbol error for hipTexRefGetArray & hipTexRefGetBorderColor.

HIP 6.1 (For ROCm 6.1)

Optimizations

Added

• New environment variable HIP_LAUNCH_BLOCKING It is used for serialization on kernel execution. The default value is 0 (disable), kernel will execute normally as defined in the queue. When this environment variable is set as 1 (enable), HIP runtime will serialize kernel enqueue, behaves the same as AMD_SERIALIZE_KERNEL.
• Added HIPRTC support for hip headers driver_types, math_functions, library_types, math_functions, hip_math_constants, channel_descriptor, device_functions, hip_complex, surface_types, texture_types.

Changed

• HIPRTC now assumes WGP mode for gfx10+. CU mode can be enabled by passing -mcumode to the compile options from hiprtcCompileProgram.

Fixed

• HIP complex vector type multiplication and division operations. On AMD platform, some duplicated complex operators are removed to avoid compilation failures. In HIP, hipFloatComplex and hipDoubleComplex are defined as complex data types, typedef float2 hipFloatComplex; typedef double2 hipDoubleComplex; Any application uses complex multiplication and division operations, need to replace '*' and '/' operators with the following,

  • hipCmulf() and hipCdivf() for hipFloatComplex
  • hipCmul() and hipCdiv() for hipDoubleComplex

  Note: These complex operations are equivalent to corresponding types/functions on NVIDIA platform.

Known Issues

HIP 6.0 (For ROCm 6.0)

Optimizations

Added

• Addition of hipExtGetLastError

  • AMD backend specific API, to return error code from last HIP API called from the active host thread

• New fields for external resource interoperability,

  • Structs
    • hipExternalMemoryHandleDesc_st
    • hipExternalMemoryBufferDesc_st
    • hipExternalSemaphoreHandleDesc_st
    • hipExternalSemaphoreSignalParams_st
    • hipExternalSemaphoreWaitParams_st
  • Enumerations
    • hipExternalMemoryHandleType_enum
    • hipExternalSemaphoreHandleType_enum
    • hipExternalMemoryHandleType_enum

• New members are added in HIP struct hipDeviceProp_t, for new feature capabilities including,

  • Texture

    • int maxTexture1DMipmap;
    • int maxTexture2DMipmap[2];
    • int maxTexture2DLinear[3];
    • int maxTexture2DGather[2];
    • int maxTexture3DAlt[3];
    • int maxTextureCubemap;
    • int maxTexture1DLayered[2];
    • int maxTexture2DLayered[3];
    • int maxTextureCubemapLayered[2];

  • Surface

    • int maxSurface1D;
    • int maxSurface2D[2];
    • int maxSurface3D[3];
    • int maxSurface1DLayered[2];
    • int maxSurface2DLayered[3];
    • int maxSurfaceCubemap;
    • int maxSurfaceCubemapLayered[2];

  • Device

    • hipUUID uuid;
    • char luid[8]; -- this is 8-byte unique identifier. Only valid on windows -- LUID (Locally Unique Identifier) is supported for interoperability between devices.
    • unsigned int luidDeviceNodeMask; \

    Note: HIP supports LUID only on Windows OS.

• Added amd_hip_bf16.h which adds bfloat16 type. These definitions are accessible via #include <hip/hip_bf16.h> This header exists alongside the older bfloat16 header inamd_hip_bfloat16.h which is included via hip/hip_bfloat16.h. Users are recommended to use <hip/hip_bf16.h> instead of <hip/hip_bfloat16.h>.

Changed

• Some OpenGL Interop HIP APIs are moved from the hip_runtime_api header to a new header file hip_gl_interop.h for the AMD platform, as following,
  • hipGLGetDevices
  • hipGraphicsGLRegisterBuffer
  • hipGraphicsGLRegisterImage
• With ROCm 6.0, the HIP version is 6.0. As the HIP runtime binary suffix is updated in every major ROCm release, in ROCm 6.0, the new filename is libamdhip64.so.6. Furthermore, in ROCm 6.0 release, the libamdhip64.so.5 binary from ROCm 5.7 is made available to maintain binary backward compatibility with ROCm 5.x.

Changes Impacting Backward Compatibility

• Data types for members in HIP_MEMCPY3D structure are changed from "unsigned int" to "size_t".
• The value of the flag hipIpcMemLazyEnablePeerAccess is changed to “0x01”, which was previously defined as “0”.
• Some device property attributes are not currently support in HIP runtime, in order to maintain consistency, the following related enumeration names are changed in hipDeviceAttribute_t
  • hipDeviceAttributeName is changed to hipDeviceAttributeUnused1
  • hipDeviceAttributeUuid is changed to hipDeviceAttributeUnused2
  • hipDeviceAttributeArch is changed to hipDeviceAttributeUnused3
  • hipDeviceAttributeGcnArch is changed to hipDeviceAttributeUnused4
  • hipDeviceAttributeGcnArchName is changed to hipDeviceAttributeUnused5
• HIP struct hipArray is removed from driver type header to be complying with cuda
• hipArray_t replaces hipArray*, as the pointer to array.
  • This allows hipMemcpyAtoH and hipMemcpyHtoA to have the correct array type which is equivalent to coresponding CUDA driver APIs.

Fixed

• Kernel launch maximum dimension validation is added specifically on gridY and gridZ in the HIP API hipModule-LaunchKernel. As a result,when hipGetDeviceAttribute is called for the value of hipDeviceAttributeMaxGrid-Dim, the behavior on the AMD platform is equivalent to NVIDIA.
• The HIP stream synchronisation behaviour is changed in internal stream functions, in which a flag "wait" is added and set when the current stream is null pointer while executing stream synchronisation on other explicitly created streams. This change avoids blocking of execution on null/default stream. The change won't affect usage of applications, and makes them behave the same on the AMD platform as NVIDIA.
• Error handling behavior on unsupported GPU is fixed, HIP runtime will log out error message, instead of creating signal abortion error which is invisible to developers but continued kernel execution process. This is for the case when developers compile any application via hipcc, setting the option --offload-arch with GPU ID which is different from the one on the system.

Deprecated And Removed

• Deprecated Heterogeneous Compute (HCC) symbols and flags are removed from the HIP source code, including,
  • Build options on obsolete HCC_OPTIONS was removed from cmake.
  • Micro definitions are removed. HIP_INCLUDE_HIP_HCC_DETAIL_DRIVER_TYPES_H HIP_INCLUDE_HIP_HCC_DETAIL_HOST_DEFINES_H
  • Compilation flags for the platform definitions, AMD platform, HIP_PLATFORM_HCC HCC HIP_ROCclr NVIDIA platform, HIP_PLATFORM_NVCC
• File directories in the clr repository are removed, https://github.com/ROCm/clr/blob/develop/hipamd/include/hip/hcc_detail https://github.com/ROCm/clr/blob/develop/hipamd/include/hip/nvcc_detail
• Deprecated gcnArch is removed from hip device struct hipDeviceProp_t.
• Deprecated "enum hipMemoryType memoryType;" is removed from HIP struct hipPointerAttribute_t union.
• Deprecated HIT based tests are removed from HIP project
• Catch tests are available [hip-tests] (https://github.com/ROCm/hip-tests) project

Known Issues

• Dynamically loaded HIP runtime library references incorrect version of hipDeviceGetProperties and hipChooseDevice APIs

When an application dynamically loads the HIP runtime library from ROCm 6.0 and attempts to get the hipDeviceGetProperties and/or hipChooseDevice entry-points using dlsym, the application gets the older version (ROCm 5.7) of those entry-points.

As a workaround, while compiling with ROCm 6.0, use the string "hipDeviceGetPropertiesR0600", and "hipChooseDeviceR0600" respectively for hipDeviceGetProperties and hipChooseDevice APIs.

HIP 5.7.1 (For ROCm 5.7.1)

Fixed

• hipPointerGetAttributes API returns the correct HIP memory type as hipMemoryTypeManaged for managed memory.

HIP 5.7 (For ROCm 5.7)

Optimizations

Added

• Added meta_group_size/rank for getting the number of tiles and rank of a tile in the partition

• Added new APIs supporting Windows only, under development on Linux

  • hipMallocMipmappedArray for allocating a mipmapped array on the device

  • hipFreeMipmappedArray for freeing a mipmapped array on the device

  • hipGetMipmappedArrayLevel for getting a mipmap level of a HIP mipmapped array

  • hipMipmappedArrayCreate for creating a mipmapped array

  • hipMipmappedArrayDestroy for destroy a mipmapped array

  • hipMipmappedArrayGetLevel for getting a mipmapped array on a mipmapped level

Changed

Fixed

Known Issues

• HIP memory type enum values currently don't support equivalent value to cudaMemoryTypeUnregistered, due to HIP functionality backward compatibility.
• HIP API hipPointerGetAttributes could return invalid value in case the input memory pointer was not allocated through any HIP API on device or host.

Upcoming changes in ROCm 6.0 release

• Removal of gcnarch from hipDeviceProp_t structure
• Addition of new fields in hipDeviceProp_t structure
  • maxTexture1D
  • maxTexture2D
  • maxTexture1DLayered
  • maxTexture2DLayered
  • sharedMemPerMultiprocessor
  • deviceOverlap
  • asyncEngineCount
  • surfaceAlignment
  • unifiedAddressing
  • computePreemptionSupported
  • hostRegisterSupported
  • uuid
• Removal of deprecated code -hip-hcc codes from hip code tree
• Correct hipArray usage in HIP APIs such as hipMemcpyAtoH and hipMemcpyHtoA
• HIPMEMCPY_3D fields correction to avoid truncation of "size_t" to "unsigned int" inside hipMemcpy3D()
• Renaming of 'memoryType' in hipPointerAttribute_t structure to 'type'
• Correct hipGetLastError to return the last error instead of last API call's return code
• Update hipExternalSemaphoreHandleDesc to add "unsigned int reserved[16]"
• Correct handling of flag values in hipIpcOpenMemHandle for hipIpcMemLazyEnablePeerAccess
• Remove hiparray* and make it opaque with hipArray_t

HIP 5.6.1 (For ROCm 5.6.1)

Fixed

• Enabled xnack+ check in HIP catch2 tests hang while tests execution
• Memory leak when code object files are loaded/unloaded via hipModuleLoad/hipModuleUnload APIs
• Fixed a crash happening while using hipGraphAddMemFreeNode

HIP 5.6 (For ROCm 5.6)

Optimizations

• Consolidation of hipamd, rocclr and OpenCL projects in clr
• Optimized lock for graph global capture mode

Added

• Added hipRTC support for amd_hip_fp16
• Added hipStreamGetDevice implementation to get the device assocaited with the stream
• Added HIP_AD_FORMAT_SIGNED_INT16 in hipArray formats
• hipArrayGetInfo for getting information about the specified array
• hipArrayGetDescriptor for getting 1D or 2D array descriptor
• hipArray3DGetDescriptor to get 3D array descriptor

Changed

• hipMallocAsync to return success for zero size allocation to match hipMalloc
• Separation of hipcc perl binaries from HIP project to hipcc project. hip-devel package depends on newly added hipcc package
• Consolidation of hipamd, ROCclr, and OpenCL repositories into a single repository called clr. Instructions are updated to build HIP from sources in the HIP Installation guide
• Removed hipBusBandwidth and hipCommander samples from hip-tests

Fixed

• Fixed regression in hipMemCpyParam3D when offset is applied

Known Issues

• Limited testing on xnack+ configuration
  • Multiple HIP tests failures (gpuvm fault or hangs)
• hipSetDevice and hipSetDeviceFlags APIs return hipErrorInvalidDevice instead of hipErrorNoDevice, on a system without GPU
• Known memory leak when code object files are loaded/unloaded via hipModuleLoad/hipModuleUnload APIs. Issue will be fixed in future release

Upcoming changes in future release

• Removal of gcnarch from hipDeviceProp_t structure
• Addition of new fields in hipDeviceProp_t structure
  • maxTexture1D
  • maxTexture2D
  • maxTexture1DLayered
  • maxTexture2DLayered
  • sharedMemPerMultiprocessor
  • deviceOverlap
  • asyncEngineCount
  • surfaceAlignment
  • unifiedAddressing
  • computePreemptionSupported
  • hostRegisterSupported
  • uuid
• Removal of deprecated code -hip-hcc codes from HIP code tree
• Correct hipArray usage in HIP APIs such as hipMemcpyAtoH and hipMemcpyHtoA
• HIPMEMCPY_3D fields correction to avoid truncation of "size_t" to "unsigned int" inside hipMemcpy3D()
• Renaming of 'memoryType' in hipPointerAttribute_t structure to 'type'
• Correct hipGetLastError to return the last error instead of last API call's return code
• Update hipExternalSemaphoreHandleDesc to add "unsigned int reserved[16]"
• Correct handling of flag values in hipIpcOpenMemHandle for hipIpcMemLazyEnablePeerAccess
• Remove hiparray* and make it opaque with hipArray_t