[petsc-users] Floating point exception

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Sat Apr 25 13:55:15 CDT 2015


> On Apr 25, 2015, at 1:51 PM, Danyang Su <danyang.su at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 15-04-25 11:32 AM, Barry Smith wrote:
>>   I told you this yesterday.
>> 
>>   It is probably stopping here on a harmless underflow. You need to edit the PETSc code to not worry about underflow.
>> 
>> Edit the file /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/sys/error/fp.c and locate
>> 
>> #elif defined PETSC_HAVE_XMMINTRIN_H
>>    _MM_SET_EXCEPTION_MASK(_MM_MASK_INEXACT);
>> #else
>> 
>> change it to
>> 
>> #elif defined PETSC_HAVE_XMMINTRIN_H
>>    _MM_SET_EXCEPTION_MASK(_MM_MASK_INEXACT | _MM_MASK_UNDERFLOW);
>> #else
>> 
>>  Then run make gnumake in the PETSc directory to compile the new version. Now link and run the program again with -fp_trap and see where it gets stuck this time.
>> 
>>   Did you do this?
>> 
>>  Barry
> Yes, I did change the code in fp.c and run 'make gnumake' in the PETSc directory. I just did a double check and ran make gnumake again and got the following information this time.
> 
> dsu at nwmop:~/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2$ make gnumake
> Building PETSc using GNU Make with 10 build threads
> ==========================================
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2'
> =========================================
> 
> 
> Then I recompiled the codes, ran with -fp_trap and still got the following error
> 
> Backtrace for this error:
> Note: The EXACT line numbers in the stack are not available,
> [2]PETSC ERROR:       INSTEAD the line number of the start of the function
> [2]PETSC ERROR:       is given.
> [2]PETSC ERROR: [2] PetscDefaultFPTrap line 379 /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/sys/error/fp.c
>      INSTEAD the line number of the start of the function
> [3]PETSC ERROR:       is given.
> [3]PETSC ERROR: [3] PetscDefaultFPTrap line 379 /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/sys/error/fp.c
> [2]PETSC ERROR: User provided function() line 0 in Unknown file trapped floating point error
> [3]PETSC ERROR: User provided function() line 0 in Unknown file trapped floating point error
> 

   This is different then what you sent a few minutes ago where it crashed in hypre. 

   Anyways you need to use the -start_in_debugger business I sent in the previous email to see the exact place the problem occurs.

> Thanks,
> 
> Danyang
>>> On Apr 25, 2015, at 1:05 AM, Danyang Su <danyang.su at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Barry and Satish,
>>> 
>>> How can I get rid of unknown floating point error when a very small value is multiplied.
>>> 
>>> e.g.,
>>> cinfrt_dg(i1) and diff(ic,idim) are  1.0250235986806329E-008 8.6178408169776945E-317 respectively,
>>> 
>>> cinfrt = cinfrt_dg(i1) * diff(ic,idim)
>>> 
>>> I get the following error when run with "-fp_trap -start_in_debugger".
>>> 
>>> Backtrace for this error:
>>> *** unknown floating point error occurred ***
>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: The specific exception can be determined by running in a debugger.  When the
>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: debugger traps the signal, the exception can be found with fetestexcept(0x3d)
>>> [2]PETSC ERROR:  cinfrt_dg(i1),diff(ic,idim) 1.0250235986806329E-008   8.6178408169776945E-317
>>> where the result is a bitwise OR of the following flags:
>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: FE_INVALID=0x1 FE_DIVBYZERO=0x4 FE_OVERFLOW=0x8 FE_UNDERFLOW=0x10 FE_INEXACT=0x20
>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: Try option -start_in_debugger
>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: likely location of problem given in stack below
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Danyang
>>> 
>>> On 15-04-24 01:54 PM, Danyang Su wrote:
>>>> On 15-04-24 01:23 PM, Satish Balay wrote:
>>>>>  c           4   1.0976214263087059E-067
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't think this number can be stored in a real*4.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Satish
>>>> Thanks, Satish. It is caused by this number.
>>>>> On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Danyang Su wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 15-04-24 11:12 AM, Barry Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Apr 24, 2015, at 1:05 PM, Danyang Su <danyang.su at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> One of my case crashes because of floating point exception when using 4
>>>>>>>> processors, as shown below. But if I run this case with 1 processor, it
>>>>>>>> works fine. I have tested the codes with around 100 cases up to 768
>>>>>>>> processors, all other cases work fine. I just wonder if this kind of error
>>>>>>>> is caused because of NaN in jacobi matrix, RHS or preconditioner?
>>>>>>>     Yes, almost for sure it is one of these places.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     First run the bad case with -fp_trap  if all goes well you'll see the
>>>>>>> function where the FPE is generated. Then run also with -start_in_debugger
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> type cont in all four debugger windows. When the FPE happens the debugger
>>>>>>> should stop showing exactly where the FPE happens.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>    Barry
>>>>>> Hi Barry,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If run with -fp_trap -start_in_debugger, I got the following error
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: *** unknown floating point error occurred ***
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: The specific exception can be determined by running in a
>>>>>> debugger.  When the
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: debugger traps the signal, the exception can be found with
>>>>>> fetestexcept(0x3d)
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: where the result is a bitwise OR of the following flags:
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: FE_INVALID=0x1 FE_DIVBYZERO=0x4 FE_OVERFLOW=0x8
>>>>>> FE_UNDERFLOW=0x10 FE_INEXACT=0x20
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Try option -start_in_debugger
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: likely location of problem given in stack below
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: ---------------------  Stack Frames
>>>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Note: The EXACT line numbers in the stack are not available,
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:       INSTEAD the line number of the start of the function
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:       is given.
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: [0] PetscDefaultFPTrap line 379
>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/sys/error/fp.c
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: User provided function() line 0 in Unknown file trapped
>>>>>> floating point error
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Program received signal SIGABRT: Process abort signal.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Backtrace for this error:
>>>>>> #0  0x7F4FEAB1C7D7
>>>>>> #1  0x7F4FEAB1CDDE
>>>>>> #2  0x7F4FE9E1AD3F
>>>>>> #3  0x7F4FE9E1ACC9
>>>>>> #4  0x7F4FE9E1E0D7
>>>>>> #5  0x7F4FEB0B6DCB
>>>>>> #6  0x7F4FEB0B1825
>>>>>> #7  0x7F4FEB0B817F
>>>>>> #8  0x7F4FE9E1AD3F
>>>>>> #9  0x6972C8 in tprfrtlc_ at tprfrtlc.F90:2393 (discriminator 3)
>>>>>> #10  0x4C6C87 in gcreact_ at gcreact.F90:678
>>>>>> #11  0x707E19 in initicrt_ at initicrt.F90:589
>>>>>> #12  0x4F42D0 in initprob_ at initprob.F90:430
>>>>>> #13  0x5AAF72 in driver_pc at driver_pc.F90:438
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I checked the code at  tprfrtlc.F90:2393,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>         realbuffer_gb(1:nvars) = (/time,(c(ic),ic=1,nc-1),     &
>>>>>>                                    (cx(ix),ix=1,nxout)/)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> All the values (time, c, cx) are reasonable, as shown below. The only
>>>>>> possibility is that realbuffer_gb is in declared as real*4 if using sing
>>>>>> precision output while time, c, cx are declared in real*8. I have a lot of
>>>>>> similar data conversion from real*8 to real*4 output, other code does not
>>>>>> return error.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  time   0.0000000000000000
>>>>>>  c           1   9.9999999999999995E-008
>>>>>>  c           2   3.1555251077549618E-003
>>>>>>  c           3   7.1657814842179362E-008
>>>>>>  c           4   1.0976214263087059E-067
>>>>>>  c           5   5.2879822292305797E-004
>>>>>>  c           6   9.9999999999999964E-005
>>>>>>  c           7   6.4055731968811337E-005
>>>>>>  c           8   3.4607572892578404E-020
>>>>>>  cx           1   3.4376650636008101E-005
>>>>>>  cx           2   7.3989678854017763E-012
>>>>>>  cx           3   9.5317170613607207E-012
>>>>>>  cx           4   2.2344525794718353E-015
>>>>>>  cx           5   3.0624685689695889E-008
>>>>>>  cx           6   1.0046157902783967E-007
>>>>>>  cx           7   1.5320169154914984E-004
>>>>>>  cx           8   8.6930292776346176E-014
>>>>>>  cx           9   3.5944267559348721E-005
>>>>>>  cx          10   3.0072645866951157E-018
>>>>>>  cx          11   2.3592486321095017E-013
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Danyang
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I can check all the entries of jacobi matrix to see if the value is valid,
>>>>>>>> but this seems not a good idea as it takes a long time to reach this
>>>>>>>> point. If I restart the simulation from a specified time (e.g., 7.685 in
>>>>>>>> this case), then the error does not occur.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Would you please give me any suggestion on debugging this case?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Danyang
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> timestep:    2730 time: 7.665E+00 years   delt: 1.000E-02 years iter:  1
>>>>>>>> timestep:    max.sia: 0.000E+00 tol.sia: 0.000E+00
>>>>>>>> timestep:    2731 time: 7.675E+00 years   delt: 1.000E-02 years iter:  1
>>>>>>>> timestep:    max.sia: 0.000E+00 tol.sia: 0.000E+00
>>>>>>>> timestep:    2732 time: 7.685E+00 years   delt: 1.000E-02 years iter:  1
>>>>>>>> timestep:    max.sia: 0.000E+00 tol.sia: 0.000E+00
>>>>>>>> timestep:    2733 time: 7.695E+00 years   delt: 1.000E-02 years iter:  1
>>>>>>>> timestep:    max.sia: 0.000E+00 tol.sia: 0.000E+00
>>>>>>>> timestep:    2734 time: 7.705E+00 years   delt: 1.000E-02 years iter:  1
>>>>>>>> timestep:    max.sia: 0.000E+00 tol.sia: 0.000E+00
>>>>>>>> Reduce time step for reactive transport
>>>>>>>> timestep:    2734 time: 7.700E+00 years   delt: 5.000E-03 years iter:  1
>>>>>>>> timestep:    max.sia: 0.000E+00 tol.sia: 0.000E+00
>>>>>>>> Reduce time step for reactive transport
>>>>>>>> timestep:    2734 time: 7.697E+00 years   delt: 2.500E-03 years iter:  1
>>>>>>>> timestep:    max.sia: 0.000E+00 tol.sia: 0.000E+00
>>>>>>>> [1]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
>>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>> [1]PETSC ERROR: Floating point exception
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
>>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: Floating point exception
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: Vec entry at local location 0 is not-a-number or infinite
>>>>>>>> at end of function: Parameter number 3
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html
>>>>>>>> for trouble shooting.
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.5.2, Sep, 08, 2014
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: [1]PETSC ERROR: Vec entry at local location 0 is
>>>>>>>> not-a-number or infinite at end of function: Parameter number 3
>>>>>>>> [1]PETSC ERROR: See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html
>>>>>>>> for trouble shooting.
>>>>>>>> [1]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.5.2, Sep, 08, 2014
>>>>>>>> [1]PETSC ERROR: ../min3p_thcm_petsc_dbg on a linux-gnu-dbg named nwmop by
>>>>>>>> dsu Thu Apr 23 15:38:52 2015
>>>>>>>> [1]PETSC ERROR: Configure options PETSC_ARCH=linux-gnu-dbg --with-cc=gcc
>>>>>>>> --with-cxx=g++ --with-fc=gfortran --download-fblaslapack --download-mpich
>>>>>>>> --download-mumps --download-hypre --download-superlu_dist --download-metis
>>>>>>>> --download-parmetis --download-scalapack
>>>>>>>> [1]PETSC ERROR: #1 VecValidValues() line 34 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/vec/vec/interface/rvector.c
>>>>>>>> ../min3p_thcm_petsc_dbg on a linux-gnu-dbg named nwmop by dsu Thu Apr 23
>>>>>>>> 15:38:52 2015
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: Configure options PETSC_ARCH=linux-gnu-dbg --with-cc=gcc
>>>>>>>> --with-cxx=g++ --with-fc=gfortran --download-fblaslapack --download-mpich
>>>>>>>> --download-mumps --download-hypre --download-superlu_dist --download-metis
>>>>>>>> --download-parmetis --download-scalapack
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: #1 VecValidValues() line 34 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/vec/vec/interface/rvector.c
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: [1]PETSC ERROR: #2 PCApply() line 442 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/ksp/pc/interface/precon.c
>>>>>>>> [1]PETSC ERROR: #2 PCApply() line 442 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/ksp/pc/interface/precon.c
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: #3 KSP_PCApply() line 230 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/include/petsc-private/kspimpl.h
>>>>>>>> #3 KSP_PCApply() line 230 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/include/petsc-private/kspimpl.h
>>>>>>>> [1]PETSC ERROR: #4 KSPInitialResidual() line 63 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/ksp/ksp/interface/itres.c
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: #4 KSPInitialResidual() line 63 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/ksp/ksp/interface/itres.c
>>>>>>>> [1]PETSC ERROR: #5 KSPSolve_GMRES() line 234 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/ksp/ksp/impls/gmres/gmres.c
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: #5 KSPSolve_GMRES() line 234 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/ksp/ksp/impls/gmres/gmres.c
>>>>>>>> [2]PETSC ERROR: #6 KSPSolve() line 459 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
>>>>>>>> [1]PETSC ERROR: #6 KSPSolve() line 459 in
>>>>>>>> /home/dsu/Soft/PETSc/petsc-3.5.2/src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
>>>>>>>> ^C[mpiexec at nwmop] Sending Ctrl-C to processes as requested
>>>>>>>> [mpiexec at nwmop] Press Ctrl-C again to force abort



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