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Collecting a context together with its memory segfaults

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Issue 类型
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基本清楚
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技术栈
julia
领域
backend

调研方向

Start with the ZeContext finalizer and the memory allocation and release paths in oneAPI.jl; the issue does not name their files or tests. Trace how context ownership interacts with allocations that become unreachable in the same collection, then check the proposed lifecycle against the CUDA.jl comparison and Level Zero constraints. Done means collecting a context and its allocations no longer segfaults; an open pull request already addresses this issue.

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Every Level Zero object is destroyed by its own finalizer, and Julia runs the finalizers of objects that become unreachable in the same collection in no particular order. A ZeContext can thus be destroyed before memory allocated in it, and freeing that memory afterwards crashes in NEO:

using oneAPI, oneAPI.oneL0

function work()
    ctx = ZeContext(oneAPI.driver())
    for _ in 1:3; GC.gc(true); end   # the context is old by the time the array is allocated
    old = context()
    context!(ctx)
    a = oneArray{Float32}(undef, 1_000_000)
    context!(old)
    return
end
work()
GC.gc(true)
[19895] signal 11 (1): Segmentation fault
_ZN2L07Context7freeMemEPKvb at libze_intel_gpu.so.1
zeMemFree at ...

This fails every time on an Iris Xe with NEO 26.35. Without the collections before the allocation the finalizers happen to run in a working order. A context in which a kernel was launched, or small (pooled) arrays were allocated, stays reachable from oneAPI.jl's caches and is never collected, which is probably why this hasn't come up.

Forcing other parent-before-child orders (a queue before its fences, an event pool before its events, a module before its kernels, a command list while it is executing) does not crash on NEO, though the Level Zero spec doesn't allow them either. The context is the one that matters: destroying it frees the allocations made in it.

CUDA.jl avoids this by not destroying contexts from a finalizer at all (CuContext has no finalizer, see also JuliaGPU/CUDA.jl#3404 for releases after an explicit destroy).

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