cuda - cuda-gdb 是否需要 root 权限？

Question

我正在使用 cuda-sdk 在 Arch Linux 上进行 GPGPU 开发和cuda-toolkit包。我尝试运行 cuda-gdb作为一个普通用户
简单的程序导致:

$ cuda-gdb ./driver
NVIDIA (R) CUDA Debugger
4.2 release
Portions Copyright (C) 2007-2012 NVIDIA Corporation
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /home/nwh/Dropbox/projects/G4CU/driver...done.
(cuda-gdb) run
Starting program: /home/nwh/Dropbox/projects/G4CU/driver 
warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
fatal:  The CUDA driver initialization failed. (error code = 1)

如果我运行 cuda-gdb作为 root，它的行为正常:

# cuda-gdb ./driver
NVIDIA (R) CUDA Debugger
4.2 release
Portions Copyright (C) 2007-2012 NVIDIA Corporation
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /home/nwh/Dropbox/work/2012-09-06-cuda_gdb/driver...done.
(cuda-gdb) run
Starting program: /home/nwh/Dropbox/work/2012-09-06-cuda_gdb/driver 
warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7ffff5ba8700 (LWP 11386)]
[Context Create of context 0x6e8a30 on Device 0]
[Launch of CUDA Kernel 0 (thrust::detail::backend::cuda::detail::launch_closure_by_value<thrust::detail::backend::cuda::for_each_n_closure<thrust::device_ptr<unsigned long long>, unsigned int, thrust::detail::device_generate_functor<thrust::detail::fill_functor<unsigned long long> > > ><<<(1,1,1),(704,1,1)>>>) on Device 0]
[Launch of CUDA Kernel 1 (set_vector<<<(1,1,1),(10,1,1)>>>) on Device 0]
vd[0] = 0
vd[1] = 1
vd[2] = 2
vd[3] = 3
vd[4] = 4
vd[5] = 5
vd[6] = 6
vd[7] = 7
vd[8] = 8
vd[9] = 9
[Thread 0x7ffff5ba8700 (LWP 11386) exited]

Program exited normally.
[Termination of CUDA Kernel 1 (set_vector<<<(1,1,1),(10,1,1)>>>) on Device 0]
[Termination of CUDA Kernel 0 (thrust::detail::backend::cuda::detail::launch_closure_by_value<thrust::detail::backend::cuda::for_each_n_closure<thrust::device_ptr<unsigned long long>, unsigned int, thrust::detail::device_generate_functor<thrust::detail::fill_functor<unsigned long long> > > ><<<(1,1,1),(704,1,1)>>>) on Device 0]

测试程序 driver.cu是:

// needed for nvcc with gcc 4.7 and iostream
#undef _GLIBCXX_ATOMIC_BUILTINS
#undef _GLIBCXX_USE_INT128

#include <iostream>
#include <thrust/device_vector.h>
#include <thrust/host_vector.h>

__global__
void set_vector(int *a)
{
  // get thread id
  int id = threadIdx.x + blockIdx.x * blockDim.x;
  a[id] = id;
  __syncthreads();
}

int main(void)
{
  // settings
  int len = 10; int trd = 10;

  // allocate vectors
  thrust::device_vector<int> vd(len);

  // get the raw pointer
  int *a = thrust::raw_pointer_cast(vd.data());

  // call the kernel
  set_vector<<<1,trd>>>(a);

  // print vector
  for (int i=0; i<len; i++)
    std::cout << "vd[" << i << "] = " << vd[i] << std::endl;

  return 0;
}

driver.c使用以下命令编译:

$ nvcc -g -G -gencode arch=compute_20,code=sm_20 driver.cu -o driver

我怎样才能得到 cuda-gdb在没有root权限的情况下运行？

更多信息: nvidia-smi 的输出是:

$ nvidia-smi
Mon Sep 10 07:16:32 2012       
+------------------------------------------------------+                       
| NVIDIA-SMI 4.304.43   Driver Version: 304.43         |                       
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                     | Bus-Id        Disp.  | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage         | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Quadro FX 1700           | 0000:01:00.0     N/A |                  N/A |
| 60%   52C  N/A     N/A /  N/A |   4%   20MB /  511MB |     N/A      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  Tesla C2070              | 0000:02:00.0     Off |                    0 |
| 30%   82C    P8    N/A /  N/A |   0%   11MB / 5375MB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Compute processes:                                               GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID  Process name                                     Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0            Not Supported                                               |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

显示器连接到 Quadro，我在 Tesla 上运行 CUDA 应用程序。

Answer 1

谢谢你。从它的声音来看，您的问题是所需的设备节点没有被初始化。通常，运行 X 将创建 CUDA 软件堆栈与硬件通信所需的设备节点。当 X 没有运行时，就像这里的情况一样，以 root 身份运行会创建节点。由于缺乏权限，普通用户无法创建节点。在没有 X 的情况下运行 Linux 系统时，推荐的方法是以 root 身份运行以下脚本(来自 http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/DevZone/docs/html/C/doc/CUDA_Getting_Started_Linux.pdf 的入门指南)

#!/bin/bash
/sbin/modprobe nvidia
if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
# Count the number of NVIDIA controllers found.
NVDEVS=`lspci | grep -i NVIDIA`
N3D=`echo "$NVDEVS" | grep "3D controller" | wc -l`
NVGA=`echo "$NVDEVS" | grep "VGA compatible controller" | wc -l`
N=`expr $N3D + $NVGA - 1`
for i in `seq 0 $N`; do
mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia$i c 195 $i
done
mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255
else
exit 1
fi

请注意，您需要在每次启动时重新创 build 备节点，因此最好将此脚本(或类似脚本)添加到您的启动序列中。

@Till:对作为答案的问题表示歉意:)。我是 SO 新手，没有足够的声誉来发表评论。