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Propagate errors from Parquet reader kernels back to host #14167

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Pass the error code to the host when a kernel detects invalid input.
If multiple errors types are detected, they are combined using a bitwise OR so that caller gets the aggregate error code that includes all types of errors that occurred.

Does not change the kernel side checks.

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vuule commented Sep 25, 2023

CC @nvdbaranec @etseidl
Please let me know if you see any issues with this approach to error reporting in the reader.

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I can't think of a better way to do this. Do we want to define some constants for the error codes?

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vuule commented Sep 25, 2023

Do we want to define some constants for the error codes?

Definitely, just not sure if it should be in this PR. Related - should we return the error code as a bitmask? Would returning multiple errors even be useful?

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etseidl commented Sep 25, 2023

Definitely, just not sure if it should be in this PR. Related - should we return the error code as a bitmask? Would returning multiple errors even be useful?

I think a bitmask might be a bit much, and limits us to 32 errors. There will probably be more ways to fail than that, esp if we also return errors from the preprocessing kernels.

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cuda::atomic_ref<int32_t, cuda::thread_scope_block> ref{const_cast<int&>(error)};
ref.store(err, cuda::std::memory_order_relaxed);
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Is this atomic necessary? I didn't see any places where anything other than thread 0 (of the block) sets the error code. I suppose that may not be the case in the future. Based on how this is called, I wonder if an atomic OR is better here so we can stash multiple error types as individual bits.

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I made it atomic since we probably don't need to worry about performance when failing. This seemed like a safe option for future checks as well.

About the error code as mask - Ed is concerned about the limit on the number of errors that this would impose. I could be convinced to go either way, don't expect the trade-off to be relevant in practice.

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TBH the most common error condition is going to be a buffer overrun detected somewhere. We could probably get away without codes at all and have a single error bit. The host code calling the kernel can report which kernel failed. It just comes down to how fine grained you want the error reporting to be.

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I could see it either way. It's so hard to even know what thread failed and the context of why (possibly because some other thread did something wrong) having a set of bits could act as bread-crumbs to lead you to where things really went wrong. But on the other hand, you're a lot more limited on what you can report. I'm fine either way. Parallel error reporting is amusing in any case.

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vuule commented Sep 26, 2023

Looks like we're leaning towards a mask to aggregate errors. I'll make the changes.

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Yeah I like this mechanism. The explicit names also remove some of the mystery when reading the code itself too.

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Looking good, just a few naming nits :D

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LGTM

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vuule commented Sep 28, 2023

/merge

@rapids-bot rapids-bot bot merged commit 2c19bf3 into rapidsai:branch-23.10 Sep 28, 2023
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Fixes #13656.  Uses the error reporting introduced in #14167 to report errors in header parsing.

Authors:
  - Ed Seidl (https://github.com/etseidl)
  - Vukasin Milovanovic (https://github.com/vuule)

Approvers:
  - Vukasin Milovanovic (https://github.com/vuule)
  - Bradley Dice (https://github.com/bdice)

URL: #14237
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