VS Code CUDA GDB "The editor could not be opened because the file was not found"

[07734]

Hello!

I have Debian 12 Bookworm, VS Code, CUDA Toolkit 12.3, CUDA GDB 12.1 and nvidia cuda-gdb tutorial.
I am trying to debug my CUDA program in VS Code.

Makefile:

all:
	nvcc -g -G -std=c++11 main.cu -o a.out

When I try to debug CPU function, everything works, but when I try to use device function VS Code an error is called:

The editor could not be opened because the file was not found.

for tmp/tmpxft_00001393_00000000-6_main.cudafe1.stub.c file.

How fix problem?

[AKravets]

Hi @07734
Thank you for reporting the issue! To help us identify the exact problem - could you check whether you can debug you application using cuda-gdb from command line?

cuda-gdb ./a.out

but when I try to use device function VS Code an error is called:

Could you provide more details here? Are you trying to use cuda info devices? Could you try the same in the cuda-gdb command line interface?

[07734]

Could you try the same in the cuda-gdb command line interface?

home@debian-home:~/projects/cuda/cuda-learn$ cuda-gdb a.out 
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Reading symbols from a.out...
(cuda-gdb) 

And if I try continue:

(cuda-gdb) b gpu_matrix_multiply_many
Breakpoint 1 at 0xc859: file /home/home/projects/cuda/cuda-learn/gpu.cu, line 46.
(cuda-gdb) run
Starting program: /home/home/projects/cuda/cuda-learn/a.out 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7ffff5bff000 (LWP 3862)]
[New Thread 0x7fffeffff000 (LWP 3863)]
[Detaching after fork from child process 3864]
[New Thread 0x7fffee7dd000 (LWP 3875)]
[New Thread 0x7fffecfbb000 (LWP 3876)]
[Switching focus to CUDA kernel 0, grid 1, block (0,0,0), thread (0,0,0), device 0, sm 0, warp 0, lane 0]

Thread 1 "a.out" hit Breakpoint 1, gpu_matrix_multiply_many<<<(256,1,1),(256,1,1)>>> (a=0x7fffc6000000, b=0x7fffc4000000, result=0x7fffc2000000, index=0) at gpu.cu:47
47	    int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;

This works in the cuda-gdb terminal.

(cuda-gdb) info locals
i = 15
local_a = {0, 6, -3, -6, -3, 0, 7, -8, -8, -10, -2, -1, 9, -7, -7, 0 <repeats 4081 times>}
local_c = {0 <repeats 4096 times>}
idx = 0
MSG = 64
local_b = {-4, 6, 5, -3, -7, -10, -3, -3, -1, -10, 5, 4, -10, -2, 10, 0 <repeats 4081 times>}
offset = 0

But not works in VS Code.

Could you provide more details here?

I trying to debug my program. I press F5 in VS Code and run debugging mode. I can step into and step over if break point is contained in the host function (main, for example). When break point gets into the device (__global__, for example) function I have problem, VS Code informs about error (The editor could not be opened because the file was not found).

Are you trying to use cuda info devices?

I didn`t understand how to call this command. This command not work, but nvidia-smi works (if you want to see my device info):

home@debian-home:~/projects/cuda/cuda-learn$ nvidia-smi
Mon Jan 29 15:23:41 2024       
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 545.23.08              Driver Version: 545.23.08    CUDA Version: 12.3     |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                      |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce MX230           On  | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   49C    P8              N/A / ERR! |      4MiB /  2048MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                      |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                            |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                            GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                             Usage      |
|=======================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       882      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                            4MiB |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

[AKravets]

Hi @07734
Thank you very much for the clarification! Since the issue only manifests in VS Code (but not in CLI cuda-gdb debugging session) moving the topic to the VS Code forum branch.

[navyaasanan]

Can you share the launch.json you are using?

Also the toolkit/cuda-gdb you are using are from different versions. As a starting step, I would recommend that you use cuda-gdb from the CTK. Version consistency goes a long way in helping with inexplicable behavior :)