Validate Binaries

Verify that voxtype binaries don’t contain forbidden CPU instructions that would cause crashes on older CPUs.

What This Checks

Forbidden Instructions

• zmm registers – 512-bit AVX-512 registers
• vpternlog, vpermt2, vpblendm – AVX-512 specific
• {1to4}, {1to8}, {1to16} – AVX-512 broadcast syntax
• vgf2p8, gf2p8 – GFNI instructions (not on Zen 3)

Usage

When asked to validate binaries:

1. Determine the version from context or ask
2. Find binaries in releases/${VERSION}/
3. Run objdump checks on each binary
4. Report pass/fail for each

Validation Commands

# Set version
VERSION=0.4.14

# Check AVX2 binary (should be 0 for all)
echo "=== AVX2 Binary ==="
objdump -d releases/${VERSION}/voxtype-${VERSION}-linux-x86_64-avx2 | grep -c zmm || echo "zmm: 0"
objdump -d releases/${VERSION}/voxtype-${VERSION}-linux-x86_64-avx2 | grep -cE 'vpternlog|vpermt2|vpblendm' || echo "AVX-512 ops: 0"
objdump -d releases/${VERSION}/voxtype-${VERSION}-linux-x86_64-avx2 | grep -cE 'vgf2p8|gf2p8' || echo "GFNI: 0"

# Check Vulkan binary (should be 0 for all)
echo "=== Vulkan Binary ==="
objdump -d releases/${VERSION}/voxtype-${VERSION}-linux-x86_64-vulkan | grep -c zmm || echo "zmm: 0"
objdump -d releases/${VERSION}/voxtype-${VERSION}-linux-x86_64-vulkan | grep -cE 'vgf2p8|gf2p8' || echo "GFNI: 0"

# Check AVX-512 binary (should be > 0)
echo "=== AVX-512 Binary ==="
objdump -d releases/${VERSION}/voxtype-${VERSION}-linux-x86_64-avx512 | grep -c zmm

Interpreting Results

PASS conditions:

• AVX2: All counts are 0
• Vulkan: All counts are 0
• AVX-512: zmm count > 0

FAIL conditions:

• AVX2 or Vulkan has any zmm/GFNI instructions
• AVX-512 has 0 zmm instructions (not optimized)

If validation fails, the Docker build cache is likely stale. Recommend:

docker compose -f docker-compose.build.yml build --no-cache avx2 vulkan