the `ptx_kernel` calling convention is a more idiomatic and standard way
of specifying a NVPTX kernel than using the metadata which is not
supposed to change the meaning of the program. Further, checking the
calling convention is significantly faster than traversing the metadata,
improving compile time.
This change updates the clang and mlir frontends as well as the
NVPTXCtorDtorLowering pass to emit kernels using the calling convention.
In addition, this updates all NVPTX unit tests to use the calling
convention as well.
Through the new `-foffload-via-llvm` flag, CUDA kernels can now be
lowered to the LLVM/Offload API. On the Clang side, this is simply done
by using the OpenMP offload toolchain and emitting calls to `llvm*`
functions to orchestrate the kernel launch rather than `cuda*`
functions. These `llvm*` functions are implemented on top of the
existing LLVM/Offload API.
As we are about to redefine the Offload API, this wil help us in the
design process as a second offload language.
We do not support any CUDA APIs yet, however, we could:
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1892137
For proper host execution we need to resurrect/rebase
https://tianshilei.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/llpp-2021.pdf
(which was designed for debugging).
```
❯❯❯ cat test.cu
extern "C" {
void *llvm_omp_target_alloc_shared(size_t Size, int DeviceNum);
void llvm_omp_target_free_shared(void *DevicePtr, int DeviceNum);
}
__global__ void square(int *A) { *A = 42; }
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int DevNo = 0;
int *Ptr = reinterpret_cast<int *>(llvm_omp_target_alloc_shared(4, DevNo));
*Ptr = 7;
printf("Ptr %p, *Ptr %i\n", Ptr, *Ptr);
square<<<1, 1>>>(Ptr);
printf("Ptr %p, *Ptr %i\n", Ptr, *Ptr);
llvm_omp_target_free_shared(Ptr, DevNo);
}
❯❯❯ clang++ test.cu -O3 -o test123 -foffload-via-llvm --offload-arch=native
❯❯❯ llvm-objdump --offloading test123
test123: file format elf64-x86-64
OFFLOADING IMAGE [0]:
kind elf
arch gfx90a
triple amdgcn-amd-amdhsa
producer openmp
❯❯❯ LIBOMPTARGET_INFO=16 ./test123
Ptr 0x155448ac8000, *Ptr 7
Ptr 0x155448ac8000, *Ptr 42
```
