This patchs adds a new metadata kind `exclude` which implies that the
global variable should be given the necessary flags during code
generation to not be included in the final executable. This is done
using the ``SHF_EXCLUDE`` flag on ELF for example. This should make it
easier to specify this flag on a variable without needing to explicitly
check the section name in the target backend.
Depends on D129053 D129052
Reviewed By: jdoerfert
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129151
Currently we use the `.llvm.offloading` section to store device-side
objects inside the host, creating a fat binary. The contents of these
sections is currently determined by the name of the section while it
should ideally be determined by its type. This patch adds the new
`SHT_LLVM_OFFLOADING` section type to the ELF section types. Which
should make it easier to identify this specific data format.
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129052
Test updates were performed using:
https://gist.github.com/nikic/98357b71fd67756b0f064c9517b62a34
These are only the test updates where the test passed without
further modification (which is almost all of them, as the backend
is largely pointer-type agnostic).
Offloading sections can be embedded in the host during codegen via a
section. This section was originally marked as metadata to prevent it
from being loaded, but these sections are completely unused at runtime
so the linker should automatically drop them from the final executable
or shard library. This flag adds support for the SHF_EXCLUDE flag in
target lowering and uses it.
Reviewed By: JonChesterfield, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122987
We use offloading sections in the new Clang driver scheme to embed
device code into the host. We later use these sections to link the
device image, after which point they are completely unused and should
not be loaded into memory if they are still in the executable.
Reviewed By: JonChesterfield
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120275
