- CUDA's dynamic parallelism extension allows device-side kernel
launches, which share the identical syntax to host-side launches, e.g.,
kernel<<<Dg, Db, Ns, S>>>(arguments);
but differ from the code generation. That device-side kernel launches is
eventually translated into the following sequence
config = cudaGetParameterBuffer(alignment, size);
// setup arguments by copying them into `config`.
cudaLaunchDevice(func, config, Dg, Db, Ns, S);
- To support the device-side kernel launch, 'CUDAKernelCallExpr' is
reused but its config expr is set to a call to 'cudaLaunchDevice'.
During the code generation, 'CUDAKernelCallExpr' is expanded into the
sequence aforementioned.
- As the device-side kernel launch requires the source to be compiled as
relocatable device code and linked with '-lcudadevrt'. Linkers are
changed to pass relevant link options to 'nvlink'.
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