linjamaki added a comment. In D110622#3030792 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D110622#3030792>, @tra wrote:
>> A Cuda GPU architecture ‘generic’ is added. The name is picked from the LLVM >> SPIR-V Backend. In the HIPSPV code path the architecture name is inserted to >> the bundle entry ID as target ID. Target ID is expected to be always present >> so a component in the target triple is not mistaken as target ID. > > How generic is 'generic'? If I understand the statement above correctly, it > should probably reflect that it's specific to spir-v. > If it's the only possible spir-v variant, then calling it`spir-v` might be > more meaningful. > If we expect to see other spir-v variants in the future it would allow us to > clearly differentiate between them later. > E.g. `--offload=spirv-a,spirv-b`. It would be rather odd if we had to use > `--offload=generic, spirv-b`. In this patch the ‘generic’ is meant to be a processor model defined in the SPIR-V backend. Now to come to think of it a bit more, I think it should not be specific to the SPIR-V target but the target at hand if its backend defines one. What I’m seeing is that each entry in the CudaArch has a processor by the same name in the NVPTX and AMGPU backends. If I need to set different processor other from the SPIR-V backend than what is set as the default in HIP compilation, I thought from the [1] it could be carried out with something like: --offload=spirv64 -Xoffload=spirv64 -march=other-spirv-cpu [1]: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2020-December/067362.html In D110622#3031010 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D110622#3031010>, @tra wrote: >> --offload’ option, which is envisioned in [1], is added for specifying >> offload targets. This option is used to override default device target >> (amdgcn-amd-amdhsa) for HIP compilation for emitting device code as SPIR-V >> binary. The option is handled in getHIPOffloadTargetTriple(). > > Can you elaborate on what exactly this option does and how it's intended to > interact with the existing `--offload-arch`? I think that the --offload-arch interaction question is for @yaxunl. What is being contributed here is a partial implementation for the unified offloading options. The --offload option in this patch is used to supply the offload device target triple (in HIP compilation mode) for retargeting the device code emission to SPIR-V instead of emitting HSA. > In general a list of values, combined with the `getLastArg` will potentially > be an issue if/when more than one list value will be supported. > In a large build it's fairly common for the build infrastructure to set the > default options and allowing users to extend/override them with *additional* > options. `getLastArg` works great for scalar options, not so much for the > lists. > If an option is a list, modifying it requires prior knowledge of preceding > values and that may not always be easy. > E.g. a build configuration may be set to target gfx900 and gfx908. If I want > to *add* an option to target gfx1030, I would need to dig out the options for > the currently-enabled architectures and specify all of them again. It's > doable once, manually, but it does not scale if this option is expected to be > regularly tweaked by the end user, as is the case with `--offload-arch`. If > `--offload` is expected to have similar use patterns, you may need to > consider allowing it to be adjusted per-list-element. The use of getLastArg() is an oversight. I’ll fix it with getAllArgValues(). ================ Comment at: clang/include/clang/Basic/Cuda.h:106 static inline bool IsAMDGpuArch(CudaArch A) { return A >= CudaArch::GFX600 && A < CudaArch::LAST; } ---------------- tra wrote: > Does this need to be adjusted to exclude SPIR-V? If so, you may want to add > another enum range for SPIR-V. > Didn't notice this. I'll fix this. ================ Comment at: clang/include/clang/Driver/Options.td:1136 +def offload_EQ : CommaJoined<["--"], "offload=">, Flags<[NoXarchOption]>, + HelpText<"Specify comma-separated list of offloading targets.">; + ---------------- tra wrote: > `comma-separated list of offloading targets.` is, unfortunately, somewhat > ambiguous. > Does it mean "how the offload will be done". I.e. HSA, OpenMP, SPIRV, CUDA? > Or does it mean specific hardware we need to generate the code for? > The code suggests it's a variant of the former, but the option description > does not. > > E.g. `offload_arch_EQ ` also uses the term "offloading target" but with a > different meaning. > I’m not sure how to rephrase the option description to be more clear. In the [1] the `--offload` option is envisioned to be quite flexible/expressive - it can take in target triples, offload kinds, processors, aliases for processor sets, etc. FYI, I have imagined that the `--offload` option would take in explicit offload kind and target triple combinations as the basis. For example, something like this: ``` --offload=hip-amdgcn-amd-amdhsa,openmp-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu ``` And top of that, there would be predefined strings/shortcuts/aliases that expand to the basic form. For example, `--offload=sm_70,openmp-host` could expand to something like: ``` --offload=cuda-nvptx64-nvidia-cuda,openmp-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -Xoffload=cuda-nvptx64-nvidia-cuda -march=sm_70 ... ``` Then there is a feature as discussed in [1] that the offload kind can be dropped if it can be inferred by other means (e.g. from `-x hip` option). 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