[llvm] [OpenMPIRBuilder] NFC: Improve description of IsTargetDevice and IsGPU (PR #79322)

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Author: Sergio Afonso (skatrak)

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This patch tries to better explain the differences between the `IsTargetDevice` and `IsGPU` flags of the `OpenMPIRBuilderConfig`.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/79322.diff


1 Files Affected:

- (modified) llvm/include/llvm/Frontend/OpenMP/OMPIRBuilder.h (+12-3) 


``````````diff
diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/Frontend/OpenMP/OMPIRBuilder.h b/llvm/include/llvm/Frontend/OpenMP/OMPIRBuilder.h
index 669104307fa0e23..2288969ecc95c47 100644
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/Frontend/OpenMP/OMPIRBuilder.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/Frontend/OpenMP/OMPIRBuilder.h
@@ -83,11 +83,20 @@ BasicBlock *splitBBWithSuffix(IRBuilderBase &Builder, bool CreateBranch,
 /// are ones that are not dependent on the configuration.
 class OpenMPIRBuilderConfig {
 public:
-  /// Flag for specifying if the compilation is done for embedded device code
-  /// or host code.
+  /// Flag to define whether to generate code for the role of the OpenMP host
+  /// (if set to false) or device (if set to true) in an offloading context. It
+  /// is set when the -fopenmp-is-target-device compiler frontend option is
+  /// specified.
   std::optional<bool> IsTargetDevice;
 
-  /// Flag for specifying if the compilation is done for an accelerator.
+  /// Flag for specifying if the compilation is done for an accelerator. It is
+  /// set according to the architecture of the target triple and currently only
+  /// true when targeting AMDGPU or NVPTX. Today, these targets can only perform
+  /// the role of an OpenMP target device, so `IsTargetDevice` must also be true
+  /// if `IsGPU` is true. This restriction might be lifted if an accelerator-
+  /// like target with the ability to work as the OpenMP host is added, or if
+  /// the capabilities of the currently supported GPU architectures are
+  /// expanded.
   std::optional<bool> IsGPU;
 
   // Flag for specifying if offloading is mandatory.

``````````

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/79322


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