[PATCH] D89980: [hip] Remove kernel argument coercion.

[Michael Liao via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

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- If an aggregate argument is indirectly accessed within kernels, direct passing results in unpromotable `alloca`, which degrade performance significantly. In additon, with the enhanced backend and the improved AA, kernel argument coercion is no longer required.


Repository:
  rG LLVM Github Monorepo

https://reviews.llvm.org/D89980

Files:
  clang/lib/CodeGen/TargetInfo.cpp
  clang/test/CodeGenCUDA/amdgpu-kernel-arg-pointer-type.cu

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