[clang] [Clang][OpenMP] Fix multi arch compilation for -march option (PR #92290)

Saiyedul Islam via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed May 15 11:25:06 PDT 2024


saiislam wrote:

> > > I don't think we want to support this. `-march` was the wrong option to use in the first place, and upstream LLVM never supported specifying multiple device images with `-march` so there isn't a legacy argument in trunk. However, AOMP did support this and if it's deemed too disruptive to request users move to `--offload-arch=a,b,c` then we can carry that change in the fork.
> > > > It will fix tests like: [targetid_multi_image](https://github.com/ROCm/aomp/tree/aomp-dev/test/smoke/targetid_multi_image)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I think the easier way to fix this is to update the Makefile.
> > 
> > 
> > Irrespective of what AOMP does, I think it makes sense to ensure parity between the two ways of specifying architecture. People have been historically using `-Xopenmp-target -march` style, and using the same for multiple architectures seems to be the most obvious choice. Isn't it quite confusing to tell the users that they can use `offload-arch` style for single as well as multiple archs, but can use `-march` style only for single arch?
> 
> `-march` was the wrong option to use for this from the beginning. It's supposed to be an overriding option and it shouldn't be overloaded to mean something different here. In LLVM / trunk we never supported multiple architectures with the `-march` option so I don't see any reason to start now. `--offload-arch=` is a complete replacement for this behavior and I consider the single `-march` option to be legacy. Even within this it's divergent because HIP / OpenCL / AMDGPU use `-mcpu` but the OpenMP toolchain ignored that and uses `-march=`.
> 
> Using `--offload-arch=` is a direct replacement for `-march` in all use-cases. It's also easier to use and interoperable with CUDA. I would just change the test, you can replace every use of `-march` with `--offload-arch` and it will work. See the following.
> 
> ```
> > clang input.c -fopenmp -fopenmp-targets=amdgcn-amd-amdhsa,nvptx64-nvidia-cuda \
>   -Xopenmp-target=amdgcn-amd-amdhsa --offload-arch=gfx1030 \
>   -Xopenmp-target=amdgcn-amd-amdhsa --offload-arch=gfx90a \
>   -Xopenmp-target=nvptx64-nvidia-cuda --offload-arch=sm_89 
> > llvm-objdump --offloading a.out
>                                                                                     
> a.out:	file format elf64-x86-64
> 
> OFFLOADING IMAGE [0]:
> kind            elf
> arch            sm_89
> triple          nvptx64-nvidia-cuda
> producer        openmp
> 
> OFFLOADING IMAGE [1]:
> kind            elf
> arch            gfx90a
> triple          amdgcn-amd-amdhsa
> producer        openmp
> 
> OFFLOADING IMAGE [2]:
> kind            elf
> arch            gfx1030
> triple          amdgcn-amd-amdhsa
> producer        openmp
> ```

If `-march` is the wrong option then let's start deprecating it and remove it altogether in the next llvm release. But, as long as it is here, it should be equivalent to `--offload-arch`.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/92290


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