[libc-commits] [libc] [libc] Add Timing Utils for AMDGPU (PR #96828)

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+//===------------- AMDGPU implementation of timing utils --------*- C++ -*-===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#ifndef LLVM_LIBC_UTILS_GPU_TIMING_AMDGPU
+#define LLVM_LIBC_UTILS_GPU_TIMING_AMDGPU
+
+#include "src/__support/GPU/utils.h"
+#include "src/__support/common.h"
+#include "src/__support/macros/attributes.h"
+#include "src/__support/macros/config.h"
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+namespace LIBC_NAMESPACE {
+
+// Returns the overhead associated with calling the profiling region. This
+// allows us to substract the constant-time overhead from the latency to
+// obtain a true result. This can vary with system load.
+[[gnu::noinline]] static LIBC_INLINE uint64_t overhead() {
+  gpu::memory_fence();
+  uint64_t start = gpu::processor_clock();
+  uint32_t result = 0.0;
+  asm("v_or_b32 %[v_reg], 0, %[v_reg]\n" ::[v_reg] "v"(result) :);
+  asm("" ::"s"(start));
+  uint64_t stop = gpu::processor_clock();
+  return stop - start;
+}
+
+// Profile a simple function and obtain its latency in clock cycles on the
+// system. This function cannot be inlined or else it will disturb the very
+// delicate balance of hard-coded dependencies.
+template <typename F, typename T>
+[[gnu::noinline]] static LIBC_INLINE uint64_t latency(F f, T t) {
+  // We need to store the input somewhere to guarantee that the compiler will
+  // not constant propagate it and remove the profiling region.
+  volatile uint32_t storage = t;
+  float arg = storage;
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jameshu15869 wrote:

Is there a specific constraint that generics need to use, I tried a couple like `v` and `Sg` but `lld` still threw errors - am I missing a step that we need to work with generics since the size isn't known for sure?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/96828