[PATCH] D94648: [amdgpu] Implement lower function LDS pass

[Mahesha S via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

hsmhsm added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/lib/Target/AMDGPU/AMDGPULowerFunctionLDSPass.cpp:54
+    return AMDGPU::isModuleEntryFunctionCC(Func->getCallingConv());
+  }
+
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JonChesterfield wrote:
> hsmhsm wrote:
> > The function AMDGPU::isModuleEntryFunctionCC() rerturns true for graphics, shaders, SPIR (OpeCL?), etc. Is it what we expect here? Is not it that we are concerned here only with the CC - CallingConv::AMDGPU_KERNEL?
> LLC (e.g. AMDGPULegalizerInfo) uses isModuleEntryFunction to detect non-kernel use of LDS, which resolves to a function in Utils/AMDGPUBaseInfo.cpp that returns true for AMDGPU_KERNEL, SPIR_KERNEL and various calling conventions I don't recognise. AMDGPU_VS etc.
> 
> Some opencl I compiled as a sanity check used SPIR_KERNEL as the calling convention.
> 
> I don't know whether that's right, only that this pass should use exactly the same predicate as the one guarding allocateLDSGlobal.
IMHO, LLC is a generic back-end for OpenCL, OpenMP, HIP, Graphic Shader language, etc. So, AMDGPULegalizerInfo might be generally using it. but, this pass is concerned with only CallingConv::AMDGPU_KERNEL. That said, probably @arsenm  or others in the review list could better clarify it.


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