Currently runtime metadata is emitted as an ELF section with name .AMDGPU.runtime_metadata.
However there is a standard way to convey vendor specific information about how to run an ELF binary, which is called vendor-specific note element (http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/elf-notes.html).
This patch lets AMDGPU backend emits runtime metadata as a note element in .note section.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25781
llvm-svn: 286502
OpenCL kernels have hidden kernel arguments for global offset and printf buffer. For consistency, these hidden argument should be included in the runtime metadata. Also updated kernel argument kind metadata.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23424
llvm-svn: 280829
Add runtime metdata for pointee alignment of pointer type kernel argument. The key is KeyArgPointeeAlign and the value is a 32 bit unsigned integer.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24145
llvm-svn: 280399
Added emitting metadata to elf for runtime.
Runtime requires certain information (metadata) about kernels to be able to execute and query them. Such information is emitted to an elf section as a key-value pair stream.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D21849
llvm-svn: 275566
Yaxun Liu