In `PPCGCodeGeneration`, we try to take the references of every `Value`
that is used within a Scop to offload to the kernel. This occurs in
`GPUNodeBuilder::createLaunchParameters`.
This breaks if one of the values is a function pointer, since one of
these cases will trigger:
1. We try to to take the references of an intrinsic function, and this
breaks at `verifyModule`, since it is illegal to take the reference of
an intrinsic.
2. We manage to take the reference to a function, but this fails at
`verifyModule` since the function will not be present in the module that
is created in the kernel.
3. Even if `verifyModule` succeeds (which should not occur), we would
then try to call a *host function* from the *device*, which is
illegal runtime behaviour.
So, we disable this entire range of possibilities by simply not allowing
function references within a `Scop` which corresponds to a kernel.
However, note that this is too conservative. We *can* allow intrinsics
within kernels if the backend can lower the intrinsic correctly. For
example, an intrinsic like `llvm.powi.*` can actually be lowered by the `NVPTX`
backend.
We will now gradually whitelist intrinsics which are known to be safe.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33414
llvm-svn: 305185
Siddharth Bhat