llvm-project/llvm
Tom Stellard e190cd2834 Triple: Add opencl environment type
Summary:
For AMDGPU, we have been using the operating system component of the triple
for specifying the low-level runtime that is being used.  The rationale for
this is that the host operating system (e.g. Linux) is irrelevant for GPU code,
since its execution enviroment will be mostly controled by the low-level runtime
being used to execute the code.

In most cases, higher level languages have their own runtime which is
implemented on top of the low-level runtime.  The kernel ABIs of each
language mostly depend on the low-level runtime, but there may be some
slight differences between languages.  OpenCL for example, may append
additional arguments to the kernel in order to pass values like global
offsets or buffers for printf.  OpenMP, HCC, or other languages may want
to add their own values which differ from OpenCL.

The reason for adding a new opencl environment type is to make it possible for the backend
to distinguish between the ABIs of the higher-level languages and handle them correctly.
It seems cleaner to use the enviroment component for this rather than creating a new
OS type for every combination of low-level runtime / high-level language.

Reviewers: Anastasia, chandlerc

Subscribers: whchung, pekka.jaaskelainen, wdng, yaxunl, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24735

llvm-svn: 282218
2016-09-23 00:42:56 +00:00
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bindings Formatting with clang-format patch r280700 2016-09-06 17:03:02 +00:00
cmake fix typo in comment [NFC] 2016-09-21 17:15:23 +00:00
docs AMDGPU: Improve documentation. 2016-09-20 09:04:51 +00:00
examples [Kaleidoscope] Make Chapter 2 use llvm::make_unique, rather than a helper. 2016-09-19 23:00:27 +00:00
include Triple: Add opencl environment type 2016-09-23 00:42:56 +00:00
lib Triple: Add opencl environment type 2016-09-23 00:42:56 +00:00
projects Enable in-tree builds of parallel-libs. 2016-09-09 21:34:12 +00:00
resources
runtimes [CMake] Fixing lit for runtimes directory 2016-09-15 06:14:13 +00:00
test [MC] Support skip and count for .incbin directive 2016-09-23 00:41:06 +00:00
tools [llvm-cov] Document some fields in a class (NFC) 2016-09-22 21:49:47 +00:00
unittests Triple: Add opencl environment type 2016-09-23 00:42:56 +00:00
utils [utils] Teach the code coverage prep script about --restrict 2016-09-22 21:49:49 +00:00
.arcconfig
.clang-format
.clang-tidy .clang-tidy: correct style name is 'camelBack' not 'lowerCase'. 2016-09-13 19:04:26 +00:00
.gitignore gitignore: ignore VS Code editor files 2016-09-02 22:54:26 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt Try to fix a circular dependency in the modules build. 2016-09-06 20:16:19 +00:00
CODE_OWNERS.TXT Take ownership of libLTO as discussed on llvm-dev. 2016-09-15 17:42:39 +00:00
CREDITS.TXT Shamelessly add myself to CREDITS.TXT 2016-08-04 16:28:22 +00:00
LICENSE.TXT Remove autoconf references from LICENSE.TXT 2016-08-12 20:11:03 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt
README.txt Revert rL277454 2016-08-02 13:26:07 +00:00
RELEASE_TESTERS.TXT
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