jhuber6 wrote:

> > > An AMDGPU library function is not internalized and can be used to 
> > > fullfill calls generated by LLVM passes or instruction selection.
> > 
> > 
> > I am confused by the description of "internalized". Do you refer to LTO 
> > internalization? You can leverage `llvm.used` to disable LTO 
> > internalization.
> 
> Yes I mean LTO internalization. We want keep them to the backend but we also 
> want to remove them if they are not used by the backend. `llvm.used` won't 
> tell us that we can remove them since it could be specified by the users for 
> non-amdgpu-library functions.

I wonder if we could just define another `llvm.used` similar to 
`llvm.compiler.used` for this special case where the variable can be thrown 
away by the backend.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/74737
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