hfinkel added inline comments.
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Comment at: lib/Driver/ToolChains/Cuda.cpp:474
+ for (StringRef Opt : OptList) {
+ AddMArchOption(DAL, Opts, Opt);
+ }
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gtbercea wrote:
> hfinkel wrote:
> > gtbercea wrote:
> > > hfinkel wrote:
> > > > Shouldn't you be adding all of the options, not just the -march= ones?
> > > I thought that that would be the case but there are a few issues:
> > >
> > > 1. PTXAS and NVLINK each use a different flag for specifying the arch,
> > > and, in turn, each flag is different from -march.
> > >
> > > 2. -Xopenmp-target passes a flag to the entire toolchain not to
> > > individual components of the toolchain so a translation of flags is
> > > required in some cases to adapt the flag to the actual tool. -march is
> > > one example, I'm not sure if there are others.
> > >
> > > 3. At this point in the code, in order to add a flag and its value to the
> > > DAL list, I need to be able to specify the option type (i.e.
> > > options::OPT_march_EQ). I therefore need to manually recognize the flag
> > > in the string representing the value of -Xopenmp-target or
> > > -Xopenmp-target=triple.
> > >
> > > 4. This patch handles the passing of the arch and can be extended to pass
> > > other flags (as is stands, no other flags are passed through to the CUDA
> > > toolchain). This can be extended on a flag by flag basis for flags that
> > > need translating to a particular tool's flag. If the flag doesn't need
> > > translating then the flag and it's value can be appended to the command
> > > line as they are.
> > > 1. PTXAS and NVLINK each use a different flag for specifying the arch,
> > > and, in turn, each flag is different from -march.
> >
> > I don't understand why this is relevant. Don't
> > NVPTX::Assembler::ConstructJob and NVPTX::Linker::ConstructJob handle that
> > in either case?
> >
> > This seems to be the same comment to point 2 as well.
> >
> > > 3. At this point in the code, in order to add a flag and its value to the
> > > DAL list, I need to be able to specify the option type (i.e.
> > > options::OPT_march_EQ). I therefore need to manually recognize the flag
> > > in the string representing the value of -Xopenmp-target or
> > > -Xopenmp-target=triple.
> >
> > I don't understand why this is true. Doesn't the code just below this,
> > which handles -Xarch, do the general thing (it calls Opts.ParseOneArg and
> > then adds it to the list of derived arguments)? Can't we handle this like
> > -Xarch?
> >
> > > This patch handles the passing of the arch and can be extended to pass
> > > other flags (as is stands, no other flags are passed through to the CUDA
> > > toolchain). This can be extended on a flag by flag basis for flags that
> > > need translating to a particular tool's flag. If the flag doesn't need
> > > translating then the flag and it's value can be appended to the command
> > > line as they are.
> >
> > I don't understand this either. If we need to extend this on a flag-by-flag
> > basis, then it seems fundamentally broken. How could we append a flag to
> > the command line without it also affecting the host compile?
> @hfinkel
>
> The problem is that when using -Xopenmp-target=<triple> -opt=val the value of
> this flag is a list of two strings:
>
> ['<triple>', '-opt=val']
>
> What needs to happen next is to parse the string containing "-opt=val". The
> reason I have to do this is because if I use -march, I can't pass -march as
> is to PTXAS and NVLINK which have different flags for expressing the arch. I
> need to translate the -march=sm_60 flag. I will have to do this for all flags
> which require translation. There is no way I can just append this string to
> the PTXAS and NVLINK commands because the flags for the 2 tools are
> different. A flag which works for one of them, will not work for the other.
>
> So I need to actually parse that value to check whether it is a "-march" and
> create an Arg object with the OPT_march_EQ identifier and the sm_60 value.
> When invoking the commands for PTXAS and NVLINK, the dervied arg list will be
> travered and every -march=sm_60 option will be transformed into "--gpu-name"
> "sm_60" for PTXAS and into "-arch" "sm_60" for NVLINK.
>
> In the case of -Xarch, you will see that after we have traversed the entire
> arg list we still have to special case -march and add it is manually added to
> the DAL.
>
> Let me know your thoughts on this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Doru
> What needs to happen next is to parse the string containing "-opt=val".
Yes, that's what ParseOneArg will do.
> The reason I have to do this is because if I use -march, I can't pass -march
> as is to PTXAS and NVLINK which have different flags for expressing the arch.
> I need to translate the -march=sm_60 flag. I will have to do this for all
> flags which require translation. There is no way I can just append this
> string to the PTXAS and NVLINK commands because the flags for the 2 tools are
> different. A flag which works for one of them, will not work for the other.
> So I need to actually parse that value to check whether it is a "-march" and
> create an Arg object with the OPT_march_EQ identifier and the sm_60 value.
> When invoking the commands for PTXAS and NVLINK, the dervied arg list will be
> travered and every -march=sm_60 option will be transformed into "--gpu-name"
> "sm_60" for PTXAS and into "-arch" "sm_60" for NVLINK.
We still seem to be talking past each other. Maybe I'm misreading the code,
but it looks like TranslateArgs is called (by Compilation::getArgsForToolChain)
and the *translated arguments* are what are processed by
NVPTX::Assembler::ConstructJob (for ptxas) and void NVPTX::Linker::ConstructJob
to construct the command lines for the relevant tools. So, while I understand
that those tools take specific arguments, their respective ConstructJob
routines are still responsible for doing the tool-specific translation (as they
do currently). Thus, I believe you can just add all arguments here and they'll
be interpreted by each tool's ConstructJob function later as necessary.
> In the case of -Xarch, you will see that after we have traversed the entire
> arg list we still have to special case -march and add it is manually added to
> the DAL.
Yes, but not way you seem to imply. The Xarch march handling special case is
only doing this:
if (!BoundArch.empty()) {
DAL->eraseArg(options::OPT_march_EQ);
DAL->AddJoinedArg(nullptr, Opts.getOption(options::OPT_march_EQ),
BoundArch);
}
and that's just overriding the current derived -march if we have BoundArch set
(and this special case would apply in addition to the proposed logic for
-Xopenmp-target as well).
https://reviews.llvm.org/D34784
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