This PR is one of the many PRs in the SYCL upstreaming effort focusing
on device code linking during the SYCL offload compilation process. RFC:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-offloading-design-for-sycl-offload-kind-and-spir-targets/74088
In this PR, we introduce a new tool that will be used to perform device
code linking for SYCL offload kind. It accepts SYCL device objects in
LLVM IR bitcode format and will generate a fully linked device object
that can then be wrapped and linked into the host object.
A primary use case for this tool is to perform device code linking for
objects with SYCL offload kind inside the clang-linker-wrapper. It can
also be invoked via clang driver as follows:
`clang --target=spirv64 --sycl-link input.bc`
Device code linking for SYCL offloading kind has a number of known
quirks that makes it difficult to use in a unified offloading setting.
Two of the primary issues are:
1. Several finalization steps are required to be run on the fully-linked
LLVM IR bitcode to gaurantee conformance to SYCL standards. This step is
unique to SYCL offloading compilation flow.
2. SPIR-V LLVM Translator tool is an extenal tool and hence SPIR-V IR
code generation cannot be done as part of LTO. This limitation will be
lifted once SPIR-V backend is available as a viable LLVM backend.
Hence, we introduce this new tool to provide a clean wrapper to perform
SYCL device linking.
Co-Author: Michael Toguchi
Thanks
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Signed-off-by: Arvind Sudarsanam <arvind.sudarsanam@intel.com>
