| # Overview |
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| The indirect clause enables **indirect device invocation** for a procedure: |
| > 19 An indirect call to the device version of a procedure on a device other than the host<br> |
| > 20 device, through a function pointer (C/C++), a pointer to a member function (C++) or<br> |
| > 21 a procedure pointer (Fortran) that refers to the host version of the procedure. |
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| # Compiler support |
| ### Offload entry metadata (C++ FE) |
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| For each function declared as **declare target indirect** C++ FE generates the following offload metadata: |
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| ```c++ |
| // Entry 0 -> Kind of this type of metadata (2) |
| // Entry 1 -> Mangled name of the function. |
| // Entry 2 -> Order the entry was created. |
| ``` |
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| The offloading metadata uses new `OffloadEntriesInfoManagerTy::OffloadingEntryInfoKinds::OffloadingEntryInfoDeviceIndirectFunc` metadata kind. |
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| ### Offload entries table |
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| The offload entries table that is created for the host and for each of the device images currently have entries for **declare target** global variables, **omp target** outlined functions and constructor/destructor thunks for **declare target** global variables. |
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| Compiler will also produce an entry for each procedure listed in **indirect** clause of **declare target** construct: |
| ```C++ |
| struct llvm::offloading::EntryTy { |
| void *addr; // Pointer to the function |
| char *name; // Name of the function |
| size_t size; // 0 for function |
| int32_t flags; // OpenMPOffloadingDeclareTargetFlags::OMP_DECLARE_TARGET_FPTR |
| int32_t reserved; // Reserved |
| }; |
| ``` |
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| ### Run-time dispatch in device code |
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| When an indirect function call is generated by a FE in **device code** it translates the original function pointer (which may be an address of a host function) into the device function pointer using a translation API, and uses the resulting function pointer for the call. |
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| Original call code: |
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| ``` |
| %0 = load void ()*, void ()** %fptr.addr |
| call void %0() |
| ``` |
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| Becomes this: |
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| ``` |
| %0 = load void ()*, void ()** %fptr.addr |
| %1 = bitcast void ()* %0 to i8* |
| %call = call i8* @__kmpc_target_translate_fptr(i8* %1) |
| %fptr_device = bitcast i8* %call to void ()* |
| call void %fptr_device() |
| ``` |
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| Device RTLs must provide the translation API: |
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| ```c++ |
| // Translate \p FnPtr identifying a host function into a function pointer |
| // identifying its device counterpart. |
| // If \p FnPtr matches an address of any host function |
| // declared as 'declare target indirect', then the API |
| // must return an address of the same function compiled |
| // for the device. If \p FnPtr does not match an address |
| // of any host function, then the API returns \p FnPtr |
| // unchanged. |
| EXTERN void *__kmpc_target_translate_fptr(void *FnPtr); |
| ``` |
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| # Runtime handling of function pointers |
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| `OpenMPOffloadingDeclareTargetFlags::OMP_DECLARE_TARGET_FPTR` is a new flag to distinguish offload entries for function pointers from other function entries. Unlike other function entries (with `size` equal to 0) `omptarget::InitLibrary()` will establish mapping for function pointer entries in `Device.HostDataToTargetMap`. |
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| For each `OMP_DECLARE_TARGET_FPTR` entry in the offload entries table `libomptarget` creates an entry of the following type: |
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| ```c++ |
| struct __omp_offloading_fptr_map_ty { |
| int64_t host_ptr; // key |
| int64_t tgt_ptr; // value |
| }; |
| ``` |
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| Where `host_ptr` is `llvm::offloading::EntryTy::addr` in a **host** offload entry, and `tgt_ptr` is `llvm::offloading::EntryTy::addr` in the corresponding **device** offload entry (which may be found using the populated `Device.HostDataToTargetMap`). |
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| When all `__omp_offloading_function_ptr_map_ty` entries are collected in a single host array, `libomptarget` sorts the table by `host_ptr` values and passes it to the device plugin for registration, if plugin supports optional `__tgt_rtl_set_function_ptr_map` API. |
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| Plugins may provide the following API, if they want to support **declare target indirect** functionality: |
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| ```c++ |
| // Register in a target implementation defined way a table |
| // of __omp_offloading_function_ptr_map_ty entries providing |
| // mapping between host and device addresses of 'declare target indirect' |
| // functions. \p table_size is the number of elements in \p table_host_ptr |
| // array. |
| EXTERN void __tgt_rtl_set_function_ptr_map( |
| int32_t device_id, uint64_t table_size, __omp_offloading_fptr_map_ty *table_host_ptr); |
| ``` |
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| # Sample implementation |
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| This section describes one of potential implementations. |
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| A FE may define the following global symbols for each translation module containing **declare target indirect**, when compiling this module for a device: |
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| ```c++ |
| // Mapping between host and device functions declared as |
| // 'declare target indirect'. |
| __attribute__((weak)) struct __omp_offloading_fptr_map_ty { |
| int64_t host_ptr; // key |
| int64_t tgt_ptr; // value |
| } *__omp_offloading_fptr_map_p = 0; |
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| // Number of elements in __omp_offloading_fptr_map_p table. |
| __attribute__((weak)) uint64_t __omp_offloading_fptr_map_size = 0; |
| ``` |
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| `__tgt_rtl_set_function_ptr_map(int32_t device_id, uint64_t table_size, __omp_offloading_fptr_map_ty *table_host_ptr)` allocates device memory of size `sizeof(__omp_offloading_fptr_map_ty) * table_size`, and transfers the contents of `table_host_ptr` array into this device memory. An address of the allocated device memory area is then assigned to `__omp_offloading_fptr_map_p` global variables on the device. For example, in **CUDA**, a device address of `__omp_offloading_fptr_map_p` may be taken by calling `cuModuleGetGlobal`, and then a pointer-sized data transfer will initialize `__omp_offloading_fptr_map_p` to point to the device copy of `table_host_ptr` array. `__omp_offloading_fptr_map_size` is assigned to `table_size` the same way. |
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| An alternative implementation of `__tgt_rtl_set_function_ptr_map` may invoke a device kernel that will do the assignments. |
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| `__kmpc_target_translate_fptr(void *FnPtr)` API uses binary search to match `FnPtr` against `host_ptr` inside the device table pointed to by `__omp_offloading_fptr_map_p`. If the matching key is found, it returns the corresponding `tgt_ptr`, otherwise, it returns `FnPtr`. |
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| # TODO: Optimization for non-unified_shared_memory |
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| If a program does not use **required unified_shared_memory**, and all function pointers are mapped (not a requirement by OpenMP spec), then an implementation may avoid the runtime dispatch code for indirect function calls (i.e. `__kmpc_target_translate_fptr` is not needed) and also `__tgt_rtl_set_function_ptr_map` is not needed. `libomptarget` will just map the function pointers as regular data pointers via `Device.HostDataToTargetMap`. |