Summary:
This adds initial support for letting targets specify which address
spaces their functions should reside in by default.
If a function is created by a frontend, it will get the default address space specified in the DataLayout, unless the frontend explicitly uses a more general `llvm::Function` constructor. Function address spaces will become a part of the bitcode and textual IR forms, as we do not have access to a data layout whilst parsing LL.
It will be possible to write IR that explicitly has `addrspace(n)` on a function. In this case, the function will reside in the specified space, ignoring the default in the DL.
This is the first step towards placing functions into the correct
address space for Harvard architectures.
Full patchset
* Add program address space to data layout D37052
* Require address space to be specified when creating functions D37054
* [clang] Require address space to be specified when creating functions D37057
Reviewers: pcc, arsenm, kparzysz, hfinkel, theraven
Reviewed By: theraven
Subscribers: arichardson, simoncook, rengolin, wdng, uabelho, bjope, asb, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37052
llvm-svn: 325479
LLVM makes several assumptions about address space 0. However,
alloca is presently constrained to always return this address space.
There's no real way to avoid using alloca, so without this
there is no way to opt out of these assumptions.
The problematic assumptions include:
- That the pointer size used for the stack is the same size as
the code size pointer, which is also the maximum sized pointer.
- That 0 is an invalid, non-dereferencable pointer value.
These are problems for AMDGPU because alloca is used to
implement the private address space, which uses a 32-bit
index as the pointer value. Other pointers are 64-bit
and behave more like LLVM's notion of generic address
space. By changing the address space used for allocas,
we can change our generic pointer type to be LLVM's generic
pointer type which does have similar properties.
llvm-svn: 299888
