Recently OpenMP has transitioned to using the "new" driver which
primarily merges the device and host linking phases into a single
wrapper that handles both at the same time. This replaced a few tools
that were only used for OpenMP offloading, such as the
`clang-offload-wrapper` and `clang-nvlink-wrapper`. The new driver
carries some marked benefits compared to the old driver that is now
being deprecated. Things like device-side LTO, static library
support, and more compatible tooling. As such, we should be able to
completely deprecate the old driver, at least for OpenMP. The old driver
support will still exist for CUDA and HIP, although both of these can
currently be compiled on Linux with `--offload-new-driver` to use the new
method.
Note that this does not deprecate the `clang-offload-bundler`, although
it is unused by OpenMP now, it is still used by the HIP toolchain both
as their device binary format and object format.
When I proposed deprecating this code I heard some vendors voice
concernes about needing to update their code in their fork. They should
be able to just revert this commit if it lands.
Reviewed By: jdoerfert, MaskRay, ye-luo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130020
Summary:
The static linking test ensures that we can statically link offloading
programs. To create the test we used `llvm-ar`. However, this may not
exist in the user's environment. This patch changes it to use the
binutils `ar` which should exist on every system running these tests
currently. In the future we should set up the dependencies properly.
We are planning on making LTO the default compilation mode for
offloading. In order to make sure it works we should run these tests on
the test suite. AMDGPU already uses the LTO compilation path for its
linking, but in LTO mode it also links the static library late.
Performing LTO requires the static library to be built, if we make the
change this will be a hard requirement and the old bitcode library will
go away. This means users will need to use either a two-step build or a
runtimes build for libomptarget.
Reviewed By: JonChesterfield
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D127512
Previously an opt-in flag `-fopenmp-new-driver` was used to enable the
new offloading driver. After passing tests for a few months it should be
sufficiently mature to flip the switch and make it the default. The new
offloading driver is now enabled if there is OpenMP and OpenMP
offloading present and the new `-fno-openmp-new-driver` is not present.
The new offloading driver has three main benefits over the old method:
- Static library support
- Device-side LTO
- Unified clang driver stages
Depends on D122683
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122831
This patch adds a new target to the tests to run using the new driver as
the method for generating offloading code.
Depends on D116541
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118637
Joseph Huber