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Summary:
This is the big patch that implements an efficient device-side `malloc`
on the GPU. This is the first pass and many improvements will be made
later.
The scheme revolves around using a global reference counted pointer to
hand out access to a dynamically created and destroyed slab interface.
The slab is simply a large bitfield with one bit for each slab. All
allocations are the same size in a slab, so different sized allocations
are done through different slabs.
Allocation is thus searching for or creating a slab for the desired
slab, reserving space, and then searching for a free bit. Freeing is
clearing the bit and then releasing the space.
This interface allows memory to dynamically grow and shrink. Future
patches will have different modes to allow fast first-time-use as well
as a non-RPC version.
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This is step 4 of
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-customizable-namespace-to-allow-testing-the-libc-when-the-system-libc-is-also-llvms-libc/73079
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This patch adds support for the `malloc` and `free` functions. These
currently aren't implemented in-tree so we first add the interface
filies.
This patch provides the most basic support for a true `malloc` and
`free` by using the RPC interface. This is functional, but in the future
we will want to implement a more intelligent system and primarily use
the RPC interface more as a `brk()` or `sbrk()` interface only called
when absolutely necessary. We will need to design an intelligent
allocator in the future.
The semantics of these memory allocations will need to be checked. I am
somewhat iffy on the details. I've heard that HSA can allocate
asynchronously which seems to work with my tests at least. CUDA uses an
implicit synchronization scheme so we need to use an explicitly separate
stream from the one launching the kernel or the default stream. I will
need to test the NVPTX case.
I would appreciate if anyone more experienced with the implementation details
here could chime in for the HSA and CUDA cases.
Reviewed By: sivachandra
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D151735
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