Tracking Issue for GPU-offload

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This is a tracking issue for the GPU offload experiment.

The feature gate for the issue will be #![feature(gpu_offload)].

This work is part of the project goal for Scientific Computing in Rust.
This project will use LLVM's offload infrastructure, which is already used to support OpenMP Offload in other languages like C++.

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Steps

• Get lang experiment approved.
  • We approved this in the lang triage meeting on 2024-05-01.
• Land the experimental implementation in nightly.
  • Enable the llvm offload build configuration #131527
  • gpu offload host code generation #142097 // automatic data movement to/from the GPU
  • disable cfg.has_reliable_f128 on amdgcn #144383 // fix an amdgcn breakage
  • Offload host2 #142696 // launch gpu kernels
  • Offload device #145768 // Fix kernel generation to make runtime test pass
  • Offload intrinsic #147936 // Rewrite our frontend by introducing an offload intrinsic
  • automate gpu offloading - part 1 #149170 // Reduce the number of steps to compile programs (1/X)
  • automate offload, part 2 - clang calls #149202 // Reduce the number of steps further (2/X)
  • automate offload, part 3 - clang-linker-wrapper #149827 // Reduce compilation to two cargo invocations (3/3)
  • Offload: Build offload as a single Step #150108 // Build Offload as a single Step
  • Enable Offload in CI #148671 // Enable offload in CI
  • Move shared offload globals and define per-kernel globals once #149788 // Clean up or global vs per-kernel definitions
  • Allow inline calls to offload intrinsic #150511 // Support offload calls from more locations
  • Expose kernel launch options as offload intrinsic args #150444 // Expose Kernel launch options
• Adjust documentation (see instructions on rustc-dev-guide)
• Formatting for new syntax has been added to the Style Guide (nightly-style-procedure)
• Stabilization PR (see instructions on rustc-dev-guide)

Related

• Do not run mir opts for targets with convergent ops and add convergent attribute #149637
• Add amdgpu intrinsics stdarch#1976

Unresolved Questions

TODO.

Implementation history