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[Clang] Respect `-L` options when compiling directly for AMDGPU
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Authored by jhuber6 on May 5 2023, 6:52 PM.

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Summary

The AMDGPU linker is lld, which has full support for standard features
like static libraries. Previously the AMDGPU toolchain did not forward
-L arguments so we could not tell it where to find certain libraries.
This patch simply forwards it like the other toolchains.

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jhuber6 created this revision.May 5 2023, 6:52 PM
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yaxunl added inline comments.
clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AMDGPU.cpp
546

AddLinkerInputs has code doing that, and it handles env var LIBRARY_PATH. However that code is disabled for AMDGPU because AMDGPU returns true for isCrossCompiling.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/CommonArgs.cpp#L236

It seems isCrossCompiling is solely for controlling whether to consume -L. If we want amdgpu toolchain to accept -L, we can simply let isCrossCompiling return false.

jhuber6 added inline comments.May 6 2023, 8:18 AM
clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AMDGPU.cpp
546

Good catch, we could maybe set isCrossCompiling to false if targeted directly by the user, e.g. --target=amdgcn-amd-amdhsa vs --offload-arch.

yaxunl added inline comments.May 8 2023, 6:55 AM
clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AMDGPU.cpp
546

That would be better. Thanks.

jhuber6 added inline comments.May 8 2023, 6:57 AM
clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AMDGPU.cpp
546

It still is technically cross compiling, since we are building for a target that does not match the system's architecture. The original code that prevents passing -L was contributed by @MaskRay. I understand that we may not want to pass LIBRARY_PATH defines, but what's the rationale for not passing any -L options manually specified by the user?

MaskRay added inline comments.May 9 2023, 10:33 AM
clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AMDGPU.cpp
546

The LIBRARY_PATH code had been there when I moved it in 2019. It'd be best not to rely on LIBRARY_PATH. I think that forwarding -L seems reasonable but I am not familiar with the amdgpu ecosystem..

jhuber6 added inline comments.May 9 2023, 10:35 AM
clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AMDGPU.cpp
546

The linker is just lld so it should be the same conceptually. I'm just figuring that even if the user is cross compiling we should respect -L passed on the command line. Should I change this patch to make that change?

MaskRay accepted this revision.EditedMay 9 2023, 12:46 PM

The linker is just lld so it should be the same conceptually. I'm just figuring that even if the user is cross compiling we should respect -L passed on the command line. Should I change this patch to make that change?

So it seems that there are configurations that we need -L (cross compilation?). If we forward -L in some configurations, I think it'd be better to do this consistently.

The LIBRARY_PATH options seems not useful and the conditional if (not cross compiling) add LIBRARY_PATH is more unfortunate. I wish that we don't add more cases that we do something with LIBRARY_PATH.
(IMO the LIBRARY_PATH users can just fix their build system or use CCC_OVERRIDE_OPTIONS)

We definitely want to avoid more uses of TC.isCrossCompiling(). Most parts of the driver are written in a way that is TC.isCrossCompiling() agnostic.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 9 2023, 12:46 PM

So it seems that there are configurations that we need -L (cross compilation?). If we forward -L in some configurations, I think it'd be better to do this consistently.

The LIBRARY_PATH options seems not useful and the conditional if (not cross compiling) add LIBRARY_PATH is more unfortunate. I wish that we don't add more cases that we do something with LIBRARY_PATH.
(IMO the LIBRARY_PATH users can just fix their build system or use CCC_OVERRIDE_OPTIONS)

We definitely want to avoid more uses of TC.isCrossCompiling().

The comment itself // LIBRARY_PATH are included before user inputs and only supported on native toolchains. suggests that something like this might be valid.

// LIBRARY_PATH are included before user inputs and only supported on native
// toolchains.
if (!TC.isCrossCompiling())
  addDirectoryList(Args, CmdArgs, "-L", "LIBRARY_PATH");
else 
  Args.AddAllArgs(CmdArgs, options::OPT_L);
clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AMDGPU.cpp
546

For offloading I think the problem might be that we don't want to forward -L arguments from the host. In that case, we might be able to apply `

jhuber6 updated this revision to Diff 521202.May 10 2023, 8:18 PM

Updating, @yaxunl does this look good?

yaxunl accepted this revision.May 11 2023, 7:19 AM

LGTM. Thanks.

Sorry, but I just realized that updating CommonArgs.cpp is wrong... I have fixed it with commit 681cb54a54bb60dea9034b4b0b45ccc392875b9a.