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Joseph Huber 03d362db74 [libc][Docs] Update the GPU RPC documentation (#79069)
Summary:
This adds some more concrete information on the RPC interface. Hopefully
this is intelligable and provides some useful examples.
2024-01-23 11:40:58 -06:00

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.. _libc_gpu_testing:
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Testing the GPU libc library
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.. note::
Running GPU tests with high parallelism is likely to cause spurious failures,
out of resource errors, or indefinite hangs. limiting the number of threads
used while testing using ``LIBC_GPU_TEST_JOBS=<N>`` is highly recommended.
.. contents:: Table of Contents
:depth: 4
:local:
Testing Infrastructure
======================
The testing support in LLVM's libc implementation for GPUs is designed to mimic
the standard unit tests as much as possible. We use the :ref:`libc_gpu_rpc`
support to provide the necessary utilities like printing from the GPU. Execution
is performed by emitting a ``_start`` kernel from the GPU
that is then called by an external loader utility. This is an example of how
this can be done manually:
.. code-block:: sh
$> clang++ crt1.o test.cpp --target=amdgcn-amd-amdhsa -mcpu=gfx90a -flto
$> ./amdhsa_loader --threads 1 --blocks 1 a.out
Test Passed!
Unlike the exported ``libcgpu.a``, the testing architecture can only support a
single architecture at a time. This is either detected automatically, or set
manually by the user using ``LIBC_GPU_TEST_ARCHITECTURE``. The latter is useful
in cases where the user does not build LLVM's libc on machine with the GPU to
use for testing.