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Gallium ABI description
This chapter describes how kernel gets its argument, how access to constant data.
In this chapter, size is given in dwords. Dword is 4-byte value.
Argument passing
Argument is stored in memory which address is stored in s[0:1]. Argument begins from 9 dword. First 9 dwords are:
- 0-2 - number of groups for each dimension
- 3-5 - global size for each dimension
- 6-8 - local size for each dimension
Argument griddim holds number of dimensions. Argument gridoffset holds 3 values of the global offset.
Userdata tooks 4 first scalar registers and holds:
- s[0:1] - address to argument list and kernel setup
- s[2:3] - scratch address
Other data and resources
Constant data is placed after code of kernels. Use PC pointer to get this data.