DPCT1042

Intel® DPC++ Compatibility Tool Developer Guide and Reference

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DPCT1042

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The size of the arguments passed to the SYCL kernel exceeds the minimum size limit (1024) for a non-custom SYCL device. You can get the hardware argument size limit by querying info::device::max_parameter_size. You may need to rewrite this code if the size of the arguments exceeds the hardware limit.

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The size of the arguments passed to the SYCL* kernel for non-custom SYCL device has a limit (see SYCL 1.2.1 standard, 4.6.4.2 Device information descriptors).

In cases where this warning occurs, you need to adjust the code manually to decrease the number of accessors or other arguments that are captured by the SYCL kernel lambda.

The following example shows how you can remove one accessor by merging two buffers with the same type.

For example, the following problem example code shows where the arguments captured by the SYCL kernel lambda exceed the size limit:

 ... // declarations for device0 to device30
 dpct::constant_memory<int, 1> device31(ARRAY_SIZE);
 dpct::constant_memory<int, 1> device32(ARRAY_SIZE);

 // kernel function declaration
 void kernel(sycl::nd_item<3> item_ct1, int *device0, ..., int *device32);

 void test_function() {
   ... // memcpy operations for device0 to device30
   dpct::dpct_memcpy(device31.get_ptr(), host, ARRAY_SIZE * sizeof(int));
   dpct::dpct_memcpy(device32.get_ptr(), host, ARRAY_SIZE * sizeof(int));
   {
     dpct::get_default_queue().submit([&](sycl::handler &cgh) {
       ... // accessors for device0 to device30, captured by SYCL kernel lambda
           auto device31_acc_ct1 = device31.get_access(cgh);
       auto device32_acc_ct1 = device32.get_access(cgh);
       cgh.parallel_for(sycl::nd_range<3>(sycl::range<3>(1), sycl::range<3>(1)),
                        [=](sycl::nd_item<3> item_ct1) {
                          kernel(item_ct1, ... /*arguments device0 to device30*/
                                           device31_acc_ct1.get_pointer(),
                                 device32_acc_ct1.get_pointer());
                        });
     });
   }
 }

The code is updated so that the two buffers (device31 and device32) of the same type are merged into one (device31), and the number of accessors is reduced by one:

 ... // declarations for device0 to device30
 dpct::constant_memory<int, 1> device32(ARRAY_SIZE + ARRAY_SIZE); // one buffer instead of two

 // kernel function declaration
 void kernel(sycl::nd_item<3> item_ct1, int *device0, ..., int *device32);

 void test_function() {
   ... // memcpy operations for device0 to device30
   dpct::dpct_memcpy(device31.get_ptr(), host, ARRAY_SIZE * sizeof(int));
   // memory copy with offset:
   dpct::dpct_memcpy(device31.get_ptr() + ARRAY_SIZE, host,
                     ARRAY_SIZE * sizeof(int));
   {
     dpct::get_default_queue().submit([&](sycl::handler &cgh) {
       ... // accessors for device0 to device30, captured by SYCL kernel lambda
           auto device31_acc_ct1 =
               device31.get_access(cgh); // only one accessor instead of 2
       cgh.parallel_for(sycl::nd_range<3>(sycl::range<3>(1), sycl::range<3>(1)),
                        [=](sycl::nd_item<3> item_ct1) {
                          // last parameter is modified to use offset and the
                          // same accessor as previous parameter
                          kernel(item_ct1, ... /*arguments device0 to device30*/
                                           device31_acc_ct1.get_pointer(),
                                 device31_acc_ct1.get_pointer() + ARRAY_SIZE);
                        });
     });
   }
 }

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