tianshilei1992 accepted this revision.
tianshilei1992 added a comment.
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.

In D113126#3212033 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D113126#3212033>, @jdoerfert wrote:

> In D113126#3211935 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D113126#3211935>, 
> @tianshilei1992 wrote:
>
>> In D113126#3122947 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D113126#3122947>, @jdoerfert 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In D113126#3122659 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D113126#3122659>, 
>>> @tianshilei1992 wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not convinced. `std::strlen` can do the job. Can you explain more why 
>>>> need it?
>>>
>>> Because the ident_t is on the device and you want to grab it from the host.
>>
>> So you mean `strlen` is not available on device?
>
> We have a device pointer to an ident_t object. We don't know the 
> corresponding host address and we are on the host. We can copy over the 
> ident_t with a single d2h but for the string we now need to either launch a 
> kernel that computes `strlen` on the device or copy it byte-by-byte, neither 
> are good options. Instead, we can simply embed the string length in the 
> otherwise unused ident_t field and copy it over with a second d2h memcpy.

I see. Yeah, we don't have the map. Then that makes sense.


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