Mark ccalls as gc safe

gen/hip/generator.jl

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# NOTE: for this to work, in /opt/rocm/include/hip/hip_runtime_api.h
+# add the following:
+# #define __HIP_PLATFORM_AMD__
+# right before:
+# #if defined(__HIP_PLATFORM_AMD__) && !defined(__HIP_PLATFORM_NVIDIA__)
+
+using Clang.Generators
+
+include_dir = normpath("/opt/rocm/include")
+hip_dir = joinpath(include_dir, "hip")
+options = load_options("hip/hip-generator.toml")
+
+args = get_default_args()
+push!(args, "-I$include_dir")
+push!(args, "-I$hip_dir")
+
+headers = [
+    joinpath(hip_dir, header)
+    for header in readdir(hip_dir)
+    if header == "hip_runtime_api.h"
+]
+
+ctx = create_context(headers, args, options)
+build!(ctx)

gen/hip/hip-generator.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[general]
+library_name = "libhip"
+output_file_path = "./libhip.jl"
+
+[codegen]
+use_ccall_macro = true
+always_NUL_terminated_string = true

src/hip/HIP.jl

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import PrettyTables
 import ..AMDGPU
 import ..AMDGPU.libhip
 
+include("call.jl")
 include("libhip_common.jl")
 include("error.jl")
 include("libhip.jl")
@@ -35,12 +36,7 @@ function HIPContext(device::HIPDevice)
             context_ref = Ref{hipContext_t}()
             hipCtxCreate(context_ref, Cuint(0), device.device) |> check
             context = HIPContext(context_ref[], true)
-
             device!(device)
-            finalizer(context) do c
-                c.valid = false
-                hipCtxDestroy(c.context) |> check
-            end
             return context
         end
     end

src/hip/call.jl

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+## version of ccall that calls jl_gc_safe_enter|leave around the inner ccall
+
+# TODO: replace with JuliaLang/julia#49933 once merged
+
+# note that this is generally only safe with functions that do not call back into Julia.
+# when callbacks occur, the code should ensure the GC is not running by wrapping the code
+# in the `@gcunsafe` macro
+
+function ccall_macro_lower(func, rettype, types, args, nreq)
+    # instead of re-using ccall or Expr(:foreigncall) to perform argument conversion,
+    # we need to do so ourselves in order to insert a jl_gc_safe_enter|leave
+    # just around the inner ccall
+
+    cconvert_exprs = []
+    cconvert_args = []
+    for (typ, arg) in zip(types, args)
+        var = gensym("$(func)_cconvert")
+        push!(cconvert_args, var)
+        push!(cconvert_exprs, quote
+            $var = Base.cconvert($(esc(typ)), $(esc(arg)))
+        end)
+    end
+
+    unsafe_convert_exprs = []
+    unsafe_convert_args = []
+    for (typ, arg) in zip(types, cconvert_args)
+        var = gensym("$(func)_unsafe_convert")
+        push!(unsafe_convert_args, var)
+        push!(unsafe_convert_exprs, quote
+            $var = Base.unsafe_convert($(esc(typ)), $arg)
+        end)
+    end
+
+    call = quote
+        $(unsafe_convert_exprs...)
+
+        gc_state = @ccall(jl_gc_safe_enter()::Int8)
+        ret = ccall($(esc(func)), $(esc(rettype)), $(Expr(:tuple, map(esc, types)...)),
+                    $(unsafe_convert_args...))
+        @ccall(jl_gc_safe_leave(gc_state::Int8)::Cvoid)
+        ret
+    end
+
+    quote
+        $(cconvert_exprs...)
+
+        GC.@preserve $(cconvert_args...)  $(call)
+    end
+end
+
+"""
+    @gcsafe_ccall ...
+
+Call a foreign function just like `@ccall`, but marking it safe for the GC to run. This is
+useful for functions that may block, so that the GC isn't blocked from running, but may also
+be required to prevent deadlocks (see JuliaGPU/CUDA.jl#2261).
+
+Note that this is generally only safe with non-Julia C functions that do not call back into
+Julia. When using callbacks, the code should make sure to transition back into GC-unsafe
+mode using the `@gcunsafe` macro.
+"""
+macro gcsafe_ccall(expr)
+    ccall_macro_lower(Base.ccall_macro_parse(expr)...)
+end