Add document for switching to GGL in hip_faq.md

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Sun, Peng
2017-03-20 15:44:28 -05:00
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Thus, if failed to define "static" keyword, you might see a lot of "symbol multiply defined!" errors at compilation.
The workaround is to explicitly add the keyword of "static" before any functions that were defined as "__forceinline__".
### How do I enable HIP Generic Grid Launch option?
Generic Grid Launch(GGL) provide a second choice for kernel launch.
To enable it, either change the default value of GENERIC_GRID_LAUNCH to 1 in the following to header files and rebuild HIP:
$HIP/include/hip/hcc_detail/hip_runtime_api.h
$HIP/include/hip/hcc_detail/host_defines.h
Or pass "-DGENERIC_GRID_LAUNCH=1" to hipcc at application compilation time.
There are some limitation/assumptions of GGL implementation right now:
1. GGL was only tested with Ubuntu16.04, assuming HCC and HIP only link against libstdc++ but not libc++.
2. GGL currently requires templated kernel fucntions passed to hipLaunchKernel to be specialized. e.g.:
```
hipLaunchKernel(vector_square<float>, dim3(blocks), dim3(threadsPerBlock), 0, nullptr, C_d, A_d, N);
```