grokos added a comment.

In D84422#2173500 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D84422#2173500>, @jdenny wrote:

> I've added a comment to the runtime code that performs the check.  As you can 
> see, the check is performed regardless.  It's just a question of whether the 
> runtime treats it as an error.  I don't think performance is an issue.
>
> My concern here is that it will be hard to justify changes to the runtime if 
> I cannot formulate a use case.


Thinking about it, I don't think there can be a case where something is present 
upon entering a target region and not be present when we're exiting. Whatever 
code comprises the target region is code executed on the device - it cannot 
modify the state of host objects (i.e. libomptarget) in any possible way. E.g. 
the kernel cannot invoke libomptarget functions, allocate memory, map/unmap 
data etc.

The only case where something like this would be possible is if we have 
multiple host threads executing async offloading. In such a case, one thread 
may launch a target region at a moment when the requested mapping is `present` 
on the device and while the kernel is executing some other thread performs a 
`target data exit` on the desired mapping. Upon exiting the kernel, the mapping 
will no longer be present but this is clearly a race condition (user's fault), 
so I don't think we should pay attention to such a scenario.


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