[OpenCL] Add global_device and global_host address spaces
This patch introduces 2 new address spaces in OpenCL: global_device and global_host which are a subset of a global address space, so the address space scheme will be looking like: ``` generic->global->host ->device ->private ->local constant ``` Justification: USM allocations may be associated with both host and device memory. We want to give users a way to tell the compiler the allocation type of a USM pointer for optimization purposes. (Link to the Unified Shared Memory extension: https://github.com/intel/llvm/blob/sycl/sycl/doc/extensions/USM/cl_intel_unified_shared_memory.asciidoc) Before this patch USM pointer could be only in opencl_global address space, hence a device backend can't tell if a particular pointer points to host or device memory. On FPGAs at least we can generate more efficient hardware code if the user tells us where the pointer can point - being able to distinguish between these types of pointers at compile time allows us to instantiate simpler load-store units to perform memory transactions. Patch by Dmitry Sidorov. Reviewed By: Anastasia Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D82174
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