Support passing symbols as arguments

[vchuravy]

Fix #2590

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CUDA.jl Benchmarks

Benchmark suite	Current: ef043a2	Previous: 3d45d85	Ratio
latency/precompile	45310114342.5 ns	45362897043 ns	1.00
latency/ttfp	6438596204.5 ns	6376155312.5 ns	1.01
latency/import	3055928177.5 ns	3036001837 ns	1.01
integration/volumerhs	9554757 ns	9568516 ns	1.00
integration/byval/slices=1	146812 ns	146875.5 ns	1.00
integration/byval/slices=3	425144 ns	425040 ns	1.00
integration/byval/reference	145073.5 ns	144927 ns	1.00
integration/byval/slices=2	285905 ns	286033 ns	1.00
integration/cudadevrt	103394 ns	103435 ns	1.00
kernel/indexing	14028 ns	14009 ns	1.00
kernel/indexing_checked	14438 ns	14794 ns	0.98
kernel/occupancy	710.4965034965035 ns	698.5298013245033 ns	1.02
kernel/launch	2143.777777777778 ns	2154 ns	1.00
kernel/rand	16493 ns	18303 ns	0.90
array/reverse/1d	19561 ns	19605 ns	1.00
array/reverse/2d	24693 ns	24620 ns	1.00
array/reverse/1d_inplace	10268 ns	10792.666666666666 ns	0.95
array/reverse/2d_inplace	11697 ns	11263 ns	1.04
array/copy	20821 ns	20439 ns	1.02
array/iteration/findall/int	156282 ns	155820 ns	1.00
array/iteration/findall/bool	135469 ns	134569 ns	1.01
array/iteration/findfirst/int	151272.5 ns	154288 ns	0.98
array/iteration/findfirst/bool	153112 ns	153959 ns	0.99
array/iteration/scalar	62418 ns	61548 ns	1.01
array/iteration/logical	201789.5 ns	203707 ns	0.99
array/iteration/findmin/1d	37833.5 ns	38870 ns	0.97
array/iteration/findmin/2d	94064 ns	94333 ns	1.00
array/reductions/reduce/1d	37102 ns	30423 ns	1.22
array/reductions/reduce/2d	46156.5 ns	51457 ns	0.90
array/reductions/mapreduce/1d	34579.5 ns	30142 ns	1.15
array/reductions/mapreduce/2d	51387 ns	51380 ns	1.00
array/broadcast	21494 ns	21382 ns	1.01
array/copyto!/gpu_to_gpu	13433 ns	11620 ns	1.16
array/copyto!/cpu_to_gpu	207930 ns	209662 ns	0.99
array/copyto!/gpu_to_cpu	241266.5 ns	242902.5 ns	0.99
array/accumulate/1d	108319 ns	109331 ns	0.99
array/accumulate/2d	79895.5 ns	80156 ns	1.00
array/construct	1319.35 ns	1280.3 ns	1.03
array/random/randn/Float32	44545 ns	49367 ns	0.90
array/random/randn!/Float32	26197 ns	26244 ns	1.00
array/random/rand!/Int64	27011 ns	27126 ns	1.00
array/random/rand!/Float32	8664 ns	8464.333333333334 ns	1.02
array/random/rand/Int64	29885 ns	35460 ns	0.84
array/random/rand/Float32	12975 ns	12776 ns	1.02
array/permutedims/4d	67507 ns	67483 ns	1.00
array/permutedims/2d	57025 ns	57092.5 ns	1.00
array/permutedims/3d	59258.5 ns	59419.5 ns	1.00
array/sorting/1d	2776912.5 ns	2776311.5 ns	1.00
array/sorting/by	3369451 ns	3367794.5 ns	1.00
array/sorting/2d	1085064 ns	1086101 ns	1.00
cuda/synchronization/stream/auto	1062.8 ns	1013.0833333333334 ns	1.05
cuda/synchronization/stream/nonblocking	6426.6 ns	6507 ns	0.99
cuda/synchronization/stream/blocking	843.1411764705882 ns	807.4622641509434 ns	1.04
cuda/synchronization/context/auto	1170.7 ns	1212.8 ns	0.97
cuda/synchronization/context/nonblocking	6683.4 ns	6677.8 ns	1.00
cuda/synchronization/context/blocking	908.85 ns	948.4545454545455 ns	0.96

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Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 73.60%. Comparing base (3d45d85) to head (ef043a2).
Report is 3 commits behind head on master.

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