This adds minimalistic bindings for the execution engine, allowing to
invoke the JIT from the C API. This is still quite early and
experimental and shouldn't be considered stable in any way.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96651
The tests are intended to exercise the public C API and will link to a
specific shared library exposing only the C API, this library itself may
link to libMLIR.so.
If we link some LLVM library statically in the test themselves, we end
up with duplicated cl::opt registrations in LLVM. A possible setup if
these libraries were needed could be to link libMLIR.so directly when
available and link statically when it isn't available (in which case the
libary exposing the C API would be statically link and isolated from the
cl::opt registry, hopefully).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90993
We were discussing on discord regarding the need for extension-based systems like Python to dynamically link against MLIR (or else you can only have one extension that depends on it). Currently, when I set that up, I piggy-backed off of the flag that enables build libLLVM.so and libMLIR.so and depended on libMLIR.so from the python extension if shared library building was enabled. However, this is less than ideal.
In the current setup, libMLIR.so exports both all symbols from the C++ API and the C-API. The former is a kitchen sink and the latter is curated. We should be splitting them and for things that are properly factored to depend on the C-API, they should have the option to *only* depend on the C-API, and we should build that shared library no matter what. Its presence isn't just an optimization: it is a key part of the system.
To do this right, I needed to:
* Introduce visibility macros into mlir-c/Support.h. These should work on both *nix and windows as-is.
* Create a new libMLIRPublicAPI.so with just the mlir-c object files.
* Compile the C-API with -fvisibility=hidden.
* Conditionally depend on the libMLIR.so from libMLIRPublicAPI.so if building libMLIR.so (otherwise, also links against the static libs and will produce a mondo libMLIRPublicAPI.so).
* Disable re-exporting of static library symbols that come in as transitive deps.
This gives us a dynamic linked C-API layer that is minimal and should work as-is on all platforms. Since we don't support libMLIR.so building on Windows yet (and it is not very DLL friendly), this will fall back to a mondo build of libMLIRPublicAPI.so, which has its uses (it is also the most size conscious way to go if you happen to know exactly what you need).
Sizes (release/stripped, Ubuntu 20.04):
Shared library build:
libMLIRPublicAPI.so: 121Kb
_mlir.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: 1.4Mb
mlir-capi-ir-test: 135Kb
libMLIR.so: 21Mb
Static build:
libMLIRPublicAPI.so: 5.5Mb (since this is a "static" build, this includes the MLIR implementation as non-exported code).
_mlir.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: 1.4Mb
mlir-capi-ir-test: 44Kb
Things like npcomp and circt which bring their own dialects/transforms/etc would still need the shared library build and code that links against libMLIR.so (since it is all C++ interop stuff), but hopefully things that only depend on the public C-API can just have the one narrow dep.
I spot checked everything with nm, and it looks good in terms of what is exporting/importing from each layer.
I'm not in a hurry to land this, but if it is controversial, I'll probably split off the Support.h and API visibility macro changes, since we should set that pattern regardless.
Reviewed By: mehdi_amini, benvanik
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90824
This is exposing the basic functionalities (create, nest, addPass, run) of
the PassManager through the C API in the new header: `include/mlir-c/Pass.h`.
In order to exercise it in the unit-test, a basic TableGen backend is
also provided to generate a simple C wrapper around the pass
constructor. It is used to expose the libTransforms passes to the C API.
Reviewed By: stellaraccident, ftynse
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90667
- Add a minimalist C API for mlir::Dialect.
- Allow one to query the context about registered and loaded dialects.
- Add API for loading dialects.
- Provide functions to register the Standard dialect.
When used naively, this will require to separately register each dialect. When
we have more than one exposed, we can add variadic macros that expand to
individual calls.
Reviewed By: mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88162
Introduce an initial version of C API for MLIR core IR components: Value, Type,
Attribute, Operation, Region, Block, Location. These APIs allow for both
inspection and creation of the IR in the generic form and intended for wrapping
in high-level library- and language-specific constructs. At this point, there
is no stability guarantee provided for the API.
Reviewed By: stellaraccident, lattner
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83310
Mehdi Amini