Adds the ability to create external passes using the C-API. This allows passes
to be written in C or languages that use the C-bindings.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121866
Symbol tables are a largely useful top-level IR construct, for example, they
make it easy to access functions in a module by name instead of traversing the
list of module's operations to find the corresponding function.
Depends On D112886
Reviewed By: mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112821
libMLIRPublicAPI.so came into existence early when the Python and C-API were being co-developed because the Python extensions need a single DSO which exports the C-API to link against. It really should never have been exported as a mondo library in the first place, which has caused no end of problems in different linking modes, etc (i.e. the CAPI tests depended on it).
This patch does a mechanical move that:
* Makes the C-API tests link directly to their respective libraries.
* Creates a libMLIRPythonCAPI as part of the Python bindings which assemble to exact DSO that they need.
This has the effect that the C-API is no longer monolithic and can be subset and used piecemeal in a modular fashion, which is necessary for downstreams to only pay for what they use. There are additional, more fundamental changes planned for how the Python API is assembled which should make it more out of tree friendly, but this minimal first step is necessary to break the fragile dependency between the C-API and Python API.
Downstream actions required:
* If using the C-API and linking against MLIRPublicAPI, you must instead link against its constituent components. As a reference, the Python API dependencies are in lib/Bindings/Python/CMakeLists.txt and approximate the full set of dependencies available.
* If you have a Python API project that was previously linking against MLIRPublicAPI (i.e. to add its own C-API DSO), you will want to `s/MLIRPublicAPI/MLIRPythonCAPI/` and all should be as it was. There are larger changes coming in this area but this part is incremental.
Reviewed By: mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106369
While this makes the unit tests a bit more verbose, this simplifies the creation of bindings because only the bidirectional mapping between the host language's string type and MlirStringRef need to be implemented.
Reviewed By: mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91905
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
Add basic support for registering diagnostic handlers with the context
(actually, the diagnostic engine contained in the context) and processing
diagnostic messages from the C API.
Reviewed By: stellaraccident
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88736
Numerous MLIR functions return instances of `StringRef` to refer to a
non-owning fragment of a string (usually owned by the context). This is a
relatively simple class that is defined in LLVM. Provide a simple wrapper in
the MLIR C API that contains the pointer and length of the string fragment and
use it for Standard attribute functions that return StringRef instead of the
previous, callback-based mechanism.
Reviewed By: stellaraccident
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87677
Daniel Resnick