This is an important step in allowing for the top-level of the IR to be extensible. FuncOp and ModuleOp contain all of the necessary functionality, while using the existing operation infrastructure. As an interim step, many of the usages of Function and Module, including the name, will remain the same. In the future, many of these will be relaxed to allow for many different types of top-level operations to co-exist.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 256427100
Restructure the Regions section in LangRef to avoid having a wall of text and
reflect a recent evolution of the design. Unspecify region types, that are put
on hold until use cases arise.
Update the Rationale doc with a list of design decisions related to regions.
Separately list the design alternatives that were considered and discarded due
to the lack of existing use cases.
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PiperOrigin-RevId: 247943144
This CL just changes various docs and comments to use the term "generic" and
"custom" when mentioning assembly forms. To be consist, several methods are
also renamed:
* FunctionParser::parseVerboseOperation() -> parseGenericOperation()
* ModuleState::hasShorthandForm() -> hasCustomForm()
* OpAsmPrinter::printDefaultOp() -> printGenericOp()
PiperOrigin-RevId: 230568819
Alias identifiers can be used in the place of the types that they alias, and are defined as:
type-alias-def ::= '!' alias-name '=' 'type' type
type-alias ::= '!' alias-name
Example:
!avx.m128 = type vector<4 x f32>
...
"foo"(%x) : vector<4 x f32> -> ()
// becomes:
"foo"(%x) : !avx.m128 -> ()
PiperOrigin-RevId: 228271372
consistent and moving the using declarations over. Hopefully this is the last
truly massive patch in this refactoring.
This is step 21/n towards merging instructions and statements, NFC.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 227178245
The last major renaming is Statement -> Instruction, which is why Statement and
Stmt still appears in various places.
This is step 19/n towards merging instructions and statements, NFC.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 227163082
As MLIR moves towards dialect-specific types, a generic Type::getBitWidth does
not make sense for all of them. Even with the current type system, the bit
width is not defined (and causes the method in question to abort) for all
TensorFlow types.
This commit restricts the bit width definition to primitive standard types that
have a number of bits appearing verbatim in their type, i.e., integers and
floats. As a side effect, it delegates the decision on the bit width of the
`index` to the backends. Existing backends currently hardcode it to 64 bits.
The Type::getBitWidth method is replaced by Type::getIntOrFloatBitWidth that
only applies to integers and floats. The call sites are updated to use the new
method, where applicable, or rewritten so as not rely on it. Incidentally,
this fixes a utility method that did not account for memrefs being allowed to
have vectors as element types in the size computation.
As an observation, several places in the code use Type in places where a more
specific type could be used instead. Some of those are fixed by this commit.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 225844792
An extensive discussion demonstrated that it is difficult to support `index`
types as elements of compound (vector, memref, tensor) types. In particular,
their size is unknown until the target-specific lowering takes place. MLIR may
need to store constants of the fixed-shape compound types (e.g.,
vector<4 x index>) internally and must know the size of the element type and
data layout constraints. The same information is necessary for target-specific
lowering and translation to reliably support compound types with `index`
elements, but MLIR does not have a dedicated target description mechanism yet.
The uses cases for compound types with `index` elements, should they appear,
can be handled via an `index_cast` operation that converts between `index` and
fixed-size integer types at the SSA value level instead of the type level.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 225064373
The semantics of 'select' is conventional: return the second operand if the
first operand is true (1 : i1) and the third operand otherwise. It is
applicable to vectors and tensors element-wise, similarly to LLVM instruction.
This operation is necessary to implement min/max to lower 'for' loops with
complex bounds to CFG functions and to support ternary operations in ML
functions. It is preferred to first-class min/max because of its simplicity,
e.g. it is not concered with signedness.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 223160860
This binary operation is applicable to integers, vectors and tensors thereof
similarly to binary arithmetic operations. The operand types must match
exactly, and the shape of the result type is the same as that of the operands.
The element type of the result is always i1. The kind of the comparison is
defined by the "predicate" integer attribute. This attribute requests one of:
- equals to;
- not equals to;
- signed less than;
- signed less than or equals;
- signed greater than;
- signed greater than or equals;
- unsigned less than;
- unsigned less than or equals;
- unsigned greater than;
- unsigned greater than or equals.
Since integer values themselves do not have a sign, the comparison operator
specifies whether to use signed or unsigned comparison logic, i.e. whether to
interpret values where the foremost bit is set as negatives expressed as two's
complements or as positive values. For non-scalar operands, pairwise
per-element comparison is performed. Comparison operators on scalars are
necessary to implement basic control flow with conditional branches.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 220613566
This CL only converts the document to the g3doc format and does some minor
typesetting, e.g. removing unicode ellipsis and mdash symbols, replace single
quotes with backticks to trigger tt-type dispay, etc. The original document
is located at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KoVYgp-m-dgAyKwqRne2c72j0FoxpsdNgfa9DTfWGgw/view
Links to the sections of the same document are updated to point to the anchors
in the converted document whereas links to external documents are kept as is.
Cross-links between LangRef.md and Rationale.md are updated to point to the
relevant anchors in the g3doc files.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 218527560
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