llvm-project/mlir/tools
Jeff Niu e179532284 [mlir] Remove types from attributes
This patch removes the `type` field from `Attribute` along with the
`Attribute::getType` accessor.

Going forward, this means that attributes in MLIR will no longer have
types as a first-class concept. This patch lays the groundwork to
incrementally remove or refactor code that relies on generic attributes
being typed. The immediate impact will be on attributes that rely on
`Attribute` containing a type, such as `IntegerAttr`,
`DenseElementsAttr`, and `ml_program::ExternAttr`, which will now need
to define a type parameter on their storage classes. This will save
memory as all other attribute kinds will no longer contain a type.

Moreover, it will not be possible to generically query the type of an
attribute directly. This patch provides an attribute interface
`TypedAttr` that implements only one method, `getType`, which can be
used to generically query the types of attributes that implement the
interface. This interface can be used to retain the concept of a "typed
attribute". The ODS-generated accessor for a `type` parameter
automatically implements this method.

Next steps will be to refactor the assembly formats of certain operations
that rely on `parseAttribute(type)` and `printAttributeWithoutType` to
remove special handling of type elision until `type` can be removed from
the dialect parsing hook entirely; and incrementally remove uses of
`TypedAttr`.

Reviewed By: lattner, rriddle, jpienaar

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130092
2022-07-31 20:01:31 -04:00
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mlir-cpu-runner [cmake] Don't export `LLVM_TOOLS_INSTALL_DIR` anymore 2022-07-21 19:04:00 +00:00
mlir-linalg-ods-gen [mlir] Refactor the Parser library in preparation for an MLIR binary format 2022-07-25 16:33:01 -07:00
mlir-lsp-server [cmake] Don't export `LLVM_TOOLS_INSTALL_DIR` anymore 2022-07-21 19:04:00 +00:00
mlir-opt [MLIR] Add a utility to sort the operands of commutative ops 2022-07-30 19:25:18 -04:00
mlir-parser-fuzzer [mlir] Refactor the Parser library in preparation for an MLIR binary format 2022-07-25 16:33:01 -07:00
mlir-pdll [mlir] Add `enableSplitting` and `insertMarkerInOutput` options to `splitAndProcessBuffer` 2022-06-28 15:42:35 -07:00
mlir-pdll-lsp-server [cmake] Don't export `LLVM_TOOLS_INSTALL_DIR` anymore 2022-07-21 19:04:00 +00:00
mlir-reduce [cmake] Don't export `LLVM_TOOLS_INSTALL_DIR` anymore 2022-07-21 19:04:00 +00:00
mlir-shlib
mlir-spirv-cpu-runner [cmake] Don't export `LLVM_TOOLS_INSTALL_DIR` anymore 2022-07-21 19:04:00 +00:00
mlir-tblgen [mlir] Remove types from attributes 2022-07-31 20:01:31 -04:00
mlir-translate [cmake] Don't export `LLVM_TOOLS_INSTALL_DIR` anymore 2022-07-21 19:04:00 +00:00
mlir-vulkan-runner [cmake] Don't export `LLVM_TOOLS_INSTALL_DIR` anymore 2022-07-21 19:04:00 +00:00
tblgen-lsp-server [cmake] Don't export `LLVM_TOOLS_INSTALL_DIR` anymore 2022-07-21 19:04:00 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt [mlir][Tablegen-LSP] Add support for a basic TableGen language server 2022-05-16 16:03:51 -07:00