Using MLIR attributes instead of metadata has many advantages:
* No indirection: Attributes can simply refer to each other seemlessly without having to use the indirection of `SymbolRefAttr`. This also gives us correctness by construction in a lot of places as well
* Multithreading safe: The Attribute infrastructure gives us thread-safety for free. Creating operations and inserting them into a block is not thread-safe. This is a major use case for e.g. the inliner in MLIR which runs in parallel
* Easier to create: There is no need for a builder or a metadata region
This patch therefore does exactly that. It leverages the new distinct attributes to create distinct access groups in a deterministic and threadsafe manner.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D155285
This commit introduces support for locations as part of the loop
annotation attribute. These locations indicate the start and the end of
the loop.
Reviewed By: gysit
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D149858
This commit adds support for the last two loop metadata nodes produced
anywhere in the llvm-project.
Reviewed By: gysit
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D143746
This commit adds support for the "llvm.loop.isvectorized" metadata and
ensures that the unroll followups match llvm's naming.
Reviewed By: gysit
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D143730
This commit introduces a structured representation of loop metadata to
the LLVM dialect. This attribute explicitly models all known `!llvm.loop`
metadata fields and groups them by introducing nested attributes for each
namespace.
The new attribute replaces the LoopOptionAttr that could only model a
limited subset of loop metadata.
Reviewed By: gysit
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D143064
