[Mlir-commits] [mlir] [mlir][Vector] Update patterns for flattening vector.xfer Ops (1/N) (PR #73522)

[Nicolas Vasilache]

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@@ -487,26 +487,88 @@ class TransferWriteDropUnitDimsPattern
 
 } // namespace
 
-/// Return true if the memref type has its inner dimension matching the given
-/// shape. Otherwise return false.
-static int64_t hasMatchingInnerContigousShape(MemRefType memrefType,
-                                              ArrayRef<int64_t> targetShape) {
-  auto shape = memrefType.getShape();
-  SmallVector<int64_t> strides;
+/// Return true if `vectorType` is a contiguous slice of `memrefType`.
+///
+/// Compares `vectorType` against the trailing dimensions of `memrefType`
+/// to check whether `vectorType` is a contiguous slice of `memrefType`. This
+/// is implemented by iterating over the dims of `vectorType` and `memrefType`
+/// and comparing them starting from the inner-most/right-most dims.
+///
+/// Note that there might be some restriction on the leading dim of
+/// `VectorType`:
+///   1. if all the trailing dims of `vectorType` match the trailing dims
+///     of `memrefType` then the leading dim of `vectorType` can be arbitrary:
+///
+///       1.1 contiguous slice, perfect match
+///         vector<4x3x2xi32> from memref<5x4x3x2xi32>
+///       1.2 contiguous slice, all dims match except the leading dim: 2 != 4
+///         vector<2x3x2xi32> from memref<5x4x3x2xi32>
+///
+///   2. if an "internal" dim of `vectorType` does not match the corresponding
+///     trailing dim in `memrefType` then the remaining leading dims of
+///     `vectorType` have to be 1 (the first non-matching dim can be arbitrary):
+///
+///       2.1 non-contiguous slice, 2 != 3 and the leading dim != <1>
+///         vector<2x2x2xi32> from memref<5x4x3x2xi32>
+///       2.2  contiguous slice, 2 != 3 and the leading dim == <1>
+///         vector<1x2x2xi32> from memref<5x4x3x2xi32>
+///       2.3. contiguous slice, 2 != 3 and the leading dims == <1x1>
+///         vector<1x1x2x2xi32> from memref<5x4x3x2xi32>
+///       2.4. non-contiguous slice, 2 != 3 and the leading dims != <1x1>
+///         vector<2x1x2x2xi32> from memref<5x4x3x2xi32>)
+///
+/// In all cases `memrefType` has to be contiguous (this is checked by looking
+/// at strides).
+static bool isContiguousSlice(MemRefType memrefType, VectorType vectorType) {
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nicolasvasilache wrote:

can we put this in a reusable place in some existing `Vector/Utils` location?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/73522