[Mlir-commits] [mlir] [mlir][ArmSVE] Add `-arm-sve-legalize-vector-storage` pass (PR #68794)

[Andrzej Warzyński]

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+//===-- Passes.td - ArmSVE pass definition file ------------*- tablegen -*-===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#ifndef MLIR_DIALECT_ARMSVE_TRANSFORMS_PASSES_TD
+#define MLIR_DIALECT_ARMSVE_TRANSFORMS_PASSES_TD
+
+include "mlir/Pass/PassBase.td"
+
+def LegalizeVectorStorage
+    : Pass<"arm-sve-legalize-vector-storage", "mlir::func::FuncOp"> {
+  let summary = "Ensures stores of SVE vector types will be legal";
+  let description = [{
+    This pass ensures that loads, stores, and allocations of SVE vector types
+    will be legal in the LLVM backend. It does this at the memref level, so this
+    pass must be applied before lowering all the way to LLVM.
+
+    This pass currently fixes two issues.
+
+    ## Loading and storing predicate types
+
+    It is only legal to load/store predicate types equal to (or greater than) a
+    full predicate register, which in MLIR is `vector<[16]xi1>`. Smaller
+    predicate types (`vector<[1|2|4|8]xi1>`) must be converted to/from a full
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banach-space wrote:

Worth mentioning what happens to non-powers of 2.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/68794