A few remain in examples/docs that will be naturally be updated in due
time.
This regresses the list support and the general direction of more widely
supported control flow, lists/dicts/globals that we were going for with
the TorchScript path. The idea is that we are deferring that work to
make torch-mlir a very clean standalone thing. We will reboot it,
probably using some of the tools of iree_pydm to make it simpler, and in
a more natural place (such as an iree-torch repo that depends on IREE and
torch-mlir to build a working PyTorch frontend solution for IREE -- it
was really weird that npcomp depended on IREE).
This plumbs through a vertical slice of support for lists.
The main chunk of new code here is AnnotateABIPass which captures the
program signature at the Torch backend contract layer, right before we
start `TorchConversion`. The `TorchConversion` lowering process is lossy
w.r.t. types, so it's necessary to do this for all targets in general.
Like using `!iree.list` directly, we use IREE's ABI annotation
representation for this, although there is nothing very IREE-specific
about it (see
https://github.com/google/iree/blob/main/docs/developers/design_docs/function_abi.md)
We change `ListLiteralModule_basic` to use `!torch.int` because IREE
doesn't support f64 yet (and we don't yet have a way for users to say
that they want `!torch.float` to lower as f32).
Recommended review order:
- AnnotateABIPass and tests
- Arg marshaling in npcomp_backend.py and `iree.py`
- Updates to `list_programs.py` / `xfail_sets.py`
- Moving DeleteDeadIREEListsPass to Backend/Common, so that backends
that don't support lists can use it. RefBackend uses that pass, for
example.
This pass verifies that a given module satisfies the contract that we
have for backends. This is phrased as an "allowlist", because we want to
keep this interface tight. Also, this gives much better diagnostics than
a backend randomly crashing or failing to compile would (though they
could still be improved).
This was especially painful because if we had
`tensor<?x!numpy.any_dtype>` slip through, at some point RefBackend
would convert it to a memref type and trip the "verify type invariants"
assertion which gives no location or anything and crashed the process,
which was very unpleasant.
We implement this with the dialect conversion framework, which works
reasonably well and was quick to put together and familiar, but is still
very "op oriented". We probably want to make this hand-rolled
eventually, especially the error reporting (the most useful kind of
error for a dialect conversion user is not necessarily the best for this
use case). Also, in production, these error will go to users, and need
to be surfaced carefully such as "the compiler needs a type annotation
on this function parameter" which in general requires some special
analysis, wordsmithing, and overall awareness of the e2e use case (such
as how much we can lean into certain source locations) to provide a
meaningful user-level diagnostic.
Also, add `inline` to the current frontend lowering pass pipeline to
allow slightly more complicated programs that otherwise would fail on
shape inference.
Sean Silva