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Author SHA1 Message Date
Sean Silva 97d6d04d41 Bump llvm-project to 16c6e9c58e9ae50a775945e6b407f1891f353d2f
Changes:
- linalg init tensor change (outs+init -> just outs)
- IntegerType::get and other builtin types now take the context as the
  first arg
- LLVMType::* is gone. Now LLVM Types are just regular Type's.
2021-01-05 16:12:11 -08:00
Sean Silva d818043986 Bump llvm-project to d50d7c37a159802c89454a6c53c0ec2e7949d84a
Fixes:
- use `op->(method on Operation)`
- update for MlirIdentifier in signature of mlirNamedAttributeGet
2020-12-14 14:30:51 -08:00
Sean Silva b2077738ca Bump llvm-project to 444822d77a7fea28aa49edf24533c987efa1b2ee
Fixes:
- renames StandardTypes -> BuiltinTypes
- std.extract_element -> tensor.extract
2020-12-11 14:43:38 -08:00
Sean Silva 46aa6d0a24 [RefBackend] Fix leaks related to ABI boundaries.
Best as I can tell (e.g. from LeakSanitizer), this fixes all the leaks
except for those due to buffers created internally to the codegenned
code itself (up next I'll add the buffer deallocation pass to fix
those).

The main change is that instead of attempting to pass `refbackrt::Tensor`
to the codegenned function directly, we make all the ABI types be
UnrankedMemRef which gets passed awkwardly (but workably) as a
`{size_t rank, void *ptrToDescriptor}` on the ABI. The reason why
refbackrt::Tensor wasn't workable is that is that MLIR doesn't really
have a way to deal with the lifetime of unranked memref descriptors that
happen inside the function, which is inevitably what would happen in the
old code that would emit runtime calls to
`refbackrt.to_memref/refbackrt.from_memref` to convert back and forth to
`refbackrt::Tensor` inside the codegenned code.

So, instead of the `refbackrt.to_memref/refbackrt.from_memref` with no
real sound basis for valid lifetime management, we now have a lovely
piece of code in `refbackrt::invoke` in `Runtime.cpp` that just barely
seems to be sound. We rely on the codegenned code having these
properties, which it seems to have:

- it won't free memref descriptors or their backing buffer for arguments
  of UnrankedMemRef type.

- it will allocate a separate memref descriptor for each result
  UnrankedMemRef (which is ensured by having a separate memref_cast for
  each)

- we can sniff the `allocatedPtr`'s (i.e. the backing buffer pointers)
  to avoid double-freeing in the case of aliasing of the backing buffer
  (including backing buffers for arguments feeding into results)

- to catch the case of statically allocated data (which we need to avoid
  passing to `free`) , check if the `allocatedPtr` is (no joke) equal to
  `0xDEADBEEF`, because there is otherwise no way to distinguish
  statically allocated from malloc'ed data...  (std.global_memref lowering
  to LLVM by happenstance sets the allocatedPtr equal to `0xDEADBEEF`,
  presumably mainly as a debugging thing)

Even with all this, we *still* need to (internally to refbackrt::invoke)
make copies of all inputs/outputs! And the details of how the LLVM-level
ABI gets laid out for e.g. function arguments/returns is still super
tricky.

This really highlights how deficient memref is as the general runtime
type for our use case. It's stewing in my mind how best to improve the
situation. My general gut feeling is that IREE's abstractions for this
are "right", but I need to think more how to distill those aspects of
IREE's design in a "reference" way for RefBackend.

Some implementation notes:

- In terms of how this is implemented, this did catch a bug in our ABI
  wrapper functions in LowerToLLVM.cpp, which I had to fix (it happened to
  work before through some combination of npcomprt::Tensor being passed as
  a single pointer + probably me infinite-monkey-ing it until it worked)

- This actually removes 2 out of the 3 compiler runtime functions (the
  only one left is "abort_if". (most of the memref descriptor code moved
  from CopmilerRuntime.cpp to Runtime.cpp)

  - this also means deleting `refbackrt.from_memref` and
  `refbackrt.to_memref`
2020-11-25 13:09:58 -08:00
Stella Laurenzo 3937dd14cb Add basicpy.numeric_constant op.
* Going through TODOs on the PyTorch side, this is a big cause of them (not being able to have constants for signed/unsigned).
* Added complex while in here since we're at the phase where it is better to just have things complete than partially done.
2020-11-24 16:44:40 -08:00
Stella Laurenzo bea0af419d NFC: Prefactor some basicpy ops in advance of more type work.
* Organizes the BasicPyOps.td file by function.
* Renamed `to_boolean` -> `as_predicate_value` (trying to consistently use "predicate" to refer to i1/low-level types and Bool/Boolean to refer to Python bool types).
2020-11-24 15:49:37 -08:00
Stella Laurenzo f03225b1f1 Bump llvm-project to f4f8a67aaf13bc66a2b7d55561b14a3724a5e0de.
* Incorporates source fixes.
* Uses upstream pybind11 detection logic.
* Patches CI.
* This may break the CI, which will need to be fixed manually in a followup.
2020-11-22 13:14:44 -08:00
Sean Silva 1dfcfa9cd1 Add aten.mm op and "test" it e2e.
Note that unlike aten.matmul which has dynamic behavior
depending on the argument ranks (can do matrix-matrix, matrix-vector,
batch matmul, etc.), aten.mm is just a vanilla matrix
multiply, which can be lowered precisely to tcf.matmul.

The "test" is really just an example that I stared at while getting my
feet wet with this. We probably want something that actually tests this
as part of `ninja check-npcomp`.
2020-11-20 17:21:24 -08:00
Sean Silva 32b2dc6ce7 Revert "Bump llvm-project to 369c51a74b5327464e27e0749ca7ac59ac1349ce"
This reverts commit c60d7b4aae.

It seems to have tickled some sort of pybind version issue:
https://github.com/llvm/mlir-npcomp/runs/1433414550?check_suite_focus=true
2020-11-20 15:09:18 -08:00
Sean Silva c60d7b4aae Bump llvm-project to 369c51a74b5327464e27e0749ca7ac59ac1349ce 2020-11-20 13:03:24 -08:00
Sean Silva 358159a6eb [RefBackend] Open-code shape.get_extent as extract_element
It was annoying that we were creating shape.get_extent in the middle of
the bufferization pipeline, as it required running convert-shape-to-std
at an awkward place. To make that cleaner, just open-code the
extract_element ops that shape.get_extent expands into.

This is a little gross, but it helps with the macroscopic pipeline
ordering issues. Anyway, the train is long-gone of trying to treat
shapes as some special data type that should only be operated on with
shape ops.

Also,
- reorder tensor constant bufferize (which is a module pass) to bracket
all the bufferization function passes, to make the parallelism
opportunities there clearer. Now we have a very clean little
bufferization segment of our pipeline construction.
2020-11-17 11:00:38 -08:00
Sean Silva 5227d52c26 [RefBackend] Use std.global_memref instead of homegrown thing
This vastly simplifies our code, allowing deleting multiple ops,
simplifying multiple passes, and removing a whole pass.

Now `refback` dialect is down to one op (refback.alloc_memref, which
simplifies allocations to just take a shape instead of individual
extents).
2020-11-13 18:43:50 -08:00
Sean Silva 1c7c362e29 [TCP] Replace tcp.matmul with linalg.matmul.
This involved adding a `tcp.splatted` op to splat a dynamically sized
init tensor. See rationale in TCPOps.td docs.

One interesting observation is that when lowering tcf.matmul to
linalg.matmul, we need to both 1) create the error checks and 2)
calculate a shape transfer function to create the init tensors.
Previously, 2) was deferred to bufferizing tcp.matmul later. I'm not
sure if this is a conflation of concerns or not. For now, it's not a big
burden.
2020-11-10 18:58:28 -08:00
Sean Silva 0427aacb0b [TCP] Replace elementwise ops with std elementwise ops. 2020-11-10 18:58:28 -08:00
Stella Laurenzo 6c702b149f Add a number of kernels and new patterns.
* convolution, convolution_backward, _log_softmax, _log_softmax_backward_data, nll_loss_forward, nll_loss_backward, nll_loss2d_forward, nll_loss2d_backward, copy_
* Extends the recognition logic and metadata for handling inplace transformations, optional tensors, ints, lists and dropped args.
* The kernel_calls generated by test_conv_nllloss_grads.py now convert to ATen.
* The result *almost* comes out as a pure tensor program with the exception of the copy_ op, which I will do some followup work to deal with.
* More progress on #97
2020-11-04 14:36:59 -08:00
Sean Silva 1874bf5eb1 NFC: Clean up some minor nits
- Remove GreedyPatternRewriteDriver.h from files that don't need it
- fix typo shouldBeCloned -> wouldBeCloned
2020-10-30 18:48:25 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo a3f4db9fe8 Bump llvm-project to c8c07b76b2cf2ada8e7ec132f7f57b97d76743cf.
* Several NFC changes to signatures/includes.
2020-10-29 15:25:55 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo c08935a418 Rewrite ATen ODS code generator to be based on new op registry and new signature recognition system.
* Deletes prior code generator from previous attempt (moved some of it into this one).
* Renames old generated tablegen source to "Legacy".
* Generates ODS and import rules for most binary and unary arithmetic ops.
* Removes old generated ops and integration tests that were testing details of the prior setup.
2020-10-28 10:37:37 -07:00
Aaron J Arthurs 94ea6f7c92 [RefBackend] Support element-wise multiply op
Register the following for the multiply op:
- tcf.mul
- tcp.mul
- TCP->TCP lowering
- Shape transfer, broadcasted multiplicands
- Lower to standard `MulFOp` op
2020-10-27 19:41:23 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 510f226df2 Expose signature metadata to ops and implement ATenRecognizeKernelsPass pass.
* Two op interfaces, one for querying instance metadata and one for getting static data needed to construct an op from a generic form.
* For torch.generic_kernel ops, metadata is splatted in during capture from Torch (it comes from the op registry, which will work for either device capture or graph import).
* Moved the 'add' out of the generated set so I can experiment on it. It implements the TorchBuildableKernelOpInterface interface which provides its metadata.
* The ATenRecognizeKernelsPass pass generically lowers from a torch.generic_kernel to recognized ops that implement the TorchBuildableKernelOpInterface, handling the various types of transformations that we allow at this stage.
2020-10-26 20:31:45 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 91fc83d2e7 NFC: Transition ATen passes to tablegen registration. 2020-10-22 17:12:44 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 9618c2dbf7 NFC: Re-organize ATen directory structure and fix warnings.
* Still some more work to do on the Transforms tree to bring it in line with the others (will do that as I add things).
2020-10-22 14:13:26 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 029815152e Add remaining pieces to capture full example models.
* Adds Basicpy List, Tuple, Dict types and plumbs through C API.
* Started debugging the issues around aten::conv2d capture, but a PyTorch bug is suspected.
* Was able to manually verify that the basic conv2d forward test captures correctly with a workaround.
* Need to resolve some printing issues upstream and move these tests to an integration test target (they take ~seconds to run).
2020-10-19 22:16:59 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 9e52f6235b More progress on PyTorch acap device capture.
* Now gets far enough to capture batch_norm.
* Has some issues still with in-place ops.
* Can materialize constants.
* Includes an upgrade to PyTorch nightly, which has important bug fixes for fallback and boxed kernel dispatch.
* Fixes #78, #79, #80.
* Will do more testing in a follow-up once further bugs are fixed that facilitate getting at the other features.
2020-10-15 21:43:21 -07:00
Sean Silva 06a8ba6900 [RefBackend] Use more idiomatic bufferize pattern for TCP.
The time has come for BypassShapes/LowerShapedResultsToMemref to go away :(
For the reference backend, being consistent with upstream conventions is
the name of the game now.

This is a step down in a number of ways, e.g. test clarity and
separation of concerns. But it is fewer files and fewer tests, and
*does* address the "TODO: This is really fragile". It also eliminates two
more ops from the refback dialect (sadly, they are the
shaped_results/yield that we were getting kind of fond of, but alas).
2020-10-15 20:15:53 -07:00
Sean Silva b6bdc8cc4f [RefBackend] Use upstream BufferizeTypeConverter
Now that it has grown source/target materialization capabilities
(spelled with ops tensor_load/tensor_to_memref), we can use it. We can
also now delete refback.memref_to_tensor/refback.tensor_to_memref.

This is also a first step to reducing the downstream functionality
needed in the refback dialect.
2020-10-15 15:58:51 -07:00
Sean Silva f2d5c26c97 Bump llvm-project to 820e65f9e2369d2990fde4b3e7cfceb64f0df9c8
Date:   Mon Oct 12 11:26:50 2020 -0700
2020-10-12 13:30:22 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo af4edb63ae Start reworking towards a shared library build.
* Need to have a dag of shared library deps in order to interop across python extensions (as presented in ODM).
* Introduced add_npcomp_library and friends to mirror the MLIR setup.
* Adds a libNPCOMP.so shared library.
* Redirects tools and extensions to link against libNPCOMP.so (instead of static libs).
* Moves all libraries to lib/, all binaries to bin/ and all python extensions to python/. The invariant is that the rpaths are setup to have a one level directory structure.
* Reworks the _torch_mlir extension to build like the others (still need to come up with a consolidated rule to do this instead of open coded).
* Includes an upstream version bump to pick up needed changes.

Sizes with dynamic linking (stripped, release, asserts enabled):
  libNPCOMP.so: 43M (includes much of the underlying LLVM codegen deps)
  libMLIR.so: 31M
  _npcomp.so: 1.6M (python extension)
  _torch_mlir.so: 670K (python extension)
  npcomp-capi-ir-test: 6.3K
  npcomp-opt: 351K
  npcomp-run-mlir: 461K
  mnist-playground: 530K

Still more can be done to normalize and optimize but this gets us structurally to the starting point.
2020-10-09 16:02:58 -07:00
Sean Silva 7edb5f3641 [RefBackend] Rename RefBackend dialect to Refback
I now realize that VerboseCamelCase is not the best choice for dialect
directory/file names and C++ identifiers (take e.g. "Linalg", "Basicpy",
etc. as prior art here; not LinearAlgebra or BasicPython). If I had to
name the convention it seems to be "Shortword" (or of course just
acronym dialects like LLVM, SCF, etc.).

This rename also has the side benefit of differentiating RefBackend
directories, which now refer to the actual backend itself, from
Refback/Refbackrt, which are the dialects which happen to be used by
that backend.
2020-10-08 09:07:00 -07:00
Sean Silva bf99a82832 [RefBackend] Rename Npcomprt dialect to Refbackrt. 2020-10-08 09:07:00 -07:00
Sean Silva 03846ed8e7 Rename a couple CMake targets.
NPCOMPFoo to NPCOMPFooDialect for consistency with others.
2020-10-07 10:29:48 -07:00
Sean Silva 5017430dc7 [RefBackend] Split out RefBackend (refback) dialect from TCP.
This is the first in a patch series that is refactoring the
constellation of things variously called or associated with "E2E",
"RefE2E", "npcomprt", and "TCP" into a more cleanly layered result.

Concretely, this first patch fixes the fact that TCP was basically
acting like a dumping ground needed by the reference backend. This
splits it out, which is fairly mechanical, but touches a lot of lines of
code (basically replacing `tcp` with `refback` and `TCP` with
`RefBackend).

Now, the RefBackend dialect is that dumping ground, which
is slighly better, as it starts allowing TCP to become a nice clean
middle layer that is not related per se to the reference backend.

The previous name RefE2E or "reference e2e flow" was super confusing.
Now that we are seeing more clearly where the "backend" distinction
lies, the [RefBackend] commit tag is born :)
2020-10-07 10:29:48 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 3d74337be0 Add a torch.kernel_call op and associated predicates. 2020-09-29 15:10:38 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 2c9ca79c89 Add boilerplate for Torch dialect. 2020-09-28 15:26:17 -07:00
Sean Silva 6ea37cfed6 Bump llvm-project to 9ed1e5873c19eb817fb9e36d0262c7effee5d35e
Date:   Fri Sep 18 13:55:52 2020 -0700

- Update to linalg syntax
- New generated builders are better. Custom builder for
tcp.shaped_results is now redundant.
2020-09-28 09:34:44 -07:00
Sean Silva 75f57b461e
Totally rework RefE2E tensor to memref flow. (#42)
This now gets the overall "RefE2E" compilation stack to a point that I'm
fairly happy with. We simplify it by mostly embracing the "descriptor"
view of the world.

The overall flow is best understood by reading through the
createE2ELoweringPipeline function in lib/E2E/E2E.cpp
That function creates a pass pipeline that lowers from "TCF" (which is
~numpy level of abstraction) down to LLVM IR.

A brief high-level summary of what happens there:

1. TCF to TCP conversion. This involves reifying error handling in the
form of shape constraints. See test/Conversion/TCFToTCP/basic.mlir

2. Lowering shape constraints. This converts shape constraints into
eager error-handling code. See test/E2E/lower-shape-constraints.mlir
This pass will soon go upstream.
Because this lowers to std.assert, some later passes like
LowerToNpcomprtABI and LowerToLLVM are updated to properly plumb this
through e2e.
See test/npcomp-run-mlir/invalid-broadcast.mlir for an execution test
that properly aborts in case of an error.

3. Lowering tensors to memrefs. This is done via a series of passes
rather than an single mega conversion. Unlike the previous code that
mixed in the npcomprt ABI stuff here, it's now a very clean "pure
memref" conversion.
See test/E2E/lower-*-to-memref.mlir and
lib/E2E/TensorToMemref/
Most of the changes are concentrated here.

4. As part of the above, we use the upstream ConvertShapeToStandard for
lowering shapes.

5. We lower linalg to loops and lower loops to CFG using upstream
passes.

6. Rewrite the "ABI" boundaries of the program to npcomprt data
structures (LowerToNpcomprtABI). This mainly affects ABI boundaries and
how global tensor constants are represented. One of the major
improvements in this commit is that now it's a very clean rewrite that
just replaces memrefs on ABI boundaries with !npcomprt.tensor (before
there was a get_extent function that is not needed).
See test/E2E/lower-to-npcomprt-abi.mlir

7. Lower to LLVM with upstream mlir patterns + some patterns for the
npcomprt lowerings.

One aspect here that is still a remnant of a non-descriptor-based tensor
to memref flow is the BypassShapes + LowerShapedResultsToMemref.
BypassShapes wraps the "tensor compute" ops in a tcp.shaped_results
(basically a "tie_shape" kind of op), and then
LowerShapedResultsToMemref uses those annotations to allocate output
buffers while lowering the "tensor compute ops". Note that there are
very few "tensor compute" ops currently supported (tcp.add +
tcp.broadcast_to), so we just hardcode them in both passes.
Realistically, I expect this to go away as we fully embrace the
descriptor-based approach for simplicity, so don't look too deep into
it.
2020-09-16 17:31:40 -07:00
Marius Brehler d62f8227c2
Bump LLVM to @7d1ed69 and fix namespace handling changed upstream.
* Bump LLVM to llvm/llvm-project@7d1ed69
* Bump MLIR-HLO to tensorflow/mlir-hlo@1880f87
* Adopt to MLIR's changed namespace handling
2020-09-16 15:52:15 -07:00
Marius Brehler 124bc65a70 Register dialects in ATen lowering pass 2020-09-09 21:55:17 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 81dd571c23 Integrate upstream LLVM at 8d9c13f37d2081c11186718ae8b5aef8b507d152.
* mlir-hlo: 062a3ac4a0671d15b5199ed2cd3a9ce02a5bf077

Fixes:

* numInputs() just returns an int instead of requiring a call to .getLimitedValue()
2020-09-08 20:34:31 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 97d83f786a Bump submodule versions.
* llvm-project: b5924a8e27536d19dd5c4d302db29fb6163d5faa
* mhlo: 848ca244d20f045b7921da55a98a04d95ef94f0e
* Multiple breakages that need to be fixed.

Fixes:
* Refactor dialect registration
* Remove all kindof methods (Casting functionality has been added upstream and is implicitly
available, see https://llvm.discourse.group/t/removing-kinds-from-attributes-and-types/1547.)
* Update dialect registration to comply with https://reviews.llvm.org/D85495.
* Remove type kinds and update some changed dialect signatures.
* Upgrade ATen dialect to match upstream needs.
  * Move dialect registration to tablegen.
  * Register the ListType in tablegen.
  * Change dialect initialization signature.
* Use TypeSwitch in MlirIr location printer.
* Remove global registry depends from npcomp-opt.
* Change LowerToLLVM to pass an MLIRContext vs an LLVMDialect for type creation.
* Remove dep on MLIREDSCInterface that is removed upstream.
* Thread through the DialectRegistry for opt and python-like tools.
* Modernize pass registration (This was forced because the GEN_PASS_REGISTRATION code now generates inline functions vs literal pass registration statements)

Co-authored-by: Marius Brehler <marius.brehler@iml.fraunhofer.de>
2020-09-08 13:26:42 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo fc4f374345 Format sources. 2020-08-27 14:47:49 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 69cda404ef NFC: Fix extra namespace declaration.
* Was causing build break on GCC9.
2020-08-20 16:22:41 -07:00
stephenneuendorffer bb668e6e26
Add ATen Dialect (#16)
This patch adds a dialect intended to be used as a frontend dialect
to facilitate lowering from "A Tensor Library" in torch/pytorch.

This patch includes several passes that are useful in conjuction with the
dialect:

--aten-layer-name: Generates layer names for each operation, which are not
  present in the original pytorch.
--aten-to-std: Lower the ATen dialect into standard dialect function calls.
--return-elimination-pass: convert functions (primarily the toplevel function)
  to pass return values by reference.  This simplifies pytorch integration.
--aten-op-report: generate a textual report about the model
--liveness-report

Future patches will implement actual integration with the pytorch jit to
intercept and generates MLIR in this dialect, then lower the resulting MLIR
into function calls through aten-layer-name -> aten-to-std ->
return-elimination -> std-to-llvm. The result would then jitted using the LLVM
jit, linked against a runtime library which makes calls back into pytorch to
implement all the layers.

Co-authored-by: Jeff Fifield <jeff.fifield@xilinx.com>

Co-authored-by: Jeff Fifield <jeff.fifield@xilinx.com>
2020-08-12 19:28:04 -07:00
stephenneuendorffer 44af7a6d30
[cmake] Updates for basic shared library support (#7)
Mostly this is CMake cleanup.  Several library dependencies are missing, which
is often revealed with shared library builds.  Also, it's generally bad to
link directly against LLVM libraries because it fails when using
LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB.  MLIR will pull in libLLVM.so, and there will be
duplicate linkage with the the explicit libraries.  There may need to be more
refactoring here.
2020-08-05 14:49:18 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 9d5d802cc8 Fix compilation issues due to llvm-project version bump.
* Redundant infer type implementations removed.
* Update to the linalg GenericOp build calls.
2020-08-01 15:23:57 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 0356f65dcd Wire through codegen and runtime dependencies.
* Enables e2e test.
* With what I've learned in upstream about test directory layout, I can consolidate most of the separate directories we have for these things. Will do that in a followup.
* Not pleased with the LLVM global initialization depends but serviceable for now.
2020-07-10 22:57:26 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo 9e4a62fc71 Allow JITModule passes to be built separately.
* Re-introduces frontent/backend split.
* Adds a (very) trivial shape refinement pass.
2020-07-10 22:57:26 -07:00
Sean Silva e228aa4b11 npcomprt: add support for constants
- create tcp.global + tcp.get_global_memref
- create npcomprt.global + npcomprt.get_global
- LLVM lowering for new npcomprt ops
- Runtime:
 - GlobalDescriptor struct emitted by LLVM lowering
 - implement __npcomp_compiler_rt_get_global

Also,
- cleanly isolate all runtime data structure definitions shared by the
compiler and runtime into lib/runtime/CompilerDataStructures.h
2020-07-10 17:31:24 -07:00
Stella Laurenzo efbcf0aa44 Add NumpyPublicFunctionsToTensor pass.
* Rewrites public function signatures to operate on tensors (vs ndarray).
* Most of our backends presume immutable tensors at public function boundaries.
2020-07-08 22:51:54 -07:00
Sean Silva b4f0cea8fa Rework e2e flow to use new "npcomprt"
This ~totally reworks the existing "runtime" stuff to be more
principled and usable, such as from Python. It's still not fully
production-quality, mainly in the department of memory management (e.g.
it currently leaks memory; we need to figure out "who frees memrefs" +
the analysis and transformation needed to do that (maybe use upstream
buffer allocation pass?)).

The user API is in include/npcomp/runtime/UserAPI.h, though
include/npcomp/JITRuntime/JITModule.h is a friendlier wrapper.

The stuff under {include,lib}/runtime is totally firewalled from the
compiler and tiny (<6kB, though no attention has gone into optimizing
that size). For example, we don't link in libSupport into the runtime,
instead having our own bare bones replacements for basics like ArrayRef
(the JITRuntime helps with bridging that gap, since it *can* depend on
all common LLVM utilities).

The overall features of npcomprt is that it exposes a module that
with multiple function entry points. Each function has arguments and
results that are tensor-valued, and npcomprt::Tensor is the runtime type
that is used to interact with that (and a npcomprt::Ref<T>
reference-counting wrapper is provided to wrap npcomprt::Tensor in the
common case).

From an implementation perspective, an npcomprt module at the
LLVM/object/binary level exposes a single module descriptor struct that
has pointers to other metadata (currently just a list of function
metadata descriptors). All interactions with the npcomp runtime are
keyed off of that module descriptor, including function lookups and
dispatching. This is done to dodge platform ABI issues and also allow
enough reflection to e.g. verify provided arguments.

Most of the compiler-side work here was in LowerToNpcomprtABI and
LowerToLLVM.

Also,
- Rename npcomp_rt/NpcompRt to npcomprt/Npcomprt; it was getting
annoying to type the underscores/caps.
- misc improvements to bash_helpers.sh
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