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| author | tyb0807 <sontuan.vu119@gmail.com> | Thu Jul 17 19:38:21 2025 +0200 |
| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | Thu Jul 17 13:38:21 2025 -0400 |
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[mlir][vector][memref] Add `alignment` attribute to memory access ops (#144344)
Alignment information is important to allow LLVM backends such as AMDGPU
to select wide memory accesses (e.g., dwordx4 or b128). Since this info
is not always inferable, it's better to inform LLVM backends explicitly
about it. Furthermore, alignment is not necessarily a property of the
element type, but of each individual memory access op (we can have
overaligned and underaligned accesses compared to the natural/preferred
alignment of the element type).
This patch introduces `alignment` attribute to memref/vector.load/store
ops.
Follow-up PRs will
1. Propagate the attribute to LLVM/SPIR-V.
2. Introduce `alignment` attribute to other vector memory access ops:
vector.gather + vector.scatter
vector.transfer_read + vector.transfer_write
vector.compressstore + vector.expandload
vector.maskedload + vector.maskedstore
3. Replace `--convert-vector-to-llvm='use-vector-alignment=1` with a
simple pass to populate alignment attributes based on the vector
types.
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