diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.h b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.h
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.h
@@ -337,6 +337,11 @@
 /// for all its uses in `region`.
 bool isValidSymbol(Value value, Region *region);
 
+/// Parses dimension and symbol list and returns true if parsing failed.
+ParseResult parseDimAndSymbolList(OpAsmParser &parser,
+                                  SmallVectorImpl<Value> &operands,
+                                  unsigned &numDims);
+
 /// Modifies both `map` and `operands` in-place so as to:
 /// 1. drop duplicate operands
 /// 2. drop unused dims and symbols from map
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.cpp
@@ -308,9 +308,9 @@
 }
 
 /// Parses dimension and symbol list and returns true if parsing failed.
-static ParseResult parseDimAndSymbolList(OpAsmParser &parser,
-                                         SmallVectorImpl<Value> &operands,
-                                         unsigned &numDims) {
+ParseResult mlir::parseDimAndSymbolList(OpAsmParser &parser,
+                                        SmallVectorImpl<Value> &operands,
+                                        unsigned &numDims) {
   SmallVector<OpAsmParser::OperandType, 8> opInfos;
   if (parser.parseOperandList(opInfos, OpAsmParser::Delimiter::Paren))
     return failure();