diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMOps.td b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMOps.td
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMOps.td
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMOps.td
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@
 }
 
 def LLVM_LoadOp : LLVM_Op<"load">, MemoryOpWithAlignmentAndAttributes {
-  let arguments = (ins LLVM_PointerTo<LLVM_LoadableType>:$addr,
+  let arguments = (ins Arg<LLVM_PointerTo<LLVM_LoadableType>, "", [MemRead]>:$addr,
                    OptionalAttr<SymbolRefArrayAttr>:$access_groups,
                    OptionalAttr<SymbolRefArrayAttr>:$alias_scopes,
                    OptionalAttr<SymbolRefArrayAttr>:$noalias_scopes,
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@
 
 def LLVM_StoreOp : LLVM_Op<"store">, MemoryOpWithAlignmentAndAttributes {
   let arguments = (ins LLVM_LoadableType:$value,
-                   LLVM_PointerTo<LLVM_LoadableType>:$addr,
+                   Arg<LLVM_PointerTo<LLVM_LoadableType>,"",[MemWrite]>:$addr,
                    OptionalAttr<SymbolRefArrayAttr>:$access_groups,
                    OptionalAttr<SymbolRefArrayAttr>:$alias_scopes,
                    OptionalAttr<SymbolRefArrayAttr>:$noalias_scopes,
diff --git a/mlir/test/Dialect/LLVMIR/canonicalize.mlir b/mlir/test/Dialect/LLVMIR/canonicalize.mlir
--- a/mlir/test/Dialect/LLVMIR/canonicalize.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Dialect/LLVMIR/canonicalize.mlir
@@ -104,3 +104,12 @@
   // CHECK: return %[[RES]]
   return %2 : i32
 }
+
+// -----
+
+// CHECK-LABEL: load_dce
+// CHECK-NEXT: llvm.return
+llvm.func @load_dce(%x : !llvm.ptr<i8>) {
+  %0 = llvm.load %x : !llvm.ptr<i8>
+  llvm.return 
+}