diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/Passes.h b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/Passes.h
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/Passes.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/Passes.h
@@ -59,10 +59,9 @@
 /// terms of shapes of its input operands.
 void populateResolveShapedTypeResultDimsPatterns(RewritePatternSet &patterns);
 
-/// Appends patterns for simplifying extract_strided_metadata(other_op) into
-/// easier to analyze constructs.
-void populateSimplifyExtractStridedMetadataOpPatterns(
-    RewritePatternSet &patterns);
+/// Appends patterns for expanding memref operations that modify the metadata
+/// (sizes, offset, strides) of a memref into easier to analyze constructs.
+void populateExpandStridedMetadataPatterns(RewritePatternSet &patterns);
 
 /// Appends patterns for emulating wide integer memref operations with ops over
 /// narrower integer types.
@@ -135,10 +134,9 @@
 /// in terms of shapes of its input operands.
 std::unique_ptr<Pass> createResolveShapedTypeResultDimsPass();
 
-/// Creates an operation pass to simplify
-/// `extract_strided_metadata(other_op(memref))` into
-/// `extract_strided_metadata(memref)`.
-std::unique_ptr<Pass> createSimplifyExtractStridedMetadataPass();
+/// Creates an operation pass to expand some memref operation into
+/// easier to reason about operations.
+std::unique_ptr<Pass> createExpandStridedMetadataPass();
 
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 // Registration
diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/Passes.td b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/Passes.td
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/Passes.td
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/Passes.td
@@ -189,15 +189,16 @@
   ];
 }
 
-def SimplifyExtractStridedMetadata : Pass<"simplify-extract-strided-metadata"> {
-  let summary = "Simplify extract_strided_metadata ops";
+def ExpandStridedMetadata : Pass<"expand-strided-metadata"> {
+  let summary = "Expand memref operations into easier to analyze constructs";
   let description = [{
-    The pass simplifies extract_strided_metadata(other_op(memref)) to
-    extract_strided_metadata(memref) when it is possible to model the effect
-    of other_op directly with affine maps applied to the result of
-    extract_strided_metadata.
+    The pass expands memref operations that modify the metadata of a memref
+    (sizes, offset, strides) into a sequence of easier to analyze constructs.
+    In particular, this pass transforms operations into explicit sequence of
+    operations that model the effect of this operation on the different metadata.
+    This pass uses affine constructs to materialize these effects.
   }];
-  let constructor = "mlir::memref::createSimplifyExtractStridedMetadataPass()";
+  let constructor = "mlir::memref::createExpandStridedMetadataPass()";
   let dependentDialects = [
       "AffineDialect", "memref::MemRefDialect"
   ];
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/CMakeLists.txt b/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 add_mlir_dialect_library(MLIRMemRefTransforms
   ComposeSubView.cpp
   ExpandOps.cpp
+  ExpandStridedMetadata.cpp
   EmulateWideInt.cpp
   FoldMemRefAliasOps.cpp
   MultiBuffer.cpp
   NormalizeMemRefs.cpp
   ResolveShapedTypeResultDims.cpp
-  SimplifyExtractStridedMetadata.cpp
 
   ADDITIONAL_HEADER_DIRS
   ${MLIR_MAIN_INCLUDE_DIR}/mlir/Dialect/MemRef
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/SimplifyExtractStridedMetadata.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/ExpandStridedMetadata.cpp
rename from mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/SimplifyExtractStridedMetadata.cpp
rename to mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/ExpandStridedMetadata.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/SimplifyExtractStridedMetadata.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/ExpandStridedMetadata.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-//===- SimplifyExtractStridedMetadata.cpp - Simplify this operation -------===//
+//===- ExpandStridedMetadata.cpp - Simplify this operation -------===//
 //
 // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
 // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 //
-/// This pass simplifies extract_strided_metadata(other_op(memref) to
-/// extract_strided_metadata(memref) when it is possible to express the effect
-// of other_op using affine apply on the results of
-// extract_strided_metadata(memref).
+/// The pass expands memref operations that modify the metadata of a memref
+/// (sizes, offset, strides) into a sequence of easier to analyze constructs.
+/// In particular, this pass transforms operations into explicit sequence of
+/// operations that model the effect of this operation on the different
+/// metadata. This pass uses affine constructs to materialize these effects.
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
 #include "mlir/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.h"
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@
 
 namespace mlir {
 namespace memref {
-#define GEN_PASS_DEF_SIMPLIFYEXTRACTSTRIDEDMETADATA
+#define GEN_PASS_DEF_EXPANDSTRIDEDMETADATA
 #include "mlir/Dialect/MemRef/Transforms/Passes.h.inc"
 } // namespace memref
 } // namespace mlir
@@ -736,7 +737,7 @@
 };
 } // namespace
 
-void memref::populateSimplifyExtractStridedMetadataOpPatterns(
+void memref::populateExpandStridedMetadataPatterns(
     RewritePatternSet &patterns) {
   patterns.add<SubviewFolder,
                ReshapeFolder<memref::ExpandShapeOp, getExpandedSizes,
@@ -757,21 +758,21 @@
 
 namespace {
 
-struct SimplifyExtractStridedMetadataPass final
-    : public memref::impl::SimplifyExtractStridedMetadataBase<
-          SimplifyExtractStridedMetadataPass> {
+struct ExpandStridedMetadataPass final
+    : public memref::impl::ExpandStridedMetadataBase<
+          ExpandStridedMetadataPass> {
   void runOnOperation() override;
 };
 
 } // namespace
 
-void SimplifyExtractStridedMetadataPass::runOnOperation() {
+void ExpandStridedMetadataPass::runOnOperation() {
   RewritePatternSet patterns(&getContext());
-  memref::populateSimplifyExtractStridedMetadataOpPatterns(patterns);
+  memref::populateExpandStridedMetadataPatterns(patterns);
   (void)applyPatternsAndFoldGreedily(getOperation()->getRegions(),
                                      std::move(patterns));
 }
 
-std::unique_ptr<Pass> memref::createSimplifyExtractStridedMetadataPass() {
-  return std::make_unique<SimplifyExtractStridedMetadataPass>();
+std::unique_ptr<Pass> memref::createExpandStridedMetadataPass() {
+  return std::make_unique<ExpandStridedMetadataPass>();
 }
diff --git a/mlir/test/Dialect/MemRef/simplify-extract-strided-metadata.mlir b/mlir/test/Dialect/MemRef/expand-strided-metadata.mlir
rename from mlir/test/Dialect/MemRef/simplify-extract-strided-metadata.mlir
rename to mlir/test/Dialect/MemRef/expand-strided-metadata.mlir
--- a/mlir/test/Dialect/MemRef/simplify-extract-strided-metadata.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Dialect/MemRef/expand-strided-metadata.mlir
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// RUN: mlir-opt --simplify-extract-strided-metadata -split-input-file %s -o - | FileCheck %s
+// RUN: mlir-opt --expand-strided-metadata -split-input-file %s -o - | FileCheck %s
 
 // CHECK-LABEL: func @extract_strided_metadata_constants
 //  CHECK-SAME: (%[[ARG:.*]]: memref<5x4xf32, strided<[4, 1], offset: 2>>)