diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Math/IR/MathBase.td b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Math/IR/MathBase.td
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Math/IR/MathBase.td
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Math/IR/MathBase.td
@@ -30,5 +30,8 @@
     ```
   }];
   let hasConstantMaterializer = 1;
+  let dependentDialects = [
+    "::mlir::arith::ArithDialect"
+  ];
 }
 #endif // MATH_BASE
diff --git a/mlir/test/Dialect/Math/dependent-dialect.mlir b/mlir/test/Dialect/Math/dependent-dialect.mlir
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mlir/test/Dialect/Math/dependent-dialect.mlir
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// RUN: mlir-opt %s --mlir-print-op-generic | FileCheck %s
+
+// Check that math.atan can be constructed by parsing and the fastmath
+// attribute can be created. This requires math dialect to depend on arith
+// dialect. Note that we don't want other dialects in here as they may
+// transitively depend on arith and load it even if math doesn't.
+
+"test.some_op_with_region"() ({
+^bb0(%arg0: f64):
+  // CHECK: #arith.fastmath<none>
+  math.atan %arg0 : f64
+  "test.possible_terminator"() : () -> ()
+}) : () -> ()