It introduces an NVVMToLLVM Pass and a BasicPtxBuilderOpInterface interface. The Pass performs pattern matching on all the NVVM Ops that implement the BasicPtxBuilderOpInterface interface to generate LLVM Inline Assembly Ops.
The BasicPtxBuilderOpInterface interface is utilized in the convert-nvvm-to-llvm pass, which lowers Ops that support this interface to inline assembly Ops. The interface provides several methods that are used for this lowering.
The getPtx method returns PTX code. The hasSideEffect method is used to determine whether the op has any side effects on the memory. The hasIntrinsic method indicates whether the operation has intrinsic support in LLVM. This is particularly useful for Ops that don't have intrinsic support for each case. The getAsmValues method returns the arguments to be passed to the PTX code. The order of arguments starts with the results and they are used for write operations, followed by the operands and attributes.
Example:
If we have the following Op definition that returns PTX code through getPtx:
tablegen def NVVM_MBarrierArriveExpectTxOp : NVVM_Op<\"mbarrier.arrive.expect_tx\", [DeclareOpInterfaceMethods<BasicPtxBuilderOpInterface>]>, Results<(outs LLVM_Type:$res)>, Arguments<(ins LLVM_i64ptr_any:$addr, I32:$txcount)> { ... let extraClassDefinition = [{ const char* $cppClass::getPtx() { return \"mbarrier.arrive.expect_tx.b64 %0, [%1], %2;\"; } }\]; }
The NVVM Op will look like below:
mlir %0 = nvvm.mbarrier.arrive.expect_tx %barrier, %txcount : !llvm.ptr, i32 -> i32
The convert-nvvm-to-llvm Pass generates the following PTX code, while keeping the order of arguments the same. The read/write modifiers are set based on the input and result types.
mlir %0 = llvm.inline_asm has_side_effects asm_dialect = att "mbarrier.arrive.expect_tx.b64 %0, [%1], %2;", "=r,l,r" %arg0, %arg1 : (!llvm.ptr, i32) -> i32
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