diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Transforms/Passes.h b/mlir/include/mlir/Transforms/Passes.h
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Transforms/Passes.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Transforms/Passes.h
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@
                                 unsigned bitwidthOfIndexType = 64,
                                 unsigned maxRankOfAllocatedMemRef = 1);
 
+/// Creates a pass that promotes heap-based allocations to stack-based ones.
+/// Only buffers smaller with `isSmallAlloc(alloc) == true` are promoted.
+std::unique_ptr<Pass>
+createPromoteBuffersToStackPass(std::function<bool(Value)> isSmallAlloc);
+
 /// Creates a pass that finalizes a partial bufferization by removing remaining
 /// tensor_load and tensor_to_memref operations.
 std::unique_ptr<FunctionPass> createFinalizingBufferizePass();
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Transforms/BufferOptimizations.cpp b/mlir/lib/Transforms/BufferOptimizations.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Transforms/BufferOptimizations.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Transforms/BufferOptimizations.cpp
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
 /// Check if the size of the allocation is less than the given size. The
 /// transformation is only applied to small buffers since large buffers could
 /// exceed the stack space.
-static bool isSmallAlloc(Value alloc, unsigned maximumSizeInBytes,
-                         unsigned bitwidthOfIndexType,
-                         unsigned maxRankOfAllocatedMemRef) {
+static bool defaultIsSmallAlloc(Value alloc, unsigned maximumSizeInBytes,
+                                unsigned bitwidthOfIndexType,
+                                unsigned maxRankOfAllocatedMemRef) {
   auto type = alloc.getType().dyn_cast<ShapedType>();
   if (!type || !alloc.getDefiningOp<AllocOp>())
     return false;
@@ -299,8 +299,7 @@
       : BufferPlacementTransformationBase(op) {}
 
   /// Promote buffers to stack-based allocations.
-  void promote(unsigned maximumSize, unsigned bitwidthOfIndexType,
-               unsigned maxRankOfAllocatedMemRef) {
+  void promote(function_ref<bool(Value)> isSmallAlloc) {
     for (BufferPlacementAllocs::AllocEntry &entry : allocs) {
       Value alloc = std::get<0>(entry);
       Operation *dealloc = std::get<1>(entry);
@@ -308,9 +307,8 @@
       // The transformation is done if the allocation is limited to a given
       // size. Furthermore, a deallocation must not be defined for this
       // allocation entry and a parent allocation scope must exist.
-      if (!isSmallAlloc(alloc, maximumSize, bitwidthOfIndexType,
-                        maxRankOfAllocatedMemRef) ||
-          dealloc || !hasAllocationScope(alloc, aliases))
+      if (!isSmallAlloc(alloc) || dealloc ||
+          !hasAllocationScope(alloc, aliases))
         continue;
 
       Operation *startOperation = BufferPlacementAllocs::getStartOperation(
@@ -359,9 +357,9 @@
 
 /// The promote buffer to stack pass that tries to convert alloc nodes into
 /// alloca nodes.
-struct PromoteBuffersToStackPass
-    : PromoteBuffersToStackBase<PromoteBuffersToStackPass> {
-
+class PromoteBuffersToStackPass
+    : public PromoteBuffersToStackBase<PromoteBuffersToStackPass> {
+public:
   PromoteBuffersToStackPass(unsigned maxAllocSizeInBytes,
                             unsigned bitwidthOfIndexType,
                             unsigned maxRankOfAllocatedMemRef) {
@@ -370,12 +368,24 @@
     this->maxRankOfAllocatedMemRef = maxRankOfAllocatedMemRef;
   }
 
+  explicit PromoteBuffersToStackPass(std::function<bool(Value)> isSmallAlloc)
+      : isSmallAlloc(std::move(isSmallAlloc)) {}
+
   void runOnFunction() override {
     // Move all allocation nodes and convert candidates into allocas.
     BufferPlacementPromotion optimizer(getFunction());
-    optimizer.promote(this->maxAllocSizeInBytes, this->bitwidthOfIndexType,
-                      this->maxRankOfAllocatedMemRef);
+    if (isSmallAlloc == nullptr) {
+      isSmallAlloc = [=](Value alloc) {
+        return defaultIsSmallAlloc(alloc, maxAllocSizeInBytes,
+                                   bitwidthOfIndexType,
+                                   maxRankOfAllocatedMemRef);
+      };
+    }
+    optimizer.promote(isSmallAlloc);
   }
+
+private:
+  std::function<bool(Value)> isSmallAlloc;
 };
 
 } // end anonymous namespace
@@ -395,3 +405,8 @@
   return std::make_unique<PromoteBuffersToStackPass>(
       maxAllocSizeInBytes, bitwidthOfIndexType, maxRankOfAllocatedMemRef);
 }
+
+std::unique_ptr<Pass>
+mlir::createPromoteBuffersToStackPass(std::function<bool(Value)> isSmallAlloc) {
+  return std::make_unique<PromoteBuffersToStackPass>(std::move(isSmallAlloc));
+}