Slava Zakharin 2f66c89130 [mlir] Support TBAA metadata in LLVMIR dialect. ...

This change introduces new LLVMIR dialect operations to represent
TBAA root, type descriptor and access tag metadata nodes.

For the purpose of importing TBAA metadata from LLVM IR it only
supports the current version of TBAA format described in
https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#tbaa-metadata (i.e. size-aware
representation introduced in D41501 is not supported).

TBAA attribute support is only added for LLVM::LoadOp and LLVM::StoreOp.
Support for intrinsics operations (e.g. LLVM::MemcpyOp) may be added later.

The TBAA attribute is represented as an array of access tags, though,
LLVM IR supports only single access tag per memory accessing instruction.
I implemented it as an array anticipating similar support in LLVM IR
to combine TBAA graphs with different roots for Flang - one of the options
described in https://docs.google.com/document/d/16kKZVmI585wth01VSaJAqZMZpoX68rcdBmgfj0kNAt0/edit#heading=h.jzzheaz9vqac

It should be easy to restrict MLIR operation to a single access tag,
if we end up using a different approach for Flang.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D140768

2023-01-06 11:16:31 -08:00

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