TL;DR: Moving to ScalarType in user extensions and removing deprecated dtypes.
This change _modifies_ the from/to behavior between ScalarType and StableValue! Whereas before, user extensions could only in abstract pass around obfuscated dtypes appearing as int32_ts, now, users can confidently use torch::headeronly::ScalarType in their extensions for major scalar types. This PR enables ABI stability by adding a translation layer through the shim, so that even if the ScalarType enum values change in the future, user extensions need not fear.
Then we add a Tensor scalar_type API which reuses the from/to logic to return to the user a nice ScalarType (vs an abstracted int32_t).
I then changed the test to test the scalar_type API.
This code change required some refactoring because of circular dependencies.
## BC Breaking note
This commit is (narrowly) BC-breaking for unpopular dtypes: `quint*`s, `qint*`s, `Bits*`, `dummy_uint*`s, `dummy_int*`s, `Float8_e8m0fnu`, and `Float4_e2m1fn_x2` in the narrow use case where an extension retrieves a Tensor dtype of the above and passes it into `aoti_torch_call_dispatcher`. As of now, I believe there are 0 users of this use case, so the benefits of this change significantly justify BC-breaking this API.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/160557
Approved by: https://github.com/mikaylagawarecki, https://github.com/malfet
This change does 2 important things:
(a) Instead of relying on IValue type as source of truth, we use the schema as the source of truth, which is important as IValue types are overloaded and can ambiguously convert incorrectly. For example, a MemoryFormat will look like an int + get converted to an int64_t vs a MemoryFormat!
(b) This PR expands support for many more types to encompass way more schemas, e.g., Optional, Device, dtype, etc. The main win from this PR is the ability for aoti_torch_call_dispatcher to call TensorFactory ops like ones_like/empty_like!
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/149052
Approved by: https://github.com/albanD