VariableFallbackKernel.cpp

#include <ATen/core/dispatch/Dispatcher.h>
#include <ATen/core/LegacyTypeDispatch.h>
#include <torch/library.h>

/*
 * This file implements a variable fallback kernel for custom operators.
 * Since tensors always have the Autograd set, but custom operators
 * usually don't have a kernel registered for Autograd, the dispatcher
 * will call into this fallback kernel instead.
 * Note that this is not a correct autograd implementation. It will just
 * fallthrough to the custom operator implementation.
 * If you want a custom operator to work with autograd, you need to use
 * autograd::Function so that the custom operator implementation knows how to
 * do autograd.
 * Note also that ops from native_functions.yaml register their own variable
 * kernels, so this is never called for them.
 */

// TODO This whole file should be deleted and replaced with the mechanism
//      described in https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/29548

using c10::OperatorHandle;
using c10::Stack;
using c10::DispatchKey;
using c10::DispatchKeySet;
using c10::Dispatcher;
using c10::KernelFunction;

namespace {

// Register fallthrough for Autograd backends dispatch keys
TORCH_LIBRARY_IMPL(_, Autograd, m) {
  m.fallback(torch::CppFunction::makeFallthrough());
}

}