Arm backend: Support ScalarType::Bool in EthosUBackend

backends/arm/_passes/__init__.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from .annotate_decomposed_matmul import AnnotateDecomposedMatmulPass  # noqa
 from .arm_pass import ArmPass  # noqa
 from .broadcast_args_pass import BroadcastArgsPass  # noqa
+from .cast_bool_to_int8_pass import CastBoolToInt8Pass  # noqa
 from .cast_int64_pass import CastInt64BuffersToInt32Pass  # noqa
 from .cast_to_int32_pass import CastToInt32Pass  # noqa
 from .conv1d_unsqueeze_pass import Conv1dUnsqueezePass  # noqa

backends/arm/_passes/arm_pass_manager.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
     AnnotateChannelsLastDimOrder,
     AnnotateDecomposedMatmulPass,
     BroadcastArgsPass,
+    CastBoolToInt8Pass,
     CastInt64BuffersToInt32Pass,
     CastToInt32Pass,
     ComputeConstantOpsAOT,
@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ def _tosa_080_BI_pipeline(self, exported_program: ExportedProgram) -> GraphModul
         if self.tosa_spec.is_U55_subset:
             self.add_pass(CastToInt32Pass())
 
+        self.add_pass(CastBoolToInt8Pass())
         self.add_pass(ReplaceScalarWithTensorArgPassTOSABI())
         self.add_pass(AnnotateDecomposedMatmulPass())
         self.add_pass(QuantizeOperatorArguments())
@@ -146,6 +148,7 @@ def _tosa_080_MI_pipeline(self, exported_program: ExportedProgram) -> GraphModul
         self.add_pass(DecomposeRoundPass())
         self.add_pass(DecomposeSqrtPass())
         self.add_pass(ConvertIntPowToMuls())
+        self.add_pass(CastBoolToInt8Pass())
         self.add_pass(ReplaceScalarWithTensorArgPassTOSAMI())
         self.add_pass(DecomposeEmbeddingPass())
         self.add_pass(FuseQuantizedActivationPass())
@@ -227,6 +230,7 @@ def transform_for_annotation_pipeline(self, graph_module: GraphModule):
         self.add_pass(DecomposeEmbeddingPass())
         self.add_pass(DecomposeScaledDotProductAttention())
         self.add_pass(DecomposeRoundPass())
+        self.add_pass(CastBoolToInt8Pass())
         self.add_pass(ReplaceScalarWithTensorArgPassTOSABI())
         self.add_pass(ScalarsToAttributePass())
         self.add_pass(DecomposeGroupNormPass())

backends/arm/_passes/cast_bool_to_int8_pass.py

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Copyright 2025 Arm Limited and/or its affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+# The TOSA BITWISE_AND, BITWISE_OR, and BITWISE_XOR don't handle bool as input
+# If input/output is bool lest add a cast/conversion pass before/after to/from int8.
+
+import torch
+
+from executorch.exir.dialects._ops import ops as exir_ops
+from executorch.exir.pass_base import ExportPass
+
+
+class CastBoolToInt8Pass(ExportPass):
+    """Casts the input to int8 if it is not already and casts back the output to the original input dtype."""
+
+    targeted_ops = {
+        exir_ops.edge.aten.bitwise_and.Tensor,
+        exir_ops.edge.aten.bitwise_or.Tensor,
+        exir_ops.edge.aten.bitwise_xor.Tensor,
+    }
+
+    def call_operator(self, op, args, kwargs, meta):
+        if op not in self.targeted_ops:
+            return super().call_operator(op, args, kwargs, meta)
+
+        new_args: list = []
+        did_cast = False
+        for arg in args:
+            if arg.data.dtype == torch.bool:
+                new_args.append(
+                    super().call_operator(
+                        exir_ops.edge.dim_order_ops._to_dim_order_copy.default,
+                        (arg,),
+                        {"dtype": torch.int8},
+                        meta,
+                    )
+                )
+                did_cast = True
+            else:
+                new_args.append(arg)
+
+        output = super().call_operator(
+            op,
+            tuple(new_args),
+            {},
+            meta,
+        )
+
+        if did_cast:
+            output = super().call_operator(
+                exir_ops.edge.dim_order_ops._to_dim_order_copy.default,
+                (output,),
+                {"dtype": args[0].data.dtype},
+                meta,
+            )
+        return output

backends/arm/operators/ops_binary.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 from executorch.backends.arm.operators.operator_validation_utils import (
     validate_num_inputs,
     validate_same_dtype,
+    validate_valid_dtype,
 )
 from executorch.backends.arm.tosa_mapping import TosaArg
 
@@ -40,6 +41,30 @@ def define_node(
             validate_num_inputs(self.target, inputs, 2)
             validate_same_dtype(self.target, [*inputs, output], ts)
 
+            if self.target in [
+                "aten.bitwise_and.Tensor",
+                "aten.bitwise_xor.Tensor",
+                "aten.bitwise_or.Tensor",
+                "aten.bitwise_left_shift.Tensor",
+            ]:
+                validate_valid_dtype(
+                    self.target,
+                    [*inputs, output],
+                    [ts.DType.INT8, ts.DType.INT16, ts.DType.INT32],
+                    output.tosa_spec,
+                )
+            if self.target in [
+                "aten.logical_and.default",
+                "aten.logical_xor.defaul",
+                "aten.logical_or.default",
+            ]:
+                validate_valid_dtype(
+                    self.target,
+                    [*inputs, output],
+                    [ts.DType.BOOL],
+                    output.tosa_spec,
+                )
+
             tosa_graph.addOperator(
                 tosa_op, [inputs[0].name, inputs[1].name], [output.name]
             )
@@ -66,6 +91,30 @@ def define_node(
             validate_num_inputs(self.target, inputs, 2)
             validate_same_dtype(self.target, [*inputs, output], ts)
 
+            if self.target in [
+                "aten.bitwise_and.Tensor",
+                "aten.bitwise_xor.Tensor",
+                "aten.bitwise_or.Tensor",
+                "aten.bitwise_left_shift.Tensor",
+            ]:
+                validate_valid_dtype(
+                    self.target,
+                    [*inputs, output],
+                    [ts.DType.INT8, ts.DType.INT16, ts.DType.INT32],
+                    output.tosa_spec,
+                )
+            if self.target in [
+                "aten.logical_and.default",
+                "aten.logical_xor.defaul",
+                "aten.logical_or.default",
+            ]:
+                validate_valid_dtype(
+                    self.target,
+                    [*inputs, output],
+                    [ts.DType.BOOL],
+                    output.tosa_spec,
+                )
+
             tosa_graph.addOperator(
                 tosa_op, [inputs[0].name, inputs[1].name], [output.name]
             )

backends/arm/runtime/EthosUBackend.cpp

@@ -234,12 +234,17 @@ class EthosUBackend final : public ::executorch::runtime::BackendInterface {
       supported |=
           (tensor_in.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Short and
            handles.inputs->io[i].elem_size == 2);
+      // bool (IOQDQ pass prepared networks)
+      supported |=
+          (tensor_in.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Bool and
+           handles.inputs->io[i].elem_size == 1);
       if (!supported) {
         ET_LOG(
             Error,
-            "Input %d expected Integer (4 byte) or Char (1 byte) integer inputs, got ScalarType id %s",
+            "Input %d expected Integer (4 byte), Char (1 byte) or Bool (1 byte) integer inputs, got ScalarType id %s size %d",
             i,
-            executorch::runtime::toString(tensor_in.scalar_type()));
+            executorch::runtime::toString(tensor_in.scalar_type()),
+            handles.inputs->io[i].elem_size);
         return Error::InvalidProgram;
       }
       supported = executorch::runtime::is_contiguous_dim_order(
@@ -257,15 +262,17 @@ class EthosUBackend final : public ::executorch::runtime::BackendInterface {
       bool permuted_input_shape;
       ET_CHECK_OK_OR_RETURN_ERROR(check_requires_permute(
           i, tensor_in, &handles.inputs->io[i], &permuted_input_shape));
-      bool both_char = tensor_in.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Char and
-          handles.inputs->io[i].elem_size == 1;
-      bool both_int = tensor_in.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Int and
+      bool both_int = tensor_in.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Int &&
           handles.inputs->io[i].elem_size == 4;
-      bool both_short = tensor_in.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Short and
+      bool both_char = tensor_in.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Char &&
+          handles.inputs->io[i].elem_size == 1;
+      bool both_short = tensor_in.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Short &&
           handles.inputs->io[i].elem_size == 2;
+      bool both_bool = tensor_in.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Bool &&
+          (handles.inputs->io[i].elem_size == 1);
 
       // Select a compatible copy routine
-      if (both_char && permuted_input_shape) {
+      if ((both_char || both_bool) && permuted_input_shape) {
         EXECUTORCH_PROF_SCOPE(
             event_tracer,
             "+EthosUBackend::execute()handles.input.permute_CHW_to_HWC()");
@@ -276,7 +283,7 @@ class EthosUBackend final : public ::executorch::runtime::BackendInterface {
             tensor_in.size(1),
             tensor_in.size(2),
             tensor_in.size(3));
-      } else if (both_char || both_int || both_short) {
+      } else if (both_char || both_int || both_short || both_bool) {
         EXECUTORCH_PROF_SCOPE(
             event_tracer, "+EthosUBackend::execute()handles.input.memcpy()");
         // Sizes match and elt size matches so memcpy
@@ -363,7 +370,9 @@ class EthosUBackend final : public ::executorch::runtime::BackendInterface {
       bool permuted_output_shape;
       ET_CHECK_OK_OR_RETURN_ERROR(check_requires_permute(
           i, tensor_out, &handles.outputs->io[i], &permuted_output_shape));
-      if (tensor_out.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Char &&
+
+      if ((tensor_out.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Char ||
+           tensor_out.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Bool) &&
           permuted_output_shape) {
         EXECUTORCH_PROF_SCOPE(
             event_tracer,
@@ -379,17 +388,12 @@ class EthosUBackend final : public ::executorch::runtime::BackendInterface {
             tensor_out.size(3));
       } else {
         EXECUTORCH_PROF_SCOPE(
-            event_tracer, "+EthosUBackend::execute()handles.output.move()");
-        for (int j = 0; j < tensor_out.numel(); j++) {
-          if (tensor_out.scalar_type() == ScalarType::Char) {
-            const char* output_address = static_cast<const char*>(output_addr);
-            tensor_out.mutable_data_ptr<char>()[j] = output_address[j];
-          } else {
-            const int* output_address =
-                reinterpret_cast<const int*>(output_addr);
-            tensor_out.mutable_data_ptr<int>()[j] = output_address[j];
-          }
-        }
+            event_tracer, "+EthosUBackend::execute()handles.output.memcpy()");
+
+        memcpy(
+            tensor_out.mutable_data_ptr<char>(),
+            static_cast<const char*>(output_addr),
+            tensor_out.nbytes());
       }
     }
     if (tensor_dim != io_dim) {

backends/arm/test/ops/test_any.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 from typing import List, Tuple
 
-import pytest
 import torch
 from executorch.backends.arm.test import common
 from executorch.backends.arm.test.tester.test_pipeline import (
@@ -125,14 +124,30 @@ def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor):
 @common.parametrize("test_data", test_data)
 def test_any_tosa_MI(test_data: input_t1):
     op, test_input = test_data()
-    pipeline = TosaPipelineMI[input_t1](op, test_input(), op.aten_op, op.exir_op)
+    pipeline = TosaPipelineMI[input_t1](
+        op,
+        test_input(),
+        op.aten_op,
+        op.exir_op,
+        atol=0,
+        rtol=0,
+        qtol=0,
+    )
     pipeline.run()
 
 
 @common.parametrize("test_data", test_data)
 def test_any_tosa_BI(test_data: input_t1):
     op, test_input = test_data()
-    pipeline = TosaPipelineBI[input_t1](op, test_input(), op.aten_op, op.exir_op)
+    pipeline = TosaPipelineBI[input_t1](
+        op,
+        test_input(),
+        op.aten_op,
+        op.exir_op,
+        atol=0,
+        rtol=0,
+        qtol=0,
+    )
     pipeline.pop_stage("quantize")
     pipeline.pop_stage("check.quant_nodes")
     pipeline.run()
@@ -153,7 +168,6 @@ def test_any_u55_BI(test_data: input_t1):
 
 
 @common.parametrize("test_data", test_data)
-@pytest.mark.xfail(reason="MLETORCH-706: Support ScalarType::Bool in EthosUBackend.")
 @common.XfailIfNoCorstone320
 def test_any_u85_BI(test_data: input_t1):
     op, test_input = test_data()
@@ -163,6 +177,9 @@ def test_any_u85_BI(test_data: input_t1):
         op.aten_op,
         op.exir_op,
         run_on_fvp=True,
+        atol=0,
+        rtol=0,
+        qtol=0,
     )
     pipeline.pop_stage("quantize")
     pipeline.pop_stage("check.quant_nodes")