Optional ScalarType support for native functions & JIT (#15154)
Summary:
For #6593 and #9515
This completes the support for optional<ScalarType> in native, JIT and autograd.
Note: Mostly following the existing implementation for optional<Scalar> that was added in https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/12582.
This PR introduces a way to make functions accept an optional dtype and it will unblock #9515 by allowing the `dtype` param for type promotion interface:
```
func: name(inputs, *, ScalarType? dtype=None, Casting casting=same_kind)
```
An alternative approach could have been using `ScalarType::Undefined` for the same purpose but without optional, though it would have been a bit hacky.
```
func: name(inputs, *, ScalarType dtype=Undefined, Casting casting=same_kind)
```
Here's an example use of this in action: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/15133/commits/971f69eac69101955ed90078b44dab975d37a4f7
There are already a bunch of native functions that were getting optional `dtype` through function overloading. https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/15133 is the attempt to migrate all of those. I will send those changes separately after this since some functions (e.g. sum) need quite a bit of change in the codebase. See the commits over there.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/15154
Differential Revision: D13457760
Pulled By: tugrulates
fbshipit-source-id: 706134f0bd578683edd416b96329b49a1ba8ab48
