diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 56564c38964c..c5aa40499e5d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ if(TRITON_BUILD_PYTHON_MODULE)
   if (TRITON_BUILD_PROTON)
     add_subdirectory(third_party/proton)
   endif()
+  # We always build proton dialect
+  list(APPEND TRITON_PLUGIN_NAMES "proton")
+  add_subdirectory(third_party/proton/dialect)
 
   get_property(triton_libs GLOBAL PROPERTY TRITON_LIBS)
   get_property(triton_plugins GLOBAL PROPERTY TRITON_PLUGINS)
@@ -311,6 +314,7 @@ if(NOT TRITON_BUILD_PYTHON_MODULE)
   foreach(CODEGEN_BACKEND ${TRITON_CODEGEN_BACKENDS})
     add_subdirectory(third_party/${CODEGEN_BACKEND})
   endforeach()
+  add_subdirectory(third_party/proton/dialect)
 endif()
 
 add_subdirectory(third_party/f2reduce)
diff --git a/bin/RegisterTritonDialects.h b/bin/RegisterTritonDialects.h
index c69e46792c3d..71d75b35dbf0 100644
--- a/bin/RegisterTritonDialects.h
+++ b/bin/RegisterTritonDialects.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include "amd/include/Dialect/TritonAMDGPU/IR/Dialect.h"
 #include "amd/include/TritonAMDGPUTransforms/Passes.h"
 #include "third_party/nvidia/include/Dialect/NVGPU/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.h"
 #include "triton/Dialect/Triton/IR/Dialect.h"
 #include "triton/Dialect/TritonGPU/IR/Dialect.h"
 #include "triton/Dialect/TritonNvidiaGPU/IR/Dialect.h"
@@ -68,12 +69,13 @@ inline void registerTritonDialects(mlir::DialectRegistry &registry) {
   mlir::triton::registerTritonAMDGPULowerInstructionSchedHints();
 
   // TODO: register Triton & TritonGPU passes
-  registry.insert<mlir::triton::TritonDialect, mlir::cf::ControlFlowDialect,
-                  mlir::triton::nvidia_gpu::TritonNvidiaGPUDialect,
-                  mlir::triton::gpu::TritonGPUDialect, mlir::math::MathDialect,
-                  mlir::arith::ArithDialect, mlir::scf::SCFDialect,
-                  mlir::gpu::GPUDialect, mlir::LLVM::LLVMDialect,
-                  mlir::NVVM::NVVMDialect, mlir::triton::nvgpu::NVGPUDialect,
-                  mlir::triton::amdgpu::TritonAMDGPUDialect,
-                  mlir::ROCDL::ROCDLDialect>();
+  registry
+      .insert<mlir::triton::TritonDialect, mlir::cf::ControlFlowDialect,
+              mlir::triton::nvidia_gpu::TritonNvidiaGPUDialect,
+              mlir::triton::gpu::TritonGPUDialect, mlir::math::MathDialect,
+              mlir::arith::ArithDialect, mlir::scf::SCFDialect,
+              mlir::gpu::GPUDialect, mlir::LLVM::LLVMDialect,
+              mlir::NVVM::NVVMDialect, mlir::triton::nvgpu::NVGPUDialect,
+              mlir::triton::amdgpu::TritonAMDGPUDialect,
+              mlir::triton::proton::ProtonDialect, mlir::ROCDL::ROCDLDialect>();
 }
diff --git a/test/Proton/ops.mlir b/test/Proton/ops.mlir
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..22a17e3f0f58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Proton/ops.mlir
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+// RUN: triton-opt --split-input-file %s -cse -canonicalize | FileCheck %s
+
+module {
+  // CHECK-LABEL: proton_record
+  tt.func @proton_record() {
+    // CHECK: proton.record() {isStart = true, regionId = 1 : i32}
+    // CHECK-NEXT: proton.record() {isStart = false, regionId = 1 : i32}
+    // CHECK-NEXT: tt.return
+    proton.record() {isStart = true, regionId = 1 : i32}
+    proton.record() {isStart = false, regionId = 1 : i32}
+    tt.return
+  }
+} // end module
+
+// -----
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/proton/dialect/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c7b5413a0e15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include)
+include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/include)
+add_subdirectory(include)
+add_subdirectory(lib)
+if(TRITON_BUILD_PYTHON_MODULE)
+  add_triton_plugin(TritonProton ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/triton_proton.cc LINK_LIBS ProtonIR)
+endif()
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/include/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0ca0f41c5af4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+add_subdirectory(Dialect)
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f18c30ba1a6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+add_subdirectory(Proton)
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f33061b2d87c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+add_subdirectory(IR)
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4645b0ebcd5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+set(MLIR_BINARY_DIR ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
+
+set(LLVM_TARGET_DEFINITIONS ProtonOps.td)
+mlir_tablegen(Dialect.h.inc -gen-dialect-decls -dialect=proton)
+mlir_tablegen(Dialect.cpp.inc -gen-dialect-defs -dialect=proton)
+mlir_tablegen(OpsConversions.inc -gen-llvmir-conversions)
+mlir_tablegen(Ops.h.inc -gen-op-decls)
+mlir_tablegen(Ops.cpp.inc -gen-op-defs)
+mlir_tablegen(OpsEnums.h.inc -gen-enum-decls)
+mlir_tablegen(OpsEnums.cpp.inc -gen-enum-defs)
+add_mlir_doc(ProtonDialect ProtonDialect dialects/ -gen-dialect-doc)
+add_mlir_doc(ProtonOps ProtonOps dialects/ -gen-op-doc)
+add_public_tablegen_target(ProtonTableGen)
+
+set(LLVM_TARGET_DEFINITIONS ProtonAttrDefs.td)
+mlir_tablegen(ProtonAttrDefs.h.inc -gen-attrdef-decls)
+mlir_tablegen(ProtonAttrDefs.cpp.inc -gen-attrdef-defs)
+add_public_tablegen_target(ProtonAttrDefsIncGen)
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.h b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..680a205f08f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.h
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#ifndef TRITON_DIALECT_PROTON_IR_DIALECT_H_
+#define TRITON_DIALECT_PROTON_IR_DIALECT_H_
+
+#include "mlir/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMDialect.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/BuiltinOps.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/PatternMatch.h"
+#include "proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.h.inc"
+#include "proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/OpsEnums.h.inc"
+
+#define GET_ATTRDEF_CLASSES
+#include "proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonAttrDefs.h.inc"
+
+#define GET_OP_CLASSES
+#include "proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/Ops.h.inc"
+
+namespace mlir {
+namespace triton {
+namespace proton {} // namespace proton
+} // namespace triton
+} // namespace mlir
+
+#endif // TRITON_DIALECT_PROTON_IR_DIALECT_H_
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonAttrDefs.td b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonAttrDefs.td
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d469fbb35f6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonAttrDefs.td
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#ifndef PROTON_ATTRDEFS
+#define PROTON_ATTRDEFS
+
+include "mlir/IR/AttrTypeBase.td"
+include "ProtonDialect.td"
+
+class Proton_Attr<string name, list<Trait> traits = [],
+                     string baseCppClass = "::mlir::Attribute">
+  : AttrDef<Proton_Dialect, name, traits, baseCppClass> {
+}
+
+#endif // PROTON_ATTRDEFS
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonDialect.td b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonDialect.td
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..245f2e09a2ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonDialect.td
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#ifndef PROTON_DIALECT
+#define PROTON_DIALECT
+
+include "mlir/IR/OpBase.td"
+
+def Proton_Dialect : Dialect {
+  let name = "proton";
+  let cppNamespace = "::mlir::triton::proton";
+
+  let description = [{
+    Proton Dialect provides core ops for building third-party compiler-based
+    performance profiling and analysis tools.
+  }];
+
+  let dependentDialects = [];
+}
+
+#endif
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonOps.td b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonOps.td
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d18a48d5d1a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/include/Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonOps.td
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#ifndef PROTON_OPS
+#define PROTON_OPS
+
+include "mlir/IR/OpBase.td"
+include "mlir/IR/EnumAttr.td"
+include "triton/Dialect/Triton/IR/TritonTypes.td"
+include "mlir/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMOpBase.td"
+include "mlir/Interfaces/InferTypeOpInterface.td"
+include "mlir/Interfaces/SideEffectInterfaces.td"
+include "triton/Dialect/Triton/IR/TritonInterfaces.td"
+include "ProtonDialect.td"
+include "ProtonAttrDefs.td"
+
+class TT_Proton_Op<string mnemonic, list<Trait> traits = []> :
+    Op<Proton_Dialect, mnemonic, !listconcat(traits, [])> {
+}
+
+// Proton profiling metric.
+def MetricAttr : I32EnumAttr<
+    "Metric", "",
+    [
+        I32EnumAttrCase<"CYCLE", 0, "cycle">,
+    ]> {
+    let cppNamespace = "::mlir::triton::proton";
+}
+
+// Proton profiling granularity.
+def GranularityAttr : I32EnumAttr<
+    "Granularity", "",
+    [
+        I32EnumAttrCase<"WARPGROUP", 0, "warpgroup">,
+        I32EnumAttrCase<"WARP", 1, "warp">,
+    ]> {
+    let cppNamespace = "::mlir::triton::proton";
+}
+
+def TT_RecordOp : TT_Proton_Op<"record", [DeclareOpInterfaceMethods<MemoryEffectsOpInterface>]> {
+  let summary = "Record a GPU hardware event";
+
+  let description = [{
+    The operator records GPU events from performance counters.
+    Currently only cycle counter is supported.
+
+    Example:
+
+    ```mlir
+    proton.record() {isStart = true, regionId = 4 : i32}
+    ...
+    proton.record() {isStart = false, regionId = 4 : i32}
+    ...
+    proton.record() {isStart = true, regionId = 1 : i32, granularity = 1 : i32}
+    ...
+    proton.record() {isStart = false, regionId = 1 : i32, granularity = 1 : i32}
+    ```
+  }];
+  let arguments = (
+    ins BoolAttr: $isStart,
+    ConfinedAttr<I32Attr, [IntNonNegative]>:$regionId,
+    DefaultValuedAttr<MetricAttr, "Metric::CYCLE">:$metric,
+    DefaultValuedAttr<GranularityAttr, "Granularity::WARPGROUP">:$granularity
+  );
+  let assemblyFormat = " `(` operands `)` attr-dict";
+}
+
+#endif // PROTON_OPS
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0ca0f41c5af4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+add_subdirectory(Dialect)
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f18c30ba1a6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+add_subdirectory(Proton)
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f33061b2d87c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+add_subdirectory(IR)
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/IR/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/IR/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5eea5cb3cf9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/IR/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+add_triton_library(ProtonIR
+  Dialect.cpp
+  Ops.cpp
+
+  DEPENDS
+  ProtonTableGen
+  ProtonAttrDefsIncGen
+
+  LINK_LIBS PUBLIC
+  MLIRLLVMDialect
+  TritonIR
+  TritonGPUIR
+)
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.cpp b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..60c2852654db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#include "mlir/IR/DialectImplementation.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/OpImplementation.h"
+
+// clang-format off
+#include "Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.cpp.inc"
+// clang-format on
+
+using namespace mlir;
+using namespace mlir::triton::proton;
+
+void mlir::triton::proton::ProtonDialect::initialize() {
+  addAttributes<
+#define GET_ATTRDEF_LIST
+#include "Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonAttrDefs.cpp.inc"
+      >();
+
+  addOperations<
+#define GET_OP_LIST
+#include "Dialect/Proton/IR/Ops.cpp.inc"
+      >();
+}
+
+#define GET_ATTRDEF_CLASSES
+#include "Dialect/Proton/IR/ProtonAttrDefs.cpp.inc"
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/IR/Ops.cpp b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/IR/Ops.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1a0799aea127
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/lib/Dialect/Proton/IR/Ops.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#include "Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/Builders.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/BuiltinAttributes.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/BuiltinTypes.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/OperationSupport.h"
+#include "mlir/Interfaces/FunctionImplementation.h"
+#include "mlir/Interfaces/FunctionInterfaces.h"
+#include "mlir/Support/LLVM.h"
+#include "triton/Dialect/Triton/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "triton/Dialect/Triton/IR/Types.h"
+#include "triton/Dialect/Triton/IR/Utility.h"
+
+#define GET_OP_CLASSES
+#include "Dialect/Proton/IR/Ops.cpp.inc"
+#include "Dialect/Proton/IR/OpsEnums.cpp.inc"
+
+namespace mlir {
+namespace triton {
+namespace proton {
+
+// -- RecordOp --
+void RecordOp::getEffects(
+    SmallVectorImpl<SideEffects::EffectInstance<MemoryEffects::Effect>>
+        &effects) {
+  effects.emplace_back(MemoryEffects::Write::get(),
+                       SideEffects::DefaultResource::get());
+  effects.emplace_back(MemoryEffects::Read::get(),
+                       SideEffects::DefaultResource::get());
+}
+
+} // namespace proton
+} // namespace triton
+} // namespace mlir
diff --git a/third_party/proton/dialect/triton_proton.cc b/third_party/proton/dialect/triton_proton.cc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8046539794e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/proton/dialect/triton_proton.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#include "Dialect/Proton/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "mlir/Pass/PassManager.h"
+#include "passes.h"
+#include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
+#include <pybind11/stl.h>
+#include <pybind11/stl_bind.h>
+
+namespace py = pybind11;
+
+void init_triton_proton(py::module &&m) {
+  auto passes = m.def_submodule("passes");
+
+  // load dialects
+  m.def("load_dialects", [](mlir::MLIRContext &context) {
+    mlir::DialectRegistry registry;
+    registry.insert<mlir::triton::proton::ProtonDialect>();
+    context.appendDialectRegistry(registry);
+    context.loadAllAvailableDialects();
+  });
+}