COMPMID-617 Add validation methods to Kernels

- NEActivationLayer
- NESoftmax
- NEDirectConvolutionLayer
- NENormalizationLayer
- NEPoolingLayer

Change-Id: Ib279f1c1b7f9247679b0d6593aed7393da8fe87b
Reviewed-on: https://eu-gerrit-1.euhpc.arm.com/111335
Tested-by: BSG Visual Compute Jenkins server to access repositories on http://mpd-gerrit.cambridge.arm.com <bsgcomp@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Georgios Pinitas <georgios.pinitas@arm.com>
diff --git a/arm_compute/core/NEON/kernels/NEDirectConvolutionLayerKernel.h b/arm_compute/core/NEON/kernels/NEDirectConvolutionLayerKernel.h
index 370ddca..4529120 100644
--- a/arm_compute/core/NEON/kernels/NEDirectConvolutionLayerKernel.h
+++ b/arm_compute/core/NEON/kernels/NEDirectConvolutionLayerKernel.h
@@ -62,6 +62,20 @@
      * @param[in]  conv_info Contains padding and stride information described in @ref PadStrideInfo.
      */
     void configure(const ITensor *input, const ITensor *weights, ITensor *output, const PadStrideInfo &conv_info);
+    /** Static function to check if given info will lead to a valid configuration of @ref NEDirectConvolutionLayerKernel
+     *
+     * @param[in] input     The input tensor to convolve. 3 lower dimensions represent a single input [width, height, IFM],
+     *                      while every optional dimension from 4 and above represent a batch of inputs. Data types supported: QS8/QS16/F16/F32.
+     * @param[in] weights   Weights tensor. Weights are 4D tensor with dimensions [kernel_x, kernel_y, IFM, OFM].
+     *                      The 3rd dimension must be the same as the input's volume 3rd dimension.
+     *                      Data type supported:Same as @p input.
+     * @param[in] output    Output tensor.
+     *                      The 3rd dimensions must be equal to the 4th dimension of the @p kernels tensor. Data types supported: Same as @p input.
+     * @param[in] conv_info Contains padding and stride information described in @ref PadStrideInfo.
+     *
+     * @return a status
+     */
+    static Status validate(const ITensorInfo *input, const ITensorInfo *weights, const ITensorInfo *output, const PadStrideInfo &conv_info);
 
     // Inherited methods overridden:
     void run(const Window &window, const ThreadInfo &info) override;