spirv: Allow pointers to have a deref at the base
Previously, pointers fell into two categories: index/offset for UBOs,
SSBOs, etc. and var + access chain for logical pointers. This commit
adds another logical pointer mode that's deref + access chain.
It's tempting to think that we can just replace variable-based pointers
with deref-based or at least replace the access chain with a deref
chain. Unfortunately, there are a few sticky bits that prevent this:
1) We can't return deref-based pointers from OpVariable because those
opcodes may come outside of a function so there's no place to emit
the deref instructions.
2) We can't always use variable-based pointers because we may not
always know the variable. (We do now, but he upcoming function
rework will take that option away.)
3) We also can't replace the access chain struct with a deref. Due to
the re-ordering we do in order to handle loop continues, the derefs
we would emit as part of OpAccessChain may not dominate their uses.
We normally fix this up with nir_repair_ssa but that generates phi
nodes which we don't want in the middle of our deref chains.
All in all, we have no real better option than to support partial access
chains while also re-emitting the deref instructions on the spot.
Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bas Nieuwenhuizen <bas@basnieuwenhuizen.nl>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>