A long time in a galaxy far far away, there was a GLSLang bug with how it handled samplers passed in as function parameters. (The bug can be found here: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang/issues/179.) Unfortunately, that version was shipped in several apps and has been causing heartburn for our SPIR-V parser ever since. Recent changes to NIR uncovered a moderately old bug in how we work around this issue. In particular, we ended up with a deref_cast from uniform to local which is not a no-op cast so nir_opt_deref wasn't getting rid of the cast. The only reason why it worked before was because someone just happened to call nir_fixup_deref_modes which "fixed" the cast (that shouldn't be happening) and then a later round of copy-prop would get rid of it. The fact that the deref_cast survived that long without causing trouble for other parts of NIR is a bit surprising. Just whacking the mode of the pointer seems to fix it fairly unobtrusively. Currently, only apps with this bug will have a local variable containing an image or sampler. Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109304 Reviewed-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>tags/19.0-branchpoint
@@ -1800,6 +1800,18 @@ vtn_pointer_from_ssa(struct vtn_builder *b, nir_ssa_def *ssa, | |||
ptr->type = ptr_type->deref; | |||
ptr->ptr_type = ptr_type; | |||
/* To work around https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang/issues/179 we | |||
* need to whack the mode because it creates a function parameter with the | |||
* Function storage class even though it's a pointer to a sampler. If we | |||
* don't do this, then NIR won't get rid of the deref_cast for us. | |||
*/ | |||
if (ptr->mode == vtn_variable_mode_function && | |||
(ptr->type->base_type == vtn_base_type_sampler || | |||
ptr->type->base_type == vtn_base_type_sampled_image)) { | |||
ptr->mode = vtn_variable_mode_uniform; | |||
nir_mode = nir_var_uniform; | |||
} | |||
if (vtn_pointer_uses_ssa_offset(b, ptr)) { | |||
/* This pointer type needs to have actual storage */ | |||
vtn_assert(ptr_type->type); |