nir: Add NIR debug passes and MESA_NIR_DBG env variable to enable them (!3390) · Merge requests · Mesa / mesa

The idea is to have a collection of NIR passes which would help in debugging of common issues with shaders.

Passes:

nir_dbg_init_undef - initializes all undefined SSAs, currently initializes them to zero. Helps in debugging of visual corruptions. From me it would have been helpful for: #2286, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108179, maybe https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111411, and some other many other cases which I don't remember.
nir_dbg_restrain_loops - adds upper bound to all loops (hardcoded at the moment to be 32 interations). Helps to find out if shader hangs due to some infinite loop.

CC: @jekstrand

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