Commit e1af20f18a changed the shader_info
from being embedded into being just a pointer. The idea was that
sharing the shader_info between NIR and GLSL would be easier if it were
a pointer pointing to the same shader_info struct. This, however, has
caused a few problems:
1) There are many things which generate NIR without GLSL. This means
we have to support both NIR shaders which come from GLSL and ones
that don't and need to have an info elsewhere.
2) The solution to (1) raises all sorts of ownership issues which have
to be resolved with ralloc_parent checks.
3) Ever since 00620782c9, we've been
using nir_gather_info to fill out the final shader_info. Thanks to
cloning and the above ownership issues, the nir_shader::info may not
point back to the gl_shader anymore and so we have to do a copy of
the shader_info from NIR back to GLSL anyway.
All of these issues go away if we just embed the shader_info in the
nir_shader. There's a little downside of having to copy it back after
calling nir_gather_info but, as explained above, we have to do that
anyway.
Acked-by: Timothy Arceri <tarceri@itsqueeze.com>
Reviewed-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
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