If there's only a single instruction in a basic block, then removing it
would create an empty block. We seem to have trouble representing those
as there are no instructions with an IP inside the block; several places
mess up connections. While most blocks end in control flow instructions
(which are rarely eliminated), ones preceding a DO instruction may end
in an ordinary instruction. This makes such blocks tricky to merge with
adjacent blocks - they may be between loops. Any optimization pass may
may find such an instruction and want to eliminate it, and most of them
are unprepared to perform such CFG link surgery. Nor do we want to make
every pass aware of this issue.
To work around this, we simply replace an instruction with a NOP when
removing it from a block containing only that instruction, leaving the
block in place.
Reviewed-by: Ian Romanick <ian.d.romanick@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/28971>
Kenneth Graunke
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