First, when generating from HLSL before invoking the code that comes from the HLSL patch-function a control-flow and full memory-barrier are required to ensure that all the temporary values in thread-local storage for the patch are available.
Second, the inputs to control and evaluation shaders must be properly forwarded from the global variables in SPIRV to the member variables in the relevant input structure.
Finally when arrays of interpolators are used for input or output we need to add an extra level of array indirection because Metal works at a different granularity than SPIRV.
Five parts.
1. Fix tessellation patch function processing.
2. Fix loads from tessellation control inputs not being forwarded to the gl_in structure array.
3. Fix loads from tessellation evaluation inputs not being forwarded to the stage_in structure array.
4. Workaround SPIRV losing an array indirection in tessellation shaders - not the best solution but enough to keep things progressing.
5. Apparently gl_TessLevelInner/Outer is special and needs to not be placed into the input array.
This change introduces functions and in one case, a class, to support
the `VK_KHR_sampler_ycbcr_conversion` extension. Except in the case of
GBGR8 and BGRG8 formats, for which Metal natively supports implicit
chroma reconstruction, we're on our own here. We have to do everything
ourselves. Much of the complexity comes from the need to support
multiple planes, which must now be passed to functions that use the
corresponding combined image-samplers. The rest is from the actual
Y'CbCr conversion itself, which requires additional post-processing of
the sample retrieved from the image.
Passing sampled images to a function was a particular problem. To
support this, I've added a new class which is emitted to MSL shaders
that pass sampled images with Y'CbCr conversions attached around. It
can handle sampled images with or without Y'CbCr conversion. This is an
awful abomination that should not exist, but I'm worried that there's
some shader out there which does this. This support requires Metal 2.0
to work properly, because it uses default-constructed texture objects,
which were only added in MSL 2. I'm not even going to get into arrays of
combined image-samplers--that's a whole other can of worms. They are
deliberately unsupported in this change.
I've taken the liberty of refactoring the support for texture swizzling
while I'm at it. It's now treated as a post-processing step similar to
Y'CbCr conversion. I'd like to think this is cleaner than having
everything in `to_function_name()`/`to_function_args()`. It still looks
really hairy, though. I did, however, get rid of the explicit type
arguments to `spvGatherSwizzle()`/`spvGatherCompareSwizzle()`.
Update the C API. In addition to supporting this new functionality, add
some compiler options that I added in previous changes, but for which I
neglected to update the C API.
ESSL does not support `GL_ARB_post_depth_coverage`. There, we must use
`GL_EXT_post_depth_coverage`. I've added this as a fallback for desktop
as well.
Note that `GL_EXT_post_depth_coverage` also requires the fragment shader
to set `early_fragment_tests` explicitly, while
`GL_ARB_post_depth_coverage` does not. It doesn't really matter either
way, since `SPV_KHR_post_depth_coverage` *also* requires both execution
modes to be explicitly set.
We were going down a tree of expressions multiple times and this caused
an exponential explosion in time, which was not caught until recently.
Fix this by blocking any traversal going through an ID more than one
time.
This fix overall improves performance by almost an order of magnitude on a
particular test shader rather than slowing it down by ~75x.
This is not necessary, as we must emit an invalidating store before we
potentially consume an invalid expression. In fact, we're a bit
conservative here in this case for example:
int tmp = variable;
if (...)
{
variable = 10;
}
else
{
// Consuming tmp here is fine, but it was
// invalidated while emitting other branch.
// Technically, we need to study if there is an invalidating store
// in the CFG between the loading block and this block, and the other
// branch will not be a part of that analysis.
int tmp2 = tmp * tmp;
}
Fixing this case means complex CFG traversal *everywhere*, and it feels like overkill.
Fixing this exposed a bug with access chains, so fix a bug where expression dependencies were not
inherited properly in access chains. Access chains are now considered forwarded if there
is at least one dependency which is also forwarded.
This subtle bug removed any expression validation for trivially swizzled
variables. Make usage suppression a more explicit concept rather than
just hacking off forwarded_temporaries.
There is some fallout here with loop generation since our expression
invalidation is currently a bit too naive to handle loops properly.
The forwarding bug masked this problem until now.
If part of the loop condition is also used in the body, we end up
reading an invalid expression, which in turn forces a temporary to be
generated in the condition block, not good. We'll need to be smarter
here ...
If this is computed *before* a `demote`, but used *after*, forwarding it
will produce the wrong value. This does make for uglier shaders, but
it's necessary right now to ensure correctness.
I needed to use an assembly shader to produce the test for this.
`spirv-opt` is not smart enough (or too smart?) to eliminate the
variable that would be used in GLSL to express this.
This extension provides a new operation which causes a fragment to be
discarded without terminating the fragment shader invocation. The
invocation for the discarded fragment becomes a helper invocation, so
that derivatives will remain defined. The old `HelperInvocation` builtin
becomes undefined when this occurs, so a second new instruction queries
the current helper invocation status.
This is only fully supported for GLSL. HLSL doesn't support the
`IsHelperInvocation` operation and MSL doesn't support the
`DemoteToHelperInvocation` op.
Fixes#1052.
The only piece added by this extension is the `DeviceIndex` builtin,
which tells the shader which device in a grouped logical device it is
running on.
Metal's pipeline state objects are owned by the `MTLDevice` that created
them. Since Metal doesn't support logical grouping of devices the way
Vulkan does, we'll thus have to create a pipeline state for each device
in a grouped logical device. The upcoming peer group support in Metal 3
will not change this. For this reason, for Metal, the device index is
supplied as a constant at pipeline compile time.
There's an interaction between `VK_KHR_device_group` and
`VK_KHR_multiview` in the
`VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_VIEW_INDEX_FROM_DEVICE_INDEX_BIT`, which defines the
view index to be the same as the device index. The new
`view_index_from_device_index` MSL option supports this functionality.
Using the `PostDepthCoverage` mode specifies that the `gl_SampleMaskIn`
variable is to contain the computed coverage mask following the early
fragment tests, which this mode requires and implicitly enables.
Note that unlike Vulkan and OpenGL, Metal places this on the sample mask
input itself, and furthermore does *not* implicitly enable early
fragment testing. If it isn't enabled explicitly with an
`[[early_fragment_tests]]` attribute, the compiler will error out. So we
have to enable that mode explicitly if `PostDepthCoverage` is enabled
but `EarlyFragmentTests` isn't.
For Metal, only iOS supports this; for some reason, Apple has yet to
implement it on macOS, even though many desktop cards support it.
