Enhance buffer load specialization pass to specialize past field extracts. (#8547)

This allows us to specialize functions whose argument is a sub element
of a constant buffer, instead of being only applicable to entire buffer
element. Closes #8421.

This change also implements a proper heuristic to determine when to
specialize the calls and defer the buffer loads.

This PR addresses a pathological case exposed in
`slangpy\slangpy\benchmarks\test_benchmark_tensor.py`, which used to
take 27ms to finish, and now takes 1.25ms.


For example, given:
```
struct Bottom
{
    float bigArray[1024];

    [mutating]
    void setVal(int index, float value) { bigArray[index] = value; }
}

struct Root
{
    Bottom top[2];
    [mutating]
    void setTopVal(int x, int y, float value)
    {
        top[x].setVal(y, value);
    }
}

RWStructuredBuffer<Root> sb;

[shader("compute")]
[numthreads(1, 1, 1)]
void compute_main(uint3 tid: SV_DispatchThreadID)
{
    sb[0].setTopVal(1, 2, 100.0f);
}
```

We are now able to specialize the call to `setTopVal` into:
```
void compute_main(uint3 tid: SV_DispatchThreadID)
{
    setTopVal_specialized(0, 1, 2, 100.0f);
}

void setTopVal_specialized(int sbIdx, int x, int y, float value)
{
      Bottom_setVal_specialized(sbIdx, x, y, value);
}

void Bottom_setVal_specialized(int sbIdx, int x, int y, float value)
{
     sb[sbIdx].top[x].bigArray[y] = value;
}
```

And get rid of all unnecessary loads. Achieving this requires a
combination of function call specialization and buffer-load-defer pass.
The buffer-load-defer pass has been completely rewritten to be more
correct and avoid introducing redundant loads.

This PR also adds tests to make sure pointers, bindless handles, and
loads from structured buffer or constant buffers works as expected.

1 files changed, 45 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/optimization/buffer-load-defer-aliasing-1.slang b/tests/optimization/buffer-load-defer-aliasing-1.slang
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f50d5306c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/optimization/buffer-load-defer-aliasing-1.slang
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+//TEST:SIMPLE(filecheck=SPV): -target spirv -O0
+
+// Test that we can defer buffer loads by ruling out potential aliasing writes.
+
+struct Bottom
+{
+    float bigArray[1024];
+
+    float bottomGetValue(int index)
+    {
+        // RWStructuredBuffer is considered to not alias with anything else.
+        // this write should not prevent deferring loading bigArray.
+        gOther[0] = 100;
+        // this write should not prevent deferring loading bigArray.
+        gSharedVar = 1;
+        // this write should not prevent deferring loading bigArray.
+        gStaticVar = 2;
+
+        // We should return the value from bigArray from a previously loaded value of `this`.
+        return bigArray[index];
+    }
+}
+
+struct Root
+{
+    Bottom bottom1;
+    Bottom bottom2;
+}
+
+uniform Root* gRoot;
+uniform RWStructuredBuffer<int> gOther;
+static int gStaticVar;
+groupshared int gSharedVar;
+
+
+RWStructuredBuffer<float> outputBuffer;
+
+[shader("compute")]
+[numthreads(1, 1, 1)]
+void compute_main(uint3 tid: SV_DispatchThreadID)
+{
+    // SPV: OpEntryPoint
+    // SPV-NOT: OpLoad %Bottom_natural
+    outputBuffer[0] = gRoot.bottom1.bottomGetValue(0);
+}