[NVPTX] Scalarize v2f32 instructions if input operand guarantees need for register coalescing (#180113)

The support of f32 packed instructions in #126337 revealed performance
regressions on certain kernels. In one case, the cause comes from
loading a v4f32 from shared memory but then accessing them as {r0, r2}
and {r1, r3} from the full load of {r0, r1, r2, r3}.

This access pattern guarantees the registers requires a coalescing
operation which increases register pressure and degrades performance.
The fix here is to identify if we can prove that an v2f32 operand comes
from non-contiguous vector extracts and if so scalarizes the operation
so the coalescing operation is no longer needed.

I've found that ptxas can see through the extra unpacks/repacks of
contiguous registers this causes in MIR. However in the full test case
the packing of the final scalar->vector results does generate additional
costs especially since the only users unpack them. An additional MIR
pass is possible to catch the case

Assisted-by: Cursor / claude-4.6-opus-high

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Co-authored-by: Princeton Ferro <princetonferro@gmail.com>
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