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+OpenXR: Now does the barrier insertion explicitly, see XRT comment for this MR.
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+Added functions to swapchain to explicitly do the barrier insertion.
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+This pushes the handling of barrier calls into the OpenXR state tracker, while
+the changes are minimal for the client compositors they no longer have the
+responsibility to implicitly to insert a barrier when needed. Allows us to in
+the future support extensions.