diff --git a/mlir/test/lib/Pass/CMakeLists.txt b/mlir/test/lib/Pass/CMakeLists.txt
index dd90c228cdaf5..9f79944ff8968 100644
--- a/mlir/test/lib/Pass/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/mlir/test/lib/Pass/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 add_mlir_library(MLIRTestPass
   TestDynamicPipeline.cpp
   TestPassManager.cpp
+  TestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline.cpp
 
   EXCLUDE_FROM_LIBMLIR
 
diff --git a/mlir/test/lib/Pass/TestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline.cpp b/mlir/test/lib/Pass/TestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ded0d22c31307
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mlir/test/lib/Pass/TestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+//===------------------ TestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline.cpp --------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// Implements a pipeline for use by mlir-spirv-cpu-runner tests.
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#include "mlir/Conversion/GPUToSPIRV/GPUToSPIRVPass.h"
+#include "mlir/Conversion/SPIRVToLLVM/SPIRVToLLVMPass.h"
+#include "mlir/Dialect/GPU/Transforms/Passes.h"
+#include "mlir/Dialect/SPIRV/IR/SPIRVOps.h"
+#include "mlir/Dialect/SPIRV/Transforms/Passes.h"
+#include "mlir/Pass/PassManager.h"
+
+using namespace mlir;
+
+namespace {
+
+void buildTestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline(OpPassManager &passManager) {
+  passManager.addPass(createGpuKernelOutliningPass());
+  passManager.addPass(createConvertGPUToSPIRVPass(/*mapMemorySpace=*/true));
+
+  OpPassManager &nestedPM = passManager.nest<spirv::ModuleOp>();
+  nestedPM.addPass(spirv::createSPIRVLowerABIAttributesPass());
+  nestedPM.addPass(spirv::createSPIRVUpdateVCEPass());
+  passManager.addPass(createLowerHostCodeToLLVMPass());
+  passManager.addPass(createConvertSPIRVToLLVMPass());
+}
+
+} // namespace
+
+namespace mlir {
+namespace test {
+void registerTestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline() {
+  PassPipelineRegistration<>(
+      "test-spirv-cpu-runner-pipeline",
+      "Runs a series of passes for lowering SPIR-V-dialect MLIR to "
+      "LLVM-dialect MLIR intended for mlir-spirv-cpu-runner.",
+      buildTestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline);
+}
+} // namespace test
+} // namespace mlir
diff --git a/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/double.mlir b/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/double.mlir
index cd551ffb1bd06..35557ba1e94c0 100644
--- a/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/double.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/double.mlir
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-// RUN: mlir-spirv-cpu-runner %s -e main --entry-point-result=void --shared-libs=%mlir_runner_utils,%mlir_test_spirv_cpu_runner_c_wrappers \
+// RUN: mlir-opt %s -test-spirv-cpu-runner-pipeline \
+// RUN: | mlir-spirv-cpu-runner - -e main --entry-point-result=void --shared-libs=%mlir_runner_utils,%mlir_test_spirv_cpu_runner_c_wrappers \
 // RUN: | FileCheck %s
 
 // CHECK: [8,  8,  8,  8,  8,  8]
diff --git a/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/simple_add.mlir b/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/simple_add.mlir
index 119e973e45e4a..75675a69a6758 100644
--- a/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/simple_add.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/simple_add.mlir
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-// RUN: mlir-spirv-cpu-runner %s -e main --entry-point-result=void --shared-libs=%mlir_runner_utils,%mlir_test_spirv_cpu_runner_c_wrappers \
+// RUN: mlir-opt %s -test-spirv-cpu-runner-pipeline \
+// RUN: | mlir-spirv-cpu-runner - -e main --entry-point-result=void --shared-libs=%mlir_runner_utils,%mlir_test_spirv_cpu_runner_c_wrappers \
 // RUN: | FileCheck %s
 
 // CHECK: data =
diff --git a/mlir/tools/mlir-opt/mlir-opt.cpp b/mlir/tools/mlir-opt/mlir-opt.cpp
index 36b142484bb04..002c3900056de 100644
--- a/mlir/tools/mlir-opt/mlir-opt.cpp
+++ b/mlir/tools/mlir-opt/mlir-opt.cpp
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ void registerTestSCFWhileOpBuilderPass();
 void registerTestSCFWrapInZeroTripCheckPasses();
 void registerTestShapeMappingPass();
 void registerTestSliceAnalysisPass();
+void registerTestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline();
 void registerTestSPIRVFuncSignatureConversion();
 void registerTestSPIRVVectorUnrolling();
 void registerTestTensorCopyInsertionPass();
@@ -278,6 +279,7 @@ void registerTestPasses() {
   mlir::test::registerTestSCFWrapInZeroTripCheckPasses();
   mlir::test::registerTestShapeMappingPass();
   mlir::test::registerTestSliceAnalysisPass();
+  mlir::test::registerTestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline();
   mlir::test::registerTestSPIRVFuncSignatureConversion();
   mlir::test::registerTestSPIRVVectorUnrolling();
   mlir::test::registerTestTensorCopyInsertionPass();
diff --git a/mlir/tools/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner.cpp b/mlir/tools/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner.cpp
index 7e0b51cac8062..22ad1024db4a0 100644
--- a/mlir/tools/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner.cpp
+++ b/mlir/tools/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner.cpp
@@ -12,18 +12,12 @@
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
-#include "mlir/Conversion/FuncToLLVM/ConvertFuncToLLVMPass.h"
-#include "mlir/Conversion/GPUToSPIRV/GPUToSPIRVPass.h"
-#include "mlir/Conversion/SPIRVToLLVM/SPIRVToLLVMPass.h"
 #include "mlir/Dialect/Arith/IR/Arith.h"
 #include "mlir/Dialect/Func/IR/FuncOps.h"
 #include "mlir/Dialect/GPU/IR/GPUDialect.h"
-#include "mlir/Dialect/GPU/Transforms/Passes.h"
 #include "mlir/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMDialect.h"
 #include "mlir/Dialect/MemRef/IR/MemRef.h"
 #include "mlir/Dialect/SPIRV/IR/SPIRVDialect.h"
-#include "mlir/Dialect/SPIRV/IR/SPIRVOps.h"
-#include "mlir/Dialect/SPIRV/Transforms/Passes.h"
 #include "mlir/ExecutionEngine/JitRunner.h"
 #include "mlir/ExecutionEngine/OptUtils.h"
 #include "mlir/Pass/Pass.h"
@@ -75,23 +69,6 @@ convertMLIRModule(Operation *op, llvm::LLVMContext &context) {
   return mainModule;
 }
 
-static LogicalResult runMLIRPasses(Operation *module,
-                                   JitRunnerOptions &options) {
-  PassManager passManager(module->getContext(),
-                          module->getName().getStringRef());
-  if (failed(applyPassManagerCLOptions(passManager)))
-    return failure();
-  passManager.addPass(createGpuKernelOutliningPass());
-  passManager.addPass(createConvertGPUToSPIRVPass(/*mapMemorySpace=*/true));
-
-  OpPassManager &nestedPM = passManager.nest<spirv::ModuleOp>();
-  nestedPM.addPass(spirv::createSPIRVLowerABIAttributesPass());
-  nestedPM.addPass(spirv::createSPIRVUpdateVCEPass());
-  passManager.addPass(createLowerHostCodeToLLVMPass());
-  passManager.addPass(createConvertSPIRVToLLVMPass());
-  return passManager.run(module);
-}
-
 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
   llvm::InitLLVM y(argc, argv);
 
@@ -99,7 +76,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
   llvm::InitializeNativeTargetAsmPrinter();
 
   mlir::JitRunnerConfig jitRunnerConfig;
-  jitRunnerConfig.mlirTransformer = runMLIRPasses;
   jitRunnerConfig.llvmModuleBuilder = convertMLIRModule;
 
   mlir::DialectRegistry registry;