diff --git a/mlir/test/lib/Pass/CMakeLists.txt b/mlir/test/lib/Pass/CMakeLists.txt
index f489b7e51e503..b190f054e50bd 100644
--- a/mlir/test/lib/Pass/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/mlir/test/lib/Pass/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ get_property(conversion_libs GLOBAL PROPERTY MLIR_CONVERSION_LIBS)
 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
deleted file mode 100644
index ded0d22c31307..0000000000000
--- a/mlir/test/lib/Pass/TestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-//===------------------ 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 35557ba1e94c0..cd551ffb1bd06 100644
--- a/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/double.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/double.mlir
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-// 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: mlir-spirv-cpu-runner %s -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 75675a69a6758..119e973e45e4a 100644
--- a/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/simple_add.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/mlir-spirv-cpu-runner/simple_add.mlir
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-// 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: mlir-spirv-cpu-runner %s -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 002c3900056de..36b142484bb04 100644
--- a/mlir/tools/mlir-opt/mlir-opt.cpp
+++ b/mlir/tools/mlir-opt/mlir-opt.cpp
@@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ void registerTestSCFWhileOpBuilderPass();
 void registerTestSCFWrapInZeroTripCheckPasses();
 void registerTestShapeMappingPass();
 void registerTestSliceAnalysisPass();
-void registerTestSPIRVCPURunnerPipeline();
 void registerTestSPIRVFuncSignatureConversion();
 void registerTestSPIRVVectorUnrolling();
 void registerTestTensorCopyInsertionPass();
@@ -279,7 +278,6 @@ 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 22ad1024db4a0..7e0b51cac8062 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
@@ -12,12 +12,18 @@
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
+#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"
@@ -69,6 +75,23 @@ 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);
 
@@ -76,6 +99,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
   llvm::InitializeNativeTargetAsmPrinter();
 
   mlir::JitRunnerConfig jitRunnerConfig;
+  jitRunnerConfig.mlirTransformer = runMLIRPasses;
   jitRunnerConfig.llvmModuleBuilder = convertMLIRModule;
 
   mlir::DialectRegistry registry;