Deoptimization is easier to diagnose when there is a text reason.

src/mips/lithium-codegen-mips.cc

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 void LCodeGen::DoDeoptimize(LDeoptimize* instr) {
   Deoptimizer::BailoutType type = instr->hydrogen()->type();
   // TODO(danno): Stubs expect all deopts to be lazy for historical reasons (the
   // needed return address), even though the implementation of LAZY and EAGER is
   // now identical. When LAZY is eventually completely folded into EAGER, remove
   // the special case below.
   if (info()->IsStub() && type == Deoptimizer::EAGER) {
     type = Deoptimizer::LAZY;
   }
+
+  Comment(";;; deoptimize: %s", instr->hydrogen()->reason());
   DeoptimizeIf(al, instr->environment(), type, zero_reg, Operand(zero_reg));
 }
 
 
 void LCodeGen::DoDummyUse(LDummyUse* instr) {
   // Nothing to see here, move on!
 }
 
 
 void LCodeGen::DoDeferredStackCheck(LStackCheck* instr) {
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   __ Subu(scratch, result, scratch);
   __ lw(result, FieldMemOperand(scratch,
                                 FixedArray::kHeaderSize - kPointerSize));
   __ bind(&done);
 }
 
 
 #undef __
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal