diff --git a/paddle/fluid/inference/analysis/ir_pass_manager.cc b/paddle/fluid/inference/analysis/ir_pass_manager.cc
index fe3c841186c35ea28c1d44007d91de5b997c1388..7476c199cfd073ec0962fa9a48f24750a6484bb5 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/inference/analysis/ir_pass_manager.cc
+++ b/paddle/fluid/inference/analysis/ir_pass_manager.cc
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ void IRPassManager::CreatePasses(Argument *argument,
           new std::string(GetOrCreateModelOptCacheDir(model_opt_cache_dir)));
     }
 
-    // graph_ = pass->Apply(std::move(graph_));
     pre_pass = pass_name;
 
     passes_.emplace_back(std::move(pass));
@@ -97,8 +96,9 @@ std::unique_ptr<Graph> IRPassManager::Apply(std::unique_ptr<Graph> graph) {
   PADDLE_ENFORCE(graph.get());
   // Apply all the passes
   for (const auto &pass : passes_) {
-    if (pass->Type() == "graph_viz_pass") continue;
-    PrettyLogEndl(Style::H2(), "--- Running IR pass [%s]", pass->Type());
+    if (pass->Type() != "graph_viz_pass") {
+      PrettyLogEndl(Style::H2(), "--- Running IR pass [%s]", pass->Type());
+    }
     graph = pass->Apply(std::move(graph));
   }
   return std::move(graph);
diff --git a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_config.cc b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_config.cc
index eecab238a88e90399eb70f17caa57633af4e2a69..e92273b4dd94f11e0e90c91fd82dafe42bf158f3 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_config.cc
+++ b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_config.cc
@@ -318,4 +318,9 @@ NativeConfig AnalysisConfig::ToNativeConfig() const {
   return config;
 }
 
+void AnalysisConfig::SwitchIrDebug(int x) {
+  ir_debug_ = x;
+  Update();
+}
+
 }  // namespace paddle
diff --git a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_predictor_tester.cc b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_predictor_tester.cc
index 6d11b461082d0ed8ba08c9e280bba86737b86e71..002ba90e40e69d565f5a54e374a3f0083b84273f 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_predictor_tester.cc
+++ b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/analysis_predictor_tester.cc
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ TEST(AnalysisPredictor, memory_optim) {
   AnalysisConfig config(FLAGS_dirname);
   config.DisableGpu();
   config.EnableMemoryOptim(true);
-  config.pass_builder()->TurnOnDebug();
+  config.SwitchIrDebug();
 
   auto native_predictor =
       CreatePaddlePredictor<NativeConfig>(config.ToNativeConfig());
diff --git a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/paddle_analysis_config.h b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/paddle_analysis_config.h
index 9d9ed6a39d8324002a8850deae9bb8dd5af7ef9b..47361b3279e14dd65a0e6e7f864e508ef1183045 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/paddle_analysis_config.h
+++ b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/paddle_analysis_config.h
@@ -140,9 +140,12 @@ struct AnalysisConfig {
    */
   bool tensorrt_engine_enabled() const { return use_tensorrt_; }
 
-  /** Control whther to debug IR graph analysis phase.
+  /** \brief Control whether to debug IR graph analysis phase.
+   *
+   * This will generate DOT files for visualizing the computation graph after
+   * each analysis pass applied.
    */
-  void SwitchIrDebug(int x = true) { ir_debug_ = x; }
+  void SwitchIrDebug(int x = true);
 
   /** Turn on MKLDNN.
    */
diff --git a/paddle/fluid/inference/tests/api/analyzer_seq_pool1_tester.cc b/paddle/fluid/inference/tests/api/analyzer_seq_pool1_tester.cc
index 8be2a6d79b2ede2c149aa523e38c3960ab30acb1..dd953e0dccbb3749bfcc87966453c6976dfefa10 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/inference/tests/api/analyzer_seq_pool1_tester.cc
+++ b/paddle/fluid/inference/tests/api/analyzer_seq_pool1_tester.cc
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ void SetConfig(AnalysisConfig *cfg, bool use_mkldnn = false) {
   cfg->SetModel(FLAGS_infer_model + "/model", FLAGS_infer_model + "/params");
   cfg->DisableGpu();
   cfg->SwitchSpecifyInputNames();
-  cfg->pass_builder()->TurnOnDebug();
+  cfg->SwitchIrDebug();
   cfg->SetCpuMathLibraryNumThreads(FLAGS_paddle_num_threads);
   if (use_mkldnn) {
     cfg->EnableMKLDNN();
diff --git a/paddle/fluid/inference/tests/api/analyzer_text_classification_tester.cc b/paddle/fluid/inference/tests/api/analyzer_text_classification_tester.cc
index 2db297e2005c6b657259187d6b6b76657d9e4388..2003be82019333ca97b9fa8ef83668825fe5710d 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/inference/tests/api/analyzer_text_classification_tester.cc
+++ b/paddle/fluid/inference/tests/api/analyzer_text_classification_tester.cc
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ void SetInput(std::vector<std::vector<PaddleTensor>> *inputs) {
 TEST(Analyzer_Text_Classification, profile) {
   AnalysisConfig cfg;
   SetConfig(&cfg);
-  cfg.pass_builder()->TurnOnDebug();
+  cfg.SwitchIrDebug();
   std::vector<PaddleTensor> outputs;
 
   std::vector<std::vector<PaddleTensor>> input_slots_all;