This is a redo of D7208 ( r227242 - http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=revision&revision=227242 ).
The patch was reverted because an AArch64 target could infinite loop after the change in DAGCombiner
to merge vector stores. That happened because AArch64's allowsMisalignedMemoryAccesses() wasn't telling
the truth. It reported all unaligned memory accesses as fast, but then split some 128-bit unaligned
accesses up in performSTORECombine() because they are slow.
This patch attempts to fix the problem in AArch's allowsMisalignedMemoryAccesses() while preserving
existing (perhaps questionable) lowering behavior.
The x86 test shows that store merging is working as intended for a target with fast 32-byte unaligned
stores.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12635
llvm-svn: 248622
The bug manifests when there are two loads and two stores chained as follows in
a DAG,
(ld v3f32) -> (st f32) -> (ld v3f32) -> (st f32)
and the stores' values are extracted from the preceding vector loads.
MergeConsecutiveStores would replace the first store in the chain with the
merged vector store, which would create a cycle between the merged store node
and the last load node that appears in the chain.
This commits fixes the bug by replacing the last store in the chain instead.
rdar://problem/20275084
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8849
llvm-svn: 234430
Sanjay Patel