[AArch64] Adding "armv8.8-a" BC instruction.
This instruction is described in the Arm A64 Instruction Set Architecture documentation available here: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0596/2021-12/Base-Instructions/BC-cond--Branch-Consistent-conditionally-?lang=en FEAT_HBC "Hinted Conditional Branches" is listed in the 2021 A-Profile Architecture Extensions: https://developer.arm.com/architectures/cpu-architecture/a-profile/exploration-tools/feature-names-for-a-profile 'BC.cc', where 'cc' is any ordinary condition code, is an instruction that looks exactly like B.cc (the normal conditional branch), except that bit 4 of the encoding is 1 rather than 0, which hints something to the branch predictor (specifically, that this branch is expected to be highly consistent, even though _which way_ it will consistently go is not known at compile time). This commit introduces a special subtarget feature for HBC, which is a dependency of the top-level 8.8-A feature, and uses that to enable the new BC instruction. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D116156
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