[LoongArch] Align functions and loops better according to uarch
The LA464 micro-architecture is very sensitive to alignment of hot code, with performance variation of up to ~12% in the go1 benchmark suite of the Go language (as observed by me during my work on the Go loong64 port). [[ https://go.dev/cl/479816 | Manual alignment of certain loops ]] and [[ https://go.dev/cl/479817 | automatic alignment of loop heads ]] helps a lot there, by reducing much of the random variation and generally increasing performance, so we naturally want to do the same here. Practically, LA464 is the only LoongArch micro-architecture in wide use, and we are currently supporting just that. The first "4" in "LA464" stands for "4-issue", in particular its instruction fetch and decode stages are 4-wide; so functions and branch targets should be preferably aligned to at least 16 bytes for best throughput. The Loongson team has benchmarked various combinations of function, loop, and branch target alignments with GCC. [[ https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2023-May/619980.html | The results ]] show that "16-byte label alignment together with 32-byte function alignment gives best results in terms of SPEC score". A "label" in GCC means a branch target; while we don't currently align branch targets, we do align loops, so in this patch we default to 32-byte function alignment and 16-byte loop alignment. Reviewed By: SixWeining Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D148622
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