PowerPC subtargets prior to Power9 use the 'legacy' itinerary way to
provide scheduling information. This patch re-writes the tablegen file
to define the scheduling information in the new SchedModel way, which
can bring improvements to some benchmarks.
Reviewed By: shchenz
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D154488
The LIT test cases were migrated with the script provided by
Nikita Popov. Due to the size of the change it is split into
several parts.
Reviewed By: nemanja, amyk, nikic, PowerPC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D135470
IIUC, the conversion part is not part of atomic operations and fences should be put around converted atomic operations.
This also fixes atomic load of floating point values which requires fence on PowerPC.
Reviewed By: efriedma
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D127609