[llvm] [AArch64][SVE] Don't require 16-byte aligned SVE loads/stores with +strict-align (PR #119732)

[Paul Walker via llvm-commits]

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@@ -2569,6 +2569,17 @@ MVT AArch64TargetLowering::getScalarShiftAmountTy(const DataLayout &DL,
 bool AArch64TargetLowering::allowsMisalignedMemoryAccesses(
     EVT VT, unsigned AddrSpace, Align Alignment, MachineMemOperand::Flags Flags,
     unsigned *Fast) const {
+
+  // Allow SVE loads/stores where the alignment >= the size of the element type,
+  // even with +strict-align. The SVE loads/stores do not require memory to be
+  // aligned more than the element type even without unaligned accesses.
+  // Without this, already aligned loads and stores are forced to have 16-byte
+  // alignment, which is unnecessary and fails to build as
+  // TLI.expandUnalignedLoad() and TLI.expandUnalignedStore() don't yet support
+  // scalable vectors.
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paulwalker-arm wrote:

Great news.  Thanks for the update.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/119732