Make X86AsmBackend generate smarter nops instead of a bunch of 0x90 for code alignment for CPUs which don't support long nop instructions.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14178
llvm-svn: 253557
Silvermont can only decode one instruction per cycle if the instruction exceeds 8 bytes.
Also in Silvermont instructions with more than 3 prefixes will cause 3 cycle penalty.
Maximum nop length is limited to 7 bytes when used for padding on Silvermont.
For other x86 processors max nop length remains unchanged 15 bytes.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4374
llvm-svn: 212321
Patch by Mikulas Patocka. I added the test. I checked that for cpu names that
gas knows about, it also doesn't generate nopl.
The modified cpus:
i686 - there are i686-class CPUs that don't have nopl: Via c3, Transmeta
Crusoe, Microsoft VirtualBox - see
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=775414
k6, k6-2, k6-3, winchip-c6, winchip2 - these are 586-class CPUs
via c3 c3-2 - see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19733 as a proof that
Via c3 and c3-Nehemiah don't have nopl
llvm-svn: 195679
