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On some AArch64 cores, including Ampere's ampere1 and ampere1a architectures, load and store pair instructions are faster compared to simple loads/stores only when the alignment of the pair is at least twice that of the individual element being loaded. Based on that, this patch introduces four new subtarget features, two for controlling ldp and two for controlling stp, to cover the ampere1 and ampere1a alignment needs and to enable optional fine-grained control over ldp and stp generation in general. The latter can be utilized by another cpu, if there are possible benefits with a different policy than the default provided by the compiler. More specifically, for each of the ldp and stp respectively we have: - disable-ldp/disable-stp: Do not emit ldp/stp. - ldp-aligned-only/stp-aligned-only: Emit ldp/stp only if the source pointer is aligned to at least double the alignment of the type. Therefore, for -mcpu=ampere1 and -mcpu=ampere1a ldp-aligned-only/stp-aligned-only become the defaults, because of the benefit from the alignment, whereas for the rest of the cpus the default behaviour of the compiler is maintained.
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