AArch64: Addressing Cortex-A53 erratum 835769.
Some early revisions of the Cortex-A53 have an erratum (835769) whereby
it is possible for a 64-bit multiply-accumulate instruction in AArch64
state to generate an incorrect result. The conditions which a portion
of code must satisfy in order for the issue to be observed are somewhat
complex, but all cases end with a memory (load, store, or prefetch)
instruction followed immediately by the multiply-accumulate operation.
This commit makes sure to insert a nop instruction before a 64-bit msub
instruction, whenever the latter is preceded by a memory instruction.
This behaviour should make it impossible for the Arm64 backend to
generate a sequence of instructions which matches the erratum
conditions.
Change-Id: I0022eccd41180183c20231dab6e2671d001a204c
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