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
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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
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