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diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.h b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.h
index d98597f483406..43973c627fcf1 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.h
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.h
@@ -565,14 +565,18 @@ public:
int64_t OffsetImm) const;
/// Fixup killed/dead flag for register \p RegNo between instructions [\p
- /// StartMI, \p EndMI]. Some PostRA transformations may violate register
- /// killed/dead flags semantics, this function can be called to fix up. Before
- /// calling this function,
+ /// StartMI, \p EndMI]. Some pre-RA or post-RA transformations may violate
+ /// register killed/dead flags semantics, this function can be called to fix
+ /// up. Before calling this function,
/// 1. Ensure that \p RegNo liveness is killed after instruction \p EndMI.
/// 2. Ensure that there is no new definition between (\p StartMI, \p EndMI)
/// and possible definition for \p RegNo is \p StartMI or \p EndMI.
- /// 3. Ensure that all instructions between [\p StartMI, \p EndMI] are in same
- /// basic block.
+ /// 3. We can do accurate fixup for the case when all instructions between
+ /// [\p StartMI, \p EndMI] are in same basic block.
+ /// 4. For the case when \p StartMI and \p EndMI are not in same basic block,
+ /// we conservatively clear kill flag for all uses of \p RegNo for pre-RA
+ /// and for post-RA, we give an assertion as without reaching definition
+ /// analysis post-RA, \p StartMI and \p EndMI are hard to keep right.
void fixupIsDeadOrKill(MachineInstr &StartMI, MachineInstr &EndMI,
unsigned RegNo) const;
void replaceInstrWithLI(MachineInstr &MI, const LoadImmediateInfo &LII) const;