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52b345d0 - [RISCV][TII] Add and use new hook to simplify/canonicalize instructions after MachineCopyPropagation (#137973)

[RISCV][TII] Add and use new hook to simplify/canonicalize instructions after MachineCopyPropagation (#137973) PR #136875 was posted as a draft PR that handled a subset of these cases, using the CompressPat mechanism. The consensus from that discussion (and a conclusion I agree with) is that it would be beneficial doing this optimisation earlier on, and in a way that isn't limited just to cases that can be handled by instruction compression. The most common source for instructions that can be optimized/canonicalized in this way is through tail duplication in MachineBlockPlacement followed by machine copy propagation. For RISC-V, choosing a more canonical instruction allows it to be compressed when it couldn't be before. There is the potential that it would make other MI-level optimisations easier. This modifies ~910 instructions across an llvm-test-suite build including SPEC2017, targeting rva22u64. Looking at the diff, it seems there's room for eliminating instructions or further propagating after this. Coverage of instructions is based on observations from a script written to find redundant or improperly canonicalized instructions (though I aim to support all instructions in a 'group' at once, e.g. MUL* even if I only saw some variants of MUL in practice).