[arm] Introduce UseScratchRegisterScope
Introduce a stripped down version of UseScratchRegisterScope for ARM and use it inside the assembler and macro-assembler. At the exception of the Call instructions, we now use this scope instead of using the ip register directly. This is inspired from how the ARM64 backend works. In general, the benefit of doing this is we can catch cases where ip is being used both by the caller and by the assembler. But more specifically, TurboFan reserves r9 as an extra scratch register because ip can already be used by the assembler. With this utility, we can isolate the cases in the code generator which need an extra register and potentially fix them, allowing us to give r9 back to the register allocator. This patch uncovered places in the assembler where we were using ip unconditionally when we could have re-used the destination register instead. Bug: v8:6553 Change-Id: Ib7134e3ed64dd1f90baf209ae831ed8f644cac78 Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/544956 Commit-Queue: Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Benedikt Meurer <bmeurer@chromium.org> Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#46425}
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