diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/P10InstrResources.td b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/P10InstrResources.td
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/P10InstrResources.td
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/P10InstrResources.td
@@ -1370,7 +1370,7 @@
     LDCIX,
     LHZCIX,
     LWZCIX,
-    MTSPR, MTSPR8, MTSR, MTVRSAVE, MTVRSAVEv
+    MTSPR, MTSPR8, MTSR, MTUDSCR, MTVRSAVE, MTVRSAVEv
 )>;
 
 // Expand instructions
@@ -1467,7 +1467,7 @@
 // 13 Cycles Unknown operations, 1 input operands
 def : InstRW<[P10W_MFL_13C, P10W_DISP_EVEN, P10W_DISP_ANY],
       (instrs
-    MFSPR, MFSPR8, MFSR, MFTB8, MFVRSAVE, MFVRSAVEv
+    MFSPR, MFSPR8, MFSR, MFTB8, MFUDSCR, MFVRSAVE, MFVRSAVEv
 )>;
 
 // 10 Cycles SIMD Matrix Multiply Engine operations, 0 input operands
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/P9InstrResources.td b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/P9InstrResources.td
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/P9InstrResources.td
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/P9InstrResources.td
@@ -940,6 +940,7 @@
     (instregex "M(T|F)TB(8)?$"),
     (instregex "MF(SPR|CTR|LR)(8)?$"),
     (instregex "M(T|F)MSR(D)?$"),
+    (instregex "M(T|F)(U)?DSCR$"),
     (instregex "MTSPR(8)?$")
 )>;
 
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.td b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.td
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.td
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.td
@@ -3069,6 +3069,22 @@
 }
 }
 
+let hasSideEffects = 1 in {
+  def MTUDSCR : XFXForm_7_ext<31, 467, 3, (outs), (ins gprc:$rX),
+                              "mtspr 3, $rX", IIC_SprMTSPR>,
+                PPC970_DGroup_Single, PPC970_Unit_FXU;
+  def MFUDSCR : XFXForm_1_ext<31, 339, 3, (outs gprc:$rX), (ins),
+                              "mfspr $rX, 3", IIC_SprMFSPR>,
+                PPC970_DGroup_First, PPC970_Unit_FXU;
+}
+
+//Disable this alias on AIX for now because as does not support them.
+let Predicates = [ModernAs] in {
+// Aliases for moving to/from dscr to mtspr/mfspr
+def : InstAlias<"mtudscr $Rx", (MTUDSCR gprc:$Rx)>;
+def : InstAlias<"mfudscr $Rx", (MFUDSCR gprc:$Rx)>;
+}
+
 let isCodeGenOnly = 1 in {
   // Move to/from VRSAVE: despite being a SPR, the VRSAVE register is renamed
   // like a GPR on the PPC970.  As such, copies in and out have the same
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCPreEmitPeephole.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCPreEmitPeephole.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCPreEmitPeephole.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCPreEmitPeephole.cpp
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineFunctionPass.h"
 #include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineInstrBuilder.h"
 #include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineRegisterInfo.h"
+#include "llvm/CodeGen/RegisterScavenging.h"
 #include "llvm/MC/MCContext.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/Debug.h"
@@ -46,6 +47,10 @@
 RunPreEmitPeephole("ppc-late-peephole", cl::Hidden, cl::init(true),
                    cl::desc("Run pre-emit peephole optimizations."));
 
+static cl::opt<uint64_t>
+DSCRValue("ppc-set-dscr", cl::Hidden,
+          cl::desc("Set the Data Stream Control Register."));
+
 namespace {
 
 static bool hasPCRelativeForm(MachineInstr &Use) {
@@ -407,6 +412,38 @@
     }
 
     bool runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction &MF) override {
+      // If the user wants to set the DSCR using command-line options,
+      // load in the specified value at the start of main.
+      if (DSCRValue.getNumOccurrences() > 0 && MF.getName().equals("main") &&
+          MF.getFunction().hasExternalLinkage()) {
+        DSCRValue = (uint32_t)(DSCRValue & 0x01FFFFFF); // 25-bit DSCR mask
+        RegScavenger RS;
+        MachineBasicBlock &MBB = MF.front();
+        // Find an unused GPR according to register liveness
+        RS.enterBasicBlock(MBB);
+        unsigned InDSCR = RS.FindUnusedReg(&PPC::GPRCRegClass);
+        if (InDSCR) {
+          const PPCInstrInfo *TII =
+              MF.getSubtarget<PPCSubtarget>().getInstrInfo();
+          DebugLoc dl;
+          MachineBasicBlock::iterator IP = MBB.begin(); // Insert Point
+          // Copy the 32-bit DSCRValue integer into the GPR InDSCR using LIS and
+          // ORI, then move to DSCR. If the requested DSCR value is contained
+          // in a 16-bit signed number, we can emit a single `LI`, but the
+          // impact of saving one instruction in one function does not warrant
+          // any additional complexity in the logic here.
+          BuildMI(MBB, IP, dl, TII->get(PPC::LIS), InDSCR)
+              .addImm(DSCRValue >> 16);
+          BuildMI(MBB, IP, dl, TII->get(PPC::ORI), InDSCR)
+              .addReg(InDSCR, RegState::Kill)
+              .addImm(DSCRValue & 0xFFFF);
+          BuildMI(MBB, IP, dl, TII->get(PPC::MTUDSCR))
+              .addReg(InDSCR, RegState::Kill);
+        } else
+          errs() << "Warning: Ran out of registers - Unable to set DSCR as "
+                    "requested";
+      }
+
       if (skipFunction(MF.getFunction()) || !RunPreEmitPeephole) {
         // Remove UNENCODED_NOP even when this pass is disabled.
         // This needs to be done unconditionally so we don't emit zeros
diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/dscr-set.ll b/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/dscr-set.ll
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/dscr-set.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+; RUN: llc -verify-machineinstrs < %s -mtriple=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu -mcpu=pwr9 \
+; RUN: 	   | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=DEFAULT
+; RUN: llc -verify-machineinstrs < %s -mtriple=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu -mcpu=pwr9 \
+; RUN: 	   -ppc-set-dscr=0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=UPPER
+; RUN: llc -verify-machineinstrs < %s -mtriple=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu -mcpu=pwr9 \
+; RUN: 	   -ppc-set-dscr=0x01C4 | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=LOWER
+
+define i32 @main() {
+
+; CHECK:   	   # %bb.0:
+
+; DEFAULT-NOT:	   mtudscr
+
+; UPPER:	   lis [[inReg:[0-9]+]], 511
+; UPPER-NEXT:	   ori [[inReg]], [[inReg]], 65535
+; UPPER-NEXT:	   mtudscr [[inReg]]
+
+; LOWER:	   lis [[inReg:[0-9]+]], 0
+; LOWER-NEXT:	   ori [[inReg]], [[inReg]], 452
+; LOWER-NEXT:	   mtudscr [[inReg]]
+
+       ret i32 1
+}
diff --git a/llvm/test/MC/Disassembler/PowerPC/ppc64-encoding.txt b/llvm/test/MC/Disassembler/PowerPC/ppc64-encoding.txt
--- a/llvm/test/MC/Disassembler/PowerPC/ppc64-encoding.txt
+++ b/llvm/test/MC/Disassembler/PowerPC/ppc64-encoding.txt
@@ -850,6 +850,12 @@
 # CHECK: mfspr 2, 600                    
 0x7c 0x58 0x92 0xa6
 
+# CHECK: mtudscr 2
+0x7c 0x43 0x03 0xa6
+
+# CHECK: mfudscr 2
+0x7c 0x43 0x02 0xa6
+
 # CHECK: mtcrf 123, 2                    
 0x7c 0x47 0xb1 0x20
 
diff --git a/llvm/test/MC/PowerPC/ppc64-encoding-ext.s b/llvm/test/MC/PowerPC/ppc64-encoding-ext.s
--- a/llvm/test/MC/PowerPC/ppc64-encoding-ext.s
+++ b/llvm/test/MC/PowerPC/ppc64-encoding-ext.s
@@ -3431,6 +3431,12 @@
 # CHECK-BE: mfrtcl 2                        # encoding: [0x7c,0x45,0x02,0xa6]
 # CHECK-LE: mfrtcl 2                        # encoding: [0xa6,0x02,0x45,0x7c]
             mfrtcl 2
+# CHECK-BE: mtudscr 2                       # encoding: [0x7c,0x43,0x03,0xa6]
+# CHECK-LE: mtudscr 2                       # encoding: [0xa6,0x03,0x43,0x7c]
+            mtudscr 2
+# CHECK-BE: mfudscr 2                       # encoding: [0x7c,0x43,0x02,0xa6]
+# CHECK-LE: mfudscr 2                       # encoding: [0xa6,0x02,0x43,0x7c]
+            mfudscr 2
 # CHECK-BE: mtdscr 2                        # encoding: [0x7c,0x51,0x03,0xa6]
 # CHECK-LE: mtdscr 2                        # encoding: [0xa6,0x03,0x51,0x7c]
             mtdscr 2