diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/IR/Type.h b/llvm/include/llvm/IR/Type.h
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/IR/Type.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/IR/Type.h
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@
   /// Return true if this is a target extension type.
   bool isTargetExtTy() const { return getTypeID() == TargetExtTyID; }
 
+  /// Return true if this is a target extension type with a scalable layout.
+  bool isScalableTargetExtTy() const;
+
   /// Return true if this is a FP type or a vector of FP.
   bool isFPOrFPVectorTy() const { return getScalarType()->isFloatingPointTy(); }
 
diff --git a/llvm/lib/IR/Type.cpp b/llvm/lib/IR/Type.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/IR/Type.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/IR/Type.cpp
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@
   return APFloat::getZero(getFltSemantics()).isIEEE();
 }
 
+bool Type::isScalableTargetExtTy() const {
+  if (auto *TT = dyn_cast<TargetExtType>(this))
+    return isa<ScalableVectorType>(TT->getLayoutType());
+  return false;
+}
+
 Type *Type::getFloatingPointTy(LLVMContext &C, const fltSemantics &S) {
   Type *Ty;
   if (&S == &APFloat::IEEEhalf())
@@ -854,6 +860,13 @@
     return TargetTypeInfo(Type::getInt8PtrTy(C, 0), TargetExtType::HasZeroInit,
                           TargetExtType::CanBeGlobal);
   }
+
+  // Opaque types in the AArch64 name space.
+  if (Name.startswith("aarch64.")) {
+    if (Name == "aarch64.svcount")
+      return TargetTypeInfo(ScalableVectorType::get(Type::getInt1Ty(C), 16));
+  }
+
   return TargetTypeInfo(Type::getVoidTy(C));
 }
 
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineSelect.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineSelect.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineSelect.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineSelect.cpp
@@ -1700,6 +1700,10 @@
     return &SI;
   }
 
+  // The code below doesn't work on scalable target types.
+  if (TrueVal->getType()->isScalableTargetExtTy())
+    return nullptr;
+
   // FIXME: This code is nearly duplicated in InstSimplify. Using/refactoring
   // decomposeBitTestICmp() might help.
   {
diff --git a/llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/AArch64/sme-svcount.ll b/llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/AArch64/sme-svcount.ll
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/AArch64/sme-svcount.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+; NOTE: Assertions have been autogenerated by utils/update_test_checks.py
+; RUN: opt -passes='instcombine' -S < %s | FileCheck %s
+
+define target("aarch64.svcount") @test_alloca_store_reload(target("aarch64.svcount") %val) nounwind {
+; CHECK-LABEL: @test_alloca_store_reload(
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret target("aarch64.svcount") [[VAL:%.*]]
+;
+  %ptr = alloca target("aarch64.svcount"), align 1
+  store target("aarch64.svcount") %val, ptr %ptr
+  %res = load target("aarch64.svcount"), ptr %ptr
+  ret target("aarch64.svcount") %res
+}
+
+; Test that instcombine doesn't try to query the (scalable) size of target("aarch64.svcount")
+; in foldSelectInstWithICmp.
+define target("aarch64.svcount") @test_combine_on_select(target("aarch64.svcount") %x, target("aarch64.svcount") %y, i32 %k) {
+; CHECK-LABEL: @test_combine_on_select(
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CMP:%.*]] = icmp sgt i32 [[K:%.*]], 42
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[X_Y:%.*]] = select i1 [[CMP]], target("aarch64.svcount") [[X:%.*]], target("aarch64.svcount") [[Y:%.*]]
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret target("aarch64.svcount") [[X_Y]]
+;
+  %cmp = icmp sgt i32 %k, 42
+  %x.y = select i1 %cmp, target("aarch64.svcount") %x, target("aarch64.svcount") %y
+  ret target("aarch64.svcount") %x.y
+}
diff --git a/llvm/test/Transforms/SROA/aarch64-sme-svcount.ll b/llvm/test/Transforms/SROA/aarch64-sme-svcount.ll
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/Transforms/SROA/aarch64-sme-svcount.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+; NOTE: Assertions have been autogenerated by utils/update_test_checks.py
+; RUN: opt -passes='sroa' -S < %s | FileCheck %s
+
+define target("aarch64.svcount") @test_alloca_store_reload(target("aarch64.svcount") %val) nounwind {
+; CHECK-LABEL: @test_alloca_store_reload(
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret target("aarch64.svcount") [[VAL:%.*]]
+;
+  %ptr = alloca target("aarch64.svcount"), align 1
+  store target("aarch64.svcount") %val, ptr %ptr
+  %res = load target("aarch64.svcount"), ptr %ptr
+  ret target("aarch64.svcount") %res
+}