diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp
@@ -1078,8 +1078,7 @@
   // Traverse all the recipes in the VPlan and collect the poison-generating
   // recipes in the backward slice starting at the address of a VPWidenRecipe or
   // VPInterleaveRecipe.
-  auto Iter = depth_first(
-      VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>(State.Plan->getEntry()));
+  auto Iter = vp_depth_first_deep(State.Plan->getEntry());
   for (VPBasicBlock *VPBB : VPBlockUtils::blocksOnly<VPBasicBlock>(Iter)) {
     for (VPRecipeBase &Recipe : *VPBB) {
       if (auto *WidenRec = dyn_cast<VPWidenMemoryInstructionRecipe>(&Recipe)) {
@@ -4161,8 +4160,7 @@
 
 void InnerLoopVectorizer::fixNonInductionPHIs(VPlan &Plan,
                                               VPTransformState &State) {
-  auto Iter = depth_first(
-      VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>(Plan.getEntry()));
+  auto Iter = vp_depth_first_deep(Plan.getEntry());
   for (VPBasicBlock *VPBB : VPBlockUtils::blocksOnly<VPBasicBlock>(Iter)) {
     for (VPRecipeBase &P : VPBB->phis()) {
       VPWidenPHIRecipe *VPPhi = dyn_cast<VPWidenPHIRecipe>(&P);
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlan.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlan.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlan.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlan.cpp
@@ -1099,10 +1099,8 @@
   if (Plan.BackedgeTakenCount)
     assignSlot(Plan.BackedgeTakenCount);
 
-  ReversePostOrderTraversal<
-      VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *>>
-      RPOT(VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *>(
-          Plan.getEntry()));
+  ReversePostOrderTraversal<VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *>>
+      RPOT(VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *>(Plan.getEntry()));
   for (const VPBasicBlock *VPBB :
        VPBlockUtils::blocksOnly<const VPBasicBlock>(RPOT))
     for (const VPRecipeBase &Recipe : *VPBB)
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanCFG.h b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanCFG.h
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanCFG.h
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanCFG.h
@@ -220,11 +220,11 @@
 };
 
 /// Helper for GraphTraits specialization that traverses through VPRegionBlocks.
-template <typename BlockTy> class VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper {
+template <typename BlockTy> class VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper {
   BlockTy Entry;
 
 public:
-  VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper(BlockTy Entry) : Entry(Entry) {}
+  VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper(BlockTy Entry) : Entry(Entry) {}
   BlockTy getEntry() { return Entry; }
 };
 
@@ -233,13 +233,11 @@
 /// implicitly have their parent region's successors. This ensures all blocks in
 /// a region are visited before any blocks in a successor region when doing a
 /// reverse post-order traversal of the graph.
-template <>
-struct GraphTraits<VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>> {
+template <> struct GraphTraits<VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>> {
   using NodeRef = VPBlockBase *;
   using ChildIteratorType = VPAllSuccessorsIterator<VPBlockBase *>;
 
-  static NodeRef
-  getEntryNode(VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *> N) {
+  static NodeRef getEntryNode(VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *> N) {
     return N.getEntry();
   }
 
@@ -253,12 +251,12 @@
 };
 
 template <>
-struct GraphTraits<VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *>> {
+struct GraphTraits<VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *>> {
   using NodeRef = const VPBlockBase *;
   using ChildIteratorType = VPAllSuccessorsIterator<const VPBlockBase *>;
 
   static NodeRef
-  getEntryNode(VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *> N) {
+  getEntryNode(VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *> N) {
     return N.getEntry();
   }
 
@@ -330,6 +328,18 @@
   return depth_first(VPBlockShallowTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *>(G));
 }
 
+/// Returns an iterator range to traverse the graph starting at \p G in
+/// depth-first order while traversing through region blocks.
+inline iterator_range<df_iterator<VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>>>
+vp_depth_first_deep(VPBlockBase *G) {
+  return depth_first(VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>(G));
+}
+inline iterator_range<
+    df_iterator<VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *>>>
+vp_depth_first_deep(const VPBlockBase *G) {
+  return depth_first(VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *>(G));
+}
+
 } // namespace llvm
 
 #endif // LLVM_TRANSFORMS_VECTORIZE_VPLANCFG_H
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanTransforms.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanTransforms.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanTransforms.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanTransforms.cpp
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
     SmallPtrSetImpl<Instruction *> &DeadInstructions, ScalarEvolution &SE,
     const TargetLibraryInfo &TLI) {
 
-  ReversePostOrderTraversal<VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>>
-      RPOT(Plan->getEntry());
+  ReversePostOrderTraversal<VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>> RPOT(
+      Plan->getEntry());
   for (VPBasicBlock *VPBB : VPBlockUtils::blocksOnly<VPBasicBlock>(RPOT)) {
     VPRecipeBase *Term = VPBB->getTerminator();
     auto EndIter = Term ? Term->getIterator() : VPBB->end();
@@ -107,8 +107,7 @@
 }
 
 bool VPlanTransforms::sinkScalarOperands(VPlan &Plan) {
-  auto Iter = depth_first(
-      VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>(Plan.getEntry()));
+  auto Iter = vp_depth_first_deep(Plan.getEntry());
   bool Changed = false;
   // First, collect the operands of all predicated replicate recipes as seeds
   // for sinking.
@@ -229,9 +228,8 @@
   // replicate region with matching masks to process front. This is to avoid
   // iterator invalidation issues while merging regions.
   SmallVector<VPRegionBlock *, 8> WorkList;
-  for (VPRegionBlock *Region1 :
-       VPBlockUtils::blocksOnly<VPRegionBlock>(depth_first(
-           VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>(Plan.getEntry())))) {
+  for (VPRegionBlock *Region1 : VPBlockUtils::blocksOnly<VPRegionBlock>(
+           vp_depth_first_deep(Plan.getEntry()))) {
     if (!Region1->isReplicator())
       continue;
     auto *MiddleBasicBlock =
@@ -313,8 +311,8 @@
 
 bool VPlanTransforms::mergeBlocksIntoPredecessors(VPlan &Plan) {
   SmallVector<VPBasicBlock *> WorkList;
-  for (VPBasicBlock *VPBB : VPBlockUtils::blocksOnly<VPBasicBlock>(depth_first(
-           VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>(Plan.getEntry())))) {
+  for (VPBasicBlock *VPBB : VPBlockUtils::blocksOnly<VPBasicBlock>(
+           vp_depth_first_deep(Plan.getEntry()))) {
     auto *PredVPBB =
         dyn_cast_or_null<VPBasicBlock>(VPBB->getSinglePredecessor());
     if (PredVPBB && PredVPBB->getNumSuccessors() == 1)
@@ -404,8 +402,8 @@
 }
 
 void VPlanTransforms::removeDeadRecipes(VPlan &Plan) {
-  ReversePostOrderTraversal<VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>>
-      RPOT(Plan.getEntry());
+  ReversePostOrderTraversal<VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *>> RPOT(
+      Plan.getEntry());
 
   for (VPBasicBlock *VPBB : reverse(VPBlockUtils::blocksOnly<VPBasicBlock>(RPOT))) {
     // The recipes in the block are processed in reverse order, to catch chains
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanVerifier.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanVerifier.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanVerifier.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanVerifier.cpp
@@ -252,8 +252,7 @@
 bool VPlanVerifier::verifyPlanIsValid(const VPlan &Plan) {
   DenseMap<const VPBlockBase *, unsigned> BlockNumbering;
   unsigned Cnt = 0;
-  auto Iter = depth_first(
-      VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *>(Plan.getEntry()));
+  auto Iter = vp_depth_first_deep(Plan.getEntry());
   for (const VPBlockBase *VPB : Iter) {
     BlockNumbering[VPB] = Cnt++;
     auto *VPBB = dyn_cast<VPBasicBlock>(VPB);
@@ -298,8 +297,7 @@
 
   for (const VPRegionBlock *Region :
        VPBlockUtils::blocksOnly<const VPRegionBlock>(
-           depth_first(VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *>(
-               Plan.getEntry())))) {
+           vp_depth_first_deep(Plan.getEntry()))) {
     if (Region->getEntry()->getNumPredecessors() != 0) {
       errs() << "region entry block has predecessors\n";
       return false;
diff --git a/llvm/unittests/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanTest.cpp b/llvm/unittests/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanTest.cpp
--- a/llvm/unittests/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanTest.cpp
+++ b/llvm/unittests/Transforms/Vectorize/VPlanTest.cpp
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@
     VPBlockUtils::connectBlocks(VPBB2, VPBB4);
     VPBlockUtils::connectBlocks(VPBB3, VPBB4);
 
-    VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *> Start(VPBB1);
+    VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *> Start(VPBB1);
     SmallVector<const VPBlockBase *> FromIterator(depth_first(Start));
     EXPECT_EQ(4u, FromIterator.size());
     EXPECT_EQ(VPBB1, FromIterator[0]);
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@
     EXPECT_EQ(R1BB1, FromIterator[0]);
 
     // Depth-first.
-    VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *> Start(R1);
+    VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *> Start(R1);
     FromIterator.clear();
     copy(df_begin(Start), df_end(Start), std::back_inserter(FromIterator));
     EXPECT_EQ(8u, FromIterator.size());
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@
     VPBlockUtils::connectBlocks(R1, VPBB2);
 
     // Depth-first.
-    VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *> Start(VPBB1);
+    VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *> Start(VPBB1);
     SmallVector<VPBlockBase *> FromIterator(depth_first(Start));
     EXPECT_EQ(10u, FromIterator.size());
     EXPECT_EQ(VPBB1, FromIterator[0]);
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@
     VPBlockUtils::connectBlocks(VPBB1, R1);
 
     // Depth-first.
-    VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *> Start(VPBB1);
+    VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *> Start(VPBB1);
     SmallVector<VPBlockBase *> FromIterator(depth_first(Start));
     EXPECT_EQ(5u, FromIterator.size());
     EXPECT_EQ(VPBB1, FromIterator[0]);
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@
     VPBlockUtils::connectBlocks(R1, VPBB2);
 
     // Depth-first.
-    VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *> Start(VPBB1);
+    VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<VPBlockBase *> Start(VPBB1);
     SmallVector<VPBlockBase *> FromIterator(depth_first(Start));
     EXPECT_EQ(7u, FromIterator.size());
     EXPECT_EQ(VPBB1, FromIterator[0]);
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@
     EXPECT_EQ(VPBB1, FromIterator[6]);
 
     // Post-order, const VPRegionBlocks only.
-    VPBlockRecursiveTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *> StartConst(VPBB1);
+    VPBlockDeepTraversalWrapper<const VPBlockBase *> StartConst(VPBB1);
     SmallVector<const VPRegionBlock *> FromIteratorVPRegion(
         VPBlockUtils::blocksOnly<const VPRegionBlock>(post_order(StartConst)));
     EXPECT_EQ(3u, FromIteratorVPRegion.size());