Patch is fixing assertion raised in case of copying 64-bit register into 32-bit one and vice versa. This assertion is raised in case when -mcpu=mips64r6 and -mattr=micromips are set for llc.
There are two test cases that are triggering this assertion. Test test/CodeGen/Mips/micromips-addiu.ll is for a case of copying 64-bit into 32-bit register and test test/CodeGen/Mips/micromips-gp-rc.ll is for a case of copying 32-bit into 64-bit register.
What is the goal of this test? Currently, you are testing for lw16 and the base register $2, but I don't see the motivation behind this.