Index: lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCISelLowering.cpp
===================================================================
--- lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCISelLowering.cpp
+++ lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCISelLowering.cpp
@@ -6609,11 +6609,17 @@
 /// \brief Analyze profitability of direct move
 /// prefer float load to int load plus direct move
 /// when there is no integer use of int load
-static bool directMoveIsProfitable(const SDValue &Op) {
+static bool directMoveIsProfitable(const SDValue &Op, int cpu) {
   SDNode *Origin = Op.getOperand(0).getNode();
   if (Origin->getOpcode() != ISD::LOAD)
     return true;
 
+  // Power8 has MTVSRWZ but no LXSIBZX/LXSIHZX,
+  // so prefer direct move if the memory size is 1 or 2 bytes.
+  MachineMemOperand *MMO = cast<LoadSDNode>(Origin)->getMemOperand();
+  if (cpu == PPC::DIR_PWR8 && MMO->getSize() <= 2)
+    return true;
+
   for (SDNode::use_iterator UI = Origin->use_begin(),
                             UE = Origin->use_end();
        UI != UE; ++UI) {
@@ -6698,7 +6704,8 @@
 
   // If we have direct moves, we can do all the conversion, skip the store/load
   // however, without FPCVT we can't do most conversions.
-  if (Subtarget.hasDirectMove() && directMoveIsProfitable(Op) &&
+  if (Subtarget.hasDirectMove() &&
+      directMoveIsProfitable(Op, Subtarget.getDarwinDirective()) &&
       Subtarget.isPPC64() && Subtarget.hasFPCVT())
     return LowerINT_TO_FPDirectMove(Op, DAG, dl);
 
Index: test/CodeGen/PowerPC/pr31144.ll
===================================================================
--- test/CodeGen/PowerPC/pr31144.ll
+++ test/CodeGen/PowerPC/pr31144.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+; RUN: llc -mtriple=powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu -mcpu=pwr8 -mattr=+vsx < %s | FileCheck %s
+
+declare void @bar(double)
+
+define void @foo1(i8* %p) {
+entry:
+  %0 = load i8, i8* %p, align 1
+  %conv = uitofp i8 %0 to double
+  call void @bar(double %conv)
+  ret void
+
+; CHECK-LABEL: @foo1
+; CHECK:     mtvsrwz
+; CHECK-NOT: lxsiwzx
+}
+
+define void @foo2(i16* %p) {
+entry:
+  %0 = load i16, i16* %p, align 2
+  %conv = uitofp i16 %0 to double
+  call void @bar(double %conv)
+  ret void
+
+; CHECK-LABEL: @foo2
+; CHECK:       mtvsrwz
+; CHECK-NOT:   lxsiwzx
+}
+