I'm pretty sure that InstrEmitter::EmitSubregNode will take care of this itself by calling ConstrainForSubReg which in turn calls TRI->getSubClassWithSubReg.
I think Jakob Stoklund Olesen alluded to this in his commit message for r141207 which added the code to EmitSubregNode.
I want to do the same to the sub_8bit patterns too, but I hit a global isel failure.