Index: lib/Target/ARM/ARMParallelDSP.cpp
===================================================================
--- lib/Target/ARM/ARMParallelDSP.cpp
+++ lib/Target/ARM/ARMParallelDSP.cpp
@@ -165,9 +165,14 @@
   };
 }
 
-template<unsigned BitWidth>
+// MaxBitwidth: the maximum supported bitwidth of the elements in the DSP
+// instructions, which is set to 16. So here we should collect all i8 and i16
+// narrow operations.
+// TODO: we currently only collect i16, and will support i8 later, so that's
+// why we check that types are equal to MaxBitWidth, and not <= MaxBitWidth.
+template<unsigned MaxBitWidth>
 static bool IsNarrowSequence(Value *V, ValueList &VL) {
-  LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Is narrow sequence: "; V->dump());
+  LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Is narrow sequence? "; V->dump());
   ConstantInt *CInt;
 
   if (match(V, m_ConstantInt(CInt))) {
@@ -183,18 +188,20 @@
   bool isNarrow = false;
 
   if (match(V, m_Trunc(m_Value(Val)))) {
-    if (cast<TruncInst>(I)->getDestTy()->getIntegerBitWidth() == BitWidth)
-      isNarrow = IsNarrowSequence<BitWidth>(Val, VL);
+    if (cast<TruncInst>(I)->getDestTy()->getIntegerBitWidth() == MaxBitWidth)
+      return IsNarrowSequence<MaxBitWidth>(Val, VL);
   } else if (match(V, m_Add(m_Value(LHS), m_Value(RHS)))) {
     // TODO: we need to implement sadd16/sadd8 for this, which enables to
     // also do the rewrite for smlad8.ll, but it is unsupported for now.
     isNarrow = false;
   } else if (match(V, m_ZExtOrSExt(m_Value(Val)))) {
-    if (cast<CastInst>(I)->getSrcTy()->getIntegerBitWidth() == BitWidth)
+    if (cast<CastInst>(I)->getSrcTy()->getIntegerBitWidth() == MaxBitWidth)
       isNarrow = true;
-    else
+    else {
       LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Wrong SrcTy size of CastInst: " <<
                  cast<CastInst>(I)->getSrcTy()->getIntegerBitWidth());
+      return false;
+    }
 
     if (match(Val, m_Load(m_Value(Val)))) {
       auto *Ld = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(I->getOperand(0));
Index: test/CodeGen/ARM/smlad1.ll
===================================================================
--- test/CodeGen/ARM/smlad1.ll
+++ test/CodeGen/ARM/smlad1.ll
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ; RUN: opt -mtriple=arm-arm-eabi -mcpu=cortex-m33 < %s -parallel-dsp -S | FileCheck %s
 
+; CHECK-LABEL: @test1
 ; CHECK:  %mac1{{\.}}026 = phi i32 [ [[V8:%[0-9]+]], %for.body ], [ 0, %for.body.preheader ]
 ; CHECK:  [[V4:%[0-9]+]] = bitcast i16* %arrayidx3 to i32*
 ; CHECK:  [[V5:%[0-9]+]] = load i32, i32* [[V4]], align 2
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@
 ; CHECK:  [[V7:%[0-9]+]] = load i32, i32* [[V6]], align 2
 ; CHECK:  [[V8]] = call i32 @llvm.arm.smlad(i32 [[V5]], i32 [[V7]], i32 %mac1{{\.}}026)
 
-define dso_local i32 @test(i32 %arg, i32* nocapture readnone %arg1, i16* nocapture readonly %arg2, i16* nocapture readonly %arg3) {
+define dso_local i32 @test1(i32 %arg, i32* nocapture readnone %arg1, i16* nocapture readonly %arg2, i16* nocapture readonly %arg3) {
 entry:
   %cmp24 = icmp sgt i32 %arg, 0
   br i1 %cmp24, label %for.body.preheader, label %for.cond.cleanup
@@ -48,3 +49,47 @@
   br i1 %exitcond, label %for.body, label %for.cond.cleanup
 }
 
+; Here we have i8 loads, which we do want to support, but don't handle yet.
+;
+; CHECK-LABEL: @test2
+; CHECK-NOT:   call i32 @llvm.arm.smlad
+;
+define dso_local i32 @test2(i32 %arg, i32* nocapture readnone %arg1, i8* nocapture readonly %arg2, i8* nocapture readonly %arg3) {
+entry:
+  %cmp24 = icmp sgt i32 %arg, 0
+  br i1 %cmp24, label %for.body.preheader, label %for.cond.cleanup
+
+for.body.preheader:
+  %.pre = load i8, i8* %arg3, align 2
+  %.pre27 = load i8, i8* %arg2, align 2
+  br label %for.body
+
+for.cond.cleanup:
+  %mac1.0.lcssa = phi i32 [ 0, %entry ], [ %add11, %for.body ]
+  ret i32 %mac1.0.lcssa
+
+for.body:
+  %mac1.026 = phi i32 [ %add11, %for.body ], [ 0, %for.body.preheader ]
+  %i.025 = phi i32 [ %add, %for.body ], [ 0, %for.body.preheader ]
+  %arrayidx = getelementptr inbounds i8, i8* %arg3, i32 %i.025
+  %0 = load i8, i8* %arrayidx, align 2
+  %add = add nuw nsw i32 %i.025, 1
+  %arrayidx1 = getelementptr inbounds i8, i8* %arg3, i32 %add
+  %1 = load i8, i8* %arrayidx1, align 2
+  %arrayidx3 = getelementptr inbounds i8, i8* %arg2, i32 %i.025
+  %2 = load i8, i8* %arrayidx3, align 2
+  %conv = sext i8 %2 to i32
+  %conv4 = sext i8 %0 to i32
+  %mul = mul nsw i32 %conv, %conv4
+  %arrayidx6 = getelementptr inbounds i8, i8* %arg2, i32 %add
+  %3 = load i8, i8* %arrayidx6, align 2
+  %conv7 = sext i8 %3 to i32
+  %conv8 = sext i8 %1 to i32
+  %mul9 = mul nsw i32 %conv7, %conv8
+  %add10 = add i32 %mul, %mac1.026
+  %add11 = add i32 %add10, %mul9
+  %exitcond = icmp ne i32 %add, %arg
+  br i1 %exitcond, label %for.body, label %for.cond.cleanup
+}
+
+