We have the related getSplatValue() already in IR (see code just above the proposed addition). But sometimes we only need to know that the value is a splat rather than capture the splatted scalar value. Also, we have an isSplatValue() function already in SDAG.
Motivation - recent bugs that would potentially benefit from improved splat analysis in IR:
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37428
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42174
Make it clear that this is more powerful than getSplatValue ?