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diff --git a/include/llvm/Target/Target.td b/include/llvm/Target/Target.td
index 6e28f79694..9714172aa4 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Target/Target.td
+++ b/include/llvm/Target/Target.td
@@ -356,6 +356,15 @@ class Instruction {
// associated with them. Once we've migrated all of them over to true
// pseudo-instructions that are lowered to real instructions prior to
// the printer/emitter, we can remove this attribute and just use isPseudo.
+ //
+ // The intended use is:
+ // isPseudo: Does not have encoding information and should be expanded,
+ // at the latest, during lowering to MCInst.
+ //
+ // isCodeGenOnly: Does have encoding information and can go through to the
+ // CodeEmitter unchanged, but duplicates a canonical instruction
+ // definition's encoding and should be ignored when constructing the
+ // assembler match tables.
bit isCodeGenOnly = 0;
// Is this instruction a pseudo instruction for use by the assembler parser.