[CodeGen][AArch64] Ensure isSExtCheaperThanZExt returns true for negative constants

When we know the value we're extending is a negative constant then it
makes sense to use SIGN_EXTEND because this may improve code quality in
some cases, particularly when doing a constant splat of an unpacked vector
type. For example, for SVE when splatting the value -1 into all elements
of a vector of type <vscale x 2 x i32> the element type will get promoted
from i32 -> i64. In this case we want the splat value to sign-extend from
(i32 -1) -> (i64 -1), whereas currently it zero-extends from
(i32 -1) -> (i64 0xFFFFFFFF). Sign-extending the constant means we can use
a single mov immediate instruction.

New tests added here:

  CodeGen/AArch64/sve-vector-splat.ll

I believe we see some code quality improvements in these existing
tests too:

  CodeGen/AArch64/reduce-and.ll
  CodeGen/AArch64/unfold-masked-merge-vector-variablemask.ll

The apparent regressions in CodeGen/AArch64/fast-isel-cmp-vec.ll only
occur because the test disables codegen prepare and branch folding.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114357

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