diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/InstrEmitter.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/InstrEmitter.cpp
index 1f4256662031..3d3b504c6abd 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/InstrEmitter.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/InstrEmitter.cpp
@@ -317,8 +317,15 @@ InstrEmitter::AddRegisterOperand(MachineInstrBuilder &MIB,
       OpRC = TII->getRegClass(*II, IIOpNum, TRI, *MF);
 
     if (OpRC) {
+      unsigned MinNumRegs = MinRCSize;
+      // Don't apply any RC size limit for IMPLICIT_DEF. Each use has a unique
+      // virtual register.
+      if (Op.isMachineOpcode() &&
+          Op.getMachineOpcode() == TargetOpcode::IMPLICIT_DEF)
+        MinNumRegs = 0;
+
       const TargetRegisterClass *ConstrainedRC
-        = MRI->constrainRegClass(VReg, OpRC, MinRCSize);
+        = MRI->constrainRegClass(VReg, OpRC, MinNumRegs);
       if (!ConstrainedRC) {
         OpRC = TRI->getAllocatableClass(OpRC);
         assert(OpRC && "Constraints cannot be fulfilled for allocation");
diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/RISCV/rvv/implicit-def-copy.ll b/llvm/test/CodeGen/RISCV/rvv/implicit-def-copy.ll
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2aa01273d883
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/RISCV/rvv/implicit-def-copy.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+; NOTE: Assertions have been autogenerated by utils/update_mir_test_checks.py
+; RUN: llc < %s -mtriple=riscv64 -mattr=+v -stop-after=finalize-isel | FileCheck %s
+
+; Make sure we don't create a COPY instruction for IMPLICIT_DEF.
+
+define <vscale x 8 x i64> @vpload_nxv8i64(<vscale x 8 x i64>* %ptr, <vscale x 8 x i1> %m, i32 zeroext %evl) #1 {
+  ; CHECK-LABEL: name: vpload_nxv8i64
+  ; CHECK: bb.0 (%ir-block.0):
+  ; CHECK-NEXT:   liveins: $x10, $v0, $x11
+  ; CHECK-NEXT: {{  $}}
+  ; CHECK-NEXT:   [[COPY:%[0-9]+]]:gprnox0 = COPY $x11
+  ; CHECK-NEXT:   [[COPY1:%[0-9]+]]:vr = COPY $v0
+  ; CHECK-NEXT:   [[COPY2:%[0-9]+]]:gpr = COPY $x10
+  ; CHECK-NEXT:   $v0 = COPY [[COPY1]]
+  ; CHECK-NEXT:   [[DEF:%[0-9]+]]:vrm8nov0 = IMPLICIT_DEF
+  ; CHECK-NEXT:   [[PseudoVLE64_V_M8_MASK:%[0-9]+]]:vrm8nov0 = PseudoVLE64_V_M8_MASK [[DEF]], [[COPY2]], $v0, [[COPY]], 6 /* e64 */, 1 :: (load unknown-size from %ir.ptr, align 64)
+  ; CHECK-NEXT:   $v8m8 = COPY [[PseudoVLE64_V_M8_MASK]]
+  ; CHECK-NEXT:   PseudoRET implicit $v8m8
+  %load = call <vscale x 8 x i64> @llvm.vp.load.nxv8i64.p0nxv8i64(<vscale x 8 x i64>* %ptr, <vscale x 8 x i1> %m, i32 %evl)
+  ret <vscale x 8 x i64> %load
+}
+
+declare <vscale x 8 x i64> @llvm.vp.load.nxv8i64.p0nxv8i64(<vscale x 8 x i64>*, <vscale x 8 x i1>, i32)