The end goal of this series of patches is to enable 64bit vector modes for TARGET_ARRAY_MODE_SUPPORTED_P, achieved in the last patch. At present, doing so causes ICEs with illegal subregs (e.g. returning the middle bits from a large int mode covering 3 vectors); the patchset avoids these by first removing EImode (192 bits = 24 bytes = 1.5 vector registers), which is currently used for 24-byte quantities transferred to/from memory by some {ld,st}3_lane instrinsics. There is no real need to use EImode here, it's only real purpose is that it has size 24 bytes, so we can use BLKmode instead as long as we explicitly set the size.
Patches 5-6 extend the same BLKmode treatment to {ld,st}{2,4}, allowing all the expander patterns to combined in patch 7; these are not essential to the end goal but it seemed good to be consistent. Patch 1 is a driveby, and stands in its own right.