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Fix handling of control flow instructions in convert_to_target() #11922

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This commit fixes an issue in the convert_to_target() function where it wasn't looking for control flow instructions in the proper location. Typically the control flow instructions are put in the supported_instructions field of the BackendConfiguration, but the convert_to_target() function was ignoring this field. This commit updates the function to check supported_instructions for the control flow instructions. It doesn't more broadly look at the supported_instructions field, because on other backends this field is used to list the supported pulse instructions which might have name conflicts with other instructions and cause issues building a target.

This is the spiritual backport of #11877, but because the state of the convert_to_target() function on stable/0.46 is very different very little code is carried over from the version on main and stable/1.0, basically only the tests. This is actually closer in implementation to the equivalent PR on qiskit-ibm-runtime: Qiskit/qiskit-ibm-runtime#1443 as the internal conversion function in that repository is very similar to the function on the stable/0.46 branch.

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This commit fixes an issue in the convert_to_target() function where it
wasn't looking for control flow instructions in the proper location.
Typically the control flow instructions are put in the
supported_instructions field of the BackendConfiguration, but the
convert_to_target() function was ignoring this field. This commit
updates the function to check supported_instructions for the control
flow instructions. It doesn't more broadly look at the
supported_instructions field, because on other backends this field is
used to list the supported pulse instructions which might have name
conflicts with other instructions and cause issues building a target.

This is the spiritual backport of Qiskit#11877, but because the state of the
convert_to_target() function on stable/0.46 is very different very
little code is carried over from the version on main and stable/1.0,
basically only the tests. This is actually closer in implementation to
the equivalent PR on qiskit-ibm-runtime: Qiskit/qiskit-ibm-runtime#1443
as the internal conversion function in that repository is very similar
to the function on the stable/0.46 branch.
@mtreinish mtreinish added the Changelog: Bugfix Include in the "Fixed" section of the changelog label Feb 29, 2024
@mtreinish mtreinish added this to the 0.46.1 milestone Feb 29, 2024
@mtreinish mtreinish requested review from jyu00 and a team as code owners February 29, 2024 11:57
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This looks clear and sensible to me. Thanks for making a clean PR for the backport.

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1ucian0 commented Feb 29, 2024

spiritual backport of #11877

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@jakelishman jakelishman added this pull request to the merge queue Feb 29, 2024
Merged via the queue into Qiskit:stable/0.46 with commit f42643f Feb 29, 2024
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