[PATCH] arch:um: Only disable SSE on clang to work around old GCC bugs

[Arthur Grillo Queiroz Cabral]

On 18/03/23 01:15, 'David Gow' via KUnit Development wrote:
> As part of the Rust support for UML, we disable SSE (and similar flags)
> to match the normal x86 builds. This both makes sense (we ideally want a
> similar configuration to x86), and works around a crash bug with SSE
> generation under Rust with LLVM.
> 
> However, this breaks compiling stdlib.h under gcc < 11, as the x86_64
> ABI requires floating-point return values be stored in an SSE register.
> gcc 11 fixes this by only doing register allocation when a function is
> actually used, and since we never use atof(), it shouldn't be a problem:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99652
> 
> Nevertheless, only disable SSE on clang setups, as that's a simple way
> of working around everyone's bugs.
> 
> Fixes: 884981867947 ("rust: arch/um: Disable FP/SIMD instruction to match x86")
> Reported-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huaweicloud.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-um/6df2ecef9011d85654a82acd607fdcbc93ad593c.camel@huaweicloud.com/
> Tested-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huaweicloud.com>
> Tested-by: SeongJae Park <sj at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow at google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Makefile.um | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile.um b/arch/x86/Makefile.um
> index b70559b821df..2106a2bd152b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Makefile.um
> +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile.um
> @@ -3,9 +3,14 @@ core-y += arch/x86/crypto/
>  
>  #
>  # Disable SSE and other FP/SIMD instructions to match normal x86
> +# This is required to work around issues in older LLVM versions, but breaks
> +# GCC versions < 11. See:
> +# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99652
>  #
> +ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG),y)
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx
>  KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += -Ctarget-feature=-sse,-sse2,-sse3,-ssse3,-sse4.1,-sse4.2,-avx,-avx2
> +endif
>  
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_32),y)
>  START := 0x8048000

Tested-by: Arthur Grillo <arthurgrillo at riseup.net>