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* [PATCH] arch:um: Only disable SSE on clang to work around old GCC bugs
@ 2023-03-18  4:15 David Gow
  2023-03-20 17:22 ` Vincenzo Palazzo
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: David Gow @ 2023-03-18  4:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Richard Weinberger, Anton Ivanov, Johannes Berg, Thomas Gleixner,
	Ingo Molnar, Nick Desaulniers, Nathan Chancellor, Miguel Ojeda,
	Roberto Sassu, SeongJae Park
  Cc: David Gow, linux-um, x86, llvm, rust-for-linux, kunit-dev, linux-kernel

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@huaweicloud.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-um/6df2ecef9011d85654a82acd607fdcbc93ad593c.camel@huaweicloud.com/
Tested-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com>
Tested-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@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
-- 
2.40.0.rc1.284.g88254d51c5-goog


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2023-03-31  8:25 ` David Gow
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