[cherry-pick] AIX-related patches from the Faiss baseline

[alexanderguzhva]

Merge PRs facebookresearch/faiss#3345 and facebookresearch/faiss#3361 from the FAISS baseline

fyi @KamathForAIX

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All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 71.14%. Comparing base (3c46f4c) to head (4043fe8).
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