Re: [PATCH] mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 04-07-17 10:41:22, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 03-07-17 17:05:27, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Firstly, some Rust programs are crashing on ppc64el with 64 KiB pages.
> > > Apparently Rust maps its own guard page at the lower limit of the stack
> > > (determined using pthread_getattr_np() and pthread_attr_getstack()).  I
> > > don't think this ever actually worked for the main thread stack, but it
> > > now also blocks expansion as the default stack size of 8 MiB is smaller
> > > than the stack gap of 16 MiB.  Would it make sense to skip over
> > > PROT_NONE mappings when checking whether it's safe to expand?
> 
> This is what my workaround for the older patch was doing, actually. We
> have deployed that as a follow up fix on our older code bases. And this
> has fixed verious issues with Java which was doing the similar thing.

Here is a forward port (on top of the current Linus tree) of my earlier
patch. I have dropped a note about java stack trace because this would
most likely be not the case with the Hugh's patch. The problem is the
same in principle though. Note I didn't get to test this properly yet
but it should be pretty much obvious.
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