How are stacks of non-JavaThreads guarded?

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi David,



On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:54 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>
wrote:

> On 30/11/2015 5:01 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 28/11/15 07:55, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>>>
>>>> So, in JavaThread we establish stack guards (red and yellow zones). But
>>>> I
>>>> do not find anything similar for non JavaThread threads, e.g. VmThread?
>>>>
>>>
>>> There isn't, and I don't think it's possible because there is no
>>> reasonably portable way to recover from a stack overflow in C++.
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks for clarifying.
>>
>> But I don't even want to recover; a hard-and-fast crash is better than
>> running over whatever happens to be below the VmThread stack. Well,
>> something to mull over.
>>
>
> You will run into the libc guard pages as I understand it and get your
> hard-and-fast crash.
>
>
On AIX I disable the OS guard pages. That was the reason for my original
question. I guess I have
to revert this and analyze the original problem I tried to solve back when
I disabled the guard pages.

Kind Regards, Thomas



> The Java thread guard pages are for recovery purposes.
>
> David
> -----
>
> Regards, Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew.
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