RFR: 8225035: Thread stack size issue caused by large TLS size

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 6:51 PM Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 6/12/19 5:05 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>
> > I am currently trying to find out the answer to my original
> > question: what - in this figure
> > (
> https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/817-1984/6mhm7plaa/index.html#chapter8-fig-1
> > - I assume that is the correct one for x64?) - is located on the
> > thread stack, and where.
>
> The stuff on the left-hand side of that diagram is on the thread stack,
> the rest is
> dynamically allocated elsewhere.
>
>
Does that mean that TLS from libjvm.so or JNI libraries does not live on
thread stacks, since those libraries are dynamically loaded and therefore
would be allocated elsewhere (right side of the picture)?


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