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

[Andrew Haley]

On 6/17/19 11:08 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> I think I suggested before to have a JVM knob which specifies a minimum
>> stack size for passing to libpthread.  This would be a rather
>> straightforward way to deal with applications which specify impossibly
>> small thread stacks without having to recompile them.  If users
>> encounter a problem and they are on 64-bit architectures, they can just
>> set that knob to 1 MiB because it's unlikely that they have to conserve
>> address space.
>
> I still stand behind this suggestion.

This is simple and has the considerable virtue of not needing any particular
handling of large page sizes.

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Andrew Haley
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