The 08/10/2023 12:41, Mark Brown wrote:
On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 09:55:50AM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
The 08/09/2023 16:34, Mark Brown wrote:
It's actually based on bitrot that I'd initially chosen a smaller value since it's likely that functions will push at least something as you suggest, the patches now just use RLIMIT_STACK. I'll fix.
the pcs requires 16byte aligned stack frames, with 8byte per gcs entry there is no need for same gcs size as stack size in userspace.
I agree that it's going to be excessive for pretty much all applications, I adjusted it to match x86 as part of the general effort to avoid divergence and because I was a bit concerned about non-PCS cases (eg, JITed code) potentially running into trouble, especially with
is that even possible?
16byte alignment is not a convention but architectural: access via unaligned sp traps (at least in userspace).
it is possible to use bl such that the stack is not involved e.g. if there is no bl/ret pairing, but if we base the gcs size on the stack size then i'd expect one stack frame per bl/ret pair with 16byte alignment, or is there a programming model possible that uses 8byte stack per bl?
smaller stack limits. It's not an issue I have super strong opinions on though, as you can see I had implemented it both ways at various times.