Re: [Xenomai] Dealing with too small thread stacks

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2015-04-17 19:34, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> analyzing page faults of an application that prefers to set its own
> stacks, I noticed a problem in Xenomai (2 and 3), at least from the
> usability POV: We document the minimum stack stack as PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
> + 1 page, at least in Xenomai 3, and we enforce that on thread creation.
> However, enforcement is doomed to fail if the stack is preallocated (and
> that too small).

Another aspect in this: I just realized that the glibc tends to ignore
our "+ getpagesize()" in the stack calculation. That's at least true for
the x86-64 systems with glibc 2.19 on which I tested.

Jan

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