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The >> PTEs are already getting touched there, so the cachelines should be hot >> anyway. >> >> The granularity would only be 4k, but it would be so cheap that we could >> turn it on universally. It would also be 100% deterministic. >> >> There are, of course, more games that could be played with stack depth >> checks on normal interrupts or NMIs. But those would be less deterministic. > I mean, if we just memset64() the whole stack to 0x535441434b544f50 and > then searched the stack for the lowest word that wasn't that value at > process exit, we'd get a much more granular idea with vanishingly few > false positives. What I was going for was some first pass check that would be so ridiculously cheap that it could be turned on everywhere. Those 4 PTEs are going to be touched in the exit code path anyway, so there's not even any additional cache impact. But, yeah, if it needed to be more more fine-grained than pages, what you describe could 100% be done. But, at the cost of pulling in more cachelines. It's similar to what Vlastimil was pointing out: there's a lot of good info in the bottom of the stack long after it was popped. There is fine-graned usage data and probably some stack frame remnants that could point the finger at what code is to blame.