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authorCupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com>2023-04-14 16:12:20 +0100
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2023-04-20 13:54:24 -0300
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Created tunable to force small pages on stack allocation.
Created tunable glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb to control when hugepages can be used for stack allocation. In case THP are enabled and glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb is set to 0, glibc will madvise the kernel not to use allow hugepages for stack allocations. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/nptl/allocatestack.c b/nptl/allocatestack.c
index c7adbccd6f..f9d8cdfd08 100644
--- a/nptl/allocatestack.c
+++ b/nptl/allocatestack.c
@@ -369,6 +369,12 @@ allocate_stack (const struct pthread_attr *attr, struct pthread **pdp,
if (__glibc_unlikely (mem == MAP_FAILED))
return errno;
+ /* Do madvise in case the tunable glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb is
+ set to 0, disabling hugetlb. */
+ if (__glibc_unlikely (__nptl_stack_hugetlb == 0)
+ && __madvise (mem, size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE) != 0)
+ return errno;
+
/* SIZE is guaranteed to be greater than zero.
So we can never get a null pointer back from mmap. */
assert (mem != NULL);