On Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:48:39 GMT, Ashay Rane <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Prior to this patch, the `StackYellowPages` and `StackRedPages`
>> influenced the total reserved stack memory, but they didn't change the
>> minimum stack size specified as required by HotSpot to Windows.  This
>> patch adds the call to `SetThreadStackGuarantee()` to set the minimum
>> stack size.
>> 
>> The key change here is that the argument to `SetThreadStackGuarantee()`
>> is set to one less than the total number of yellow pages.  The one less
>> page is because Windows uses a guard page (access to which tells Windows
>> to commit more stack pages); in the terminal case, we want the guard
>> page to coincide with the top-most yellow stack page, thus leaving all
>> except one yellow page available as the stack size.
>> 
>> Importantly, however, we do not use the red page count as the argument
>> to `SetThreadStackGurantee()`, since the red stack pages are unavailable
>> for handling recoverable overflows.  The red page count impacts the
>> _total reserved_ stack size, just not the _minimum_ stack size.  Still,
>> forcing the red stack page count to be included into the computation of
>> the argument to `SetThreadStackGurantee()` causes HotSpot to fail with
>> the assertion `assert(!in_vm) failed: Undersized StackShadowPages`,
>> since Windows is unable to commit more stack pages due to the minimum
>> stack size now being larger than just the yellow page count minus one.
>> 
>> The accompanying test passes zero to `SetThreadStackGuarantee()` to
>> probe the current minimum stack size, which we then compare against the
>> expected size based on the yellow page count.  The same test fails
>> without this patch on both Windows/x64 and on Windows/ARM64.
>> 
>> Validated this patch by running through all tier 1, 2, and 3 HotSpot
>> jtreg tests on Windows/x64 and Windows/ARM64 in FastDebug config.
>> 
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>
> Ashay Rane has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Handle EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW when yellow zone is unguarded
>   
>   The previous code did not handle a corner case that arises when HotSpot
>   receives `EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW` (since the guard page cannot be
>   moved further down) while already processing a recoverable overflow.  In
>   this case, the yellow and reserved zones are writable (as part of the
>   recoverable overflow), so we retry the same instruction.  If the
>   faulting probe reaches the red zone, we'll receive
>   `EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION`, which will be handled as an unrecoverable
>   overflow.

I still can't help but think we are conflating two different things here: the 
physical OS stackoverflow and the logical Java stackoverflow. The latter should 
just involve page protection bits and access violations, it should have nothing 
to do with `SetThreadStackGuarantee()` and `EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW`.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/32365#issuecomment-5861893762

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