On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 20:12:28 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stu...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request with a new target base due to
>> a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes
>> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional
>> commits since the last revision:
>>
>> - Merge branch 'master' into mprotect
>> - Made resexhaused001.004 manual tests. You can't reliably run these tests.
>> - 8253916: ResourceExhausted/resexhausted001 crashes on Linux-x64
>
> src/hotspot/share/runtime/stackOverflow.cpp line 109:
>
>> 107: }
>> 108:
>> 109: log_debug(os, thread)("Thread " UINTX_FORMAT " stack guard pages
>> activated: "
>
> I always was curious about this uncommit. I wondered whether it was a
> fallback for platforms where mprotect would not work on thread stacks. But
> then, why warn unconditionally?
Maybe the uncommit was an attempt to achieve the same thing as protecting the
pages, ie get a SEGV when accessing them. I don't know either.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1540
