Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: bigger default stack

[Riku Voipio]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:46:27AM -0800, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:37:37PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > PTHREAD_STACK_MIN (16KB) is somewhat inadequate for a new stack. follow
> > the pthread_create defaults, ie setting to RLIMIT_STACK or if unlimited
> > to 2MB.
 
> For what sort oof cases is it inadequate?  This stack is just for QEMU's
> usage and QEMU shouldn't be using very much.  

QEMU linux-user calls glibc functions which, while usually very conservative
with memory usage, are not guaranteed not take less than 10KB (at do_syscall
we are already around 5 functions deep).

Our specific case we hit this is ugly, LD_PRELOAD library over glibc functions
with lots messy string handling... 

Riku