On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:40:46 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:
> 
>   Update comment block to be precise about `SetThreadStackGuarantee()`

All tier 1, 2, and 3 HotSpot jtreg tests passed on both Windows/x64 and 
Windows/ARM64.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/32365#issuecomment-5384378649

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