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We have powerpc specific logic in our page fault handling to decide if
an access to an unmapped address below the stack pointer should expand
the stack VMA.
The code was originally added in 2004 "ported from 2.4". The rough
logic is that the stack is allowed to grow to 1MB with no extra
checking. Over 1MB the access must be within 2048 bytes of the stack
pointer, or be from a user instruction that updates the stack pointer.
The 2048 byte allowance below the stack pointer is there to cover the
288 byte "red zone" as well as the "about 1.5kB" needed by the signal
delivery code.
Unfortunately since then the signal frame has expanded, and is now
4224 bytes on 64-bit kernels with transactional memory enabled. This
means if a process has consumed more than 1MB of stack, and its stack
pointer lies less than 4224 bytes from the next page boundary, signal
delivery will fault when trying to expand the stack and the process
will see a SEGV.
The total size of the signal frame is the size of struct rt_sigframe
(which includes the red zone) plus __SIGNAL_FRAMESIZE (128 bytes on
64-bit).
The 2048 byte allowance was correct until 2008 as the signal frame
was:
struct rt_sigframe {
struct ucontext uc; /* 0 1440 */
/* --- cacheline 11 boundary (1408 bytes) was 32 bytes ago --- */
long unsigned int _unused[2]; /* 1440 16 */
unsigned int tramp[6]; /* 1456 24 */
struct siginfo * pinfo; /* 1480 8 */
void * puc; /* 1488 8 */
struct siginfo info; /* 1496 128 */
/* --- cacheline 12 boundary (1536 bytes) was 88 bytes ago --- */
char abigap[288]; /* 1624 288 */
/* size: 1920, cachelines: 15, members: 7 */
/* padding: 8 */
};
1920 + 128 = 2048
Then in commit
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.