Re: [Xen-devel] Regression with commit 095497ffc66b7f031

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/07/2016 12:07, Peter Lieven wrote:
> Am 15.07.2016 um 12:02 schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>>
>> On 15/07/2016 10:47, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> Nothing scaring and no real difference between working and not working
>>> variant.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile I've been digging a little bit deeper and found the reason:
>>> libxenstore is setting up a reader thread which is waiting for the
>>> watch to fire. With above commit the stack size of that thread (16kB)
>>> is too small. Setting it to 32kB made qemu work again.
>> This makes very little sense (not your fault)...  The commit doesn't
>> change stack usage at all, TLS should not be on the stack.
> 
> But we still allocate the VncPalette for every thread, right? Even
> if it has nothing todo with VNC.

Yes, I'm just trying to understand the root cause.  Which is that glibc
actually does carve out TLS space from the requested stack size.  That
means that a program that has a lot of TLS variables, or has big TLS
variables, will fail in weird ways.

So that's two reasons why your patch is okay. :)

Paolo

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