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authorCupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com>2023-04-14 16:12:20 +0100
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2023-04-20 13:54:24 -0300
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Created tunable to force small pages on stack allocation.
Created tunable glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb to control when hugepages can be used for stack allocation. In case THP are enabled and glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb is set to 0, glibc will madvise the kernel not to use allow hugepages for stack allocations. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Major new features:
* PRIb* and PRIB* macros from C2X have been added to <inttypes.h>.
+* A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
+ Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
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Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the