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diff --git a/nptl/allocatestack.c b/nptl/allocatestack.c
index 2a5ac22..e8dfbbb 100644
--- a/nptl/allocatestack.c
+++ b/nptl/allocatestack.c
@@ -656,6 +656,15 @@ allocate_stack (const struct pthread_attr *attr, struct pthread **pdp,
return errno;
}
+ /* We've marked this guard region unwritable, but it's
+ possible it already became resident, the most common case
+ being transparent hugepages; if stack + guard (+ adjacent
+ mmap regions) were more than 2MB, the kernel might have
+ filled in a full hugepage when we touched the thread
+ descriptor above. This can waste a lot of memory; mark
+ the guard unused. This shouldn't fail, but if it does,
+ we can't really do anything about it so ignore it. */
+ madvise (guard, guardsize, MADV_DONTNEED);
pd->guardsize = guardsize;
}