Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm: Do not map the shadow stack as THP

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 05:57:57PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The default shadow stack size allocated on first prctl() for the main
> thread or subsequently on clone() is either half of RLIMIT_STACK or half
> of a thread's stack size (for arm64). Both of these are likely to be
> suitable for a THP allocation and the kernel is more aggressive in
> creating such mappings. However, it does not make much sense to use a
> huge page. It didn't make sense for the normal stacks either, see commit
> c4608d1bf7c6 ("mm: mmap: map MAP_STACK to VM_NOHUGEPAGE").

Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>

The create THP and immediately splitting it pattern is very clear when
checking the mm behaviour on new GCSs, this should help performance.

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