@@ -60,4 +60,31 @@ int qemu_utimens(const char *path, const qemu_timespec *times);
bool is_daemonized(void);
+/**
+ * qemu_alloc_stack:
+ * @sz: size of required stack in bytes
+ *
+ * Allocate memory that can be used as a stack, for instance for
+ * coroutines. If the memory cannot be allocated, this function
+ * will abort (like g_malloc()). This function also inserts a
+ * guard page to catch a potential stack overflow. The memory
+ * for the guard page is deductated from stack memory so that
+ * the usable stack size is effectively sz bytes minus the size
+ * of one page.
+ *
+ * The allocated stack must be freed with qemu_free_stack().
+ *
+ * Returns: pointer to (the lowest address of) the stack memory.
+ */
+void *qemu_alloc_stack(size_t sz);
+
+/**
+ * qemu_free_stack:
+ * @stack: stack to free
+ * @sz: size of stack in bytes
+ *
+ * Free a stack allocated via qemu_alloc_stack().
+ */
+void qemu_free_stack(void *stack, size_t sz);
+
#endif
@@ -499,3 +499,51 @@ pid_t qemu_fork(Error **errp)
}
return pid;
}
+
+static size_t adjust_stack_size(size_t sz, size_t pagesz)
+{
+#ifdef _SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN
+ /* avoid stacks smaller than _SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN */
+ long min_stack_sz = sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN);
+ sz = MAX(MAX(min_stack_sz, 0), sz);
+#endif
+ /* adjust stack size to a multiple of the page size */
+ sz = ROUND_UP(sz, pagesz);
+ return sz;
+}
+
+void *qemu_alloc_stack(size_t sz)
+{
+ void *ptr, *guardpage;
+ size_t pagesz = getpagesize();
+ sz = adjust_stack_size(sz, pagesz);
+
+ ptr = mmap(NULL, sz, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
+ if (ptr == MAP_FAILED) {
+ abort();
+ }
+
+#if defined(HOST_IA64)
+ /* separate register stack */
+ guardpage = ptr + (((sz - pagesz) / 2) & ~pagesz);
+#elif defined(HOST_HPPA)
+ /* stack grows up */
+ guardpage = ptr + sz - pagesz;
+#else
+ /* stack grows down */
+ guardpage = ptr;
+#endif
+ if (mprotect(guardpage, pagesz, PROT_NONE) != 0) {
+ abort();
+ }
+
+ return ptr;
+}
+
+void qemu_free_stack(void *stack, size_t sz)
+{
+ size_t pagesz = getpagesize();
+ sz = adjust_stack_size(sz, pagesz);
+ munmap(stack, sz);
+}