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Reduce WASM_STACK_GUARD_SIZE a bit for posix-like platforms (bytecode…
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I found a few mistakes in my research on the stack consumption.
Update the comment and tweak WASM_STACK_GUARD_SIZE accordingly.

Signed-off-by: victoryang00 <victoryang00@ucsc.edu>
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yamt authored and victoryang00 committed May 2, 2024
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*
* - w/o hw bound check, the intepreter loop
*
* the classic interpreter wasm_interp_call_func_bytecode alone
* seems to consume about 2600 bytes stack.
* (with the default configuration for macOS/amd64)
* the stack consumption heavily depends on compiler settings,
* especially for huge functions like the classic interpreter's
* wasm_interp_call_func_bytecode:
*
* 200 bytes (release build, macOS/amd64)
* 2600 bytes (debug build, macOS/amd64)
*
* libc snprintf (used by eg. wasm_runtime_set_exception) consumes about
* 1600 bytes stack on macOS/amd64, about 2000 bytes on Ubuntu amd64 20.04.
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* Note: on platforms with lazy function binding, don't forget to consider
* the symbol resolution overhead on the first call. For example,
* on Ubuntu amd64 20.04, it seems to consume about 1500 bytes.
* For some reasons, macOS amd64 12.7.4 seems to resolve symbols eagerly.
* (Observed with a binary with traditional non-chained fixups.)
* The latest macOS seems to apply chained fixups in kernel on page-in time.
* (thus it wouldn't consume userland stack.)
*/
#ifndef WASM_STACK_GUARD_SIZE
#if WASM_ENABLE_UVWASI != 0
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/*
* Use a larger default for platforms like macOS/Linux.
*
* For example, wasm_interp_call_func_bytecode + wasm_runtime_set_exception
* would consume >4KB stack on x86-64 macOS.
* For example, the classic intepreter loop which ended up with a trap
* (wasm_runtime_set_exception) would consume about 2KB stack on x86-64
* macOS. On Ubuntu amd64 20.04, it seems to consume a bit more.
*
* Although product-mini/platforms/nuttx always overrides
* WASM_STACK_GUARD_SIZE, exclude NuttX here just in case.
*/
#if defined(__APPLE__) || (defined(__unix__) && !defined(__NuttX__))
#if BH_DEBUG != 0 /* assumption: BH_DEBUG matches CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug */
#define WASM_STACK_GUARD_SIZE (1024 * 5)
#else
#define WASM_STACK_GUARD_SIZE (1024 * 3)
#endif
#else
/*
* Otherwise, assume very small requirement for now.
*
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