[Python-checkins] bpo-18049: Sync thread stack size to main thread size on macOS (GH-14748)

[Miss Islington (bot)]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8399641c34d8136c3151fda6461cc4727a20b28e
commit: 8399641c34d8136c3151fda6461cc4727a20b28e
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-08-01T07:38:57-07:00
summary:

bpo-18049: Sync thread stack size to main thread size on macOS (GH-14748)


This changeset increases the default size of the stack
for threads on macOS to the size of the stack
of the main thread and reenables the relevant
recursion test.
(cherry picked from commit 1a057bab0f18d6ad843ce321d1d77a4819497ae4)

Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-07-13-15-58-18.bpo-18049.MklhQQ.rst
M Lib/test/test_threading.py
M Python/thread_pthread.h
M configure
M configure.ac

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
index 0a0a62bdf9bf..ac4e7a7e0f53 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
@@ -1049,8 +1049,6 @@ def test_releasing_unacquired_lock(self):
         lock = threading.Lock()
         self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, lock.release)
 
-    @unittest.skipUnless(sys.platform == 'darwin' and test.support.python_is_optimized(),
-                         'test macosx problem')
     def test_recursion_limit(self):
         # Issue 9670
         # test that excessive recursion within a non-main thread causes
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-07-13-15-58-18.bpo-18049.MklhQQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-07-13-15-58-18.bpo-18049.MklhQQ.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5af07cdb4119
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-07-13-15-58-18.bpo-18049.MklhQQ.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Increase the default stack size of threads from 5MB to 16MB on macOS, to
+match the stack size of the main thread. This avoids crashes on deep recursion
+in threads.
diff --git a/Python/thread_pthread.h b/Python/thread_pthread.h
index a36d16c19ead..994e35b2cc08 100644
--- a/Python/thread_pthread.h
+++ b/Python/thread_pthread.h
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
  */
 #if defined(__APPLE__) && defined(THREAD_STACK_SIZE) && THREAD_STACK_SIZE == 0
 #undef  THREAD_STACK_SIZE
-#define THREAD_STACK_SIZE       0x500000
+/* Note: This matches the value of -Wl,-stack_size in configure.ac */
+#define THREAD_STACK_SIZE       0x1000000
 #endif
 #if defined(__FreeBSD__) && defined(THREAD_STACK_SIZE) && THREAD_STACK_SIZE == 0
 #undef  THREAD_STACK_SIZE
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index cb5f130d38e0..3cd9b8866c72 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -9542,6 +9542,8 @@ then
 		# Issue #18075: the default maximum stack size (8MBytes) is too
 		# small for the default recursion limit. Increase the stack size
 		# to ensure that tests don't crash
+		# Note: This matches the value of THREAD_STACK_SIZE in
+		# thread_pthread.h
 		LINKFORSHARED="-Wl,-stack_size,1000000 $LINKFORSHARED"
 
 		if test "$enable_framework"
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b31ed242f1a8..a2088897fc13 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2694,6 +2694,8 @@ then
 		# Issue #18075: the default maximum stack size (8MBytes) is too
 		# small for the default recursion limit. Increase the stack size
 		# to ensure that tests don't crash
+		# Note: This matches the value of THREAD_STACK_SIZE in
+		# thread_pthread.h
 		LINKFORSHARED="-Wl,-stack_size,1000000 $LINKFORSHARED"
 
 		if test "$enable_framework"