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Problem

• On Windows, the first Bun.file(path).text() or Bun.$ of a process commits 32.5 MiB. Each of libuv's 4 pool threads commits its 8 MiB stack.
• The cause: libuv's uv_thread_create_ex (src/win/thread.c:143) passes the size without STACK_SIZE_PARAM_IS_A_RESERVATION, so Windows commits it.
• No issue or user report exists. CI of Clamp UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE and GOMAXPROCS from the process environment to [2, 1024] #47348 found it.

Fix

• Add patches/libuv/win-thread-stack-reservation.patch, the hunk of upstream win: treat explicit stack size as reservation libuv/libuv#5279. A stack size is then the size to reserve.
• A pool thread commits 2.1 MiB, not 8.1 MiB: less commit charge, not a fixed crash.
• Verified: test/js/bun/windows/libuv-thread-stack.test.ts on both Windows lanes. It fails without the fix.
• Self-reviewed: 14 concerns raised, 14 addressed (in this text and the merge plan).

Background

• A Windows stack has a reserve (address space) and a commit (charged against RAM plus page file). Windows starts no thread it cannot charge.
• Bun links libuv on Windows only, and exports uv_thread_create_ex to native addons.
• Considered a fork cherry-pick first (cherry-pick: win: reserve explicit thread stack size (libuv#5279) libuv#19: no merge in 7 days) and a pool-only change (the export stays wrong).

Downsides

• A pool thread still commits 2.1 MiB, from bun.exe's header, until windows: commit one page of stack per thread and check the stack sizes of the linked exe #45094 (then 0.15 to 0.18 MiB, measured).
• A pool thread has 8 MiB of stack, not 18 MiB, and an addon thread the size it asks for. One that asks for under 2 MiB commits 2.0 MiB until windows: commit one page of stack per thread and check the stack sizes of the linked exe #45094.
• Code: 3 more instructions for each thread creation, 256 bytes of .text, no change in file size.

Notes

Demand

• No GitHub issue and no user report names this site. The CI of Clamp UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE and GOMAXPROCS from the process environment to [2, 1024] #47348 found it (build 135182, five pools of 1024 threads at once), and windows: commit one page of stack per thread and check the stack sizes of the linked exe #45094 first wrote it down.
• The class is reported at other thread starts. Report a refused HTTP, bundle, IO or process waiter thread as an error instead of a crash #39864 counts 3,700 Sentry events of os error 1455 at the HTTP client thread. windows: commit one page of stack per thread and check the stack sizes of the linked exe #45094 counts 561 events in 90 days under WTF::Thread::create. None of those events is at libuv's pool.
• Those crashes are not fixed here. They come from the 2 MiB that the header of bun.exe commits for every thread, which windows: commit one page of stack per thread and check the stack sizes of the linked exe #45094 changes.
• What this PR changes is commit charge. The first async libuv request goes from 34.1 MB to 8.9 MB, and a pool of 1024 threads from a request of 8.7 GB to 2.3 GB.

How the numbers were taken

• Machines: the Windows test machines of CI, Server 2019 x64 and Windows 11 arm64. Each has 16 GiB of RAM and a commit limit of 18.87 GiB.
• Builds: the pin 80235811 with no fix in builds 135284 and 135460. The fix in builds 135428 and 135477. The sources of bun.exe are the same in all four, except for libuv.
• Those two builds took the fix from the pin aaffdcbd, the head of cherry-pick: win: reserve explicit thread stack size (libuv#5279) libuv#19. "Old pin" and "cherry-pick" below name these two states. The patch file gives the same src/win/thread.c as aaffdcbd: the build's fetch step applied it to 80235811 and the two files are equal.
• Method: a fresh bun process counts its threads (Toolhelp snapshot), reads its commit charge (PrivateUsage, which Bun.unsafe.memoryFootprint() returns on Windows) and its free address space (GlobalMemoryStatusEx), makes one call, and reads all three again.
• "One-page header" is a copy of the same bun.exe with SizeOfStackCommit set to 4096, the value that windows: commit one page of stack per thread and check the stack sizes of the linked exe #45094 links.
• Temporary test files printed the numbers to the CI log. They are in the branch history, last in c6930eb6fed, and are not in the diff.

Measured

• Commit for each libuv pool thread at pool start: 8,523,776 to 8,540,160 → 2,220,032 to 2,238,464 bytes (x64), 8,523,776 to 8,540,160 → 2,220,032 to 2,236,032 bytes (arm64). Default pool of 4: 34,095,104 to 34,160,640 → 8,880,128 to 8,953,856 bytes. With a one-page header: 156,672 to 192,256 bytes for each thread. With the old pin the header makes no difference (8,523,776 to 8,692,736).
• Reserved for each pool thread: 18,874,368 → 8,388,608 bytes on both machines.
• UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE=1024 with the cherry-pick: exit 0, 1024 threads, 2,283,278,336 to 2,284,187,648 bytes of commit (x64) and 2,287,132,672 to 2,287,849,472 (arm64). The call that starts the pool returns after 45 to 86 ms. With a one-page header: 170,086,400 to 174,063,616 bytes. I did not start this pool with the old pin. It asks for 1024 times 8.5 MB.
• bun-profile.exe: file +0 bytes and .text +256 bytes (x64). File +0 bytes, .text +128 bytes and .rdata +32 bytes (arm64).
• uv_thread_create_ex: 305 → 313 bytes of code (x64) and 324 → 460 bytes (arm64). On arm64 the compiler now repeats the stack cookie check at each exit of the function.
• uv_thread_create_ex, executed for each call with a stack size: +3 instructions (x64), +1 (arm64), +0 calls, +0 conditional branches. For a call without a size: +1 (x64), +0 (arm64).
• For each async libuv request: +0 instructions. The machine code of uv_queue_work, uv_cancel, uv_random, uv_getaddrinfo, uv_fs_statfs, uv_fs_open, uv_fs_close, uv_fs_read and uv_fs_write is the same in both builds, addresses aside. The total size of all functions with unwind data grows by 8 bytes on x64 (127,589 functions) and by 136 bytes on arm64 (140,613 functions). That is the growth of uv_thread_create_ex.
• Page faults over 10,000 fs.statfs callbacks, after 1,000 to warm up, 3 runs each: 2,613 to 2,663 → 2,599 to 2,649 (x64), 2,354 to 2,519 → 2,432 to 2,493 (arm64).
• A process that makes no async libuv request adds 0 threads in both. fs.stat with a callback runs on Bun's own pool: 2 threads and 2,125,824 to 2,154,496 bytes at return in both.

How the code was read: the test machines parsed the PE headers, the export table and .pdata of bun-profile.exe and printed the bytes of the exported functions (builds 135460 and 135477). I disassembled them with llvm-mc. I could not download the build artifacts, so no PDB was read: functions that bun.exe does not export (uv__work_submit, uv__fs_work) are covered only by the total.

uv_thread_create_ex with a stack size

For each thread, bun.exe as built, 8 threads that sleep. Both machines together.

Size asked	Committed, old pin	Committed, cherry-pick	Reserved, old pin	Reserved, cherry-pick
64 KiB	112,128 to 116,736	2,128,384 to 2,137,088	18,874,368	2,097,152
1 MiB	1,098,240 to 1,100,288	2,135,552 to 2,138,112	18,874,368	2,097,152
8 MiB	8,457,216 to 8,458,240	2,152,960 to 2,154,496	18,874,368	8,388,608
32 MiB	33,656,320 to 33,658,368	2,146,304 to 2,154,496	33,554,432	33,554,432
none	2,152,960 to 2,154,496	2,148,352 to 2,153,984	18,874,368	18,874,368

With a one-page header and the cherry-pick, the reserve is the size asked: 64 KiB commits 25,600 to 56,832 bytes, 1 MiB commits 35,840 to 59,904, 8 MiB commits 48,640 to 59,392.

Native addons

• A stack size that an addon gives to uv_thread_create_ex was the amount to commit of an 18 MiB stack. It is now the size to reserve. Upstream libuv has this since v1.53.0, and it is the meaning on Linux and macOS.
• dataweave-native on npm gives 16 MiB and 2 MiB (native-lib/node/src/addon.c in mulesoft/data-weave-cli). Its 2 MiB threads had 18 MiB of stack in Bun and now have 2 MiB.
• With the 2 MiB commit in the header of bun.exe, a size of 2 MiB or less gives a 2 MiB stack that is committed in full. Every thread of bun.exe that reserves 2 MiB or less has that stack today, for example a Rust thread of the default size. windows: commit one page of stack per thread and check the stack sizes of the linked exe #45094 measured it and changes it.
• Node.js v26.13.0 ships libuv 1.52.1, which does not have this change. node.exe reserves 8 MiB and commits 4096 bytes in its header.

Which calls start libuv's pool

Measured with UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE=24: a call that starts the pool adds 24 threads.

• These start it: fs.statfs(path, callback), fs.promises.open(), fs.createReadStream(), fs.createWriteStream(), Bun.file(path).text(), Bun.write(path, string), Bun.file(path).writer(), Bun.$ with echo hi, dns.promises.lookup("localhost"). The commit that each adds goes from about 205 MB to about 54 MB.
• These do not. They run on Bun's own pool and add 2 threads: fs.stat(path, callback), fs.promises.stat(), fs.promises.readFile(), fs.promises.writeFile(), fs.promises.readdir(), import(). Bun.spawn() adds 1 thread.

What this PR does not change

• init_threads still calls abort() when a thread does not start (libuv src/threadpool.c:245). Upstream v1.x has the same line. Bun aborts (panic: abort() called) when it cannot create a thread (EAGAIN), even while idle; Node reports spawn EAGAIN as an error #44787 is the open issue for an abort on a refused thread start.
• Clamp UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE and GOMAXPROCS from the process environment to [2, 1024] #47348 skips five UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE rows on Windows, after bun install scripts ended with "postinstall script exited with 9" in its build 135182. They stay skipped: five pools of 1024 threads at once still ask for 10.6 GiB.
• That exit code is the abort(). crash_handler(windows): report abort() and int3 crashes, exit with the crash's own status #38860 (open) makes the crash handler report abort() on Windows, and spawn: preserve full 32-bit exit codes on Windows #33720 (open) keeps the full exit code of a child.
• The fork still lacks 33 of the 36 upstream commits to src/win and src/threadpool.c between its base and libuv v1.53.0. This PR takes one commit. It is not a sync.
• POSIX: Bun does not build libuv there.
• Remove libuv on Windows #42819 (remove libuv on Windows) was closed on 2026-11-01 without a merge.

Test

• No test file covers libuv's pool or its thread creation on Windows. The test is a new file in test/js/bun/windows/.
• Each test starts threads that ask for 8 MiB. One starts 16 pool threads with fs.statfs(path, callback) and UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE=16. The other starts 8 threads with the exported uv_thread_create_ex through bun:ffi. For each thread it expects less than 4 MiB committed, and more than 4 MiB and less than 16 MiB reserved.
• Old pin, build 135460, 4 of 4 attempts on each lane: 8,523,776 to 8,632,320 bytes committed and 18,874,368 reserved. Cherry-pick, builds 135477 and 135497: 2,220,032 to 2,323,968 committed and 8,388,608 reserved.

The patch file and the fork

• This PR needs no merge on the fork. LIBUV_COMMIT is the same as on main, and the hunk is a patch file, the way Hardening: fix crashes across the runtime, bundler, dev server, shell and CLI #46021 landed two other libuv fixes.
• The first version of this PR pinned aaffdcbd, the head of cherry-pick: win: reserve explicit thread stack size (libuv#5279) libuv#19. I asked for that merge on 2026-10-30. It was still open on 2026-11-05, the date this text gave for the change to a patch file.
• cherry-pick: win: reserve explicit thread stack size (libuv#5279) libuv#19 stays open. When a later pin has that commit, the patch file must go: the build then stops at git apply (checked with the pin aaffdcbd: "Patch failed").
• scripts/build/workarounds.ts has an entry for the patch. When LIBUV_COMMIT changes, configure for Windows fails with the cleanup steps, before the fetch step.
• This PR and windows: commit one page of stack per thread and check the stack sizes of the linked exe #45094 are independent. They share no file, and the test passes with both headers.

Other designs

• A fork cherry-pick plus a pin bump (cherry-pick: win: reserve explicit thread stack size (libuv#5279) libuv#19) was the first choice: earlier upstream fixes reached Bun that way. It needs a merge on the fork, which has merged nothing since 2026-08-18. The patch file compiles the same code. Its limits: the fork keeps the old behaviour until test #19 merges, and a build with --local-deps applies no patches.
• No stack size in libuv's threadpool.c: the pool threads then commit the header's 2 MiB too, but keep the 18 MiB reserve, and the exported uv_thread_create_ex still commits the size of an addon. Upstream cannot take it.
• The header commit alone (windows: commit one page of stack per thread and check the stack sizes of the linked exe #45094): a pool thread still commits 8.1 MiB. Measured with the one-page header on the old pin.
• A rebase of the fork onto libuv v1.53.0: 180 upstream commits, with conflicts in src/win/process.c, src/win/tty.c and src/win/getaddrinfo.c. That is a dependency update of its own. This hunk is upstream's commit, so a later rebase drops the patch file.

Builds of this branch

• Build 137846 ran the head ae39d52a. The new test passed on both Windows lanes. For each pool thread: 2,234,368 to 2,281,216 bytes committed and 8,388,608 reserved. For each uv_thread_create_ex thread: 2,153,984 to 2,250,240 committed and 8,388,608 reserved.
• Build 137833 ran 437fbea1, the commit before the head: the patch file on main's pin, with main of 2026-11-05 merged in. Both Windows builds compiled libuv with the patch. The new test passed there on both Windows lanes, with 2,152,960 to 2,282,240 bytes committed for each thread.
• Both builds are red, and so is main. Each has 28 red test files, and each of those is also red in main's build 137822 of the same main commit (b1305ddc), which has 29. 27 are under test/aot/ and one is test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. On the two Windows lanes the one red test is test/aot/engine/ir-1.test.ts.
• Build 135497 ran 6e98b3a5, the last commit with the pin aaffdcbd. The new test passed on both Windows lanes. Three test/aot programs failed in that build, on lanes and in code that this change does not reach.

Self-review

• 2 of the 14 concerns were "should fix". The fork merge had no owner and no date. The re-pin rule checked one file, which also passes on a tree with win: add UV_PROCESS_WINDOWS_CREATE_NO_WINDOW and UV_PROCESS_WINDOWS_NO_JOB_OBJECT libuv#17 and Finish implementing React Fast Refresh transforms #18 in it. The answer to the first was a date, 2026-11-05, after which the hunk moves to a patch file. That date passed, so the second no longer applies.
• The other 12 asked for facts in this text: that no report exists, what the gain is, who owns the abort() that stays, the state of the fork, and the independence from windows: commit one page of stack per thread and check the stack sizes of the linked exe #45094.
• Not done: a measurement of the smallest commit headroom at which the default pool starts (optional), and follow-ups outside this PR (the abort() in init_threads, a list of the fork's missing upstream commits).
• The two bot reviews of the ready PR gave 4 findings. 3 are applied in ae39d52a. The fourth is the change of meaning for native addons. It is not applied, and its thread is open for a maintainer.

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no test proof · iteration 3 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/windows/libuv-thread-stack.test.ts

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^{Updated 5:07 PM PT - Nov 5th, 2026}

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[robobun]

Status: ready for review. The new test passes on both Windows lanes on the head commit. CI is red only in tests that are also red on main, so this PR needs a maintainer to review and merge it.

• Reproduction: test/js/bun/windows/libuv-thread-stack.test.ts on the Windows test machines (Server 2019 x64 and Windows 11 arm64), without the fix (build 135460). Each thread that asks for 8 MiB of stack commits 8.5 MB at start and has 18,874,368 bytes reserved. Both tests fail on both lanes.
• With the patch file, on the head commit ae39d52a (build 137846): each thread commits 2.2 to 2.3 MB and has 8,388,608 bytes reserved. Both tests pass on both lanes.
• CI is red because main is red. Each of the 28 red test files of build 137846 is also red in main's build 137822 of the same main commit (b1305ddc). They are test/aot tests and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts, which this diff does not reach. On the two Windows lanes the one red test is test/aot/engine/ir-1.test.ts.
• cherry-pick: win: reserve explicit thread stack size (libuv#5279) libuv#19 has the same commit for the fork and stays open. This PR does not wait for it.
• PR: deps(win): patch libuv so a thread's stack size is a reservation #47383

[coderabbitai]

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Walkthrough

The Windows libuv patch reserves explicitly sized thread stacks instead of committing the full stack size at thread startup. The build includes the patch and tracks the relevant libuv source pin. New Windows tests measure thread counts and memory changes for thread-pool threads and threads created with uv_thread_create_ex.

Changes

Windows thread stack reservation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Set and include the stack reservation flag patches/libuv/win-thread-stack-reservation.patch, scripts/build/deps/libuv.ts, scripts/build/workarounds.ts	uv_thread_create_ex adds STACK_SIZE_PARAM_IS_A_RESERVATION when a supplied stack size passes validation. The build includes the patch and documents its upstream reference and removal condition. A Windows workaround entry checks the libuv source pin and describes cleanup actions.
Measure and test Windows thread memory test/js/bun/windows/libuv-thread-stack-fixture.ts, test/js/bun/windows/libuv-thread-stack.test.ts	The fixture measures thread count, process commit, and available address space around thread startup. Tests check per-thread commit and reserved-address-space limits for the thread pool and uv_thread_create_ex.

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Merge Risk: Low · up to ae39d

Small-stack addons may use more memory, and the test does not verify the full requested reservation. The change is mergeable with awareness of these limitations.

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test/js/bun/windows/libuv-thread-stack.test.ts: 1

39-42: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff

Check the requested stack reservation size.

Both tests could pass a regression that reserves only 4 MiB per thread despite the 8 MiB request. Measure the stack reservations directly and assert that each covers the requested size. The process-wide address-space delta can include unrelated allocations.

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Review comment at @test/js/bun/windows/libuv-thread-stack.test.ts around lines
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Update the stack reservation assertions around
`startThreads("uv_thread_create_ex")` to verify each thread’s measured
reservation covers the requested 8 MiB stack size. Use direct per-thread
reservation measurements rather than the process-wide address-space delta, while
retaining the existing thread-count check.

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Review comments at @scripts/build/deps/libuv.ts:
- Around line 74-78: Register a Windows-scoped expectedToBeFixed check for the
temporary libuv thread-stack-reservation patch, keyed to whether LIBUV_COMMIT
includes the fix from oven-sh/libuv#19. Use the existing obsolescence-check
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Review comments at @test/js/bun/windows/libuv-thread-stack.test.ts:
- Around line 39-42: Update the stack reservation assertions around
`startThreads("uv_thread_create_ex")` to verify each thread’s measured
reservation covers the requested 8 MiB stack size. Use direct per-thread
reservation measurements rather than the process-wide address-space delta, while
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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that the hunk matches the upstream libuv/libuv#5279 change to uv_thread_create_ex (flags initialised to CREATE_SUSPENDED, STACK_SIZE_PARAM_IS_A_RESERVATION OR'd in only inside the explicit-size branch after the (unsigned)stack_size check) and that the patch file uses the same a//b/ header-only format as the four existing libuv patches, so it should apply the same way. The fixture's subprocess handling (await using, Promise.all over stdout/stderr/exited, stderr asserted before exit code) is fine, and the per-thread reserve derived from process-wide ullAvailVirtual was examined for CI noise and not flagged, since the 16 MiB bound sits well above the 8 MiB reservation.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds one vendored libuv patch for Windows thread creation, registers it in scripts/build/deps/libuv.ts, and adds a Windows-only fixture plus test that measure thread commit/reserve via bun:ffi calls into kernel32. It touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface. The inline findings already call for a human look, chiefly because the patch changes the meaning of the stack size that native addons pass to the exported uv_thread_create_ex, which is a compatibility decision for a maintainer.

[claude]

🟡 (optional) Native addons on Windows that create threads through bun.exe's exported uv_thread_create_ex can now crash with a stack overflow where they ran fine on the base branch. The new flags at patches/libuv/win-thread-stack-reservation.patch:20 make the requested size the reserve, so a thread that asks for 1 MiB gets 2 MiB of stack instead of the 18 MiB bun.exe's PE header reserved for it before. Any addon thread that recurses past its own request (common when a size was tuned against Linux glibc defaults or never tuned) now faults instead of growing into the old headroom. Fix: either keep a floor on the reserve for exported callers (e.g. max(requested, header reserve)) or call this out as a breaking change with a changelog entry and a test that exercises a sub-request stack use. [also at: patches/libuv/win-thread-stack-reservation.patch:21 - Windows addons that spawn many small-stack threads via uv_thread_create_ex now consume far more commit charge than on the base branch, and can fail with os error 1455 at thread creation.; patches/libuv/win-thread-stack-reservation.patch:29 - Windows napi addons that run heavy work through uv_queue_work now get a thread with 8 MiB of stack instead of 18 MiB, so a work callback that recursed deeper than 8 MiB on the base branch overflows after merge. libuv's pool threads request 8 MiB, and with the flags passed at…]

Why this was flagged

Trigger: a napi addon loaded on Windows calls uv_thread_create_ex (exported via src/symbols.def:46, routed in src/runtime/napi/napi_body.rs:4494) with UV_THREAD_HAS_STACK_SIZE and a size below what its entry function actually uses. On the base branch _beginthreadex at patches/libuv/win-thread-stack-reservation.patch:27 received only CREATE_SUSPENDED, so Windows committed the requested bytes but reserved the executable's SizeOfStackReserve (18 MiB per the PR's own table). With STACK_SIZE_PARAM_IS_A_RESERVATION ORed in at line 20, the reserve becomes the request rounded up to the 2 MiB header commit (PR table: 64 KiB and 1 MiB requests now reserve 2,097,152). An addon thread that used 3 MiB of stack after asking for 1 MiB worked on base and now hits the guard page and kills the process. The population is every Windows addon using the export, and no safeguard (no floor, no warning) exists in the diff. Remedy: floor the reserve at the header value for the exported path, or document and test the break.

Verification: Mechanism in patches/libuv/win-thread-stack-reservation.patch:20 (flags |= STACK_SIZE_PARAM_IS_A_RESERVATION;) and :27 (flags replaces CREATE_SUSPENDED in the _beginthreadex call): on the base the requested size was the commit and the reserve was the PE header's 18 MiB; after the patch the requested size is the reserve, so a thread that recurses past its own request now hits STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW where it ran on the base.

[robobun]

Not changed. This is the meaning that upstream libuv gave the size in 1.53.0 (libuv/libuv#5279). It is also the meaning on Linux and macOS, where a thread gets the stack size it asks for. An addon that uses more stack than it asks for fails there today. Node.js on Windows gets the same change when it takes libuv 1.53.

The cost is in the description under Downsides, with the measured numbers in the notes:

• A pool thread has 8 MiB of stack, not 18 MiB. libuv asks for 8 MiB on every platform.
• A thread from uv_thread_create_ex has the size it asks for, not 18 MiB. A size below 2 MiB gets 2 MiB and commits 2.0 MiB until windows: commit one page of stack per thread and check the stack sizes of the linked exe #45094.
• The one addon that I found with an explicit size is dataweave-native. It asks for 2 MiB and 16 MiB.

A floor at the reserve of the header keeps the old headroom. It is also a Bun-only change to libuv's helper, and no longer upstream's hunk. That choice is for a maintainer, so I leave this thread open.

[robobun]

Changes after the two bot reviews, in ae39d52:

• scripts/build/workarounds.ts has an entry for the patch. Configure fails with the cleanup steps when LIBUV_COMMIT changes.
• The fixture throws when Bun.unsafe.memoryFootprint() has no value. Before, the test read that as 0 bytes of commit and passed.
• Each test also expects more than 4 MiB reserved for a thread, next to the existing limit of 16 MiB. A reserve far below the 8 MiB that the thread asks for now fails.

Not done:

• A read of the stack range of each thread, as CodeRabbit proposed. It needs NtQueryInformationThread and offsets in the TEB that Windows does not document. The reserve read from the address space was 8,388,608 bytes for each thread in every run with the fix, and 18,874,368 in every run without it.
• The meaning of the stack size for native addons stays upstream's. The reasons are in that review thread, which I left open for a maintainer.

[claude]

I re-reviewed the latest commit (ae39d52) and found no bugs; because this changes the stack semantics of the uv_thread_create_ex that bun.exe exports to native addons, a human look at that ABI-facing decision is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed since the last pass:

• The fixture now throws when Bun.unsafe.memoryFootprint() is undefined, so the commit-charge assertions can no longer pass on a missing reading.
• The new workarounds.ts entry: the pinned commit matches LIBUV_COMMIT, applies is gated to Windows, the local-source kind short-circuits to false, and the deps/libuv.ts import adds no cycle (source.ts does not import workarounds.ts).
• Test bounds against the unfixed values: 8.5 MiB committed / 18 MiB reserved per thread on the base pin fall outside the <4 MiB and 4-16 MiB windows, so the test fails without the patch.

Extended reasoning...

The diff adds a 3-hunk source patch to vendored libuv (Windows only) that passes STACK_SIZE_PARAM_IS_A_RESERVATION to _beginthreadex when a stack size is given, registers it in the libuv Dependency's patches list and as a self-obsoleting workarounds.ts entry, and adds a Windows-only test plus FFI fixture that measures per-thread commit and reserve. It touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface; the exposure is a behavior change to an exported libuv symbol used by native addons and a build-graph change that refetches libuv on Windows lanes. The latest commit addressed the vacuous-measurement nit from the prior review and the workaround wiring checks out against the pin, so nothing new blocks; the ABI-facing semantics change for addon threads (already noted in the prior review and in the PR's own downsides) is a design call a maintainer should own rather than something to auto-approve. CODEOWNERS does not cover the changed paths.

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.