ARM: Reduce the stack requirements of GetNoCodeAgeSequence.

src/arm/codegen-arm.cc

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 #endif
 
 static byte* GetNoCodeAgeSequence(uint32_t* length) {
   // The sequence of instructions that is patched out for aging code is the
   // following boilerplate stack-building prologue that is found in FUNCTIONS
   static bool initialized = false;
   static uint32_t sequence[kNoCodeAgeSequenceLength];
   byte* byte_sequence = reinterpret_cast<byte*>(sequence);
   *length = kNoCodeAgeSequenceLength * Assembler::kInstrSize;
   if (!initialized) {
-    CodePatcher patcher(byte_sequence, kNoCodeAgeSequenceLength);
-    PredictableCodeSizeScope scope(patcher.masm(), *length);
-    patcher.masm()->PushFixedFrame(r1);
-    patcher.masm()->nop(ip.code());
-    patcher.masm()->add(fp, sp,
-                        Operand(StandardFrameConstants::kFixedFrameSizeFromFp));
+    // Since patcher is a large object, allocate it dynamically when needed,
+    // to avoid overloading the stack in stress conditions.
+    SmartPointer<CodePatcher>
+        patcher(new CodePatcher(byte_sequence, kNoCodeAgeSequenceLength));
+    PredictableCodeSizeScope scope(patcher->masm(), *length);
+    patcher->masm()->PushFixedFrame(r1);
+    patcher->masm()->nop(ip.code());
+    patcher->masm()->add(
+        fp, sp, Operand(StandardFrameConstants::kFixedFrameSizeFromFp));
     initialized = true;
   }
   return byte_sequence;
 }
 
 
 bool Code::IsYoungSequence(byte* sequence) {
   uint32_t young_length;
   byte* young_sequence = GetNoCodeAgeSequence(&young_length);
   bool result = !memcmp(sequence, young_sequence, young_length);
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     patcher.masm()->add(r0, pc, Operand(-8));
     patcher.masm()->ldr(pc, MemOperand(pc, -4));
     patcher.masm()->emit_code_stub_address(stub);
   }
 }
 
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal
 
 #endif  // V8_TARGET_ARCH_ARM