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Google "stack engine". Huge portions of the chip are dedicated to this; if it makes you feel better you can think of it as fully associative store buffers optimized for stack like access. And all of this is completely separate from regular LSUs.

There's a reason why SP was promoted to a first class citizen in AArch64 when they were otherwise removing features like conditional execution.

That's also the reason why using RSP as a GPR on x86 gives you terrible perf compared to the other registers, it flips back and forth between the stack engine and the rest of the core and has to manually synchronize in ucode.

EDIT: Also, the stack is different to the OS generally too. On Linux you throw in the flags MAP_GROWSDOWN | MAP_STACK when building a new stack.