diff --git a/cmake/system.cmake b/cmake/system.cmake
index 65e5aa508..61e73fb71 100644
--- a/cmake/system.cmake
+++ b/cmake/system.cmake
@@ -297,6 +297,14 @@ if (USE_SIMPLE_THREADED_LEVEL3)
   set(CCOMMON_OPT "${CCOMMON_OPT} -DUSE_SIMPLE_THREADED_LEVEL3")
 endif ()
 
+if (DEFINED MAX_STACK_ALLOC)
+if (NOT ${MAX_STACK_ALLOC} EQUAL 0)
+set(CCOMMON_OPT "${CCOMMON_OPT} -DMAX_STACK_ALLOC=${MAX_STACK_ALLOC}")
+endif ()
+else ()
+set(CCOMMON_OPT "${CCOMMON_OPT} -DMAX_STACK_ALLOC=2048")
+endif ()
+
 if (DEFINED LIBNAMESUFFIX)
   set(LIBPREFIX "libopenblas_${LIBNAMESUFFIX}")
 else ()