In ARMv4/v5 (non-thumb-mode) stack is purely a convention that hardware does not enforce. Nobody forces you to use r13 as the stack pointer or to make the stack descending. You can prototype your approach trivially with small changes to gcc and linux kernel. As this is a standard architectural feature, qemu and the like will support emulating this. And it would run fine on real hardware too. I'd read the paper you publish based on this.