revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits

Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index 070553427dd5..47f5b145f56e 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -247,25 +247,6 @@ static void show_map_vma(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
                                 } else if (vma->vm_start <= mm->start_stack &&
                                            vma->vm_end >= mm->start_stack) {
                                         name = "[stack]";
-                                } else {
-                                        unsigned long stack_start;
-                                        struct proc_maps_private *pmp;
-
-                                        pmp = m->private;
-                                        stack_start = pmp->task->stack_start;
-
-                                        if (vma->vm_start <= stack_start &&
-                                            vma->vm_end >= stack_start) {
-                                                pad_len_spaces(m, len);
-                                                seq_printf(m,
-                                                 "[threadstack:%08lx]",
-#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP
-                                                 vma->vm_end - stack_start
-#else
-                                                 stack_start - vma->vm_start
-#endif
-                                                );
-                                        }
                                 }
                         } else {
                                 name = "[vdso]";