From 34441427aab4bdb3069a4ffcda69a99357abcb2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Holt Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 14:06:46 -0700 Subject: 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//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 Cc: Stefani Seibold Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/proc/task_mmu.c') 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]"; -- cgit v1.2.2