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 --- kernel/fork.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 44b0791b0a2..4c14942a0ee 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1114,8 +1114,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, p->bts = NULL; - p->stack_start = stack_start; - /* Perform scheduler related setup. Assign this task to a CPU. */ sched_fork(p, clone_flags); -- cgit v1.2.3