From: Robin Holt Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:06:46 +0000 (-0700) Subject: revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits X-Git-Tag: v2.6.34~47 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=34441427aab4bdb3069a4ffcda69a99357abcb2e 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 --- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a4f30faa4f1f..1e359b62c40a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ address perms offset dev inode pathname 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/test 0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 -a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [threadstack:001ff4b4] +a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 @@ -352,7 +352,6 @@ is not associated with a file: [stack] = the stack of the main process [vdso] = the "virtual dynamic shared object", the kernel system call handler - [threadstack:xxxxxxxx] = the stack of the thread, xxxxxxxx is the stack size or if empty, the mapping is anonymous. diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c index 4b6ed03cc478..05448730f840 100644 --- a/fs/compat.c +++ b/fs/compat.c @@ -1531,8 +1531,6 @@ int compat_do_execve(char * filename, if (retval < 0) goto out; - current->stack_start = current->mm->start_stack; - /* execve succeeded */ current->fs->in_exec = 0; current->in_execve = 0; diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 49cdaa19e5b9..e6e94c626c2c 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1387,8 +1387,6 @@ int do_execve(char * filename, if (retval < 0) goto out; - current->stack_start = current->mm->start_stack; - /* execve succeeded */ current->fs->in_exec = 0; current->in_execve = 0; diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c index e51f2ec2c5e5..885ab5513ac5 100644 --- a/fs/proc/array.c +++ b/fs/proc/array.c @@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ #include #include #include -#include #include #include @@ -495,7 +494,7 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns, rsslim, mm ? mm->start_code : 0, mm ? mm->end_code : 0, - (permitted && mm) ? task->stack_start : 0, + (permitted && mm) ? mm->start_stack : 0, esp, eip, /* The signal information here is obsolete. 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]"; diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index dad7f668ebf7..2b7b81df78b3 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1497,7 +1497,6 @@ struct task_struct { /* bitmask of trace recursion */ unsigned long trace_recursion; #endif /* CONFIG_TRACING */ - unsigned long stack_start; #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR /* memcg uses this to do batch job */ struct memcg_batch_info { int do_batch; /* incremented when batch uncharge started */ diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 44b0791b0a2e..4c14942a0ee3 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);