Robin Holt 92d664daf9 revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits ... commit 34441427aa upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>		2010-05-26 14:29:19 -07:00
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acpi	ACPI: don't cond_resched if irq is disabled	2010-01-28 15:00:26 -08:00
asm-generic	dma-mapping: fix dma_sync_single_range_*	2010-05-26 14:29:14 -07:00
crypto	Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6	2009-09-11 09:38:37 -07:00
drm	drm/radeon/kms: add FireMV 2400 PCI ID.	2010-04-26 07:41:26 -07:00
keys	RxRPC: Use uX/sX rather than uintX_t/intX_t types	2009-09-16 00:01:13 -07:00
linux	revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits	2010-05-26 14:29:19 -07:00
math-emu
media	V4L/DVB (13019): video: initial support for ADV7180	2009-09-19 00:53:39 -03:00
mtd
net	mac80211: Retry null data frame for power save	2010-04-01 15:58:52 -07:00
pcmcia	PM / yenta: Split resume into early and late parts (rev. 4)	2009-11-03 10:54:58 +01:00
rdma	trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files	2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
rxrpc
scsi	SCSI: fc-transport: Use packed modifier for fc_bsg_request structure.	2010-04-26 07:41:30 -07:00
sound
trace	tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5	2010-05-12 14:57:14 -07:00
video	davinci-fb-frame-buffer-driver-for-ti-da8xx-omap-l1xx-v4	2009-09-23 07:39:51 -07:00
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