Robin Holt 34441427aa 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>		2010-05-11 17:33:41 -07:00
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ABI	USB: Fix documentation for avoid_reset_quirk	2010-03-19 07:24:11 -07:00
accounting	Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGS	2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
acpi	ACPI: support customizing ACPI control methods at runtime	2009-12-11 01:50:08 -05:00
aoe	aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devices	2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
arm	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial	2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
auxdisplay	includecheck fix: Documentation, cfag12864b-example.c	2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
blackfin	Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the gptimers API	2009-12-15 00:15:04 -05:00
block	Documentation: fix block/biodoc.txt dma mapping description	2010-03-08 09:11:07 +01:00
blockdev	The DRBD driver	2009-10-01 21:17:49 +02:00
cdrom	ide: doc: remove compilation options section from ide-cd documentation	2009-12-13 20:41:53 -08:00
cgroups	cgroups: fix procs documentation	2010-04-24 11:31:25 -07:00
connector	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
console	doc: fix console doc typo	2010-02-24 13:51:32 +01:00
cpu-freq	[CPUFREQ] Processor Clocking Control interface driver	2010-01-13 10:55:16 -05:00
cpuidle	cpuidle: Add Documentation	2008-02-14 00:16:13 -05:00
cris	fix random typos	2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
crypto	async_tx: add support for asynchronous RAID6 recovery operations	2009-08-29 19:09:27 -07:00
development-process	docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document	2009-06-04 10:32:49 -06:00
device-mapper	dm: document when snapshot has finished merging	2010-03-06 02:29:56 +00:00
DocBook	libata: Fix several inaccuracies in developer's guide	2010-05-05 14:48:27 -04:00
driver-model	Fix spelling of 'platform' in comments and doc	2010-02-05 12:22:34 +01:00
dvb	V4L/DVB: get_dvb_firmware: Fix typo, sort list of components	2010-02-26 15:10:56 -03:00
early-userspace	Documentation: Remove last references to BitKeeper.	2008-04-21 22:19:05 +00:00
fault-injection	lkdtm: add debugfs access and loosen KPROBE ties	2010-03-06 11:26:32 -08:00
fb	fbdev: rename imacfb.txt to efifb.txt and change imacfb to efifb.	2010-04-07 08:38:02 -07:00
filesystems	revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits	2010-05-11 17:33:41 -07:00
firmware_class	driver core: fix documentation of request_firmware_nowait	2009-06-15 21:30:24 -07:00
frv	move frv docs one level up	2008-02-03 15:54:28 +02:00
hwmon	Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus	2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
i2c	i2c-core: Erase pointer to clientdata on removal	2010-05-04 11:09:27 +02:00
i2o
ia64	Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGS	2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
ide	ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)	2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02:00
infiniband	IB: Fix typo in ipoib.txt	2009-12-09 14:21:36 -08:00
input	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input	2010-05-05 07:53:18 -07:00
ioctl	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client	2010-03-19 09:43:06 -07:00
isdn	gigaset: small documentation improvement	2010-02-26 01:24:22 -08:00
ja_JP	block: rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF	2009-06-19 08:08:50 +02:00
kbuild	kbuild: generate modules.builtin	2009-12-12 13:08:16 +01:00
kdump	trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes	2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
ko_KR	HOWTO: update misspelling and word incorrected	2007-12-17 10:33:19 -08:00
kvm	KVM: trivial document fixes	2010-03-01 12:35:43 -03:00
laptops	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial	2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
lguest	lguest: remove unneeded zlib.h include in example launcher	2010-02-24 14:22:22 +10:30
m68k	[SCSI] 53c7xx: fix removal fallout	2008-01-11 18:22:30 -06:00
make	Documentation/make/headers_install.txt	2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
mips	ide: remove unused CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_AU1XXX_SEQTS_PER_RQ	2009-01-14 19:19:03 +01:00
misc-devices	ad525x_dpot: new driver for AD525x digital potentiometers	2009-12-15 08:53:25 -08:00
mn10300	trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes	2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
mtd	trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes	2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
namespaces	The namespaces compatibility list doc	2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
netlabel
networking	net: corrected documentation for hardware time stamping	2010-04-07 21:52:07 -07:00
parisc
PCI	Documentation: rename PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to DMA-API-HOWTO.txt	2010-03-24 16:31:20 -07:00
pcmcia	pcmcia: use ops_mutex for rsrc_{mgr,nonstatic} locking	2010-02-17 17:48:24 +01:00
power	Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus	2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
powerpc	powerpc/fsl: add device tree binding for QE firmware	2010-03-26 22:09:57 -06:00
pps	LinuxPPS: core support	2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
prctl	generic, x86: add tests for prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC	2008-04-19 19:19:55 +02:00
RCU	rcu: Update docs for rcu_access_pointer and rcu_dereference_protected	2010-04-14 12:20:12 +02:00
s390	Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus	2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
scheduler	sched: Documentation/sched-rt-group: Fix style issues & bump version	2009-06-21 13:12:46 +02:00
scsi	Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus	2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
serial	ldisc: new dcd_change() method for line disciplines	2010-03-12 15:52:43 -08:00
sh	sh: Kill off remaining CONFIG_SH_KGDB bits.	2008-12-22 18:44:05 +09:00
sound	ALSA: hda - Update document about MSI and interrupts	2010-04-01 18:08:29 +02:00
sparc	sparc: Remove Documentation/sparc/sbus_drivers.txt	2008-08-29 02:15:25 -07:00
spi	spi: spidev_test gives error upon 1-byte transfer	2010-04-29 16:40:30 -06:00
sysctl	memcg: handle panic_on_oom=always case	2010-03-12 15:52:37 -08:00
telephony	remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation	2008-07-22 19:24:29 +10:00
thermal	thermal: add sanity check for the passive attribute	2009-11-05 18:18:10 -05:00
timers	Documentation/timers/: split txt and source files	2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
trace	Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus	2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
uml
usb	USB: convert to the runtime PM framework	2010-03-02 14:54:12 -08:00
video4linux	V4L/DVB: Documentation: gspca.txt: update known mr97310a cams	2010-02-26 15:11:09 -03:00
vm	Documentation/vm/: split txt and source files	2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
w1	ds2482: Discard obsolete detect method	2009-10-04 22:53:41 +02:00
watchdog	[WATCHDOG] doc: Fix use of WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl.	2010-04-06 14:23:55 +00:00
wimax	i2400m: documentation and instructions for usage	2009-01-07 10:00:18 -08:00
x86	x86, numa: Remove configurable node size support for numa emulation	2010-02-15 14:34:18 -08:00
zh_CN	Chinese: add translation of Codingstyle	2008-01-24 20:40:04 -08:00
00-INDEX	Bluetooth: Add documentation for Marvell Bluetooth driver	2009-08-22 14:25:32 -07:00
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt	Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: fix sample code	2009-06-16 19:47:52 -07:00
bad_memory.txt	Document handling of bad memory	2008-12-03 16:09:53 -07:00
basic_profiling.txt
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt	trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes	2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
bt8xxgpio.txt	gpio: add bt8xxgpio driver	2008-07-25 10:53:30 -07:00
btmrvl.txt	Bluetooth: Add documentation for Marvell Bluetooth driver	2009-08-22 14:25:32 -07:00
BUG-HUNTING	Documentation: add hint about call traces & module symbols to BUG-HUNTING	2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
cachetlb.txt	Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm	2010-03-01 09:15:15 -08:00
Changes	netfilter: xtables: document minimal required version	2009-12-14 14:52:10 +01:00
circular-buffers.txt	Document Linux's circular buffering capabilities	2010-03-24 16:31:22 -07:00
CodingStyle	trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments.	2009-06-12 18:01:46 +02:00
cpu-hotplug.txt	cpumask: don't recommend set_cpus_allowed hack in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt	2009-12-17 11:43:29 +10:30
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt	Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/ topology files	2009-10-30 14:59:52 -07:00
credentials.txt	CRED: Documentation	2008-11-14 10:39:26 +11:00
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt	Documentation: Clarify when module debugging actually works.	2008-02-03 15:27:38 +02:00
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt	ieee1394: update URLs in debugging-via-ohci1394.txt	2009-10-03 09:28:11 +02:00
dell_rbu.txt	trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos	2009-06-12 18:01:50 +02:00
devices.txt	lanana: assign a device name and numbering for MAX3100	2009-04-07 08:44:05 -07:00
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt	Documentation: rename PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to DMA-API-HOWTO.txt	2010-03-24 16:31:20 -07:00
DMA-API.txt	Documentation: rename PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to DMA-API-HOWTO.txt	2010-03-12 15:52:43 -08:00
DMA-attributes.txt	powerpc/cell: Add DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING dma attribute and use in Cell IOMMU code	2008-07-22 10:39:36 +10:00
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
dmaengine.txt	async_tx, dmaengine: document channel allocation and api rework	2009-01-05 18:10:19 -07:00
dontdiff	Merge branch 'for-linus-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-kconfig	2010-02-25 14:43:57 -08:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt	Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words	2009-03-24 16:38:27 -07:00
edac.txt	fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt	2009-12-04 15:39:53 +01:00
eisa.txt	doc: fix Defaultd -> Defaults typo in EISA doc	2010-02-05 12:22:39 +01:00
email-clients.txt	Documentation/email-clients.txt: update gmail information	2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
feature-removal-schedule.txt	V4L/DVB: feature-removal: announce videotext.h removal	2010-05-06 19:20:50 -03:00
flexible-arrays.txt	Update flex_arrays.txt	2009-10-15 07:25:20 -06:00
futex-requeue-pi.txt	futex: add requeue-pi documentation	2009-05-09 07:12:50 +02:00
gcov.txt	trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc	2009-09-21 15:14:56 +02:00
gpio.txt	gpio: introduce gpio_request_one() and friends	2010-03-06 11:26:48 -08:00
highuid.txt	[SPARC]: Remove SunOS and Solaris binary support.	2008-04-21 15:10:15 -07:00
HOWTO	Documentation/HOWTO: update git home URL	2010-04-22 15:24:56 -07:00
hw_random.txt	hw_random doc updates	2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
init.txt	init/main.c: improve usability in case of init binary failure	2010-03-06 11:26:29 -08:00
initrd.txt	use the newc archive format as requested by initramfs	2008-02-03 14:54:41 +02:00
intel_txt.txt	x86, intel_txt: Intel TXT boot support	2009-07-21 11:49:06 -07:00
Intel-IOMMU.txt	intel-iommu: Kill DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA option.	2009-09-19 09:37:23 -07:00
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt	io mapping: improve documentation	2008-11-03 18:21:44 +01:00
IO-mapping.txt	Documentation: fix ioremap return type	2010-01-02 10:09:44 -08:00
iostats.txt	Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.	2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
IPMI.txt	ipmi: add parameter to limit CPU usage in kipmid	2010-03-12 15:52:39 -08:00
IRQ-affinity.txt	genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)	2008-06-05 15:18:30 +02:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt	Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes	2007-10-20 02:37:21 +02:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt	documentation: update kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO information	2010-01-11 09:34:07 -08:00
kernel-docs.txt	doc: update to URL and status of kernel-docs.txt entry	2008-06-06 11:29:10 -07:00
kernel-parameters.txt	libata: fix docs, RE port and device of libata.force ID separated by point	2010-04-22 21:52:14 -04:00
keys-request-key.txt	keys: allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string	2008-04-29 08:06:16 -07:00
keys.txt	KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]	2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
kmemcheck.txt	kmemcheck: update documentation	2009-07-01 22:36:22 +02:00
kmemleak.txt	kmemleak: add clear command support	2009-09-08 16:36:08 +01:00
kobject.txt	kobject: documentation: Update to refer to kset-example.c.	2010-03-19 07:12:20 -07:00
kprobes.txt	kprobes: Add documents of jump optimization	2010-02-25 17:49:27 +01:00
kref.txt	kref: double kref_put() in my_data_handler()	2009-09-18 09:48:52 -07:00
ldm.txt
leds-class.txt	led: document sysfs interface	2009-08-28 15:21:12 -04:00
leds-lp3944.txt	leds: LED driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight Chip	2009-06-23 20:21:38 +01:00
local_ops.txt	trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes	2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
lockdep-design.txt	lockdep: Fix typos in documentation	2009-08-07 12:03:46 +02:00
lockstat.txt	lockstat: Add usage info to Documentation/lockstat.txt	2009-12-06 13:20:02 +01:00
logo.gif	Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz"	2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
logo.txt	Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz"	2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
magic-number.txt	documentation: update header file paths	2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
Makefile	Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files	2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
ManagementStyle	docs: fix ManagementStyle book name	2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
mca.txt	The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to being	2008-03-17 09:03:05 +01:00
md.txt	md: add 'recovery_start' per-device sysfs attribute	2009-12-14 12:58:57 +11:00
memory-barriers.txt	Document Linux's circular buffering capabilities	2010-03-24 16:31:22 -07:00
memory-hotplug.txt	mm: add numa node symlink for memory section in sysfs	2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
memory.txt	Documentation/memory.txt: remove some very outdated recommendations	2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
mono.txt
mutex-design.txt	Documentation: Add nested versions of mutex locks to docs	2007-10-20 00:15:26 +02:00
nmi_watchdog.txt	x86, nmi-watchdog: update procfs nmi_watchdog file documentation v2	2008-10-30 19:07:04 +01:00
nommu-mmap.txt	nommu: fix malloc performance by adding uninitialized flag	2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
numastat.txt	mm: fix NUMA accounting in numastat.txt	2009-09-22 07:17:39 -07:00
oops-tracing.txt	docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt	2009-11-09 09:40:56 +01:00
parport-lowlevel.txt	plip: fix parport_register_device name parameter	2007-11-26 19:39:01 -08:00
parport.txt
pi-futex.txt
pnp.txt	doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc	2010-02-05 12:22:44 +01:00
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt	DOC: add printk-formats.txt	2008-11-12 17:17:17 -08:00
prio_tree.txt
rbtree.txt	trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code	2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
rfkill.txt	rfkill: export persistent attribute in sysfs	2009-06-19 11:50:18 -04:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt	futex: documentation: fix inconsistent description of futex list_op_pending	2009-06-18 13:03:56 -07:00
robust-futexes.txt
rt-mutex-design.txt
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt	rtc: add boot_timesource sysfs attribute	2009-09-23 07:39:46 -07:00
SAK.txt	Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts	2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SecurityBugs
SELinux.txt	selinux: add support for installing a dummy policy (v2)	2008-08-27 08:54:08 +10:00
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
slow-work.txt	SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs	2009-12-01 08:20:31 -08:00
SM501.txt	trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes	2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
Smack.txt	smack: implement logging V3	2009-04-14 09:00:23 +10:00
sparse.txt	Documentation: explain the difference between __bitwise and __bitwise__	2009-04-11 08:18:11 +02:00
spinlocks.txt	Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned	2009-12-14 09:46:56 -08:00
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt	Documentation: -stable rules: upstream commit ID requirement reworded	2010-04-22 15:24:56 -07:00
SubmitChecklist	Documentation/SubmitChecklist: add rule #1	2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
SubmittingDrivers	Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts	2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SubmittingPatches	docs: update patch size in SubmittingPatches	2009-10-01 16:11:12 -07:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt	Doc/sysfs-rules: Swap the order of the words so the sentence makes more sense	2009-05-08 19:22:20 -07:00
sysrq.txt	sysrq, kdump: make sysrq-c consistent	2009-07-29 19:10:36 -07:00
tomoyo.txt	tomoyo: add Documentation/tomoyo.txt	2009-04-14 09:14:58 +10:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt	introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol	2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt	vgaarbiter: fix a typo in the vgaarbiter Documentation	2009-12-16 11:28:58 -08:00
video-output.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt	Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt: correct cpu_relax() documentation	2010-03-24 16:31:20 -07:00
zorro.txt