proc: revert /proc/<pid>/maps [stack:TID] annotation

Commit b76437579d13 ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in
proc/<pid>/maps") added [stack:TID] annotation to /proc/<pid>/maps.

Finding the task of a stack VMA requires walking the entire thread list,
turning this into quadratic behavior: a thousand threads means a
thousand stacks, so the rendering of /proc/<pid>/maps needs to look at a
million combinations.

The cost is not in proportion to the usefulness as described in the
patch.

Drop the [stack:TID] annotation to make /proc/<pid>/maps (and
/proc/<pid>/numa_maps) usable again for higher thread counts.

The [stack] annotation inside /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps is retained, as
identifying the stack VMA there is an O(1) operation.

Siddesh said:
 "The end users needed a way to identify thread stacks programmatically and
  there wasn't a way to do that.  I'm afraid I no longer remember (or have
  access to the resources that would aid my memory since I changed
  employers) the details of their requirement.  However, I did do this on my
  own time because I thought it was an interesting project for me and nobody
  really gave any feedback then as to its utility, so as far as I am
  concerned you could roll back the main thread maps information since the
  information is available in the thread-specific files"

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index fde9fd06fa98..eaebf27539f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ address           perms offset  dev   inode      pathname
 a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
-a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack:1001]
+a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
 a8008000-a800a000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
 a800a000-a800b000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
@@ -388,7 +388,6 @@ is not associated with a file:
 
  [heap]                   = the heap of the program
  [stack]                  = the stack of the main process
- [stack:1001]             = the stack of the thread with tid 1001
  [vdso]                   = the "virtual dynamic shared object",
                             the kernel system call handler
 
@@ -396,10 +395,8 @@ is not associated with a file:
 
 The /proc/PID/task/TID/maps is a view of the virtual memory from the viewpoint
 of the individual tasks of a process. In this file you will see a mapping marked
-as [stack] if that task sees it as a stack. This is a key difference from the
-content of /proc/PID/maps, where you will see all mappings that are being used
-as stack by all of those tasks. Hence, for the example above, the task-level
-map, i.e. /proc/PID/task/TID/maps for thread 1001 will look like this:
+as [stack] if that task sees it as a stack. Hence, for the example above, the
+task-level map, i.e. /proc/PID/task/TID/maps for thread 1001 will look like this:
 
 08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312       /opt/test
 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312       /opt/test