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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2016-02-02 16:57:29 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-02-03 08:28:43 -0800
commit65376df582174ffcec9e6471bf5b0dd79ba05e4a (patch)
tree60c4841a00605605bf8c315783ed48648333e865 /Documentation
parent5c2ff95e41c9290d16556cd02e35b25d81be8fe0 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt9
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