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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 12:07:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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       Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: Add '[stack]' label to /proc/pid/maps output
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, David Howells wrote:
>
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> 
> Add support to the NOMMU /proc/pid/maps file to show which mapping is the stack
> of the original thread after execve.  This is largely based on the MMU code.

Umm? The MMU code that we _reverted_?

It turns out to be totally useless, since people put stacks in various 
different places, and the values the kernel does see end up not even being 
the "real" stack top.

See commit 34441427aab4bdb3069a4ffcda69a99357abcb2e.

Just don't do it.

		Linus