diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index a4f30faa4f1f73ad4622b333007525f9134c21c4..1e359b62c40a2eb67e04ab299012760587cab29a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ address           perms offset  dev   inode      pathname
 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312       /opt/test
 0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
 a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
-a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [threadstack:001ff4b4]
+a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
@@ -352,7 +352,6 @@ is not associated with a file:
  [stack]                  = the stack of the main process
  [vdso]                   = the "virtual dynamic shared object",
                             the kernel system call handler
- [threadstack:xxxxxxxx]   = the stack of the thread, xxxxxxxx is the stack size
 
  or if empty, the mapping is anonymous.
 
diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index 4b6ed03cc4781b38352846206875cc5ffdfb992d..05448730f840be408e6bd7079df8c8ef26b03fd9 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -1531,8 +1531,6 @@ int compat_do_execve(char * filename,
 	if (retval < 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	current->stack_start = current->mm->start_stack;
-
 	/* execve succeeded */
 	current->fs->in_exec = 0;
 	current->in_execve = 0;
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 49cdaa19e5b9b800f9c23b8770f28e4cb33c8fbf..e6e94c626c2cbebb7699597271a953b65e611e6e 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1387,8 +1387,6 @@ int do_execve(char * filename,
 	if (retval < 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	current->stack_start = current->mm->start_stack;
-
 	/* execve succeeded */
 	current->fs->in_exec = 0;
 	current->in_execve = 0;
diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index e51f2ec2c5e5c53809cacac73c544daaec76a579..885ab5513ac5cfe10e18c4fba149ddf478252f40 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@
 #include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
 #include <linux/ptrace.h>
 #include <linux/tracehook.h>
-#include <linux/swapops.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
@@ -495,7 +494,7 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 		rsslim,
 		mm ? mm->start_code : 0,
 		mm ? mm->end_code : 0,
-		(permitted && mm) ? task->stack_start : 0,
+		(permitted && mm) ? mm->start_stack : 0,
 		esp,
 		eip,
 		/* The signal information here is obsolete.
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index 070553427dd570176253d83b99fe91d7a6ec0c89..47f5b145f56eee5aaefc3b52aac8fa78b978b692 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -247,25 +247,6 @@ static void show_map_vma(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 				} else if (vma->vm_start <= mm->start_stack &&
 					   vma->vm_end >= mm->start_stack) {
 					name = "[stack]";
-				} else {
-					unsigned long stack_start;
-					struct proc_maps_private *pmp;
-
-					pmp = m->private;
-					stack_start = pmp->task->stack_start;
-
-					if (vma->vm_start <= stack_start &&
-					    vma->vm_end >= stack_start) {
-						pad_len_spaces(m, len);
-						seq_printf(m,
-						 "[threadstack:%08lx]",
-#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP
-						 vma->vm_end - stack_start
-#else
-						 stack_start - vma->vm_start
-#endif
-						);
-					}
 				}
 			} else {
 				name = "[vdso]";
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index dad7f668ebf70041f3897102a0ff13a1a456edad..2b7b81df78b307e432d9132db78277e0a3960ef7 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1497,7 +1497,6 @@ struct task_struct {
 	/* bitmask of trace recursion */
 	unsigned long trace_recursion;
 #endif /* CONFIG_TRACING */
-	unsigned long stack_start;
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR /* memcg uses this to do batch job */
 	struct memcg_batch_info {
 		int do_batch;	/* incremented when batch uncharge started */
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 44b0791b0a2e378d1ad20e390cbfbec981e7fad8..4c14942a0ee36fa994abdf91fa218d68b9e4052d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1114,8 +1114,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 
 	p->bts = NULL;
 
-	p->stack_start = stack_start;
-
 	/* Perform scheduler related setup. Assign this task to a CPU. */
 	sched_fork(p, clone_flags);