The patch titled Subject: proc: mark /proc/cmdline as permanent has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is proc-mark-proc-cmdline-as-permanent.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/proc-mark-proc-cmdline-as-permanent.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: proc: mark /proc/cmdline as permanent Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:36:02 +0300 /proc/cmdline is never removed, mark is as permanent for slightly faster open and close. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y66xAveh2yUsP7m9@p183 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/fs/proc/cmdline.c~proc-mark-proc-cmdline-as-permanent +++ a/fs/proc/cmdline.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ static int __init proc_cmdline_init(void struct proc_dir_entry *pde; pde = proc_create_single("cmdline", 0, NULL, cmdline_proc_show); + pde_make_permanent(pde); pde->size = saved_command_line_len + 1; return 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are proc-mark-proc-cmdline-as-permanent.patch