The quilt patch titled Subject: proc: mark /proc/cmdline as permanent has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was proc-mark-proc-cmdline-as-permanent.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ 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