The patch titled procfs: kill the global proc_mnt variable has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was procfs-kill-the-global-proc_mnt-variable.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: procfs: kill the global proc_mnt variable From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> After the previous cleanup in proc_get_sb() the global proc_mnt has no reasons to exists, kill it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/inode.c | 2 -- fs/proc/internal.h | 1 - fs/proc/root.c | 7 ++++--- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/inode.c~procfs-kill-the-global-proc_mnt-variable fs/proc/inode.c --- a/fs/proc/inode.c~procfs-kill-the-global-proc_mnt-variable +++ a/fs/proc/inode.c @@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ static void proc_evict_inode(struct inod } } -struct vfsmount *proc_mnt; - static struct kmem_cache * proc_inode_cachep; static struct inode *proc_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb) diff -puN fs/proc/internal.h~procfs-kill-the-global-proc_mnt-variable fs/proc/internal.h --- a/fs/proc/internal.h~procfs-kill-the-global-proc_mnt-variable +++ a/fs/proc/internal.h @@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ static inline struct proc_dir_entry *pde } void pde_put(struct proc_dir_entry *pde); -extern struct vfsmount *proc_mnt; int proc_fill_super(struct super_block *); struct inode *proc_get_inode(struct super_block *, struct proc_dir_entry *); diff -puN fs/proc/root.c~procfs-kill-the-global-proc_mnt-variable fs/proc/root.c --- a/fs/proc/root.c~procfs-kill-the-global-proc_mnt-variable +++ a/fs/proc/root.c @@ -90,19 +90,20 @@ static struct file_system_type proc_fs_t void __init proc_root_init(void) { + struct vfsmount *mnt; int err; proc_init_inodecache(); err = register_filesystem(&proc_fs_type); if (err) return; - proc_mnt = kern_mount_data(&proc_fs_type, &init_pid_ns); - if (IS_ERR(proc_mnt)) { + mnt = kern_mount_data(&proc_fs_type, &init_pid_ns); + if (IS_ERR(mnt)) { unregister_filesystem(&proc_fs_type); return; } - init_pid_ns.proc_mnt = proc_mnt; + init_pid_ns.proc_mnt = mnt; proc_symlink("mounts", NULL, "self/mounts"); proc_net_init(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch fs-execc-provide-the-correct-process-pid-to-the-pipe-helper.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html