[RESEND Patch] kcore: remove its pointless size

Amerigo Wang
2009-06-30T10:06:51Z

Linus fixes wrong size of /proc/kcore problem in commit 9063c61fd5cbd.

But its size still looks insane, since it never equals to the size
of physical memory.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com

(Andrew, could you please just cut off the kernel part from below? :)

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diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index 59b43a0..eca5201 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -405,9 +405,6 @@ read_kcore(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen, loff_t *fpos)
static int __init proc_kcore_init(void)
{
proc_root_kcore = proc_create("kcore", S_IRUSR, NULL, &proc_kcore_operations);
- if (proc_root_kcore)
- proc_root_kcore->size =
- (size_t)high_memory - PAGE_OFFSET + PAGE_SIZE;
return 0;
}
module_init(proc_kcore_init);

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diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index ed47f70..e31aae4 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -1246,8 +1246,6 @@ kernel
binary, GDB can be used to
examine the current state of any kernel data structures.

-The total length of the file is the size of physical memory (RAM) plus
-4KB.
.TP
.I /proc/kmsg
This file can be used instead of the