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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index d831d24d2a6c..b488edad743c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1331,13 +1331,6 @@ determine whether or not they are still functioning properly.
 Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI
 watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize.
 
-maps_protect
-------------
-
-Enables/Disables the protection of the per-process proc entries "maps" and
-"smaps".  When enabled, the contents of these files are visible only to
-readers that are allowed to ptrace() the given process.
-
 msgmni
 ------