From: Masanari Iida Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 04:04:37 +0000 (+0900) Subject: docs: admin-guide: Fix min value of threads-max in kernel.rst X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73eb802ad97f814aa86d83cfd1d139cadbb4f0fb;p=linux.git docs: admin-guide: Fix min value of threads-max in kernel.rst Since following patch was merged 5.4-rc3, minimum value for threads-max changed to 1. kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace b0f53dbc4bc4c371f38b14c391095a3bb8a0bb40 Fixes: b0f53dbc4bc4 ("kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace") Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 6e0da29e55f1f..17a9daf7949de 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ During initialization the kernel sets this value such that even if the maximum number of threads is created, the thread structures occupy only a part (1/8th) of the available RAM pages. -The minimum value that can be written to threads-max is 20. +The minimum value that can be written to threads-max is 1. The maximum value that can be written to threads-max is given by the constant FUTEX_TID_MASK (0x3fffffff).