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 <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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).