docs: admin-guide: Fix min value of threads-max in kernel.rst
authorMasanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Fri, 1 Nov 2019 04:04:37 +0000 (13:04 +0900)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Thu, 7 Nov 2019 20:17:24 +0000 (13:17 -0700)
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>
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst

index 6e0da29e55f1fddada03e1fae94b6cc78e83efd9..17a9daf7949de32c00332f1c7e71838f6026f661 100644 (file)
@@ -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).