linux-kernel - [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt: Fix drop

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Message-Id: <20190111161410.11831-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:14:10 +0100
From:   Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@...s.com>
To:     corbet@....net
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        Vincent Whitchurch <rabinv@...s.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt: Fix drop_caches bit number

Bits are usually numbered starting from zero, so 4 should be bit 2, not
bit 3.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@...s.com>
---
 Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 187ce4f599a2..6af24cdb25cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ used:
 	cat (1234): drop_caches: 3
 
 These are informational only.  They do not mean that anything is wrong
-with your system.  To disable them, echo 4 (bit 3) into drop_caches.
+with your system.  To disable them, echo 4 (bit 2) into drop_caches.
 
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