linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] docs: admin-guide: Fix min value of threads-max in kernel.rst

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Message-Id: <20191101040438.6029-1-standby24x7@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri,  1 Nov 2019 13:04:37 +0900
From:   Masanari Iida <standby24x7@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mhocko@...e.com,
        ebiederm@...ssion.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, corbet@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        mingo@...hat.com
Cc:     Masanari Iida <standby24x7@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] 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

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 032c7cd3cede..38e0f10d7d9f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -1101,7 +1101,7 @@ 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).
-- 
2.24.0.rc1