linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] docs: admin-guide: Remove threads-max auto-tuning

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Date:   Fri,  1 Nov 2019 13:04:38 +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 2/2] docs: admin-guide: Remove threads-max auto-tuning

Since following path was merged in 5.4-rc3,
auto-tuning feature in threads-max was not exist any more.
Fix the admin-guide document as is.

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 | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 38e0f10d7d9f..9035adbdff58 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -1109,10 +1109,6 @@ constant FUTEX_TID_MASK (0x3fffffff).
 If a value outside of this range is written to threads-max an error
 EINVAL occurs.
 
-The value written is checked against the available RAM pages. If the
-thread structures would occupy too much (more than 1/8th) of the
-available RAM pages threads-max is reduced accordingly.
-
 
 unknown_nmi_panic:
 ==================
-- 
2.24.0.rc1