On Fri 01-11-19 13:04:37, Masanari Iida wrote: > 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@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > --- > 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 -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs