The patch titled Subject: sysctl-move-some-boundary-constants-from-sysctlc-to-sysctl_vals-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is sysctl-move-some-boundary-constants-from-sysctlc-to-sysctl_vals-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/sysctl-move-some-boundary-constants-from-sysctlc-to-sysctl_vals-fix.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/sysctl-move-some-boundary-constants-from-sysctlc-to-sysctl_vals-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: sysctl-move-some-boundary-constants-from-sysctlc-to-sysctl_vals-fix update it for "mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%". Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 2 +- include/linux/sysctl.h | 3 ++- kernel/sysctl.c | 3 +-- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c~sysctl-move-some-boundary-constants-from-sysctlc-to-sysctl_vals-fix +++ a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc static const struct inode_operations proc_sys_dir_operations; /* shared constants to be used in various sysctls */ -const int sysctl_vals[] = { -1, 0, 1, 2, 4, 100, 200, 1000, INT_MAX }; +const int sysctl_vals[] = { -1, 0, 1, 2, 4, 100, 200, 1000, 3000, INT_MAX }; EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_vals); /* Support for permanently empty directories */ --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h~sysctl-move-some-boundary-constants-from-sysctlc-to-sysctl_vals-fix +++ a/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ struct ctl_dir; #define SYSCTL_ONE_HUNDRED ((void *)&sysctl_vals[5]) #define SYSCTL_TWO_HUNDRED ((void *)&sysctl_vals[6]) #define SYSCTL_ONE_THOUSAND ((void *)&sysctl_vals[7]) -#define SYSCTL_INT_MAX ((void *)&sysctl_vals[8]) +#define SYSCTL_THREE_THOUSAND ((void *)&sysctl_vals[8]) +#define SYSCTL_INT_MAX ((void *)&sysctl_vals[9]) extern const int sysctl_vals[]; --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-move-some-boundary-constants-from-sysctlc-to-sysctl_vals-fix +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ static int sixty = 60; static unsigned long zero_ul; static unsigned long one_ul = 1; static unsigned long long_max = LONG_MAX; -static int three_thousand = 3000; #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK static int ten_thousand = 10000; #endif @@ -2954,7 +2953,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = watermark_scale_factor_sysctl_handler, .extra1 = SYSCTL_ONE, - .extra2 = &three_thousand, + .extra2 = SYSCTL_THREE_THOUSAND, }, { .procname = "percpu_pagelist_high_fraction", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-bdi-initialize-bdi_min_ratio-when-bdi-unregister-fix.patch kthread-add-the-helper-function-kthread_run_on_cpu-fix.patch mm.patch mm-remove-redundant-check-about-fault_flag_allow_retry-bit-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-mempolicy-convert-from-atomic_t-to-refcount_t-on-mempolicy-refcnt-fix.patch proc-make-the-proc_create-stubs-static-inlines-fix.patch panic-use-error_report_end-tracepoint-on-warnings-fix.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch sysctl-move-some-boundary-constants-from-sysctlc-to-sysctl_vals-fix.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch