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| author | Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> | 2015-04-16 12:47:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-04-17 09:04:07 -0400 |
| commit | 16db3d3f1170fb0efca652c9378ce7c5f5cb4232 (patch) | |
| tree | f85f846c4e8a4761449aeca34dbd1055bb693828 /kernel/sysctl.c | |
| parent | ac1b398de1ef94aeee8ba87b0120763526572a6e (diff) | |
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kernel/sysctl.c: threads-max observe limits
Users can change the maximum number of threads by writing to
/proc/sys/kernel/threads-max.
With the patch the value entered is checked against the same limits that
apply when fork_init is called.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 42b7fc2860c1..3c0998426b57 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -93,11 +93,9 @@ #include <linux/nmi.h> #endif - #if defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL) /* External variables not in a header file. */ -extern int max_threads; extern int suid_dumpable; #ifdef CONFIG_COREDUMP extern int core_uses_pid; @@ -710,10 +708,10 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { #endif { .procname = "threads-max", - .data = &max_threads, + .data = NULL, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = sysctl_max_threads, }, { .procname = "random", |