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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 /include | |
| 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 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sysctl.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index b7361f831226..795d5fea5697 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -212,4 +212,7 @@ static inline void setup_sysctl_set(struct ctl_table_set *p, #endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */ +int sysctl_max_threads(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); + #endif /* _LINUX_SYSCTL_H */ |