On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:59:11 +0200 Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed 18-09-19 09:15:41, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Tue 17-09-19 12:26:18, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > [...] > > > b) Not being able to bump threads_max to the physical limit of > > > the machine is very clearly a regression. > > > > ... exactly this part. The changelog of the respective patch doesn't > > really exaplain why it is needed except of "it sounds like a good idea > > to be consistent". > > Any take on this Heinrich? If there really is not strong reasoning about > the restricting user input then I will suggest reverting 16db3d3f1170 > ("kernel/sysctl.c: threads-max observe limits") I agree, based on what I'm seeing in this thread.