From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
Vincent Whitchurch <rabinv@axis.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt: Fix drop_caches bit number
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:25:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190114172518.5ea0d704@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190111161410.11831-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:14:10 +0100
Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com> wrote:
> Bits are usually numbered starting from zero, so 4 should be bit 2, not
> bit 3.
>
> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
> ---
> Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
> index 187ce4f599a2..6af24cdb25cc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
> @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ used:
> cat (1234): drop_caches: 3
>
> These are informational only. They do not mean that anything is wrong
> -with your system. To disable them, echo 4 (bit 3) into drop_caches.
> +with your system. To disable them, echo 4 (bit 2) into drop_caches.
Applied, thanks.
jon
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2019-01-11 16:14 [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt: Fix drop_caches bit number Vincent Whitchurch
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