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authorVincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>2019-01-11 19:14:10 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-01-15 03:25:04 +0300
commit631605c007531ef0b48690740519d0b9a6b22d38 (patch)
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downloadlinux-631605c007531ef0b48690740519d0b9a6b22d38.tar.xz
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt: Fix drop_caches bit number
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> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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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.
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