From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lj1-f198.google.com (mail-lj1-f198.google.com [209.85.208.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3F38E0001 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2019 11:14:25 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-lj1-f198.google.com with SMTP id 2-v6so3868923ljs.15 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:14:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from bastet.se.axis.com (bastet.se.axis.com. [195.60.68.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k20-v6si73878512ljj.32.2019.01.11.08.14.23 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:14:23 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Whitchurch Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt: Fix drop_caches bit number Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:14:10 +0100 Message-Id: <20190111161410.11831-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, Vincent Whitchurch , Matthew Wilcox Bits are usually numbered starting from zero, so 4 should be bit 2, not bit 3. Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch --- 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. ============================================================== -- 2.20.0