[PATCH] fork_init: Update max_threads comment

[Jean Delvare]

The comment explaining what value max_threads is set to is outdated.
The maximum memory consumption ratio for thread structures was 1/2
until February 2002, then it was briefly changed to 1/16 before being
set to 1/8 which we still use today. The comment was never updated
to reflect that change, it's about time.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
---
 kernel/fork.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-4.0-rc1.orig/kernel/fork.c	2015-02-23 03:21:14.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-4.0-rc1/kernel/fork.c	2015-03-02 10:48:45.407215590 +0100
@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ void __init fork_init(unsigned long memp
 
 	/*
 	 * The default maximum number of threads is set to a safe
-	 * value: the thread structures can take up at most half
-	 * of memory.
+	 * value: the thread structures can take up at most one
+	 * eighth of the memory.
 	 */
 	max_threads = mempages / (8 * THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);
 


-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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