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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>

authored by

Vincent Whitchurch and committed by
Jonathan Corbet 631605c0 9762dc14

+1 -1
+1 -1
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
··· 237 237 cat (1234): drop_caches: 3 238 238 239 239 These are informational only. They do not mean that anything is wrong 240 - with your system. To disable them, echo 4 (bit 3) into drop_caches. 240 + with your system. To disable them, echo 4 (bit 2) into drop_caches. 241 241 242 242 ============================================================== 243 243