Since following patch was merged 5.4-rc3, minimum value for threads-max changed to 1. kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspaceb0f53dbc4bFixes:b0f53dbc4b("kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace") Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>