diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
index a84bef7aa8640f88ce86f3b02a4aa2a03ff198ed..06500c423592003b2ee4d2cd25c9bbd39a2e46fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -996,7 +996,7 @@ how much memory needs to be free before kswapd goes back to sleep.
 
 The unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of 10 means the
 distances between watermarks are 0.1% of the available memory in the
-node/system. The maximum value is 1000, or 10% of memory.
+node/system. The maximum value is 3000, or 30% of memory.
 
 A high rate of threads entering direct reclaim (allocstall) or kswapd
 going to sleep prematurely (kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly) can indicate
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index d290ba2d8fee8b01ad66fdc3767e3d06bf6e2473..fd82beb9a7430375060ede0babaaa1448af33766 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static unsigned long long_max = LONG_MAX;
 static int one_hundred = 100;
 static int two_hundred = 200;
 static int one_thousand = 1000;
+static int three_thousand = 3000;
 #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
 static int ten_thousand = 10000;
 #endif
@@ -2983,7 +2984,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= watermark_scale_factor_sysctl_handler,
 		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ONE,
-		.extra2		= &one_thousand,
+		.extra2		= &three_thousand,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "percpu_pagelist_fraction",