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For no good reason, innodb_encryption_threads was limited to
4,294,967,295. Expectedly, the server would crash if such an
insane value was specified. Let us limit the maximum to 255.

The encryption threads are not doing much useful work.
They are basically only dirtying pages by performing
dummy writes via the redo log. The encryption key rotation
or the in-place addition or removal of encryption
will take place in the page cleaner.

In a quick test on a 20-core CPU (40 threads in total),
the sweet spot on an otherwise idle server seemed to be
innodb_encryption_threads=16 for the test
encryption.encrypt_and_grep. The new limit 255 should be
more than enough for even bigger servers.