Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] remap_file_pages() decommission

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Fri May 09 2014 - 14:22:25 EST


On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 08:14:08AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hm. I'm confused here. Do we have any limit forced per-user?
>
> Sure we do. See "struct user_struct". We limit max number of
> processes, open files, signals etc.

Okay got it.

BTW, nobody seems use field 'files' of user_struct: