Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 03:34 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: >> I've thought about this before. The problem is that a user could >> set his limit to 10000 bytes, but would then see the usage and >> limit round to the closest page boundary. This can be confusing >> to a user. > > True, but we're lying if we allow a user to set their limit there, > because we can't actually enforce a limit at 8,192 bytes vs 10,000. > They're the same limit as far as the kernel is concerned. > > Why not just -EINVAL if the value isn't page-aligned? There are plenty > of interfaces in the kernel that require userspace to know the page > size, so this shouldn't be too difficult. True, mmap() is a good example of such an interface for developers, I am not sure about system admins though. To quote Andrew <quote> Reporting tools could run getpagesize() and do the arithmetic, but we generally try to avoid exposing PAGE_SIZE, HZ, etc to userspace in this manner. </quote> -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
