diff --git a/docs/designs/qemu-deprivilege.md b/docs/designs/qemu-deprivilege.md
index 067cf24762..f7444a434d 100644
--- a/docs/designs/qemu-deprivilege.md
+++ b/docs/designs/qemu-deprivilege.md
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ resources available to it.
 
 Limits that can be implemented immediately without much effort:
  - RLIMIT_FSIZE` (file size) to 256KiB.
- - RLIMIT_NPROC (after uid changes to a unique uid)
 
 Probably not necessary but why not:
  - RLIMIT_CORE: 0
@@ -142,6 +141,9 @@ virtual memory which QEMU uses as a mapcache.  xen-mapcache.c already
 fiddles with this; it would be straightforward to make it *set* the
 rlimit to what it thinks a sensible limit is.
 
+RLIMIT_NPROC limits total number of processes or threads.  QEMU uses
+threads for some devices, so this would require some thought.
+
 Other things that would take some cleverness / changes to QEMU to
 utilize due to ordering constrants:
  - RLIMIT_NOFILES (after all necessary files are opened)
diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c
index 921051c0e6..6475cca64b 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c
@@ -318,7 +318,6 @@ static struct {
     RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_FSIZE,    256*1024),
 
     /* Shouldn't need any of these */
-    RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_NPROC,    0),
     RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_CORE,     0),
     RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE, 0),
     RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_LOCKS,    0),