cgroup: Replace cgroup->ancestor_ids[] with ->ancestors[]

Every cgroup knows all its ancestors through its ->ancestor_ids[]. There's
no advantage to remembering the IDs instead of the pointers directly and
this makes the array useless for finding an actual ancestor cgroup forcing
cgroup_ancestor() to iteratively walk up the hierarchy instead. Let's
replace cgroup->ancestor_ids[] with ->ancestors[] and remove the walking-up
from cgroup_ancestor().

While at it, improve comments around cgroup_root->cgrp_ancestor_storage.

This patch shouldn't cause user-visible behavior differences.

v2: Update cgroup_ancestor() to use ->ancestors[].

v3: cgroup_root->cgrp_ancestor_storage's type is updated to match
    cgroup->ancestors[]. Better comments.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
index 4bcf56b3491c..1283993d7ea8 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ struct cgroup {
 	/*
 	 * The depth this cgroup is at.  The root is at depth zero and each
 	 * step down the hierarchy increments the level.  This along with
-	 * ancestor_ids[] can determine whether a given cgroup is a
+	 * ancestors[] can determine whether a given cgroup is a
 	 * descendant of another without traversing the hierarchy.
 	 */
 	int level;
@@ -504,8 +504,8 @@ struct cgroup {
 	/* Used to store internal freezer state */
 	struct cgroup_freezer_state freezer;
 
-	/* ids of the ancestors at each level including self */
-	u64 ancestor_ids[];
+	/* All ancestors including self */
+	struct cgroup *ancestors[];
 };
 
 /*
@@ -522,11 +522,15 @@ struct cgroup_root {
 	/* Unique id for this hierarchy. */
 	int hierarchy_id;
 
-	/* The root cgroup.  Root is destroyed on its release. */
+	/*
+	 * The root cgroup. The containing cgroup_root will be destroyed on its
+	 * release. cgrp->ancestors[0] will be used overflowing into the
+	 * following field. cgrp_ancestor_storage must immediately follow.
+	 */
 	struct cgroup cgrp;
 
-	/* for cgrp->ancestor_ids[0] */
-	u64 cgrp_ancestor_id_storage;
+	/* must follow cgrp for cgrp->ancestors[0], see above */
+	struct cgroup *cgrp_ancestor_storage;
 
 	/* Number of cgroups in the hierarchy, used only for /proc/cgroups */
 	atomic_t nr_cgrps;