linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET cgroup/for-5.5] kernfs,cgroup: support 64bit inos and unify cgroup IDs

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Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:09:33 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     kernel-team@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, lizefan@...wei.com, hannes@...xchg.org,
        namhyung@...nel.org, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET cgroup/for-5.5] kernfs,cgroup: support 64bit inos and
 unify cgroup IDs

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 03:59:34PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Currently, there are three IDs which are being used to identify a
> cgroup.
> 
> 1. cgroup->id
> 2. cgroupfs 32bit ino
> 3. cgroupfs 32bit ino + 32bit gen
> 
> All three IDs are visible to userland through different interfaces.
> This is very confusing and #1 can't even be resolved to cgroups from
> userland.
> 
> A 64bit number is sufficient to identify a cgroup instance uniquely
> and ino_t is 64bit on all archs except for alpha.  There's no reason
> for three different IDs at all.  This patchset updates kernfs so that
> it supports 64bit ino and associated exportfs operations and unifies
> the cgroup IDs.
> 
> * On 64bit ino archs, ino is kernfs node ID which is also the cgroup
>   ID.  The ino can be passed directly into open_by_handle_at(2) w/ the
>   new key type FILEID_KERNFS.  Backward compatibility is maintained
>   for FILEID_INO32_GEN keys.
> 
> * On 32bit ino archs, kernfs node ID is still 64bit and the cgroup ID.
>   ino is the low 32bits and gen is the high 32bits.  If the high
>   32bits is zero, open_by_handle_at(2) only matches the ino part of
>   the ID allowing userland to resolve inos to cgroups as long as
>   distinguishing recycled inos isn't necessary.
> 
> This patchset contains the following 10 patches.
> 
>  0001-kernfs-fix-ino-wrap-around-detection.patch
>  0002-writeback-use-ino_t-for-inodes-in-tracepoints.patch
>  0003-netprio-use-css-ID-instead-of-cgroup-ID.patch
>  0004-kernfs-use-dumber-locking-for-kernfs_find_and_get_no.patch
>  0005-kernfs-kernfs_find_and_get_node_by_ino-should-only-l.patch
>  0006-kernfs-convert-kernfs_node-id-from-union-kernfs_node.patch
>  0007-kernfs-combine-ino-id-lookup-functions-into-kernfs_f.patch
>  0008-kernfs-implement-custom-exportfs-ops-and-fid-type.patch
>  0009-kernfs-use-64bit-inos-if-ino_t-is-64bit.patch
>  0010-cgroup-use-cgrp-kn-id-as-the-cgroup-ID.patch
> 
> 0001 is a fix which should be backported through -stable.  0002 and
> 0003 are prep patches.  0004-0009 make kernfs_node->id a u64 and use
> it as ino on 64bit ino archs.  0010 replaces cgroup->id with the
> kernfs node ID.
> 
> Greg, how do you want to route the patches?  We can route 0001-0009
> through your tree and the last one through cgroup after pulling in.
> I'd be happy to route them all too.

Sorry for the delay.  Feel free to take all of these through your tree,
that probably is easiest:

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>