[PATCH v3 2/8] cgroup: document how cgroup IDs are assigned
From: Li Zefan <hidden>
Date: 2013-07-29 07:09:18
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Subsystem:
control group (cgroup), the rest · Maintainers:
Tejun Heo, Johannes Weiner, Michal Koutný, Linus Torvalds
As cgroup id has been used in netprio cgroup and will be used in memcg, it's important to make it clear how a cgroup id is allocated. For example, in netprio cgroup, the id is used as index of anarray. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <redacted> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <redacted> --- include/linux/cgroup.h | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 2bd052d..8c107e9 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h@@ -161,7 +161,13 @@ struct cgroup_name { struct cgroup { unsigned long flags; /* "unsigned long" so bitops work */ - int id; /* idr allocated in-hierarchy ID */ + /* + * idr allocated in-hierarchy ID. + * + * The ID of the root cgroup is always 0, and a new cgroup + * will be assigned with a smallest available ID. + */ + int id; /* * We link our 'sibling' struct into our parent's 'children'.
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