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authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>2013-07-31 09:51:06 +0800
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2013-07-31 07:47:34 -0400
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cgroup: document how cgroup IDs are assigned
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 <lizefan@huwei.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/cgroup.h8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index cca570e188fb..4dfcd0e1b73e 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'.