Re: [PATCH -next] cgroup: distinguish name and legacy_name when show /proc/cgroups

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 11:38:30AM +0000, Chen Ridong wrote:
> Subsys_name may be different between v1 and v2. In cgroup v2
> blk subsys_name is io, while it is named blkio in cgroup v1.
> It better to distinguish name and legacy_name when we cat /proc/cgroups.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
> ---
>  kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
> index b9dbf6bf2779..b29252ad91b6 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
> @@ -677,7 +677,8 @@ int proc_cgroupstats_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>  
>  	for_each_subsys(ss, i)
>  		seq_printf(m, "%s\t%d\t%d\t%d\n",
> -			   ss->legacy_name, ss->root->hierarchy_id,
> +			   ss->root == &cgrp_dfl_root ? ss->name : ss->legacy_name,
> +			   ss->root->hierarchy_id,

No matter what we do, this is a user visible change and the file isn't all
that useful for cgroup2 anyway. I'd much rather leave it as-is and let it
wither away.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun