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Patch series "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces". The memory cgroup subsystem maintains a private ID infrastructure that is decoupled from the cgroup IDs. This private ID system exists because some kernel objects (like swap entries and shadow entries in the workingset code) can outlive the cgroup they were associated with. The motivation is best described in commit73f576c04b("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs"). Unfortunately, some in-kernel users (DAMON, LRU gen debugfs interface, shrinker debugfs) started exposing these private IDs to userspace. This is problematic because: 1. The private IDs are internal implementation details that could change 2. Userspace already has access to cgroup IDs through the cgroup filesystem 3. Using different ID namespaces in different interfaces is confusing This series cleans up the memcg ID infrastructure by: 1. Explicitly marking the private ID APIs with "private" in their names to make it clear they are for internal use only (swap/workingset) 2. Making the public cgroup ID APIs (mem_cgroup_id/mem_cgroup_get_from_id) unconditionally available 3. Converting DAMON, LRU gen, and shrinker debugfs interfaces to use the public cgroup IDs instead of the private IDs 4. Removing the now-unused wrapper functions and renaming the public APIs for clarity After this series: - mem_cgroup_private_id() / mem_cgroup_from_private_id() are used for internal kernel objects that outlive their cgroup (swap, workingset) - mem_cgroup_id() / mem_cgroup_get_from_id() return the public cgroup ID (from cgroup_id()) for use in userspace-facing interfaces This patch (of 8): The memory cgroup maintains a private ID infrastructure decoupled from the cgroup IDs for swapout records and shadow entries. The main motivation of this private ID infra is best described in the commit73f576c04b("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs"). Unfortunately some users have started exposing these private IDs to the userspace where they should have used the cgroup IDs which are already exposed to the userspace. Let's rename the memcg ID APIs to explicitly mark them private. No functional change is intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251225232116.294540-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251225232116.294540-2-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>