diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt
index 324b182..a7a2205 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt
@@ -97,9 +97,26 @@
 All controllers which are not bound to other hierarchies are
 automatically bound to unified hierarchy and show up at the root of
 it.  Controllers which are enabled only in the root of unified
-hierarchy can be bound to other hierarchies at any time.  This allows
-mixing unified hierarchy with the traditional multiple hierarchies in
-a fully backward compatible way.
+hierarchy can be bound to other hierarchies.  This allows mixing
+unified hierarchy with the traditional multiple hierarchies in a fully
+backward compatible way.
+
+A controller can be moved across hierarchies only after the controller
+is no longer referenced in its current hierarchy.  Because per-cgroup
+controller states are destroyed asynchronously and controllers may
+have lingering references, a controller may not show up immediately on
+the unified hierarchy after the final umount of the previous
+hierarchy.  Similarly, a controller should be fully disabled to be
+moved out of the unified hierarchy and it may take some time for the
+disabled controller to become available for other hierarchies;
+furthermore, due to dependencies among controllers, other controllers
+may need to be disabled too.
+
+While useful for development and manual configurations, dynamically
+moving controllers between the unified and other hierarchies is
+strongly discouraged for production use.  It is recommended to decide
+the hierarchies and controller associations before starting using the
+controllers.
 
 
 2-2. cgroup.subtree_control
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index db99e3b..28853e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -693,6 +693,15 @@
 
 	/* base cftypes, automatically registered with subsys itself */
 	struct cftype *base_cftypes;
+
+	/*
+	 * A subsystem may depend on other subsystems.  When such subsystem
+	 * is enabled on a cgroup, the depended-upon subsystems are enabled
+	 * together if available.  Subsystems enabled due to dependency are
+	 * not visible to userland until explicitly enabled.  The following
+	 * specifies the mask of subsystems that this one depends on.
+	 */
+	unsigned int depends_on;
 };
 
 #define SUBSYS(_x) extern struct cgroup_subsys _x ## _cgrp_subsys;
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 3a6b77d..cd02e99 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1037,9 +1037,56 @@
 	css_put(&cgrp->self);
 }
 
+/**
+ * cgroup_refresh_child_subsys_mask - update child_subsys_mask
+ * @cgrp: the target cgroup
+ *
+ * On the default hierarchy, a subsystem may request other subsystems to be
+ * enabled together through its ->depends_on mask.  In such cases, more
+ * subsystems than specified in "cgroup.subtree_control" may be enabled.
+ *
+ * This function determines which subsystems need to be enabled given the
+ * current @cgrp->subtree_control and records it in
+ * @cgrp->child_subsys_mask.  The resulting mask is always a superset of
+ * @cgrp->subtree_control and follows the usual hierarchy rules.
+ */
 static void cgroup_refresh_child_subsys_mask(struct cgroup *cgrp)
 {
-	cgrp->child_subsys_mask = cgrp->subtree_control;
+	struct cgroup *parent = cgroup_parent(cgrp);
+	unsigned int cur_ss_mask = cgrp->subtree_control;
+	struct cgroup_subsys *ss;
+	int ssid;
+
+	lockdep_assert_held(&cgroup_mutex);
+
+	if (!cgroup_on_dfl(cgrp)) {
+		cgrp->child_subsys_mask = cur_ss_mask;
+		return;
+	}
+
+	while (true) {
+		unsigned int new_ss_mask = cur_ss_mask;
+
+		for_each_subsys(ss, ssid)
+			if (cur_ss_mask & (1 << ssid))
+				new_ss_mask |= ss->depends_on;
+
+		/*
+		 * Mask out subsystems which aren't available.  This can
+		 * happen only if some depended-upon subsystems were bound
+		 * to non-default hierarchies.
+		 */
+		if (parent)
+			new_ss_mask &= parent->child_subsys_mask;
+		else
+			new_ss_mask &= cgrp->root->subsys_mask;
+
+		if (new_ss_mask == cur_ss_mask)
+			break;
+		cur_ss_mask = new_ss_mask;
+	}
+
+	cgrp->child_subsys_mask = cur_ss_mask;
 }
 
 /**