diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 68eb62d10c488b6294b32ef9b50d6aee72790b36..4af673350377c0ba7a6208258abcdb3e24a62ffe 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -347,23 +347,6 @@ static void memcg_reparent_objcgs(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 	percpu_ref_kill(&objcg->refcnt);
 }
 
-/*
- * This will be used as a shrinker list's index.
- * The main reason for not using cgroup id for this:
- *  this works better in sparse environments, where we have a lot of memcgs,
- *  but only a few kmem-limited.
- */
-static DEFINE_IDA(memcg_cache_ida);
-
-/*
- * MAX_SIZE should be as large as the number of cgrp_ids. Ideally, we could get
- * this constant directly from cgroup, but it is understandable that this is
- * better kept as an internal representation in cgroup.c. In any case, the
- * cgrp_id space is not getting any smaller, and we don't have to necessarily
- * increase ours as well if it increases.
- */
-#define MEMCG_CACHES_MAX_SIZE MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX
-
 /*
  * A lot of the calls to the cache allocation functions are expected to be
  * inlined by the compiler. Since the calls to memcg_slab_pre_alloc_hook() are
@@ -3597,7 +3580,6 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_read_u64(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
 static int memcg_online_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 	struct obj_cgroup *objcg;
-	int memcg_id;
 
 	if (cgroup_memory_nokmem)
 		return 0;
@@ -3605,22 +3587,16 @@ static int memcg_online_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 	if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)))
 		return 0;
 
-	memcg_id = ida_alloc_max(&memcg_cache_ida, MEMCG_CACHES_MAX_SIZE - 1,
-				 GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (memcg_id < 0)
-		return memcg_id;
-
 	objcg = obj_cgroup_alloc();
-	if (!objcg) {
-		ida_free(&memcg_cache_ida, memcg_id);
+	if (!objcg)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+
 	objcg->memcg = memcg;
 	rcu_assign_pointer(memcg->objcg, objcg);
 
 	static_branch_enable(&memcg_kmem_enabled_key);
 
-	memcg->kmemcg_id = memcg_id;
+	memcg->kmemcg_id = memcg->id.id;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -3628,7 +3604,6 @@ static int memcg_online_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 static void memcg_offline_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *parent;
-	int kmemcg_id;
 
 	if (cgroup_memory_nokmem)
 		return;
@@ -3642,12 +3617,6 @@ static void memcg_offline_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 
 	memcg_reparent_objcgs(memcg, parent);
 
-	/*
-	 * memcg_reparent_list_lrus() can change memcg->kmemcg_id.
-	 * Cache it to local @kmemcg_id.
-	 */
-	kmemcg_id = memcg->kmemcg_id;
-
 	/*
 	 * After we have finished memcg_reparent_objcgs(), all list_lrus
 	 * corresponding to this cgroup are guaranteed to remain empty.
@@ -3655,8 +3624,6 @@ static void memcg_offline_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 	 * memcg_reparent_list_lrus().
 	 */
 	memcg_reparent_list_lrus(memcg, parent);
-
-	ida_free(&memcg_cache_ida, kmemcg_id);
 }
 #else
 static int memcg_online_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)