btrfs: qgroup: simple quota auto hierarchy for nested subvolumes

Consider the following sequence:

- enable quotas
- create subvol S id 256 at dir outer/
- create a qgroup 1/100
- add 0/256 (S's auto qgroup) to 1/100
- create subvol T id 257 at dir outer/inner/

With full qgroups, there is no relationship between 0/257 and either of
0/256 or 1/100. There is an inherit feature that the creator of inner/
can use to specify it ought to be in 1/100.

Simple quotas are targeted at container isolation, where such automatic
inheritance for not necessarily trusted/controlled nested subvol
creation would be quite helpful. Therefore, add a new default behavior
for simple quotas: when you create a nested subvol, automatically
inherit as parents any parents of the qgroup of the subvol the new inode
is going in.

In our example, 257/0 would also be under 1/100, allowing easy control
of a total quota over an arbitrary hierarchy of subvolumes.

I think this _might_ be a generally useful behavior, so it could be
interesting to put it behind a new inheritance flag that simple quotas
always use while traditional quotas let the user specify, but this is a
minimally intrusive change to start.

Signed-off-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

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