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In a kernel with added WARN_ON_ONCE(PageTail) in page_memcg_check(), we observed a warning from page_cgroup_ino() when reading /proc/kpagecgroup. This warning was added to catch fragile reads of a page memcg. Make page_cgroup_ino() get memcg from the page's folio using folio_memcg_check(): that gives it the correct memcg for each page of a folio, so is the right fix. Note that page_folio() is racy, the page's folio can change from under us, but the entire function is racy and documented as such. I dithered between the right fix and the safer "fix": it's unlikely but conceivable that some userspace has learnt that /proc/kpagecgroup gives no memcg on tail pages, and compensates for that in some (racy) way: so continuing to give no memcg on tails, without warning, might be safer. But hwpoison_filter_task(), the only other user of page_cgroup_ino(), persuaded me. It looks as if it currently leaves out tail pages of the selected memcg, by mistake: whereas hwpoison_inject() uses compound_head() and expects the tails to be included. So hwpoison testing coverage has probably been restricted by the wrong output from page_cgroup_ino() (if that memcg filter is used at all): in the short term, it might be safer not to enable wider coverage there, but long term we would regret that. This is based on a patch originally written by Hugh Dickins and retains most of the original commit log [1] The patch was changed to use folio_memcg_check(page_folio(page)) instead of page_memcg_check(compound_head(page)) based on discussions with Matthew Wilcox; where he stated that callers of page_memcg_check() should stop using it due to the ambiguity around tail pages -- instead they should use folio_memcg_check() and handle tail pages themselves. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230412003451.4018887-1-yosryahmed@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230313083452.1319968-1-yosryahmed@google.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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