4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: James Morse <james.mo...@arm.com>

commit 7258ae5c5a2ce2f5969e8b18b881be40ab55433d upstream.

memory_failure() chooses a recovery action function based on the page
flags.  For huge pages it uses the tail page flags which don't have
anything interesting set, resulting in:

> Memory failure: 0x9be3b4: Unknown page state
> Memory failure: 0x9be3b4: recovery action for unknown page: Failed

Instead, save a copy of the head page's flags if this is a huge page,
this means if there are no relevant flags for this tail page, we use the
head pages flags instead.  This results in the me_huge_page() recovery
action being called:

> Memory failure: 0x9b7969: recovery action for huge page: Delayed

For hugepages that have not yet been allocated, this allows the hugepage
to be dequeued.

Fixes: 524fca1e7356 ("HWPOISON: fix misjudgement of page_action() for errors on 
mlocked pages")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524130204.21845-1-james.mo...@arm.com
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.mo...@arm.com>
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agra...@arm.com>
Acked-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agra...@arm.com>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/memory-failure.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1176,7 +1176,10 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, in
         * page_remove_rmap() in try_to_unmap_one(). So to determine page status
         * correctly, we save a copy of the page flags at this time.
         */
-       page_flags = p->flags;
+       if (PageHuge(p))
+               page_flags = hpage->flags;
+       else
+               page_flags = p->flags;
 
        /*
         * unpoison always clear PG_hwpoison inside page lock


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