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memory_failure() can run in 2 different mode (specified by
MF_COUNT_INCREASED) in page refcount perspective.  When
MF_COUNT_INCREASED is set, memory_failure() assumes that the caller
takes a refcount of the target page.  And if cleared, memory_failure()
takes it in it's own.

In current code, however, refcounting is done differently in each caller.
For example, madvise_hwpoison() uses get_user_pages_fast() and
hwpoison_inject() uses get_page_unless_zero().  So this inconsistent
refcounting causes refcount failure especially for thp tail pages.
Typical user visible effects are like memory leak or
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(page)) in isolate_lru_page().

To fix this refcounting issue, this patch introduces get_hwpoison_page()
to handle thp tail pages in the same manner for each caller of hwpoison
code.

memory_failure() might fail to split thp and in such case it returns
without completing page isolation.  This is not good bec...