diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index a770029beb08..6d188161b20e 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -711,6 +711,9 @@ static inline int find_next_best_node(int node, nodemask_t *used_node_mask)
 }
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * mm/memory-failure.c
+ */
 extern int hwpoison_filter(struct page *p);
 
 extern u32 hwpoison_filter_dev_major;
@@ -720,6 +723,14 @@ extern u64 hwpoison_filter_flags_value;
 extern u64 hwpoison_filter_memcg;
 extern u32 hwpoison_filter_enable;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
+void clear_hwpoisoned_pages(struct page *memmap, int nr_pages);
+#else
+static inline void clear_hwpoisoned_pages(struct page *memmap, int nr_pages)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 extern unsigned long  __must_check vm_mmap_pgoff(struct file *, unsigned long,
         unsigned long, unsigned long,
         unsigned long, unsigned long);
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 1d117190c350..e7a13e90bd05 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -2392,3 +2392,24 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 
 	return ret;
 }
+
+void clear_hwpoisoned_pages(struct page *memmap, int nr_pages)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	/*
+	 * A further optimization is to have per section refcounted
+	 * num_poisoned_pages.  But that would need more space per memmap, so
+	 * for now just do a quick global check to speed up this routine in the
+	 * absence of bad pages.
+	 */
+	if (atomic_long_read(&num_poisoned_pages) == 0)
+		return;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
+		if (PageHWPoison(&memmap[i])) {
+			num_poisoned_pages_dec();
+			ClearPageHWPoison(&memmap[i]);
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index d2d76d158b39..cb3bfae64036 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -922,33 +922,6 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_section(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
-static void clear_hwpoisoned_pages(struct page *memmap, int nr_pages)
-{
-	int i;
-
-	/*
-	 * A further optimization is to have per section refcounted
-	 * num_poisoned_pages.  But that would need more space per memmap, so
-	 * for now just do a quick global check to speed up this routine in the
-	 * absence of bad pages.
-	 */
-	if (atomic_long_read(&num_poisoned_pages) == 0)
-		return;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
-		if (PageHWPoison(&memmap[i])) {
-			num_poisoned_pages_dec();
-			ClearPageHWPoison(&memmap[i]);
-		}
-	}
-}
-#else
-static inline void clear_hwpoisoned_pages(struct page *memmap, int nr_pages)
-{
-}
-#endif
-
 void sparse_remove_section(struct mem_section *ms, unsigned long pfn,
 		unsigned long nr_pages, unsigned long map_offset,
 		struct vmem_altmap *altmap)