diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
index a68e7d3ed27e..dd2db4905c85 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
@@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ static void hwpoison_clear(struct pmem_device *pmem,
 	}
 }
 
+static void pmem_clear_badblocks(struct pmem_device *pmem, sector_t sector,
+				long cleared_blks)
+{
+	badblocks_clear(&pmem->bb, sector, cleared_blks);
+	if (pmem->bb_state)
+		sysfs_notify_dirent(pmem->bb_state);
+}
+
 static blk_status_t pmem_clear_poison(struct pmem_device *pmem,
 		phys_addr_t offset, unsigned int len)
 {
@@ -88,9 +96,7 @@ static blk_status_t pmem_clear_poison(struct pmem_device *pmem,
 		dev_dbg(dev, "%#llx clear %ld sector%s\n",
 				(unsigned long long) sector, cleared,
 				cleared > 1 ? "s" : "");
-		badblocks_clear(&pmem->bb, sector, cleared);
-		if (pmem->bb_state)
-			sysfs_notify_dirent(pmem->bb_state);
+		pmem_clear_badblocks(pmem, sector, cleared);
 	}
 
 	arch_invalidate_pmem(pmem->virt_addr + offset, len);
@@ -257,10 +263,15 @@ static int pmem_rw_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 __weak long __pmem_direct_access(struct pmem_device *pmem, pgoff_t pgoff,
 		long nr_pages, void **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn)
 {
+	bool bad_pmem;
+	bool do_recovery = false;
 	resource_size_t offset = PFN_PHYS(pgoff) + pmem->data_offset;
 
-	if (unlikely(is_bad_pmem(&pmem->bb, PFN_PHYS(pgoff) / 512,
-					PFN_PHYS(nr_pages))))
+	bad_pmem = is_bad_pmem(&pmem->bb, PFN_PHYS(pgoff) / 512,
+					PFN_PHYS(nr_pages));
+	if (bad_pmem && kaddr)
+		do_recovery = dax_recovery_started(pmem->dax_dev, kaddr);
+	if (bad_pmem && !do_recovery)
 		return -EIO;
 
 	if (kaddr)
@@ -319,10 +330,70 @@ static size_t pmem_copy_to_iter(struct dax_device *dax_dev, pgoff_t pgoff,
 	return _copy_mc_to_iter(addr, bytes, i);
 }
 
+/*
+ * The recovery write thread started out as a normal pwrite thread and
+ * when the filesystem was told about potential media error in the
+ * range, filesystem turns the normal pwrite to a dax_recovery_write.
+ *
+ * The recovery write consists of clearing poison via DSM, clearing page
+ * HWPoison bit, reenable page-wide read-write permission, flush the
+ * caches and finally write.  A competing pread thread needs to be held
+ * off during the recovery process since data read back might not be valid.
+ * And that's achieved by placing the badblock records clearing after
+ * the completion of the recovery write.
+ *
+ * Any competing recovery write thread needs to be serialized, and this is
+ * done via pmem device level lock .recovery_lock.
+ */
 static size_t pmem_recovery_write(struct dax_device *dax_dev, pgoff_t pgoff,
 		void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
 {
-	return 0;
+	size_t rc, len, off;
+	phys_addr_t pmem_off;
+	struct pmem_device *pmem = dax_get_private(dax_dev);
+	struct device *dev = pmem->bb.dev;
+	sector_t sector;
+	long cleared, cleared_blk;
+
+	mutex_lock(&pmem->recovery_lock);
+
+	/* If no poison found in the range, go ahead with write */
+	off = (unsigned long)addr & ~PAGE_MASK;
+	len = PFN_PHYS(PFN_UP(off + bytes));
+	if (!is_bad_pmem(&pmem->bb, PFN_PHYS(pgoff) / 512, len)) {
+		rc = _copy_from_iter_flushcache(addr, bytes, i);
+		goto write_done;
+	}
+
+	/* Not page-aligned range cannot be recovered */
+	if (off || !(PAGE_ALIGNED(bytes))) {
+		dev_warn(dev, "Found poison, but addr(%p) or bytes(%#lx) not page aligned\n",
+			addr, bytes);
+		rc = (size_t) -EIO;
+		goto write_done;
+	}
+
+	pmem_off = PFN_PHYS(pgoff) + pmem->data_offset;
+	sector = (pmem_off - pmem->data_offset) / 512;
+	cleared = nvdimm_clear_poison(dev, pmem->phys_addr + pmem_off, len);
+	cleared_blk = cleared / 512;
+	if (cleared_blk > 0) {
+		hwpoison_clear(pmem, pmem->phys_addr + pmem_off, cleared);
+	} else {
+		dev_warn(dev, "pmem_recovery_write: cleared_blk: %ld\n",
+			cleared_blk);
+		rc = (size_t) -EIO;
+		goto write_done;
+	}
+	arch_invalidate_pmem(pmem->virt_addr + pmem_off, bytes);
+
+	rc = _copy_from_iter_flushcache(addr, bytes, i);
+
+	pmem_clear_badblocks(pmem, sector, cleared_blk);
+
+write_done:
+	mutex_unlock(&pmem->recovery_lock);
+	return rc;
 }
 
 static const struct dax_operations pmem_dax_ops = {
@@ -514,6 +585,7 @@ static int pmem_attach_disk(struct device *dev,
 		goto out_cleanup_dax;
 	dax_write_cache(dax_dev, nvdimm_has_cache(nd_region));
 	set_dax_recovery(dax_dev);
+	mutex_init(&pmem->recovery_lock);
 	pmem->dax_dev = dax_dev;
 
 	rc = device_add_disk(dev, disk, pmem_attribute_groups);
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.h b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.h
index 59cfe13ea8a8..971bff7552d6 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.h
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ struct pmem_device {
 	struct dax_device	*dax_dev;
 	struct gendisk		*disk;
 	struct dev_pagemap	pgmap;
+	struct mutex		recovery_lock;
 };
 
 long __pmem_direct_access(struct pmem_device *pmem, pgoff_t pgoff,
