diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 0223673e42d120d00cc61ab7a87213e07e049258..81daa4dd3bb6c58694a8006fc2b48e788f1df061 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1374,6 +1374,8 @@ static inline int try_split_thp(struct page *page, struct list_head *split_pages
 	lock_page(page);
 	rc = split_huge_page_to_list(page, split_pages);
 	unlock_page(page);
+	if (!rc)
+		list_move_tail(&page->lru, split_pages);
 
 	return rc;
 }
@@ -1433,7 +1435,6 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
 		thp_retry = 0;
 
 		list_for_each_entry_safe(page, page2, from, lru) {
-retry:
 			/*
 			 * THP statistics is based on the source huge page.
 			 * Capture required information that might get lost
@@ -1469,10 +1470,9 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
 			 * retry on the same page with the THP split
 			 * to base pages.
 			 *
-			 * Head page is retried immediately and tail
-			 * pages are added to the tail of the list so
-			 * we encounter them after the rest of the list
-			 * is processed.
+			 * Sub-pages are put in thp_split_pages, and
+			 * we will migrate them after the rest of the
+			 * list is processed.
 			 */
 			case -ENOSYS:
 				/* THP migration is unsupported */
@@ -1480,7 +1480,7 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
 					nr_thp_failed++;
 					if (!try_split_thp(page, &thp_split_pages)) {
 						nr_thp_split++;
-						goto retry;
+						break;
 					}
 				/* Hugetlb migration is unsupported */
 				} else if (!no_subpage_counting) {
@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
 					/* THP NUMA faulting doesn't split THP to retry. */
 					if (!nosplit && !try_split_thp(page, &thp_split_pages)) {
 						nr_thp_split++;
-						goto retry;
+						break;
 					}
 				} else if (!no_subpage_counting) {
 					nr_failed++;