diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index d4b5f29906b9..014e9090cb77 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 {
 	unsigned long pfn, nr_pages, expire;
 	long offlined_pages;
-	int ret, drain, retry_max, node;
+	int ret, node;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned long valid_start, valid_end;
 	struct zone *zone;
@@ -1631,43 +1631,25 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 
 	pfn = start_pfn;
 	expire = jiffies + timeout;
-	drain = 0;
-	retry_max = 5;
 repeat:
 	/* start memory hot removal */
-	ret = -EAGAIN;
+	ret = -EBUSY;
 	if (time_after(jiffies, expire))
 		goto failed_removal;
 	ret = -EINTR;
 	if (signal_pending(current))
 		goto failed_removal;
-	ret = 0;
-	if (drain) {
-		lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked();
-		cond_resched();
-		drain_all_pages(zone);
-	}
+
+	cond_resched();
+	lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked();
+	drain_all_pages(zone);
 
 	pfn = scan_movable_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
 	if (pfn) { /* We have movable pages */
 		ret = do_migrate_range(pfn, end_pfn);
-		if (!ret) {
-			drain = 1;
-			goto repeat;
-		} else {
-			if (ret < 0)
-				if (--retry_max == 0)
-					goto failed_removal;
-			yield();
-			drain = 1;
-			goto repeat;
-		}
+		goto repeat;
 	}
-	/* drain all zone's lru pagevec, this is asynchronous... */
-	lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked();
-	yield();
-	/* drain pcp pages, this is synchronous. */
-	drain_all_pages(zone);
+
 	/*
 	 * dissolve free hugepages in the memory block before doing offlining
 	 * actually in order to make hugetlbfs's object counting consistent.
@@ -1677,10 +1659,8 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 		goto failed_removal;
 	/* check again */
 	offlined_pages = check_pages_isolated(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-	if (offlined_pages < 0) {
-		ret = -EBUSY;
-		goto failed_removal;
-	}
+	if (offlined_pages < 0)
+		goto repeat;
 	pr_info("Offlined Pages %ld\n", offlined_pages);
 	/* Ok, all of our target is isolated.
 	   We cannot do rollback at this point. */