diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 8276a3a615ca..2d978b28a410 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
 		 *    __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS for this reason); but more thought
 		 *    would probably show more reasons.
 		 *
-		 * 3) Legacy memcg encounters a page that is not already marked
+		 * 3) Legacy memcg encounters a page that is already marked
 		 *    PageReclaim. memcg does not have any dirty pages
 		 *    throttling so we could easily OOM just because too many
 		 *    pages are in writeback and there is nothing else to
@@ -1015,12 +1015,15 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
 				 */
 				SetPageReclaim(page);
 				nr_writeback++;
-
 				goto keep_locked;
 
 			/* Case 3 above */
 			} else {
+				unlock_page(page);
 				wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+				/* then go back and try same page again */
+				list_add_tail(&page->lru, page_list);
+				continue;
 			}
 		}