diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
index e0393240bf64..f2b4abbca55e 100644
--- a/include/linux/migrate.h
+++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ static inline struct page *new_page_nodemask(struct page *page,
 		return alloc_huge_page_nodemask(page_hstate(compound_head(page)),
 				preferred_nid, nodemask);
 
-	if (thp_migration_supported() && PageTransHuge(page)) {
-		order = HPAGE_PMD_ORDER;
+	if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
 		gfp_mask |= GFP_TRANSHUGE;
+		order = HPAGE_PMD_ORDER;
 	}
 
 	if (PageHighMem(page) || (zone_idx(page_zone(page)) == ZONE_MOVABLE))
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 229ab8c75a6b..3f3267af4e3b 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2401,6 +2401,12 @@ static void __split_huge_page_tail(struct page *head, int tail,
 
 	page_tail->index = head->index + tail;
 	page_cpupid_xchg_last(page_tail, page_cpupid_last(head));
+
+	/*
+	 * always add to the tail because some iterators expect new
+	 * pages to show after the currently processed elements - e.g.
+	 * migrate_pages
+	 */
 	lru_add_page_tail(head, page_tail, lruvec, list);
 }
 
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index ec028494519c..f74826cdceea 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1372,7 +1372,7 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 			if (isolate_huge_page(page, &source))
 				move_pages -= 1 << compound_order(head);
 			continue;
-		} else if (thp_migration_supported() && PageTransHuge(page))
+		} else if (PageTransHuge(page))
 			pfn = page_to_pfn(compound_head(page))
 				+ hpage_nr_pages(page) - 1;
 
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index e94bd70840de..9ac49ef17b4e 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -446,15 +446,6 @@ static int queue_pages_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, spinlock_t *ptl, unsigned long addr,
 		__split_huge_pmd(walk->vma, pmd, addr, false, NULL);
 		goto out;
 	}
-	if (!thp_migration_supported()) {
-		get_page(page);
-		spin_unlock(ptl);
-		lock_page(page);
-		ret = split_huge_page(page);
-		unlock_page(page);
-		put_page(page);
-		goto out;
-	}
 	if (!queue_pages_required(page, qp)) {
 		ret = 1;
 		goto unlock;
@@ -495,7 +486,7 @@ static int queue_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
 
 	if (pmd_trans_unstable(pmd))
 		return 0;
-retry:
+
 	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
 	for (; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
 		if (!pte_present(*pte))
@@ -511,22 +502,6 @@ retry:
 			continue;
 		if (!queue_pages_required(page, qp))
 			continue;
-		if (PageTransCompound(page) && !thp_migration_supported()) {
-			get_page(page);
-			pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
-			lock_page(page);
-			ret = split_huge_page(page);
-			unlock_page(page);
-			put_page(page);
-			/* Failed to split -- skip. */
-			if (ret) {
-				pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd,
-						addr, &ptl);
-				continue;
-			}
-			goto retry;
-		}
-
 		migrate_page_add(page, qp->pagelist, flags);
 	}
 	pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
@@ -948,7 +923,7 @@ struct page *alloc_new_node_page(struct page *page, unsigned long node)
 	if (PageHuge(page))
 		return alloc_huge_page_node(page_hstate(compound_head(page)),
 					node);
-	else if (thp_migration_supported() && PageTransHuge(page)) {
+	else if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
 		struct page *thp;
 
 		thp = alloc_pages_node(node,
@@ -1124,7 +1099,7 @@ static struct page *new_page(struct page *page, unsigned long start)
 	if (PageHuge(page)) {
 		return alloc_huge_page_vma(page_hstate(compound_head(page)),
 				vma, address);
-	} else if (thp_migration_supported() && PageTransHuge(page)) {
+	} else if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
 		struct page *thp;
 
 		thp = alloc_hugepage_vma(GFP_TRANSHUGE, vma, address,
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index c606752f6d2a..51b55f2d2db5 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1139,6 +1139,9 @@ static ICE_noinline int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page,
 	int rc = MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS;
 	struct page *newpage;
 
+	if (!thp_migration_supported() && PageTransHuge(page))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	newpage = get_new_page(page, private);
 	if (!newpage)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1160,14 +1163,6 @@ static ICE_noinline int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (unlikely(PageTransHuge(page) && !PageTransHuge(newpage))) {
-		lock_page(page);
-		rc = split_huge_page(page);
-		unlock_page(page);
-		if (rc)
-			goto out;
-	}
-
 	rc = __unmap_and_move(page, newpage, force, mode);
 	if (rc == MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS)
 		set_page_owner_migrate_reason(newpage, reason);
@@ -1381,6 +1376,7 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
 		retry = 0;
 
 		list_for_each_entry_safe(page, page2, from, lru) {
+retry:
 			cond_resched();
 
 			if (PageHuge(page))
@@ -1394,6 +1390,26 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
 
 			switch(rc) {
 			case -ENOMEM:
+				/*
+				 * THP migration might be unsupported or the
+				 * allocation could've failed so we should
+				 * 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.
+				 */
+				if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
+					lock_page(page);
+					rc = split_huge_page_to_list(page, from);
+					unlock_page(page);
+					if (!rc) {
+						list_safe_reset_next(page, page2, lru);
+						goto retry;
+					}
+				}
 				nr_failed++;
 				goto out;
 			case -EAGAIN:
@@ -1480,8 +1496,6 @@ static int add_page_for_migration(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 
 	/* FOLL_DUMP to ignore special (like zero) pages */
 	follflags = FOLL_GET | FOLL_DUMP;
-	if (!thp_migration_supported())
-		follflags |= FOLL_SPLIT;
 	page = follow_page(vma, addr, follflags);
 
 	err = PTR_ERR(page);