diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 3602acee4985..fdd8cd21522f 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -215,8 +215,7 @@ void f2fs_register_inmem_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page)
 }
 
 static int __revoke_inmem_pages(struct inode *inode,
-				struct list_head *head, bool drop, bool recover,
-				bool trylock)
+				struct list_head *head, bool drop, bool recover)
 {
 	struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_I_SB(inode);
 	struct inmem_pages *cur, *tmp;
@@ -228,16 +227,7 @@ static int __revoke_inmem_pages(struct inode *inode,
 		if (drop)
 			trace_f2fs_commit_inmem_page(page, INMEM_DROP);
 
-		if (trylock) {
-			/*
-			 * to avoid deadlock in between page lock and
-			 * inmem_lock.
-			 */
-			if (!trylock_page(page))
-				continue;
-		} else {
-			lock_page(page);
-		}
+		lock_page(page);
 
 		f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback(page, DATA, true, true);
 
@@ -328,19 +318,13 @@ void f2fs_drop_inmem_pages(struct inode *inode)
 	struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_I_SB(inode);
 	struct f2fs_inode_info *fi = F2FS_I(inode);
 
-	while (!list_empty(&fi->inmem_pages)) {
-		mutex_lock(&fi->inmem_lock);
-		__revoke_inmem_pages(inode, &fi->inmem_pages,
-						true, false, true);
-
-		if (list_empty(&fi->inmem_pages)) {
-			spin_lock(&sbi->inode_lock[ATOMIC_FILE]);
-			if (!list_empty(&fi->inmem_ilist))
-				list_del_init(&fi->inmem_ilist);
-			spin_unlock(&sbi->inode_lock[ATOMIC_FILE]);
-			mutex_unlock(&fi->inmem_lock);
-		}
-	}
+	mutex_lock(&fi->inmem_lock);
+	__revoke_inmem_pages(inode, &fi->inmem_pages, true, false);
+	spin_lock(&sbi->inode_lock[ATOMIC_FILE]);
+	if (!list_empty(&fi->inmem_ilist))
+		list_del_init(&fi->inmem_ilist);
+	spin_unlock(&sbi->inode_lock[ATOMIC_FILE]);
+	mutex_unlock(&fi->inmem_lock);
 
 	clear_inode_flag(inode, FI_ATOMIC_FILE);
 	fi->i_gc_failures[GC_FAILURE_ATOMIC] = 0;
@@ -445,15 +429,12 @@ retry:
 		 * recovery or rewrite & commit last transaction. For other
 		 * error number, revoking was done by filesystem itself.
 		 */
-		err = __revoke_inmem_pages(inode, &revoke_list,
-						false, true, false);
+		err = __revoke_inmem_pages(inode, &revoke_list, false, true);
 
 		/* drop all uncommitted pages */
-		__revoke_inmem_pages(inode, &fi->inmem_pages,
-						true, false, false);
+		__revoke_inmem_pages(inode, &fi->inmem_pages, true, false);
 	} else {
-		__revoke_inmem_pages(inode, &revoke_list,
-						false, false, false);
+		__revoke_inmem_pages(inode, &revoke_list, false, false);
 	}
 
 	return err;