diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index c07f7b4fb88d162ad012e69a3d77aa90d62868ff..71c4da413444d969519ae464250774db5c05de63 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -466,6 +466,10 @@ Note:
 5.3 swappiness
 
 Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only.
+Please note that unlike the global swappiness, memcg knob set to 0
+really prevents from any swapping even if there is a swap storage
+available. This might lead to memcg OOM killer if there are no file
+pages to reclaim.
 
 Following cgroups' swappiness can't be changed.
 - root cgroup (uses /proc/sys/vm/swappiness).
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 7acf43bf04a270cf2bf90f342c66142d1c5cf675..93a7e36ded89f264194c77c7f8cd27c5f02410fa 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1452,17 +1452,26 @@ static int mem_cgroup_count_children(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 static u64 mem_cgroup_get_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 	u64 limit;
-	u64 memsw;
 
 	limit = res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->res, RES_LIMIT);
-	limit += total_swap_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
 
-	memsw = res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->memsw, RES_LIMIT);
 	/*
-	 * If memsw is finite and limits the amount of swap space available
-	 * to this memcg, return that limit.
+	 * Do not consider swap space if we cannot swap due to swappiness
 	 */
-	return min(limit, memsw);
+	if (mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg)) {
+		u64 memsw;
+
+		limit += total_swap_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
+		memsw = res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->memsw, RES_LIMIT);
+
+		/*
+		 * If memsw is finite and limits the amount of swap space
+		 * available to this memcg, return that limit.
+		 */
+		limit = min(limit, memsw);
+	}
+
+	return limit;
 }
 
 void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,