diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 6ddaeba34e097a7553d33b8add26e26a27d3c81a..03cc0a742ff1ee25c2812afdff3334a48e86e654 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -644,12 +644,14 @@ mem_cgroup_largest_soft_limit_node(struct mem_cgroup_tree_per_zone *mctz)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Return page count for single (non recursive) @memcg.
+ *
  * Implementation Note: reading percpu statistics for memcg.
  *
  * Both of vmstat[] and percpu_counter has threshold and do periodic
  * synchronization to implement "quick" read. There are trade-off between
  * reading cost and precision of value. Then, we may have a chance to implement
- * a periodic synchronizion of counter in memcg's counter.
+ * a periodic synchronization of counter in memcg's counter.
  *
  * But this _read() function is used for user interface now. The user accounts
  * memory usage by memory cgroup and he _always_ requires exact value because
@@ -659,17 +661,24 @@ mem_cgroup_largest_soft_limit_node(struct mem_cgroup_tree_per_zone *mctz)
  *
  * If there are kernel internal actions which can make use of some not-exact
  * value, and reading all cpu value can be performance bottleneck in some
- * common workload, threashold and synchonization as vmstat[] should be
+ * common workload, threshold and synchronization as vmstat[] should be
  * implemented.
  */
-static long mem_cgroup_read_stat(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
-				 enum mem_cgroup_stat_index idx)
+static unsigned long
+mem_cgroup_read_stat(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, enum mem_cgroup_stat_index idx)
 {
 	long val = 0;
 	int cpu;
 
+	/* Per-cpu values can be negative, use a signed accumulator */
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
 		val += per_cpu(memcg->stat->count[idx], cpu);
+	/*
+	 * Summing races with updates, so val may be negative.  Avoid exposing
+	 * transient negative values.
+	 */
+	if (val < 0)
+		val = 0;
 	return val;
 }
 
@@ -1254,7 +1263,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct task_struct *p)
 		for (i = 0; i < MEM_CGROUP_STAT_NSTATS; i++) {
 			if (i == MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAP && !do_swap_account)
 				continue;
-			pr_cont(" %s:%ldKB", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i],
+			pr_cont(" %s:%luKB", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i],
 				K(mem_cgroup_read_stat(iter, i)));
 		}
 
@@ -2819,14 +2828,11 @@ static unsigned long tree_stat(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 			       enum mem_cgroup_stat_index idx)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *iter;
-	long val = 0;
+	unsigned long val = 0;
 
-	/* Per-cpu values can be negative, use a signed accumulator */
 	for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(iter, memcg)
 		val += mem_cgroup_read_stat(iter, idx);
 
-	if (val < 0) /* race ? */
-		val = 0;
 	return val;
 }
 
@@ -3169,7 +3175,7 @@ static int memcg_stat_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 	for (i = 0; i < MEM_CGROUP_STAT_NSTATS; i++) {
 		if (i == MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAP && !do_swap_account)
 			continue;
-		seq_printf(m, "%s %ld\n", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i],
+		seq_printf(m, "%s %lu\n", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i],
 			   mem_cgroup_read_stat(memcg, i) * PAGE_SIZE);
 	}
 
@@ -3194,13 +3200,13 @@ static int memcg_stat_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 			   (u64)memsw * PAGE_SIZE);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MEM_CGROUP_STAT_NSTATS; i++) {
-		long long val = 0;
+		unsigned long long val = 0;
 
 		if (i == MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAP && !do_swap_account)
 			continue;
 		for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(mi, memcg)
 			val += mem_cgroup_read_stat(mi, i) * PAGE_SIZE;
-		seq_printf(m, "total_%s %lld\n", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i], val);
+		seq_printf(m, "total_%s %llu\n", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i], val);
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MEM_CGROUP_EVENTS_NSTATS; i++) {