diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 7fa1cbe9fa7aac46d3f82929065479449dc42f66..1b0680cd84d2f04abd3352a58ca695cc3e3aeec4 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ enum zone_stat_item {
 	NR_WRITEBACK,
 	NR_UNSTABLE_NFS,	/* NFS unstable pages */
 	NR_BOUNCE,
+	NR_VMSCAN_WRITE,
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	NUMA_HIT,		/* allocated in intended node */
 	NUMA_MISS,		/* allocated in non intended node */
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 87779dda4ec6d7af4afe8427c6cf0476138d3245..87d340999ce8a5d8ada08487627769bb0574381f 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/vmstat.h>
 #include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/writeback.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
@@ -370,7 +371,7 @@ static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
 			/* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */
 			ClearPageReclaim(page);
 		}
-
+		inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_VMSCAN_WRITE);
 		return PAGE_SUCCESS;
 	}
 
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 490d8c1a0ded5efe731e6729136e3460341b3e5e..69c657132e1f79ecebbd590883d1470d5e781ba1 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@ static char *vmstat_text[] = {
 	"nr_writeback",
 	"nr_unstable",
 	"nr_bounce",
+	"nr_vmscan_write",
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	"numa_hit",