diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index f6f51b14a33280a613dfd5d3e0cba28b485e5615..029b4848ab6f3b83dff8967d926db6d6a04937da 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -1109,6 +1109,12 @@ static inline void count_memcg_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 {
 }
 
+static inline void __count_memcg_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+					enum vm_event_item idx,
+					unsigned long count)
+{
+}
+
 static inline void count_memcg_page_event(struct page *page,
 					  int idx)
 {
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 38fcda38bf7b99fc90f0dd9e95be2942ac847e89..92f2489efda832583a567c6056ed735eed8185ba 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2077,12 +2077,6 @@ static unsigned move_active_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec *lruvec,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (!is_active_lru(lru)) {
-		__count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, nr_moved);
-		count_memcg_events(lruvec_memcg(lruvec), PGDEACTIVATE,
-				   nr_moved);
-	}
-
 	return nr_moved;
 }
 
@@ -2178,6 +2172,10 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
 
 	nr_activate = move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec, &l_active, &l_hold, lru);
 	nr_deactivate = move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec, &l_inactive, &l_hold, lru - LRU_ACTIVE);
+
+	__count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, nr_deactivate);
+	__count_memcg_events(lruvec_memcg(lruvec), PGDEACTIVATE, nr_deactivate);
+
 	__mod_node_page_state(pgdat, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, -nr_taken);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);