diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index ae0433885b69104130421a2a4fca9ff6bf709e01..8e0988fee888cd369d5b00991972157e24c70bad 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -416,8 +416,8 @@ static bool memcg_kmem_test_and_clear_dead(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 
 /* Stuffs for move charges at task migration. */
 /*
- * Types of charges to be moved. "move_charge_at_immitgrate" is treated as a
- * left-shifted bitmap of these types.
+ * Types of charges to be moved. "move_charge_at_immitgrate" and
+ * "immigrate_flags" are treated as a left-shifted bitmap of these types.
  */
 enum move_type {
 	MOVE_CHARGE_TYPE_ANON,	/* private anonymous page and swap of it */
@@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ static struct move_charge_struct {
 	spinlock_t	  lock; /* for from, to */
 	struct mem_cgroup *from;
 	struct mem_cgroup *to;
+	unsigned long immigrate_flags;
 	unsigned long precharge;
 	unsigned long moved_charge;
 	unsigned long moved_swap;
@@ -442,14 +443,12 @@ static struct move_charge_struct {
 
 static bool move_anon(void)
 {
-	return test_bit(MOVE_CHARGE_TYPE_ANON,
-					&mc.to->move_charge_at_immigrate);
+	return test_bit(MOVE_CHARGE_TYPE_ANON, &mc.immigrate_flags);
 }
 
 static bool move_file(void)
 {
-	return test_bit(MOVE_CHARGE_TYPE_FILE,
-					&mc.to->move_charge_at_immigrate);
+	return test_bit(MOVE_CHARGE_TYPE_FILE, &mc.immigrate_flags);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -5193,15 +5192,14 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_charge_write(struct cgroup *cgrp,
 
 	if (val >= (1 << NR_MOVE_TYPE))
 		return -EINVAL;
+
 	/*
-	 * We check this value several times in both in can_attach() and
-	 * attach(), so we need cgroup lock to prevent this value from being
-	 * inconsistent.
+	 * No kind of locking is needed in here, because ->can_attach() will
+	 * check this value once in the beginning of the process, and then carry
+	 * on with stale data. This means that changes to this value will only
+	 * affect task migrations starting after the change.
 	 */
-	cgroup_lock();
 	memcg->move_charge_at_immigrate = val;
-	cgroup_unlock();
-
 	return 0;
 }
 #else
@@ -6559,8 +6557,15 @@ static int mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup *cgroup,
 	struct task_struct *p = cgroup_taskset_first(tset);
 	int ret = 0;
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
+	unsigned long move_charge_at_immigrate;
 
-	if (memcg->move_charge_at_immigrate) {
+	/*
+	 * We are now commited to this value whatever it is. Changes in this
+	 * tunable will only affect upcoming migrations, not the current one.
+	 * So we need to save it, and keep it going.
+	 */
+	move_charge_at_immigrate  = memcg->move_charge_at_immigrate;
+	if (move_charge_at_immigrate) {
 		struct mm_struct *mm;
 		struct mem_cgroup *from = mem_cgroup_from_task(p);
 
@@ -6580,6 +6585,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup *cgroup,
 			spin_lock(&mc.lock);
 			mc.from = from;
 			mc.to = memcg;
+			mc.immigrate_flags = move_charge_at_immigrate;
 			spin_unlock(&mc.lock);
 			/* We set mc.moving_task later */