diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index dd854cc65fd9..fd1b707f5de4 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5167,11 +5167,28 @@ static struct cftype mem_cgroup_legacy_files[] = {
 
 #define MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX	((1UL << MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT) - 1)
 static DEFINE_IDR(mem_cgroup_idr);
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(memcg_idr_lock);
+
+static int mem_cgroup_alloc_id(void)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL);
+	spin_lock(&memcg_idr_lock);
+	ret = idr_alloc(&mem_cgroup_idr, NULL, 1, MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX + 1,
+			GFP_NOWAIT);
+	spin_unlock(&memcg_idr_lock);
+	idr_preload_end();
+	return ret;
+}
 
 static void mem_cgroup_id_remove(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 	if (memcg->id.id > 0) {
+		spin_lock(&memcg_idr_lock);
 		idr_remove(&mem_cgroup_idr, memcg->id.id);
+		spin_unlock(&memcg_idr_lock);
+
 		memcg->id.id = 0;
 	}
 }
@@ -5294,8 +5311,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
 	if (!memcg)
 		return ERR_PTR(error);
 
-	memcg->id.id = idr_alloc(&mem_cgroup_idr, NULL,
-				 1, MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	memcg->id.id = mem_cgroup_alloc_id();
 	if (memcg->id.id < 0) {
 		error = memcg->id.id;
 		goto fail;
@@ -5430,7 +5446,9 @@ static int mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	 * publish it here at the end of onlining. This matches the
 	 * regular ID destruction during offlining.
 	 */
+	spin_lock(&memcg_idr_lock);
 	idr_replace(&mem_cgroup_idr, memcg, memcg->id.id);
+	spin_unlock(&memcg_idr_lock);
 
 	return 0;
 offline_kmem: