diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 7e65d8c2e685..8539f2037168 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -763,6 +763,22 @@ unsigned long memcg_page_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int idx)
 	return x;
 }
 
+static int memcg_page_state_unit(int item);
+
+/*
+ * Normalize the value passed into memcg_rstat_updated() to be in pages. Round
+ * up non-zero sub-page updates to 1 page as zero page updates are ignored.
+ */
+static int memcg_state_val_in_pages(int idx, int val)
+{
+	int unit = memcg_page_state_unit(idx);
+
+	if (!val || unit == PAGE_SIZE)
+		return val;
+	else
+		return max(val * unit / PAGE_SIZE, 1UL);
+}
+
 /**
  * __mod_memcg_state - update cgroup memory statistics
  * @memcg: the memory cgroup
@@ -775,7 +791,7 @@ void __mod_memcg_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int idx, int val)
 		return;
 
 	__this_cpu_add(memcg->vmstats_percpu->state[idx], val);
-	memcg_rstat_updated(memcg, val);
+	memcg_rstat_updated(memcg, memcg_state_val_in_pages(idx, val));
 }
 
 /* idx can be of type enum memcg_stat_item or node_stat_item. */
@@ -826,7 +842,7 @@ void __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum node_stat_item idx,
 	/* Update lruvec */
 	__this_cpu_add(pn->lruvec_stats_percpu->state[idx], val);
 
-	memcg_rstat_updated(memcg, val);
+	memcg_rstat_updated(memcg, memcg_state_val_in_pages(idx, val));
 	memcg_stats_unlock();
 }