diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 7592d8eb1148..879d034930c4 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1570,7 +1570,7 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
 	 * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
 	 * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
 	 */
-	if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc))
+	if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc) && nr_swap_pages > 0)
 		shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, zone, sc, priority, 0);
 
 	throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);