diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 216659d4441a..706f7bc16db2 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -382,15 +382,10 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 
 /* internal only representation about the status of kmem accounting. */
 enum {
-	KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVE = 0, /* accounted by this cgroup itself */
-	KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVATED, /* static key enabled. */
+	KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVE, /* accounted by this cgroup itself */
 	KMEM_ACCOUNTED_DEAD, /* dead memcg with pending kmem charges */
 };
 
-/* We account when limit is on, but only after call sites are patched */
-#define KMEM_ACCOUNTED_MASK \
-		((1 << KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVE) | (1 << KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVATED))
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
 static inline void memcg_kmem_set_active(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
@@ -402,16 +397,6 @@ static bool memcg_kmem_is_active(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 	return test_bit(KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVE, &memcg->kmem_account_flags);
 }
 
-static void memcg_kmem_set_activated(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
-	set_bit(KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVATED, &memcg->kmem_account_flags);
-}
-
-static void memcg_kmem_clear_activated(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
-	clear_bit(KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVATED, &memcg->kmem_account_flags);
-}
-
 static void memcg_kmem_mark_dead(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 	/*
@@ -2995,8 +2980,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(set_limit_mutex);
 static inline bool memcg_can_account_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 	return !mem_cgroup_disabled() && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg) &&
-		(memcg->kmem_account_flags & KMEM_ACCOUNTED_MASK) ==
-							KMEM_ACCOUNTED_MASK;
+		memcg_kmem_is_active(memcg);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -3120,19 +3104,10 @@ static int memcg_update_cache_sizes(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 				0, MEMCG_CACHES_MAX_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (num < 0)
 		return num;
-	/*
-	 * After this point, kmem_accounted (that we test atomically in
-	 * the beginning of this conditional), is no longer 0. This
-	 * guarantees only one process will set the following boolean
-	 * to true. We don't need test_and_set because we're protected
-	 * by the set_limit_mutex anyway.
-	 */
-	memcg_kmem_set_activated(memcg);
 
 	ret = memcg_update_all_caches(num+1);
 	if (ret) {
 		ida_simple_remove(&kmem_limited_groups, num);
-		memcg_kmem_clear_activated(memcg);
 		return ret;
 	}