diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 652f602167df..cc6b6532eb56 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -559,7 +559,10 @@ struct mem_cgroup *lock_page_memcg(struct page *page);
 void __unlock_page_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
 void unlock_page_memcg(struct page *page);
 
-/* idx can be of type enum memcg_stat_item or node_stat_item */
+/*
+ * idx can be of type enum memcg_stat_item or node_stat_item.
+ * Keep in sync with memcg_exact_page_state().
+ */
 static inline unsigned long memcg_page_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 					     int idx)
 {
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 7c712c4565e6..7e7cc0cd89fe 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3897,6 +3897,22 @@ struct wb_domain *mem_cgroup_wb_domain(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
 	return &memcg->cgwb_domain;
 }
 
+/*
+ * idx can be of type enum memcg_stat_item or node_stat_item.
+ * Keep in sync with memcg_exact_page().
+ */
+static unsigned long memcg_exact_page_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int idx)
+{
+	long x = atomic_long_read(&memcg->stat[idx]);
+	int cpu;
+
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+		x += per_cpu_ptr(memcg->stat_cpu, cpu)->count[idx];
+	if (x < 0)
+		x = 0;
+	return x;
+}
+
 /**
  * mem_cgroup_wb_stats - retrieve writeback related stats from its memcg
  * @wb: bdi_writeback in question
@@ -3922,10 +3938,10 @@ void mem_cgroup_wb_stats(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long *pfilepages,
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(wb->memcg_css);
 	struct mem_cgroup *parent;
 
-	*pdirty = memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+	*pdirty = memcg_exact_page_state(memcg, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
 
 	/* this should eventually include NR_UNSTABLE_NFS */
-	*pwriteback = memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_WRITEBACK);
+	*pwriteback = memcg_exact_page_state(memcg, NR_WRITEBACK);
 	*pfilepages = mem_cgroup_nr_lru_pages(memcg, (1 << LRU_INACTIVE_FILE) |
 						     (1 << LRU_ACTIVE_FILE));
 	*pheadroom = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;