diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index c46016bb25eb..6503a9ca27c1 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -48,13 +48,12 @@ enum memcg_stat_item {
 	MEMCG_NR_STAT,
 };
 
-/* Cgroup-specific events, on top of universal VM events */
-enum memcg_event_item {
-	MEMCG_LOW = NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS,
+enum memcg_memory_event {
+	MEMCG_LOW,
 	MEMCG_HIGH,
 	MEMCG_MAX,
 	MEMCG_OOM,
-	MEMCG_NR_EVENTS,
+	MEMCG_NR_MEMORY_EVENTS,
 };
 
 struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie {
@@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ enum mem_cgroup_events_target {
 
 struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu {
 	long count[MEMCG_NR_STAT];
-	unsigned long events[MEMCG_NR_EVENTS];
+	unsigned long events[NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS];
 	unsigned long nr_page_events;
 	unsigned long targets[MEM_CGROUP_NTARGETS];
 };
@@ -202,7 +201,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 	/* OOM-Killer disable */
 	int		oom_kill_disable;
 
-	/* handle for "memory.events" */
+	/* memory.events */
+	atomic_long_t memory_events[MEMCG_NR_MEMORY_EVENTS];
 	struct cgroup_file events_file;
 
 	/* protect arrays of thresholds */
@@ -231,9 +231,10 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 	struct task_struct	*move_lock_task;
 	unsigned long		move_lock_flags;
 
+	/* memory.stat */
 	struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu __percpu *stat_cpu;
 	atomic_long_t		stat[MEMCG_NR_STAT];
-	atomic_long_t		events[MEMCG_NR_EVENTS];
+	atomic_long_t		events[NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS];
 
 	unsigned long		socket_pressure;
 
@@ -645,9 +646,9 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
 						gfp_t gfp_mask,
 						unsigned long *total_scanned);
 
-/* idx can be of type enum memcg_event_item or vm_event_item */
 static inline void __count_memcg_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
-					int idx, unsigned long count)
+					enum vm_event_item idx,
+					unsigned long count)
 {
 	unsigned long x;
 
@@ -663,7 +664,8 @@ static inline void __count_memcg_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 }
 
 static inline void count_memcg_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
-				      int idx, unsigned long count)
+				      enum vm_event_item idx,
+				      unsigned long count)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 
@@ -672,9 +674,8 @@ static inline void count_memcg_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
-/* idx can be of type enum memcg_event_item or vm_event_item */
 static inline void count_memcg_page_event(struct page *page,
-					  int idx)
+					  enum vm_event_item idx)
 {
 	if (page->mem_cgroup)
 		count_memcg_events(page->mem_cgroup, idx, 1);
@@ -698,10 +699,10 @@ static inline void count_memcg_event_mm(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
-static inline void mem_cgroup_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
-				    enum memcg_event_item event)
+static inline void memcg_memory_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+				      enum memcg_memory_event event)
 {
-	count_memcg_events(memcg, event, 1);
+	atomic_long_inc(&memcg->memory_events[event]);
 	cgroup_file_notify(&memcg->events_file);
 }
 
@@ -721,8 +722,8 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_disabled(void)
 	return true;
 }
 
-static inline void mem_cgroup_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
-				    enum memcg_event_item event)
+static inline void memcg_memory_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+				      enum memcg_memory_event event)
 {
 }
 
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 4e763cdccb33..31972189a827 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1872,7 +1872,7 @@ static int memcg_hotplug_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)
 			}
 		}
 
-		for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_NR_EVENTS; i++) {
+		for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS; i++) {
 			long x;
 
 			x = this_cpu_xchg(memcg->stat_cpu->events[i], 0);
@@ -1891,7 +1891,7 @@ static void reclaim_high(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 	do {
 		if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) <= memcg->high)
 			continue;
-		mem_cgroup_event(memcg, MEMCG_HIGH);
+		memcg_memory_event(memcg, MEMCG_HIGH);
 		try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, nr_pages, gfp_mask, true);
 	} while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)));
 }
@@ -1982,7 +1982,7 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	if (!gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask))
 		goto nomem;
 
-	mem_cgroup_event(mem_over_limit, MEMCG_MAX);
+	memcg_memory_event(mem_over_limit, MEMCG_MAX);
 
 	nr_reclaimed = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(mem_over_limit, nr_pages,
 						    gfp_mask, may_swap);
@@ -2025,7 +2025,7 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
 		goto force;
 
-	mem_cgroup_event(mem_over_limit, MEMCG_OOM);
+	memcg_memory_event(mem_over_limit, MEMCG_OOM);
 
 	mem_cgroup_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask,
 		       get_order(nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE));
@@ -2790,10 +2790,10 @@ static void tree_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned long *events)
 	struct mem_cgroup *iter;
 	int i;
 
-	memset(events, 0, sizeof(*events) * MEMCG_NR_EVENTS);
+	memset(events, 0, sizeof(*events) * NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS);
 
 	for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(iter, memcg) {
-		for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_NR_EVENTS; i++)
+		for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS; i++)
 			events[i] += memcg_sum_events(iter, i);
 	}
 }
@@ -5299,7 +5299,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_max_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		mem_cgroup_event(memcg, MEMCG_OOM);
+		memcg_memory_event(memcg, MEMCG_OOM);
 		if (!mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(memcg, GFP_KERNEL, 0))
 			break;
 	}
@@ -5312,10 +5312,14 @@ static int memory_events_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(seq_css(m));
 
-	seq_printf(m, "low %lu\n", memcg_sum_events(memcg, MEMCG_LOW));
-	seq_printf(m, "high %lu\n", memcg_sum_events(memcg, MEMCG_HIGH));
-	seq_printf(m, "max %lu\n", memcg_sum_events(memcg, MEMCG_MAX));
-	seq_printf(m, "oom %lu\n", memcg_sum_events(memcg, MEMCG_OOM));
+	seq_printf(m, "low %lu\n",
+		   atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory_events[MEMCG_LOW]));
+	seq_printf(m, "high %lu\n",
+		   atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory_events[MEMCG_HIGH]));
+	seq_printf(m, "max %lu\n",
+		   atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory_events[MEMCG_MAX]));
+	seq_printf(m, "oom %lu\n",
+		   atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory_events[MEMCG_OOM]));
 	seq_printf(m, "oom_kill %lu\n", memcg_sum_events(memcg, OOM_KILL));
 
 	return 0;
@@ -5325,7 +5329,7 @@ static int memory_stat_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(seq_css(m));
 	unsigned long stat[MEMCG_NR_STAT];
-	unsigned long events[MEMCG_NR_EVENTS];
+	unsigned long events[NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS];
 	int i;
 
 	/*
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 5ee6fbdec8a8..b37e6dd50925 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2628,7 +2628,7 @@ static bool shrink_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
 					sc->memcg_low_skipped = 1;
 					continue;
 				}
-				mem_cgroup_event(memcg, MEMCG_LOW);
+				memcg_memory_event(memcg, MEMCG_LOW);
 			}
 
 			reclaimed = sc->nr_reclaimed;
