diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index b762215d73eb..6da5020a8656 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -106,9 +106,6 @@ static bool do_memsw_account(void)
 /* memcg and lruvec stats flushing */
 static void flush_memcg_stats_dwork(struct work_struct *w);
 static DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK(stats_flush_dwork, flush_memcg_stats_dwork);
-static void flush_memcg_stats_work(struct work_struct *w);
-static DECLARE_WORK(stats_flush_work, flush_memcg_stats_work);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, stats_flush_threshold);
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(stats_flush_lock);
 
 #define THRESHOLDS_EVENTS_TARGET 128
@@ -682,8 +679,6 @@ 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);
-	if (!(__this_cpu_inc_return(stats_flush_threshold) % MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH))
-		queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &stats_flush_work);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -5361,11 +5356,6 @@ static void flush_memcg_stats_dwork(struct work_struct *w)
 	queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &stats_flush_dwork, 2UL*HZ);
 }
 
-static void flush_memcg_stats_work(struct work_struct *w)
-{
-	mem_cgroup_flush_stats();
-}
-
 static void mem_cgroup_css_rstat_flush(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, int cpu)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c
index d4268d8e9a82..d5b81e4f4cbe 100644
--- a/mm/workingset.c
+++ b/mm/workingset.c
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ void workingset_refault(struct page *page, void *shadow)
 
 	inc_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_REFAULT_BASE + file);
 
+	mem_cgroup_flush_stats();
 	/*
 	 * Compare the distance to the existing workingset size. We
 	 * don't activate pages that couldn't stay resident even if