diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index a3098046250b..47868a86ba2b 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -144,10 +144,6 @@ enum {
 	CGRP_RELEASABLE,
 	/* Control Group requires release notifications to userspace */
 	CGRP_NOTIFY_ON_RELEASE,
-	/*
-	 * A thread in rmdir() is wating for this cgroup.
-	 */
-	CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR,
 	/*
 	 * Clone cgroup values when creating a new child cgroup
 	 */
@@ -411,23 +407,6 @@ int cgroup_task_count(const struct cgroup *cgrp);
 /* Return true if cgrp is a descendant of the task's cgroup */
 int cgroup_is_descendant(const struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *task);
 
-/*
- * When the subsys has to access css and may add permanent refcnt to css,
- * it should take care of racy conditions with rmdir(). Following set of
- * functions, is for stop/restart rmdir if necessary.
- * Because these will call css_get/put, "css" should be alive css.
- *
- *  cgroup_exclude_rmdir();
- *  ...do some jobs which may access arbitrary empty cgroup
- *  cgroup_release_and_wakeup_rmdir();
- *
- *  When someone removes a cgroup while cgroup_exclude_rmdir() holds it,
- *  it sleeps and cgroup_release_and_wakeup_rmdir() will wake him up.
- */
-
-void cgroup_exclude_rmdir(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css);
-void cgroup_release_and_wakeup_rmdir(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css);
-
 /*
  * Control Group taskset, used to pass around set of tasks to cgroup_subsys
  * methods.
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 66204a6f68f3..c5f6fb28dd0e 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -965,33 +965,6 @@ static void cgroup_d_remove_dir(struct dentry *dentry)
 	remove_dir(dentry);
 }
 
-/*
- * A queue for waiters to do rmdir() cgroup. A tasks will sleep when
- * cgroup->count == 0 && list_empty(&cgroup->children) && subsys has some
- * reference to css->refcnt. In general, this refcnt is expected to goes down
- * to zero, soon.
- *
- * CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR flag is set under cgroup's inode->i_mutex;
- */
-static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(cgroup_rmdir_waitq);
-
-static void cgroup_wakeup_rmdir_waiter(struct cgroup *cgrp)
-{
-	if (unlikely(test_and_clear_bit(CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR, &cgrp->flags)))
-		wake_up_all(&cgroup_rmdir_waitq);
-}
-
-void cgroup_exclude_rmdir(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
-{
-	css_get(css);
-}
-
-void cgroup_release_and_wakeup_rmdir(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
-{
-	cgroup_wakeup_rmdir_waiter(css->cgroup);
-	css_put(css);
-}
-
 /*
  * Call with cgroup_mutex held. Drops reference counts on modules, including
  * any duplicate ones that parse_cgroupfs_options took. If this function
@@ -1963,12 +1936,6 @@ int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	}
 
 	synchronize_rcu();
-
-	/*
-	 * wake up rmdir() waiter. the rmdir should fail since the cgroup
-	 * is no longer empty.
-	 */
-	cgroup_wakeup_rmdir_waiter(cgrp);
 out:
 	if (retval) {
 		for_each_subsys(root, ss) {
@@ -2138,7 +2105,6 @@ static int cgroup_attach_proc(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *leader)
 	 * step 5: success! and cleanup
 	 */
 	synchronize_rcu();
-	cgroup_wakeup_rmdir_waiter(cgrp);
 	retval = 0;
 out_put_css_set_refs:
 	if (retval) {
@@ -4058,26 +4024,13 @@ static int cgroup_rmdir(struct inode *unused_dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	struct cgroup_event *event, *tmp;
 	struct cgroup_subsys *ss;
 
-	/*
-	 * In general, subsystem has no css->refcnt after pre_destroy(). But
-	 * in racy cases, subsystem may have to get css->refcnt after
-	 * pre_destroy() and it makes rmdir return with -EBUSY. This sometimes
-	 * make rmdir return -EBUSY too often. To avoid that, we use waitqueue
-	 * for cgroup's rmdir. CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR is for synchronizing rmdir
-	 * and subsystem's reference count handling. Please see css_get/put
-	 * and css_tryget() and cgroup_wakeup_rmdir_waiter() implementation.
-	 */
-	set_bit(CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR, &cgrp->flags);
-
 	/* the vfs holds both inode->i_mutex already */
 	mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
 	parent = cgrp->parent;
 	if (atomic_read(&cgrp->count) || !list_empty(&cgrp->children)) {
-		clear_bit(CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR, &cgrp->flags);
 		mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
-	prepare_to_wait(&cgroup_rmdir_waitq, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 
 	/*
 	 * Block new css_tryget() by deactivating refcnt and mark @cgrp
@@ -4114,9 +4067,6 @@ static int cgroup_rmdir(struct inode *unused_dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	for_each_subsys(cgrp->root, ss)
 		css_put(cgrp->subsys[ss->subsys_id]);
 
-	finish_wait(&cgroup_rmdir_waitq, &wait);
-	clear_bit(CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR, &cgrp->flags);
-
 	raw_spin_lock(&release_list_lock);
 	if (!list_empty(&cgrp->release_list))
 		list_del_init(&cgrp->release_list);
@@ -4864,7 +4814,6 @@ void __css_put(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 			set_bit(CGRP_RELEASABLE, &cgrp->flags);
 			check_for_release(cgrp);
 		}
-		cgroup_wakeup_rmdir_waiter(cgrp);
 		break;
 	case 0:
 		schedule_work(&css->dput_work);
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 37c356646544..930edfaa5187 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2681,13 +2681,6 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struct page *page,
 	/* caller should have done css_get */
 	pc->mem_cgroup = to;
 	mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(to, anon, nr_pages);
-	/*
-	 * We charges against "to" which may not have any tasks. Then, "to"
-	 * can be under rmdir(). But in current implementation, caller of
-	 * this function is just force_empty() and move charge, so it's
-	 * guaranteed that "to" is never removed. So, we don't check rmdir
-	 * status here.
-	 */
 	move_unlock_mem_cgroup(from, &flags);
 	ret = 0;
 unlock:
@@ -2893,7 +2886,6 @@ __mem_cgroup_commit_charge_swapin(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 		return;
 	if (!memcg)
 		return;
-	cgroup_exclude_rmdir(&memcg->css);
 
 	__mem_cgroup_commit_charge(memcg, page, 1, ctype, true);
 	/*
@@ -2907,12 +2899,6 @@ __mem_cgroup_commit_charge_swapin(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 		swp_entry_t ent = {.val = page_private(page)};
 		mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap(ent);
 	}
-	/*
-	 * At swapin, we may charge account against cgroup which has no tasks.
-	 * So, rmdir()->pre_destroy() can be called while we do this charge.
-	 * In that case, we need to call pre_destroy() again. check it here.
-	 */
-	cgroup_release_and_wakeup_rmdir(&memcg->css);
 }
 
 void mem_cgroup_commit_charge_swapin(struct page *page,
@@ -3360,8 +3346,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_end_migration(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 
 	if (!memcg)
 		return;
-	/* blocks rmdir() */
-	cgroup_exclude_rmdir(&memcg->css);
+
 	if (!migration_ok) {
 		used = oldpage;
 		unused = newpage;
@@ -3395,13 +3380,6 @@ void mem_cgroup_end_migration(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 	 */
 	if (anon)
 		mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(used);
-	/*
-	 * At migration, we may charge account against cgroup which has no
-	 * tasks.
-	 * So, rmdir()->pre_destroy() can be called while we do this charge.
-	 * In that case, we need to call pre_destroy() again. check it here.
-	 */
-	cgroup_release_and_wakeup_rmdir(&memcg->css);
 }
 
 /*