diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 92e83e53148..cdd2a6e8a3b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2385,6 +2385,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			improve throughput, but will also increase the
 			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
 
+	swapaccount[=0|1]
+			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
+			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
+			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
+
 	swiotlb=	[IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
 
 	switches=	[HW,M68k]
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 88c10468db4..c9728992a77 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -613,6 +613,19 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
 	  if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
 	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
 	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
+config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED
+	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
+	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
+	default y
+	help
+	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
+	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
+	  which want to enable the feautre but keep it disabled by default
+	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
+	  parameter should have this option unselected.
+	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
+	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
+	  then noswapaccount does the trick).
 
 menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
 	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 26218df8d19..7a22b412921 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -61,7 +61,14 @@ struct mem_cgroup *root_mem_cgroup __read_mostly;
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
 /* Turned on only when memory cgroup is enabled && really_do_swap_account = 1 */
 int do_swap_account __read_mostly;
-static int really_do_swap_account __initdata = 1; /* for remember boot option*/
+
+/* for remember boot option*/
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED
+static int really_do_swap_account __initdata = 1;
+#else
+static int really_do_swap_account __initdata = 0;
+#endif
+
 #else
 #define do_swap_account		(0)
 #endif
@@ -4920,10 +4927,20 @@ struct cgroup_subsys mem_cgroup_subsys = {
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
+static int __init enable_swap_account(char *s)
+{
+	/* consider enabled if no parameter or 1 is given */
+	if (!s || !strcmp(s, "1"))
+		really_do_swap_account = 1;
+	else if (!strcmp(s, "0"))
+		really_do_swap_account = 0;
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("swapaccount", enable_swap_account);
 
 static int __init disable_swap_account(char *s)
 {
-	really_do_swap_account = 0;
+	enable_swap_account("0");
 	return 1;
 }
 __setup("noswapaccount", disable_swap_account);