diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index f5871ee..0c33a09 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1505,6 +1505,7 @@
 	spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
 static int inactive_anon_is_low_global(struct zone *zone)
 {
 	unsigned long active, inactive;
@@ -1530,12 +1531,26 @@
 {
 	int low;
 
+	/*
+	 * If we don't have swap space, anonymous page deactivation
+	 * is pointless.
+	 */
+	if (!total_swap_pages)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (scanning_global_lru(sc))
 		low = inactive_anon_is_low_global(zone);
 	else
 		low = mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(sc->mem_cgroup);
 	return low;
 }
+#else
+static inline int inactive_anon_is_low(struct zone *zone,
+					struct scan_control *sc)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
 
 static int inactive_file_is_low_global(struct zone *zone)
 {
@@ -1781,7 +1796,7 @@
 	 * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
 	 * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
 	 */
-	if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc) && nr_swap_pages > 0)
+	if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc))
 		shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, zone, sc, priority, 0);
 
 	throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);