diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
index 5ac2fbde97e6aad20b8916d9904cb9e0d03e1831..e6101976e0f18595d77e1242ab3f5680396fbfd9 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
@@ -852,13 +852,25 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
 
 		The number of times the cgroup's memory usage was
 		about to go over the max boundary.  If direct reclaim
-		fails to bring it down, the OOM killer is invoked.
+		fails to bring it down, the cgroup goes to OOM state.
 
 	  oom
 
-		The number of times the OOM killer has been invoked in
-		the cgroup.  This may not exactly match the number of
-		processes killed but should generally be close.
+		The number of time the cgroup's memory usage was
+		reached the limit and allocation was about to fail.
+
+		Depending on context result could be invocation of OOM
+		killer and retrying allocation or failing alloction.
+
+		Failed allocation in its turn could be returned into
+		userspace as -ENOMEM or siletly ignored in cases like
+		disk readahead.	 For now OOM in memory cgroup kills
+		tasks iff shortage has happened inside page fault.
+
+	  oom_kill
+
+		The number of processes belonging to this cgroup
+		killed by any kind of OOM killer.
 
   memory.stat
 
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index b2a5b1cd4e552bbb188476275d97a68aec41decd..72d0853beb31fbbf6658954962cfb86465c70982 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -582,8 +582,11 @@ static inline void count_memcg_event_mm(struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
-	if (likely(memcg))
+	if (likely(memcg)) {
 		this_cpu_inc(memcg->stat->events[idx]);
+		if (idx == OOM_KILL)
+			cgroup_file_notify(&memcg->events_file);
+	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
index be3ab2d13adf52a5d834e87bacf9de7f45103342..37e8d31a4632dbbdcb22b492153cb36897057687 100644
--- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
+++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
 		KSWAPD_LOW_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY, KSWAPD_HIGH_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY,
 		PAGEOUTRUN, PGROTATED,
 		DROP_PAGECACHE, DROP_SLAB,
+		OOM_KILL,
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 		NUMA_PTE_UPDATES,
 		NUMA_HUGE_PTE_UPDATES,
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 3e2f8cf85b4c471fb5661b00f02a65b84ab5d7a3..4f686fc1c5fac144769a278315d9074cee4d6cb5 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3573,6 +3573,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_oom_control_read(struct seq_file *sf, void *v)
 
 	seq_printf(sf, "oom_kill_disable %d\n", memcg->oom_kill_disable);
 	seq_printf(sf, "under_oom %d\n", (bool)memcg->under_oom);
+	seq_printf(sf, "oom_kill %lu\n", memcg_sum_events(memcg, OOM_KILL));
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -5164,6 +5165,7 @@ static int memory_events_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 	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, "oom_kill %lu\n", memcg_sum_events(memcg, OOM_KILL));
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 04c9143a86255a179aa40c06c2f36d203608117b..0e2c925e7826fe302e5db43c5940237f1c6eb0d6 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -876,6 +876,11 @@ static void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, const char *message)
 	/* Get a reference to safely compare mm after task_unlock(victim) */
 	mm = victim->mm;
 	mmgrab(mm);
+
+	/* Raise event before sending signal: task reaper must see this */
+	count_vm_event(OOM_KILL);
+	count_memcg_event_mm(mm, OOM_KILL);
+
 	/*
 	 * We should send SIGKILL before setting TIF_MEMDIE in order to prevent
 	 * the OOM victim from depleting the memory reserves from the user
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 6dae6b240b21ffee5ce49bdfb7735fbb2c8cd02b..46281825c71054451d43d2f0256c421f1a171de4 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1018,6 +1018,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 
 	"drop_pagecache",
 	"drop_slab",
+	"oom_kill",
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 	"numa_pte_updates",