diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index 01e84436cddf..48d9cf04337c 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ enum mapping_flags {
 	AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS	= __GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 2,	/* under mm_take_all_locks() */
 	AS_UNEVICTABLE	= __GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 3,	/* e.g., ramdisk, SHM_LOCK */
 	AS_EXITING	= __GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 4, /* final truncate in progress */
+	/* writeback related tags are not used */
+	AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS = __GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 5,
 };
 
 static inline void mapping_set_error(struct address_space *mapping, int error)
@@ -64,6 +66,16 @@ static inline int mapping_exiting(struct address_space *mapping)
 	return test_bit(AS_EXITING, &mapping->flags);
 }
 
+static inline void mapping_set_no_writeback_tags(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+	set_bit(AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS, &mapping->flags);
+}
+
+static inline int mapping_use_writeback_tags(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+	return !test_bit(AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS, &mapping->flags);
+}
+
 static inline gfp_t mapping_gfp_mask(struct address_space * mapping)
 {
 	return (__force gfp_t)mapping->flags & __GFP_BITS_MASK;
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 5ed3381818ec..439cc63ad903 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2716,7 +2716,7 @@ int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
 	int ret;
 
 	lock_page_memcg(page);
-	if (mapping) {
+	if (mapping && mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping)) {
 		struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 		struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode);
 		unsigned long flags;
@@ -2759,7 +2759,7 @@ int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page, bool keep_write)
 	int ret;
 
 	lock_page_memcg(page);
-	if (mapping) {
+	if (mapping && mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping)) {
 		struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 		struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode);
 		unsigned long flags;
diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
index c8310a37be3a..268b8191982b 100644
--- a/mm/swap_state.c
+++ b/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ struct address_space swapper_spaces[MAX_SWAPFILES] = {
 		.page_tree	= RADIX_TREE_INIT(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN),
 		.i_mmap_writable = ATOMIC_INIT(0),
 		.a_ops		= &swap_aops,
+		/* swap cache doesn't use writeback related tags */
+		.flags		= 1 << AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS,
 	}
 };