diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 04a3786c456f..3b73e97ecfc7 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -132,6 +132,26 @@ struct wb_domain {
 	unsigned long dirty_limit;
 };
 
+/**
+ * wb_domain_size_changed - memory available to a wb_domain has changed
+ * @dom: wb_domain of interest
+ *
+ * This function should be called when the amount of memory available to
+ * @dom has changed.  It resets @dom's dirty limit parameters to prevent
+ * the past values which don't match the current configuration from skewing
+ * dirty throttling.  Without this, when memory size of a wb_domain is
+ * greatly reduced, the dirty throttling logic may allow too many pages to
+ * be dirtied leading to consecutive unnecessary OOMs and may get stuck in
+ * that situation.
+ */
+static inline void wb_domain_size_changed(struct wb_domain *dom)
+{
+	spin_lock(&dom->lock);
+	dom->dirty_limit_tstamp = jiffies;
+	dom->dirty_limit = 0;
+	spin_unlock(&dom->lock);
+}
+
 /*
  * fs/fs-writeback.c
  */	
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index ce113ddf2fb5..c0b0406ae5ca 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4005,6 +4005,11 @@ static void memcg_wb_domain_exit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 	wb_domain_exit(&memcg->cgwb_domain);
 }
 
+static void memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+	wb_domain_size_changed(&memcg->cgwb_domain);
+}
+
 struct wb_domain *mem_cgroup_wb_domain(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(wb->memcg_css);
@@ -4026,6 +4031,10 @@ static void memcg_wb_domain_exit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 }
 
+static void memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+}
+
 #endif	/* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */
 
 /*
@@ -4624,6 +4633,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_reset(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	memcg->low = 0;
 	memcg->high = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
 	memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
+	memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
@@ -5361,6 +5371,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_high_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 
 	memcg->high = high;
 
+	memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg);
 	return nbytes;
 }
 
@@ -5393,6 +5404,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_max_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+	memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg);
 	return nbytes;
 }