diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 7c6624e..5438a2d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1777,9 +1777,6 @@
 
 	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
 
-	noswapaccount	[KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource
-			controller. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
-
 	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
 
 	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 010f916..d5fd3dc 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5169,19 +5169,12 @@
 static int __init enable_swap_account(char *s)
 {
 	/* consider enabled if no parameter or 1 is given */
-	if (!(*s) || !strcmp(s, "=1"))
+	if (!strcmp(s, "1"))
 		really_do_swap_account = 1;
-	else if (!strcmp(s, "=0"))
+	else if (!strcmp(s, "0"))
 		really_do_swap_account = 0;
 	return 1;
 }
-__setup("swapaccount", enable_swap_account);
+__setup("swapaccount=", enable_swap_account);
 
-static int __init disable_swap_account(char *s)
-{
-	printk_once("noswapaccount is deprecated and will be removed in 2.6.40. Use swapaccount=0 instead\n");
-	enable_swap_account("=0");
-	return 1;
-}
-__setup("noswapaccount", disable_swap_account);
 #endif