diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 3de01edca3ea..6e3b18a8afc6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3014,7 +3014,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
 	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
 			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
-			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor.
+			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
+			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
 
 	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
 			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
diff --git a/drivers/xen/tmem.c b/drivers/xen/tmem.c
index c1df0ff89878..18e8bd8fa947 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/tmem.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/tmem.c
@@ -403,6 +403,14 @@ static int xen_tmem_init(void)
 	}
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_XEN_SELFBALLOONING
+	/*
+	 * There is no point of driving pages to the swap system if they
+	 * aren't going anywhere in tmem universe.
+	 */
+	if (!frontswap) {
+		selfshrinking = false;
+		selfballooning = false;
+	}
 	xen_selfballoon_init(selfballooning, selfshrinking);
 #endif
 	return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
index 5d637e2b1b9f..f70984a892aa 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
@@ -53,15 +53,12 @@
  * System configuration note: Selfballooning should not be enabled on
  * systems without a sufficiently large swap device configured; for best
  * results, it is recommended that total swap be increased by the size
- * of the guest memory.  Also, while technically not required to be
- * configured, it is highly recommended that frontswap also be configured
- * and enabled when selfballooning is running.  So, selfballooning
- * is disabled by default if frontswap is not configured and can only
- * be enabled with the "tmem.selfballooning=1" kernel boot option; similarly
- * selfballooning is enabled by default if frontswap is configured and
- * can be disabled with the "tmem.selfballooning=0" kernel boot option.  Finally,
- * when frontswap is configured,frontswap-selfshrinking can be disabled
- * with the "tmem.selfshrink=0" kernel boot option.
+ * of the guest memory. Note, that selfballooning should be disabled by default
+ * if frontswap is not configured.  Similarly selfballooning should be enabled
+ * by default if frontswap is configured and can be disabled with the
+ * "tmem.selfballooning=0" kernel boot option.  Finally, when frontswap is
+ * configured, frontswap-selfshrinking can be disabled  with the
+ * "tmem.selfshrink=0" kernel boot option.
  *
  * Selfballooning is disallowed in domain0 and force-disabled.
  *