diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 243d18b4ceb0ba312c9d8427c00cd02a6c3ae88a..20e1724ccb4c5012404c8450f9d94aefe2ac3cd2 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ static void req_bio_endio(struct request *rq, struct bio *bio,
 			nbytes = bio->bi_size;
 		}
 
+		if (unlikely(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_QUIET))
+			set_bit(BIO_QUIET, &bio->bi_flags);
+
 		bio->bi_size -= nbytes;
 		bio->bi_sector += (nbytes >> 9);
 
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 10179cfa11528683495886657bd643ebde590ce8..776ae091d3b0d58052aacb899e0954c3b191ae10 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -99,10 +99,18 @@ __clear_page_buffers(struct page *page)
 	page_cache_release(page);
 }
 
+
+static int quiet_error(struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+	if (!test_bit(BH_Quiet, &bh->b_state) && printk_ratelimit())
+		return 0;
+	return 1;
+}
+
+
 static void buffer_io_error(struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
 	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
-
 	printk(KERN_ERR "Buffer I/O error on device %s, logical block %Lu\n",
 			bdevname(bh->b_bdev, b),
 			(unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr);
@@ -144,7 +152,7 @@ void end_buffer_write_sync(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate)
 	if (uptodate) {
 		set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
 	} else {
-		if (!buffer_eopnotsupp(bh) && printk_ratelimit()) {
+		if (!buffer_eopnotsupp(bh) && !quiet_error(bh)) {
 			buffer_io_error(bh);
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "lost page write due to "
 					"I/O error on %s\n",
@@ -394,7 +402,7 @@ static void end_buffer_async_read(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate)
 		set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
 	} else {
 		clear_buffer_uptodate(bh);
-		if (printk_ratelimit())
+		if (!quiet_error(bh))
 			buffer_io_error(bh);
 		SetPageError(page);
 	}
@@ -455,7 +463,7 @@ static void end_buffer_async_write(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate)
 	if (uptodate) {
 		set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
 	} else {
-		if (printk_ratelimit()) {
+		if (!quiet_error(bh)) {
 			buffer_io_error(bh);
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "lost page write due to "
 					"I/O error on %s\n",
@@ -2913,6 +2921,9 @@ static void end_bio_bh_io_sync(struct bio *bio, int err)
 		set_bit(BH_Eopnotsupp, &bh->b_state);
 	}
 
+	if (unlikely (test_bit(BIO_QUIET,&bio->bi_flags)))
+		set_bit(BH_Quiet, &bh->b_state);
+
 	bh->b_end_io(bh, test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags));
 	bio_put(bio);
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 6a642098e5c3524ad69fd15993268f35ef02cad9..cf132bfbbacf241c341b93221c63d1b2390472f8 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ struct bio {
 #define BIO_CPU_AFFINE	8	/* complete bio on same CPU as submitted */
 #define BIO_NULL_MAPPED 9	/* contains invalid user pages */
 #define BIO_FS_INTEGRITY 10	/* fs owns integrity data, not block layer */
+#define BIO_QUIET	11	/* Make BIO Quiet */
 #define bio_flagged(bio, flag)	((bio)->bi_flags & (1 << (flag)))
 
 /*
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 3ce64b90118c20346a704d1c727ec9450d7ccb95..8605f8a74df9ba031fb654095bd47b62095aac0f 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ enum bh_state_bits {
 	BH_Ordered,	/* ordered write */
 	BH_Eopnotsupp,	/* operation not supported (barrier) */
 	BH_Unwritten,	/* Buffer is allocated on disk but not written */
+	BH_Quiet,	/* Buffer Error Prinks to be quiet */
 
 	BH_PrivateStart,/* not a state bit, but the first bit available
 			 * for private allocation by other entities