diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index d2003cdc36aa687ab998a8c558144ddcc23ae6bb..c17f69bcd7dd10b0f287695a945d7de66c1f918e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -609,8 +609,8 @@ int ext4_has_free_blocks(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi, s64 nblocks)
 
 	if (free_blocks - (nblocks + root_blocks + dirty_blocks) <
 						EXT4_FREEBLOCKS_WATERMARK) {
-		free_blocks  = percpu_counter_sum(fbc);
-		dirty_blocks = percpu_counter_sum(dbc);
+		free_blocks  = percpu_counter_sum_and_set(fbc);
+		dirty_blocks = percpu_counter_sum_and_set(dbc);
 		if (dirty_blocks < 0) {
 			printk(KERN_CRIT "Dirty block accounting "
 					"went wrong %lld\n",
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu_counter.h b/include/linux/percpu_counter.h
index 9007ccdfc1127cfe73db03e31dd82a843f8f4fa8..20838883535704c89cf72bafe29a28d12dea45e3 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu_counter.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ int percpu_counter_init_irq(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount);
 void percpu_counter_destroy(struct percpu_counter *fbc);
 void percpu_counter_set(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount);
 void __percpu_counter_add(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount, s32 batch);
-s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc);
+s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc, int set);
 
 static inline void percpu_counter_add(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount)
 {
@@ -44,13 +44,19 @@ static inline void percpu_counter_add(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount)
 
 static inline s64 percpu_counter_sum_positive(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
 {
-	s64 ret = __percpu_counter_sum(fbc);
+	s64 ret = __percpu_counter_sum(fbc, 0);
 	return ret < 0 ? 0 : ret;
 }
 
+static inline s64 percpu_counter_sum_and_set(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
+{
+	return __percpu_counter_sum(fbc, 1);
+}
+
+
 static inline s64 percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
 {
-	return __percpu_counter_sum(fbc);
+	return __percpu_counter_sum(fbc, 0);
 }
 
 static inline s64 percpu_counter_read(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
diff --git a/lib/percpu_counter.c b/lib/percpu_counter.c
index 71b265c330ce364326328151a03fec07c3e9adb0..dba1530a5b2912e1fa9afb2c8c32e385b0826fc1 100644
--- a/lib/percpu_counter.c
+++ b/lib/percpu_counter.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__percpu_counter_add);
  * Add up all the per-cpu counts, return the result.  This is a more accurate
  * but much slower version of percpu_counter_read_positive()
  */
-s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
+s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc, int set)
 {
 	s64 ret;
 	int cpu;
@@ -62,9 +62,11 @@ s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
 		s32 *pcount = per_cpu_ptr(fbc->counters, cpu);
 		ret += *pcount;
-		*pcount = 0;
+		if (set)
+			*pcount = 0;
 	}
-	fbc->count = ret;
+	if (set)
+		fbc->count = ret;
 
 	spin_unlock(&fbc->lock);
 	return ret;