diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt
index 4edd39ec7db91abcbcbac352fc3c5e6d3e3c3eca..18fad687622857a88469d6d89d75f95afe3eb329 100644
--- a/Documentation/md.txt
+++ b/Documentation/md.txt
@@ -296,6 +296,35 @@ All md devices contain:
      active-idle
          like active, but no writes have been seen for a while (safe_mode_delay).
 
+  bitmap/location
+     This indicates where the write-intent bitmap for the array is
+     stored.
+     It can be one of "none", "file" or "[+-]N".
+     "file" may later be extended to "file:/file/name"
+     "[+-]N" means that many sectors from the start of the metadata.
+       This is replicated on all devices.  For arrays with externally
+       managed metadata, the offset is from the beginning of the
+       device.
+  bitmap/chunksize
+     The size, in bytes, of the chunk which will be represented by a
+     single bit.  For RAID456, it is a portion of an individual
+     device. For RAID10, it is a portion of the array.  For RAID1, it
+     is both (they come to the same thing).
+  bitmap/time_base
+     The time, in seconds, between looking for bits in the bitmap to
+     be cleared. In the current implementation, a bit will be cleared
+     between 2 and 3 times "time_base" after all the covered blocks
+     are known to be in-sync.
+  bitmap/backlog
+     When write-mostly devices are active in a RAID1, write requests
+     to those devices proceed in the background - the filesystem (or
+     other user of the device) does not have to wait for them.
+     'backlog' sets a limit on the number of concurrent background
+     writes.  If there are more than this, new writes will by
+     synchronous.
+     
+     
+     
 
 As component devices are added to an md array, they appear in the 'md'
 directory as new directories named
diff --git a/drivers/md/bitmap.c b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
index 958865445f0643a07184de100a3921d4289e3fdf..24fff75b21912407c613d8d95cb9fe161daed519 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
@@ -510,6 +510,9 @@ void bitmap_update_sb(struct bitmap *bitmap)
 		bitmap->events_cleared = bitmap->mddev->events;
 		sb->events_cleared = cpu_to_le64(bitmap->events_cleared);
 	}
+	/* Just in case these have been changed via sysfs: */
+	sb->daemon_sleep = cpu_to_le32(bitmap->mddev->bitmap_info.daemon_sleep/HZ);
+	sb->write_behind = cpu_to_le32(bitmap->mddev->bitmap_info.max_write_behind);
 	kunmap_atomic(sb, KM_USER0);
 	write_page(bitmap, bitmap->sb_page, 1);
 }
@@ -1714,6 +1717,208 @@ int bitmap_create(mddev_t *mddev)
 	return err;
 }
 
+static ssize_t
+location_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+	ssize_t len;
+	if (mddev->bitmap_info.file) {
+		len = sprintf(page, "file");
+	} else if (mddev->bitmap_info.offset) {
+		len = sprintf(page, "%+lld", (long long)mddev->bitmap_info.offset);
+	} else
+		len = sprintf(page, "none");
+	len += sprintf(page+len, "\n");
+	return len;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+location_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+
+	if (mddev->pers) {
+		if (!mddev->pers->quiesce)
+			return -EBUSY;
+		if (mddev->recovery || mddev->sync_thread)
+			return -EBUSY;
+	}
+
+	if (mddev->bitmap || mddev->bitmap_info.file ||
+	    mddev->bitmap_info.offset) {
+		/* bitmap already configured.  Only option is to clear it */
+		if (strncmp(buf, "none", 4) != 0)
+			return -EBUSY;
+		if (mddev->pers) {
+			mddev->pers->quiesce(mddev, 1);
+			bitmap_destroy(mddev);
+			mddev->pers->quiesce(mddev, 0);
+		}
+		mddev->bitmap_info.offset = 0;
+		if (mddev->bitmap_info.file) {
+			struct file *f = mddev->bitmap_info.file;
+			mddev->bitmap_info.file = NULL;
+			restore_bitmap_write_access(f);
+			fput(f);
+		}
+	} else {
+		/* No bitmap, OK to set a location */
+		long long offset;
+		if (strncmp(buf, "none", 4) == 0)
+			/* nothing to be done */;
+		else if (strncmp(buf, "file:", 5) == 0) {
+			/* Not supported yet */
+			return -EINVAL;
+		} else {
+			int rv;
+			if (buf[0] == '+')
+				rv = strict_strtoll(buf+1, 10, &offset);
+			else
+				rv = strict_strtoll(buf, 10, &offset);
+			if (rv)
+				return rv;
+			if (offset == 0)
+				return -EINVAL;
+			if (mddev->major_version == 0 &&
+			    offset != mddev->bitmap_info.default_offset)
+				return -EINVAL;
+			mddev->bitmap_info.offset = offset;
+			if (mddev->pers) {
+				mddev->pers->quiesce(mddev, 1);
+				rv = bitmap_create(mddev);
+				if (rv) {
+					bitmap_destroy(mddev);
+					mddev->bitmap_info.offset = 0;
+				}
+				mddev->pers->quiesce(mddev, 0);
+				if (rv)
+					return rv;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if (!mddev->external) {
+		/* Ensure new bitmap info is stored in
+		 * metadata promptly.
+		 */
+		set_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags);
+		md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
+	}
+	return len;
+}
+
+static struct md_sysfs_entry bitmap_location =
+__ATTR(location, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, location_show, location_store);
+
+static ssize_t
+timeout_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+	ssize_t len;
+	unsigned long secs = mddev->bitmap_info.daemon_sleep / HZ;
+	unsigned long jifs = mddev->bitmap_info.daemon_sleep % HZ;
+	
+	len = sprintf(page, "%lu", secs);
+	if (jifs)
+		len += sprintf(page+len, ".%03u", jiffies_to_msecs(jifs));
+	len += sprintf(page+len, "\n");
+	return len;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+timeout_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	/* timeout can be set at any time */
+	unsigned long timeout;
+	int rv = strict_strtoul_scaled(buf, &timeout, 4);
+	if (rv)
+		return rv;
+
+	/* just to make sure we don't overflow... */
+	if (timeout >= LONG_MAX / HZ)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	timeout = timeout * HZ / 10000;
+
+	if (timeout >= MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT)
+		timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT-1;
+	if (timeout < 1)
+		timeout = 1;
+	mddev->bitmap_info.daemon_sleep = timeout;
+	if (mddev->thread) {
+		/* if thread->timeout is MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT, then
+		 * the bitmap is all clean and we don't need to
+		 * adjust the timeout right now
+		 */
+		if (mddev->thread->timeout < MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT) {
+			mddev->thread->timeout = timeout;
+			md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
+		}
+	}
+	return len;
+}
+
+static struct md_sysfs_entry bitmap_timeout =
+__ATTR(time_base, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, timeout_show, timeout_store);
+
+static ssize_t
+backlog_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+	return sprintf(page, "%lu\n", mddev->bitmap_info.max_write_behind);
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+backlog_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	unsigned long backlog;
+	int rv = strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &backlog);
+	if (rv)
+		return rv;
+	if (backlog > COUNTER_MAX)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	mddev->bitmap_info.max_write_behind = backlog;
+	return len;
+}
+
+static struct md_sysfs_entry bitmap_backlog =
+__ATTR(backlog, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, backlog_show, backlog_store);
+
+static ssize_t
+chunksize_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+	return sprintf(page, "%lu\n", mddev->bitmap_info.chunksize);
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+chunksize_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	/* Can only be changed when no bitmap is active */
+	int rv;
+	unsigned long csize;
+	if (mddev->bitmap)
+		return -EBUSY;
+	rv = strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &csize);
+	if (rv)
+		return rv;
+	if (csize < 512 ||
+	    !is_power_of_2(csize))
+		return -EINVAL;
+	mddev->bitmap_info.chunksize = csize;
+	return len;
+}
+
+static struct md_sysfs_entry bitmap_chunksize =
+__ATTR(chunksize, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, chunksize_show, chunksize_store);
+
+static struct attribute *md_bitmap_attrs[] = {
+	&bitmap_location.attr,
+	&bitmap_timeout.attr,
+	&bitmap_backlog.attr,
+	&bitmap_chunksize.attr,
+	NULL
+};
+struct attribute_group md_bitmap_group = {
+	.name = "bitmap",
+	.attrs = md_bitmap_attrs,
+};
+
+
 /* the bitmap API -- for raid personalities */
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_startwrite);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_endwrite);
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 93287f88f1f41f4231ffba7864cd170c948a8034..859edbf8c9b0a72679f86ff035c23e5e2949cb6c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -4018,6 +4018,7 @@ static void mddev_delayed_delete(struct work_struct *ws)
 		mddev->sysfs_action = NULL;
 		mddev->private = NULL;
 	}
+	sysfs_remove_group(&mddev->kobj, &md_bitmap_group);
 	kobject_del(&mddev->kobj);
 	kobject_put(&mddev->kobj);
 }
@@ -4109,6 +4110,8 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
 		       disk->disk_name);
 		error = 0;
 	}
+	if (sysfs_create_group(&mddev->kobj, &md_bitmap_group))
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG "pointless warning\n");
  abort:
 	mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex);
 	if (!error) {
@@ -4434,7 +4437,7 @@ static int deny_bitmap_write_access(struct file * file)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void restore_bitmap_write_access(struct file *file)
+void restore_bitmap_write_access(struct file *file)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
 
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index b5c306925d9484f0ad9c7929687be7897c199b36..fce02073f1a465151212e00feda4dea3226d2e60 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ struct md_sysfs_entry {
 	ssize_t (*show)(mddev_t *, char *);
 	ssize_t (*store)(mddev_t *, const char *, size_t);
 };
-
+extern struct attribute_group md_bitmap_group;
 
 static inline char * mdname (mddev_t * mddev)
 {
@@ -465,5 +465,6 @@ extern int md_check_no_bitmap(mddev_t *mddev);
 extern int md_integrity_register(mddev_t *mddev);
 extern void md_integrity_add_rdev(mdk_rdev_t *rdev, mddev_t *mddev);
 extern int strict_strtoul_scaled(const char *cp, unsigned long *res, int scale);
+extern void restore_bitmap_write_access(struct file *file);
 
 #endif /* _MD_MD_H */