diff --git a/fs/ext2/xip.c b/fs/ext2/xip.c
index 4fb94c20041b5e44c5ee2152a151bf65e486daa9..b72b85884223fc3761208f6bc891b39e3213d034 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/xip.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/xip.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
 #include <linux/ext2_fs_sb.h>
 #include <linux/ext2_fs.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include "ext2.h"
 #include "xip.h"
 
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 48f41b991adbdfdf81a9ec507098e015ca68e474..48ec8862a11ac33337c4f759b90455d6d9da9284 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1057,6 +1057,23 @@ static inline int blk_integrity_rq(struct request *rq)
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY */
 
+struct file;
+struct inode;
+
+struct block_device_operations {
+	int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *);
+	int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *);
+	int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long);
+	long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long);
+	long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long);
+	int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t,
+						void **, unsigned long *);
+	int (*media_changed) (struct gendisk *);
+	int (*revalidate_disk) (struct gendisk *);
+	int (*getgeo)(struct block_device *, struct hd_geometry *);
+	struct module *owner;
+};
+
 #else /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
 /*
  * stubs for when the block layer is configured out
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 5ab5579a516218badf3bbb4ec9c58c6cf6afd380..58bbf689fef7c876d86095b91ae3b68418c8769f 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1270,20 +1270,7 @@ int generic_osync_inode(struct inode *, struct address_space *, int);
  * to have different dirent layouts depending on the binary type.
  */
 typedef int (*filldir_t)(void *, const char *, int, loff_t, u64, unsigned);
-
-struct block_device_operations {
-	int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *);
-	int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *);
-	int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long);
-	long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long);
-	long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long);
-	int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t,
-						void **, unsigned long *);
-	int (*media_changed) (struct gendisk *);
-	int (*revalidate_disk) (struct gendisk *);
-	int (*getgeo)(struct block_device *, struct hd_geometry *);
-	struct module *owner;
-};
+struct block_device_operations;
 
 /* These macros are for out of kernel modules to test that
  * the kernel supports the unlocked_ioctl and compat_ioctl