diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 16519fe1399c6c49e1ddc2f875db9217681b35fc..25adfc3c693ab4673777801ecc0e014db9624ec8 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -439,8 +439,8 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
  * on the writer throttling path, and we get decent balancing between many
  * throttled threads: we don't want them all piling up on inode_sync_wait.
  */
-static void
-sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct writeback_control *wbc)
+void generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
+				struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
 	const unsigned long start = jiffies;	/* livelock avoidance */
 
@@ -526,6 +526,13 @@ sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
 	return;		/* Leave any unwritten inodes on s_io */
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_sync_sb_inodes);
+
+static void sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
+				struct writeback_control *wbc)
+{
+	generic_sync_sb_inodes(sb, wbc);
+}
 
 /*
  * Start writeback of dirty pagecache data against all unlocked inodes.
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index d8e2762ed14df21bb05c50fde55158d6ec42bd5e..f9d2aab47edacf0932cac06bd1102312ab6ef8e9 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1729,6 +1729,8 @@ static inline void invalidate_remote_inode(struct inode *inode)
 extern int invalidate_inode_pages2(struct address_space *mapping);
 extern int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
 					 pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);
+extern void generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
+				struct writeback_control *wbc);
 extern int write_inode_now(struct inode *, int);
 extern int filemap_fdatawrite(struct address_space *);
 extern int filemap_flush(struct address_space *);