diff --git a/fs/gfs2/quota.c b/fs/gfs2/quota.c
index e3bf6eab8750011a9e582a0f465bbf3dc49b8612..6dbcbad6ab1783449d66a134bb718bbc4037a81f 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/quota.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/quota.c
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ void gfs2_quota_change(struct gfs2_inode *ip, s64 change,
 	}
 }
 
-int gfs2_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type)
+int gfs2_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type, int wait)
 {
 	struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = sb->s_fs_info;
 	struct gfs2_quota_data **qda;
@@ -1127,6 +1127,11 @@ int gfs2_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type)
 	return error;
 }
 
+static int gfs2_quota_sync_timeo(struct super_block *sb, int type)
+{
+	return gfs2_quota_sync(sb, type, 0);
+}
+
 int gfs2_quota_refresh(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, int user, u32 id)
 {
 	struct gfs2_quota_data *qd;
@@ -1382,7 +1387,7 @@ int gfs2_quotad(void *data)
 					   &tune->gt_statfs_quantum);
 
 		/* Update quota file */
-		quotad_check_timeo(sdp, "sync", gfs2_quota_sync, t,
+		quotad_check_timeo(sdp, "sync", gfs2_quota_sync_timeo, t,
 				   &quotad_timeo, &tune->gt_quota_quantum);
 
 		/* Check for & recover partially truncated inodes */
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/quota.h b/fs/gfs2/quota.h
index e271fa07ad0206dfbda9cb33ad01c9cbd0d7c3ef..195f60c8bd144b6ae5040c878e4f14305cafccc4 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/quota.h
+++ b/fs/gfs2/quota.h
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ extern int gfs2_quota_check(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u32 uid, u32 gid);
 extern void gfs2_quota_change(struct gfs2_inode *ip, s64 change,
 			      u32 uid, u32 gid);
 
-extern int gfs2_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type);
+extern int gfs2_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type, int wait);
 extern int gfs2_quota_refresh(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, int user, u32 id);
 
 extern int gfs2_quota_init(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp);
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/super.c b/fs/gfs2/super.c
index b9dd3da22c0a3fc5452a018cb25dfab89fa6ecf0..a8c2bcd0fcc858b34219e2f229d1002bfe6db1c5 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/super.c
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ static int gfs2_make_fs_ro(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp)
 	int error;
 
 	flush_workqueue(gfs2_delete_workqueue);
-	gfs2_quota_sync(sdp->sd_vfs, 0);
+	gfs2_quota_sync(sdp->sd_vfs, 0, 1);
 	gfs2_statfs_sync(sdp->sd_vfs, 0);
 
 	error = gfs2_glock_nq_init(sdp->sd_trans_gl, LM_ST_SHARED, GL_NOCACHE,
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/sys.c b/fs/gfs2/sys.c
index 0dc34621f6a6ecf73acddc3c82d0a90c731ff601..4496cc37a0fa2b60dc993dd01eb023f998e8630d 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/sys.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/sys.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static ssize_t quota_sync_store(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, const char *buf,
 	if (simple_strtol(buf, NULL, 0) != 1)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	gfs2_quota_sync(sdp->sd_vfs, 0);
+	gfs2_quota_sync(sdp->sd_vfs, 0, 1);
 	return len;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c
index 6c849de5dc8f9b36d59faabbdcb53ce02466e4ab..4c2213f7ed36e291c4d3ffec6288ad9b8e841f4c 100644
--- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ int dquot_scan_active(struct super_block *sb,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dquot_scan_active);
 
-int vfs_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type)
+int vfs_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type, int wait)
 {
 	struct list_head *dirty;
 	struct dquot *dquot;
@@ -615,6 +615,33 @@ int vfs_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type)
 	spin_unlock(&dq_list_lock);
 	mutex_unlock(&dqopt->dqonoff_mutex);
 
+	if (!wait || (sb_dqopt(sb)->flags & DQUOT_QUOTA_SYS_FILE))
+		return 0;
+
+	/* This is not very clever (and fast) but currently I don't know about
+	 * any other simple way of getting quota data to disk and we must get
+	 * them there for userspace to be visible... */
+	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
+		sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
+	sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
+
+	/*
+	 * Now when everything is written we can discard the pagecache so
+	 * that userspace sees the changes.
+	 */
+	mutex_lock(&sb_dqopt(sb)->dqonoff_mutex);
+	for (cnt = 0; cnt < MAXQUOTAS; cnt++) {
+		if (type != -1 && cnt != type)
+			continue;
+		if (!sb_has_quota_active(sb, cnt))
+			continue;
+		mutex_lock_nested(&sb_dqopt(sb)->files[cnt]->i_mutex,
+				  I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
+		truncate_inode_pages(&sb_dqopt(sb)->files[cnt]->i_data, 0);
+		mutex_unlock(&sb_dqopt(sb)->files[cnt]->i_mutex);
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&sb_dqopt(sb)->dqonoff_mutex);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_quota_sync);
diff --git a/fs/quota/quota.c b/fs/quota/quota.c
index 3d31228082ea88ed8086e804430aa14d41c4583a..0593b229656cae1f4b195ee997face59dc7a25c5 100644
--- a/fs/quota/quota.c
+++ b/fs/quota/quota.c
@@ -48,44 +48,6 @@ static int check_quotactl_permission(struct super_block *sb, int type, int cmd,
 	return security_quotactl(cmd, type, id, sb);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
-void sync_quota_sb(struct super_block *sb, int type)
-{
-	int cnt;
-
-	if (!sb->s_qcop || !sb->s_qcop->quota_sync)
-		return;
-
-	sb->s_qcop->quota_sync(sb, type);
-
-	if (sb_dqopt(sb)->flags & DQUOT_QUOTA_SYS_FILE)
-		return;
-	/* This is not very clever (and fast) but currently I don't know about
-	 * any other simple way of getting quota data to disk and we must get
-	 * them there for userspace to be visible... */
-	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
-		sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
-	sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
-
-	/*
-	 * Now when everything is written we can discard the pagecache so
-	 * that userspace sees the changes.
-	 */
-	mutex_lock(&sb_dqopt(sb)->dqonoff_mutex);
-	for (cnt = 0; cnt < MAXQUOTAS; cnt++) {
-		if (type != -1 && cnt != type)
-			continue;
-		if (!sb_has_quota_active(sb, cnt))
-			continue;
-		mutex_lock_nested(&sb_dqopt(sb)->files[cnt]->i_mutex,
-				  I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
-		truncate_inode_pages(&sb_dqopt(sb)->files[cnt]->i_data, 0);
-		mutex_unlock(&sb_dqopt(sb)->files[cnt]->i_mutex);
-	}
-	mutex_unlock(&sb_dqopt(sb)->dqonoff_mutex);
-}
-#endif
-
 static int quota_sync_all(int type)
 {
 	struct super_block *sb;
@@ -101,6 +63,9 @@ static int quota_sync_all(int type)
 	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
 restart:
 	list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
+		if (!sb->s_qcop || !sb->s_qcop->quota_sync)
+			continue;
+
 		/* This test just improves performance so it needn't be
 		 * reliable... */
 		for (cnt = 0; cnt < MAXQUOTAS; cnt++) {
@@ -119,7 +84,7 @@ static int quota_sync_all(int type)
 		spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
 		down_read(&sb->s_umount);
 		if (sb->s_root)
-			sync_quota_sb(sb, type);
+			sb->s_qcop->quota_sync(sb, type, 1);
 		up_read(&sb->s_umount);
 		spin_lock(&sb_lock);
 		if (__put_super_and_need_restart(sb))
@@ -306,8 +271,7 @@ static int do_quotactl(struct super_block *sb, int type, int cmd, qid_t id,
 	case Q_SYNC:
 		if (!sb->s_qcop->quota_sync)
 			return -ENOSYS;
-		sync_quota_sb(sb, type);
-		return 0;
+		return sb->s_qcop->quota_sync(sb, type, 1);
 	case Q_XQUOTAON:
 	case Q_XQUOTAOFF:
 	case Q_XQUOTARM:
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index 418727a2a2390f435d68b1fad91dede88dc4c17f..f557d71cb0971692b5337cefad5db272f10b6a78 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
 	if (!sb->s_bdi)
 		return 0;
 
-	/* Avoid doing twice syncing and cache pruning for quota sync */
-	if (!wait) {
-		writeout_quota_sb(sb, -1);
-		writeback_inodes_sb(sb);
-	} else {
-		sync_quota_sb(sb, -1);
+	if (sb->s_qcop && sb->s_qcop->quota_sync)
+		sb->s_qcop->quota_sync(sb, -1, wait);
+
+	if (wait)
 		sync_inodes_sb(sb);
-	}
+	else
+		writeback_inodes_sb(sb);
+
 	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
 		sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, wait);
 	return __sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, wait);
diff --git a/include/linux/quota.h b/include/linux/quota.h
index a6861f11748044d2c666c6f94edf463c8c47660a..570348cbccb118c7765998722b5316218fb80fc0 100644
--- a/include/linux/quota.h
+++ b/include/linux/quota.h
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ struct dquot_operations {
 struct quotactl_ops {
 	int (*quota_on)(struct super_block *, int, int, char *, int);
 	int (*quota_off)(struct super_block *, int, int);
-	int (*quota_sync)(struct super_block *, int);
+	int (*quota_sync)(struct super_block *, int, int);
 	int (*get_info)(struct super_block *, int, struct if_dqinfo *);
 	int (*set_info)(struct super_block *, int, struct if_dqinfo *);
 	int (*get_dqblk)(struct super_block *, int, qid_t, struct if_dqblk *);
diff --git a/include/linux/quotaops.h b/include/linux/quotaops.h
index 69d26bc0f884a225794b828fd4bfcaeb8ecf9ed1..8cfd0d44c99484d19c8c8d6129bd7b44f210df0f 100644
--- a/include/linux/quotaops.h
+++ b/include/linux/quotaops.h
@@ -19,13 +19,6 @@ static inline struct quota_info *sb_dqopt(struct super_block *sb)
 /*
  * declaration of quota_function calls in kernel.
  */
-void sync_quota_sb(struct super_block *sb, int type);
-static inline void writeout_quota_sb(struct super_block *sb, int type)
-{
-	if (sb->s_qcop && sb->s_qcop->quota_sync)
-		sb->s_qcop->quota_sync(sb, type);
-}
-
 void inode_add_rsv_space(struct inode *inode, qsize_t number);
 void inode_claim_rsv_space(struct inode *inode, qsize_t number);
 void inode_sub_rsv_space(struct inode *inode, qsize_t number);
@@ -67,7 +60,7 @@ int vfs_quota_on_mount(struct super_block *sb, char *qf_name,
  	int format_id, int type);
 int vfs_quota_off(struct super_block *sb, int type, int remount);
 int vfs_quota_disable(struct super_block *sb, int type, unsigned int flags);
-int vfs_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type);
+int vfs_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type, int wait);
 int vfs_get_dqinfo(struct super_block *sb, int type, struct if_dqinfo *ii);
 int vfs_set_dqinfo(struct super_block *sb, int type, struct if_dqinfo *ii);
 int vfs_get_dqblk(struct super_block *sb, int type, qid_t id, struct if_dqblk *di);
@@ -340,14 +333,6 @@ static inline void vfs_dq_free_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
 }
 
-static inline void sync_quota_sb(struct super_block *sb, int type)
-{
-}
-
-static inline void writeout_quota_sb(struct super_block *sb, int type)
-{
-}
-
 static inline int vfs_dq_off(struct super_block *sb, int remount)
 {
 	return 0;