diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
index 7be8d9cda2b696d1c833eabc493e1b21b41b520b..50cfb98719dd57f595d752d24844d998d9dce32c 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
@@ -4797,3 +4797,27 @@ xfs_btree_query_range(
 	return xfs_btree_overlapped_query_range(cur, &low_key, &high_key,
 			fn, priv);
 }
+
+/*
+ * Calculate the number of blocks needed to store a given number of records
+ * in a short-format (per-AG metadata) btree.
+ */
+xfs_extlen_t
+xfs_btree_calc_size(
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp,
+	uint			*limits,
+	unsigned long long	len)
+{
+	int			level;
+	int			maxrecs;
+	xfs_extlen_t		rval;
+
+	maxrecs = limits[0];
+	for (level = 0, rval = 0; len > 1; level++) {
+		len += maxrecs - 1;
+		do_div(len, maxrecs);
+		maxrecs = limits[1];
+		rval += len;
+	}
+	return rval;
+}
diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.h
index f41a4cfff740e7c0645050c06a38205b78e01331..1c148f5c5675a2932169c170c7c9e2a0c631939b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.h
@@ -501,6 +501,8 @@ bool xfs_btree_sblock_v5hdr_verify(struct xfs_buf *bp);
 bool xfs_btree_sblock_verify(struct xfs_buf *bp, unsigned int max_recs);
 uint xfs_btree_compute_maxlevels(struct xfs_mount *mp, uint *limits,
 				 unsigned long len);
+xfs_extlen_t xfs_btree_calc_size(struct xfs_mount *mp, uint *limits,
+		unsigned long long len);
 
 /* return codes */
 #define XFS_BTREE_QUERY_RANGE_CONTINUE	0	/* keep iterating */