diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 7a75c3e0fd5896b7fc59595fff859c41f23f65b1..2ea9cd44aeae00b5f3e9c895d8e41b3e61017cc3 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2359,7 +2359,7 @@ int __block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	if (unlikely(ret < 0))
 		goto out_unlock;
 	set_page_dirty(page);
-	wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+	wait_for_stable_page(page);
 	return 0;
 out_unlock:
 	unlock_page(page);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index cbfe13bf5b2aa3f39b4845fe4fce4f45a02b5f43..cd818d8bb221736b9521ef36bcfd85402811e876 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4968,7 +4968,7 @@ int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
 					    0, len, NULL,
 					    ext4_bh_unmapped)) {
 			/* Wait so that we don't change page under IO */
-			wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+			wait_for_stable_page(page);
 			ret = VM_FAULT_LOCKED;
 			goto out;
 		}
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/file.c b/fs/gfs2/file.c
index 06b7092a3f256eb8dc73bebdfe6574c1970c0fee..2687f50d98cb5a4164bb975d97c05c593fe02587 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/file.c
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ static int gfs2_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	gfs2_holder_uninit(&gh);
 	if (ret == 0) {
 		set_page_dirty(page);
-		wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+		wait_for_stable_page(page);
 	}
 	sb_end_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
 	return block_page_mkwrite_return(ret);
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/file.c b/fs/nilfs2/file.c
index 61946883025ce60727811aed90211a3bb20e456f..bec4af6eab13dc93eb91b73c0c7244bd296759e2 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/file.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static int nilfs_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	nilfs_transaction_commit(inode->i_sb);
 
  mapped:
-	wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+	wait_for_stable_page(page);
  out:
 	sb_end_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
 	return block_page_mkwrite_return(ret);
diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index 6da609d14c159346255e144fe4ab5991e3501046..0e38e13eb2498360b12a0662e994a0d7f9a7af31 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ static inline void wait_on_page_writeback(struct page *page)
 }
 
 extern void end_page_writeback(struct page *page);
+void wait_for_stable_page(struct page *page);
 
 /*
  * Add an arbitrary waiter to a page's wait queue
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 24a7ea583f0cf4039525d824ac047f5f9d7eddb0..c610076c30e137118872f74bec80cfa0592e5f6e 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1728,6 +1728,7 @@ int filemap_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	 * see the dirty page and writeprotect it again.
 	 */
 	set_page_dirty(page);
+	wait_for_stable_page(page);
 out:
 	sb_end_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
 	return ret;
@@ -2274,7 +2275,7 @@ struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping,
 		return NULL;
 	}
 found:
-	wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+	wait_for_stable_page(page);
 	return page;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(grab_cache_page_write_begin);
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 66a0024becd9f6c87f5e437c92ce6852657638a9..355d5ee69058cad4246eab083ea462648030ba3a 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2290,3 +2290,23 @@ int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
 	return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);
+
+/**
+ * wait_for_stable_page() - wait for writeback to finish, if necessary.
+ * @page:	The page to wait on.
+ *
+ * This function determines if the given page is related to a backing device
+ * that requires page contents to be held stable during writeback.  If so, then
+ * it will wait for any pending writeback to complete.
+ */
+void wait_for_stable_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
+
+	if (!bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(bdi))
+		return;
+
+	wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wait_for_stable_page);