diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 754813a6962b..6c15012a75d9 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@ static struct buffer_head *create_page_buffers(struct page *page, struct inode *
  * WB_SYNC_ALL, the writes are posted using WRITE_SYNC; this
  * causes the writes to be flagged as synchronous writes.
  */
-static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
+int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
 			get_block_t *get_block, struct writeback_control *wbc,
 			bh_end_io_t *handler)
 {
@@ -1848,6 +1848,7 @@ recover:
 	unlock_page(page);
 	goto done;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__block_write_full_page);
 
 /*
  * If a page has any new buffers, zero them out here, and mark them uptodate
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index d48daa3f6f20..7e14e545c4b6 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ void block_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned int offset,
 			  unsigned int length);
 int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
 				struct writeback_control *wbc);
+int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
+			get_block_t *get_block, struct writeback_control *wbc,
+			bh_end_io_t *handler);
 int block_read_full_page(struct page*, get_block_t*);
 int block_is_partially_uptodate(struct page *page, unsigned long from,
 				unsigned long count);