diff --git a/Documentation/percpu-rw-semaphore.txt b/Documentation/percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eddd770
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Percpu rw semaphores
+--------------------
+
+Percpu rw semaphores is a new read-write semaphore design that is
+optimized for locking for reading.
+
+The problem with traditional read-write semaphores is that when multiple
+cores take the lock for reading, the cache line containing the semaphore
+is bouncing between L1 caches of the cores, causing performance
+degradation.
+
+Locking for reading it very fast, it uses RCU and it avoids any atomic
+instruction in the lock and unlock path. On the other hand, locking for
+writing is very expensive, it calls synchronize_rcu() that can take
+hundreds of microseconds.
+
+The lock is declared with "struct percpu_rw_semaphore" type.
+The lock is initialized percpu_init_rwsem, it returns 0 on success and
+-ENOMEM on allocation failure.
+The lock must be freed with percpu_free_rwsem to avoid memory leak.
+
+The lock is locked for read with percpu_down_read, percpu_up_read and
+for write with percpu_down_write, percpu_up_write.
+
+The idea of using RCU for optimized rw-lock was introduced by
+Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>.
+The code was written by Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index cdfb625..7eeb063 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* Prevent starting I/O or mapping the device */
-	down_write(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
+	percpu_down_write(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
 
 	/* Check that the block device is not memory mapped */
 	mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
 	if (!prio_tree_empty(&mapping->i_mmap) ||
 	    !list_empty(&mapping->i_mmap_nonlinear)) {
 		mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
-		up_write(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
+		percpu_up_write(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
 		kill_bdev(bdev);
 	}
 
-	up_write(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
+	percpu_up_write(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -460,6 +460,12 @@
 	struct bdev_inode *ei = kmem_cache_alloc(bdev_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ei)
 		return NULL;
+
+	if (unlikely(percpu_init_rwsem(&ei->bdev.bd_block_size_semaphore))) {
+		kmem_cache_free(bdev_cachep, ei);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	return &ei->vfs_inode;
 }
 
@@ -468,6 +474,8 @@
 	struct inode *inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu);
 	struct bdev_inode *bdi = BDEV_I(inode);
 
+	percpu_free_rwsem(&bdi->bdev.bd_block_size_semaphore);
+
 	kmem_cache_free(bdev_cachep, bdi);
 }
 
@@ -491,7 +499,6 @@
 	inode_init_once(&ei->vfs_inode);
 	/* Initialize mutex for freeze. */
 	mutex_init(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex);
-	init_rwsem(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
 }
 
 static inline void __bd_forget(struct inode *inode)
@@ -1593,11 +1600,11 @@
 	ssize_t ret;
 	struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping->host);
 
-	down_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
+	percpu_down_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
 
 	ret = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 
-	up_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
+	percpu_up_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -1622,7 +1629,7 @@
 
 	blk_start_plug(&plug);
 
-	down_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
+	percpu_down_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
 
 	ret = __generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos);
 	if (ret > 0 || ret == -EIOCBQUEUED) {
@@ -1633,7 +1640,7 @@
 			ret = err;
 	}
 
-	up_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
+	percpu_up_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
 
 	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
 
@@ -1646,11 +1653,11 @@
 	int ret;
 	struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(file->f_mapping->host);
 
-	down_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
+	percpu_down_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
 
 	ret = generic_file_mmap(file, vma);
 
-	up_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
+	percpu_up_read(&bdev->bd_block_size_semaphore);
 
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index e60bbd0..24e1229 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <linux/ioctl.h>
 #include <linux/blk_types.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/percpu-rwsem.h>
 
 /*
  * It's silly to have NR_OPEN bigger than NR_FILE, but you can change
@@ -726,7 +727,7 @@
 	/* Mutex for freeze */
 	struct mutex		bd_fsfreeze_mutex;
 	/* A semaphore that prevents I/O while block size is being changed */
-	struct rw_semaphore	bd_block_size_semaphore;
+	struct percpu_rw_semaphore	bd_block_size_semaphore;
 };
 
 /*
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h b/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf80f7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_PERCPU_RWSEM_H
+#define _LINUX_PERCPU_RWSEM_H
+
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+
+struct percpu_rw_semaphore {
+	unsigned __percpu *counters;
+	bool locked;
+	struct mutex mtx;
+};
+
+static inline void percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
+{
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	if (unlikely(p->locked)) {
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+		mutex_lock(&p->mtx);
+		this_cpu_inc(*p->counters);
+		mutex_unlock(&p->mtx);
+		return;
+	}
+	this_cpu_inc(*p->counters);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
+static inline void percpu_up_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
+{
+	/*
+	 * On X86, write operation in this_cpu_dec serves as a memory unlock
+	 * barrier (i.e. memory accesses may be moved before the write, but
+	 * no memory accesses are moved past the write).
+	 * On other architectures this may not be the case, so we need smp_mb()
+	 * there.
+	 */
+#if defined(CONFIG_X86) && (!defined(CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE) && !defined(CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE))
+	barrier();
+#else
+	smp_mb();
+#endif
+	this_cpu_dec(*p->counters);
+}
+
+static inline unsigned __percpu_count(unsigned __percpu *counters)
+{
+	unsigned total = 0;
+	int cpu;
+
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+		total += ACCESS_ONCE(*per_cpu_ptr(counters, cpu));
+
+	return total;
+}
+
+static inline void percpu_down_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&p->mtx);
+	p->locked = true;
+	synchronize_rcu();
+	while (__percpu_count(p->counters))
+		msleep(1);
+	smp_rmb(); /* paired with smp_mb() in percpu_sem_up_read() */
+}
+
+static inline void percpu_up_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
+{
+	p->locked = false;
+	mutex_unlock(&p->mtx);
+}
+
+static inline int percpu_init_rwsem(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
+{
+	p->counters = alloc_percpu(unsigned);
+	if (unlikely(!p->counters))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	p->locked = false;
+	mutex_init(&p->mtx);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void percpu_free_rwsem(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
+{
+	free_percpu(p->counters);
+	p->counters = NULL; /* catch use after free bugs */
+}
+
+#endif