diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig
index 60be1e0..e97934e 100644
--- a/block/Kconfig
+++ b/block/Kconfig
@@ -65,6 +65,16 @@
 
 	  If unsure, say Y.
 
+config BLK_DEV_BSGLIB
+	bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib"
+	default n
+	select BLK_DEV_BSG
+	help
+	  Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not
+	  normally need to manually enable this.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
 	bool "Block layer data integrity support"
 	---help---
diff --git a/block/Makefile b/block/Makefile
index 0fec4b3..514c6e4 100644
--- a/block/Makefile
+++ b/block/Makefile
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 			blk-iopoll.o blk-lib.o ioctl.o genhd.o scsi_ioctl.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG)	+= bsg.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSGLIB)	+= bsg-lib.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP)	+= blk-cgroup.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING)	+= blk-throttle.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP)	+= noop-iosched.o
diff --git a/block/bsg-lib.c b/block/bsg-lib.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f8c0a61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/block/bsg-lib.c
@@ -0,0 +1,297 @@
+/*
+ *  BSG helper library
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 2008   James Smart, Emulex Corporation
+ *  Copyright (C) 2011   Red Hat, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+ *  Copyright (C) 2011   Mike Christie
+ *
+ *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *  GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ *  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ *
+ */
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
+#include <linux/bsg-lib.h>
+#include <scsi/scsi_cmnd.h>
+
+/**
+ * bsg_destroy_job - routine to teardown/delete a bsg job
+ * @job: bsg_job that is to be torn down
+ */
+static void bsg_destroy_job(struct bsg_job *job)
+{
+	put_device(job->dev);	/* release reference for the request */
+
+	kfree(job->request_payload.sg_list);
+	kfree(job->reply_payload.sg_list);
+	kfree(job);
+}
+
+/**
+ * bsg_job_done - completion routine for bsg requests
+ * @job: bsg_job that is complete
+ * @result: job reply result
+ * @reply_payload_rcv_len: length of payload recvd
+ *
+ * The LLD should call this when the bsg job has completed.
+ */
+void bsg_job_done(struct bsg_job *job, int result,
+		  unsigned int reply_payload_rcv_len)
+{
+	struct request *req = job->req;
+	struct request *rsp = req->next_rq;
+	int err;
+
+	err = job->req->errors = result;
+	if (err < 0)
+		/* we're only returning the result field in the reply */
+		job->req->sense_len = sizeof(u32);
+	else
+		job->req->sense_len = job->reply_len;
+	/* we assume all request payload was transferred, residual == 0 */
+	req->resid_len = 0;
+
+	if (rsp) {
+		WARN_ON(reply_payload_rcv_len > rsp->resid_len);
+
+		/* set reply (bidi) residual */
+		rsp->resid_len -= min(reply_payload_rcv_len, rsp->resid_len);
+	}
+	blk_complete_request(req);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bsg_job_done);
+
+/**
+ * bsg_softirq_done - softirq done routine for destroying the bsg requests
+ * @rq: BSG request that holds the job to be destroyed
+ */
+static void bsg_softirq_done(struct request *rq)
+{
+	struct bsg_job *job = rq->special;
+
+	blk_end_request_all(rq, rq->errors);
+	bsg_destroy_job(job);
+}
+
+static int bsg_map_buffer(struct bsg_buffer *buf, struct request *req)
+{
+	size_t sz = (sizeof(struct scatterlist) * req->nr_phys_segments);
+
+	BUG_ON(!req->nr_phys_segments);
+
+	buf->sg_list = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buf->sg_list)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	sg_init_table(buf->sg_list, req->nr_phys_segments);
+	buf->sg_cnt = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req, buf->sg_list);
+	buf->payload_len = blk_rq_bytes(req);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * bsg_create_job - create the bsg_job structure for the bsg request
+ * @dev: device that is being sent the bsg request
+ * @req: BSG request that needs a job structure
+ */
+static int bsg_create_job(struct device *dev, struct request *req)
+{
+	struct request *rsp = req->next_rq;
+	struct request_queue *q = req->q;
+	struct bsg_job *job;
+	int ret;
+
+	BUG_ON(req->special);
+
+	job = kzalloc(sizeof(struct bsg_job) + q->bsg_job_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!job)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	req->special = job;
+	job->req = req;
+	if (q->bsg_job_size)
+		job->dd_data = (void *)&job[1];
+	job->request = req->cmd;
+	job->request_len = req->cmd_len;
+	job->reply = req->sense;
+	job->reply_len = SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE;	/* Size of sense buffer
+						 * allocated */
+	if (req->bio) {
+		ret = bsg_map_buffer(&job->request_payload, req);
+		if (ret)
+			goto failjob_rls_job;
+	}
+	if (rsp && rsp->bio) {
+		ret = bsg_map_buffer(&job->reply_payload, rsp);
+		if (ret)
+			goto failjob_rls_rqst_payload;
+	}
+	job->dev = dev;
+	/* take a reference for the request */
+	get_device(job->dev);
+	return 0;
+
+failjob_rls_rqst_payload:
+	kfree(job->request_payload.sg_list);
+failjob_rls_job:
+	kfree(job);
+	return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+/*
+ * bsg_goose_queue - restart queue in case it was stopped
+ * @q: request q to be restarted
+ */
+void bsg_goose_queue(struct request_queue *q)
+{
+	if (!q)
+		return;
+
+	blk_run_queue_async(q);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bsg_goose_queue);
+
+/**
+ * bsg_request_fn - generic handler for bsg requests
+ * @q: request queue to manage
+ *
+ * On error the create_bsg_job function should return a -Exyz error value
+ * that will be set to the req->errors.
+ *
+ * Drivers/subsys should pass this to the queue init function.
+ */
+void bsg_request_fn(struct request_queue *q)
+{
+	struct device *dev = q->queuedata;
+	struct request *req;
+	struct bsg_job *job;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!get_device(dev))
+		return;
+
+	while (1) {
+		req = blk_fetch_request(q);
+		if (!req)
+			break;
+		spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+
+		ret = bsg_create_job(dev, req);
+		if (ret) {
+			req->errors = ret;
+			blk_end_request_all(req, ret);
+			spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		job = req->special;
+		ret = q->bsg_job_fn(job);
+		spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+		if (ret)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+	put_device(dev);
+	spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bsg_request_fn);
+
+/**
+ * bsg_setup_queue - Create and add the bsg hooks so we can receive requests
+ * @dev: device to attach bsg device to
+ * @q: request queue setup by caller
+ * @name: device to give bsg device
+ * @job_fn: bsg job handler
+ * @dd_job_size: size of LLD data needed for each job
+ *
+ * The caller should have setup the reuqest queue with bsg_request_fn
+ * as the request_fn.
+ */
+int bsg_setup_queue(struct device *dev, struct request_queue *q,
+		    char *name, bsg_job_fn *job_fn, int dd_job_size)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	q->queuedata = dev;
+	q->bsg_job_size = dd_job_size;
+	q->bsg_job_fn = job_fn;
+	queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_BIDI, q);
+	blk_queue_softirq_done(q, bsg_softirq_done);
+	blk_queue_rq_timeout(q, BLK_DEFAULT_SG_TIMEOUT);
+
+	ret = bsg_register_queue(q, dev, name, NULL);
+	if (ret) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: bsg interface failed to "
+		       "initialize - register queue\n", dev->kobj.name);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bsg_setup_queue);
+
+/**
+ * bsg_remove_queue - Deletes the bsg dev from the q
+ * @q:	the request_queue that is to be torn down.
+ *
+ * Notes:
+ *   Before unregistering the queue empty any requests that are blocked
+ */
+void bsg_remove_queue(struct request_queue *q)
+{
+	struct request *req; /* block request */
+	int counts; /* totals for request_list count and starved */
+
+	if (!q)
+		return;
+
+	/* Stop taking in new requests */
+	spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+	blk_stop_queue(q);
+
+	/* drain all requests in the queue */
+	while (1) {
+		/* need the lock to fetch a request
+		 * this may fetch the same reqeust as the previous pass
+		 */
+		req = blk_fetch_request(q);
+		/* save requests in use and starved */
+		counts = q->rq.count[0] + q->rq.count[1] +
+			 q->rq.starved[0] + q->rq.starved[1];
+		spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+		/* any requests still outstanding? */
+		if (counts == 0)
+			break;
+
+		/* This may be the same req as the previous iteration,
+		 * always send the blk_end_request_all after a prefetch.
+		 * It is not okay to not end the request because the
+		 * prefetch started the request.
+		 */
+		if (req) {
+			/* return -ENXIO to indicate that this queue is
+			 * going away
+			 */
+			req->errors = -ENXIO;
+			blk_end_request_all(req, -ENXIO);
+		}
+
+		msleep(200); /* allow bsg to possibly finish */
+		spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+	}
+	bsg_unregister_queue(q);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bsg_remove_queue);
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 0e67c45..8479285 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 struct blk_trace;
 struct request;
 struct sg_io_hdr;
+struct bsg_job;
 
 #define BLKDEV_MIN_RQ	4
 #define BLKDEV_MAX_RQ	128	/* Default maximum */
@@ -209,6 +210,7 @@
 typedef void (softirq_done_fn)(struct request *);
 typedef int (dma_drain_needed_fn)(struct request *);
 typedef int (lld_busy_fn) (struct request_queue *q);
+typedef int (bsg_job_fn) (struct bsg_job *);
 
 enum blk_eh_timer_return {
 	BLK_EH_NOT_HANDLED,
@@ -375,6 +377,8 @@
 	struct mutex		sysfs_lock;
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG)
+	bsg_job_fn		*bsg_job_fn;
+	int			bsg_job_size;
 	struct bsg_class_device bsg_dev;
 #endif
 
diff --git a/include/linux/bsg-lib.h b/include/linux/bsg-lib.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f55ab8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/bsg-lib.h
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+/*
+ *  BSG helper library
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 2008   James Smart, Emulex Corporation
+ *  Copyright (C) 2011   Red Hat, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+ *  Copyright (C) 2011   Mike Christie
+ *
+ *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *  GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ *  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ *
+ */
+#ifndef _BLK_BSG_
+#define _BLK_BSG_
+
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
+
+struct request;
+struct device;
+struct scatterlist;
+struct request_queue;
+
+struct bsg_buffer {
+	unsigned int payload_len;
+	int sg_cnt;
+	struct scatterlist *sg_list;
+};
+
+struct bsg_job {
+	struct device *dev;
+	struct request *req;
+
+	/* Transport/driver specific request/reply structs */
+	void *request;
+	void *reply;
+
+	unsigned int request_len;
+	unsigned int reply_len;
+	/*
+	 * On entry : reply_len indicates the buffer size allocated for
+	 * the reply.
+	 *
+	 * Upon completion : the message handler must set reply_len
+	 *  to indicates the size of the reply to be returned to the
+	 *  caller.
+	 */
+
+	/* DMA payloads for the request/response */
+	struct bsg_buffer request_payload;
+	struct bsg_buffer reply_payload;
+
+	void *dd_data;		/* Used for driver-specific storage */
+};
+
+void bsg_job_done(struct bsg_job *job, int result,
+		  unsigned int reply_payload_rcv_len);
+int bsg_setup_queue(struct device *dev, struct request_queue *q, char *name,
+		    bsg_job_fn *job_fn, int dd_job_size);
+void bsg_request_fn(struct request_queue *q);
+void bsg_remove_queue(struct request_queue *q);
+void bsg_goose_queue(struct request_queue *q);
+
+#endif