diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 644bcb6..0372411 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2111,6 +2111,25 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
 
 /*
+ * Helper function for deaccounting dirty page without writeback.
+ *
+ * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page
+ * is truncated, and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However,
+ * fs/buffer.c does this when it notices that somebody has cleaned
+ * out all the buffers on a page without actually doing it through
+ * the VM. Can you say "ext3 is horribly ugly"? Thought you could.
+ */
+void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+	if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
+		dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+		dec_bdi_stat(inode_to_bdi(mapping->host), BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
+		task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
+	}
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_cleaned);
+
+/*
  * For address_spaces which do not use buffers.  Just tag the page as dirty in
  * its radix tree.
  *