diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index c3ba9c3b08d4..c114a61590bc 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_node(gfp_t gfp_mask, int node_id)
 
 	q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages =
 			(VM_MAX_READAHEAD * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
-	q->backing_dev_info.capabilities = 0;
+	q->backing_dev_info.capabilities = BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK;
 	q->backing_dev_info.name = "block";
 	q->node = node_id;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index bfdaa18ba0a1..6bb31234e6a9 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -134,12 +134,15 @@ int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int max_ratio);
  * BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK:   Don't write pages back
  * BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB:     Don't automatically account writeback pages
  * BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT:    Keep number of dirty pages below bdi threshold.
+ *
+ * BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK: Supports cgroup-aware writeback.
  */
 #define BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY	0x00000001
 #define BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK	0x00000002
 #define BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB	0x00000004
 #define BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES	0x00000008
 #define BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT	0x00000010
+#define BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK 0x00000020
 
 #define BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_AND_WRITEBACK \
 	(BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK | BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY | BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB)
@@ -229,4 +232,31 @@ static inline int bdi_sched_wait(void *word)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#endif		/* _LINUX_BACKING_DEV_H */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
+
+/**
+ * inode_cgwb_enabled - test whether cgroup writeback is enabled on an inode
+ * @inode: inode of interest
+ *
+ * cgroup writeback requires support from both the bdi and filesystem.
+ * Test whether @inode has both.
+ */
+static inline bool inode_cgwb_enabled(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode);
+
+	return bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi) &&
+		(bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK) &&
+		(inode->i_sb->s_type->fs_flags & FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK);
+}
+
+#else	/* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */
+
+static inline bool inode_cgwb_enabled(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+
+#endif	/* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */
+
+#endif	/* _LINUX_BACKING_DEV_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index ce100b87fba3..74e0ae0626a8 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1897,6 +1897,7 @@ struct file_system_type {
 #define FS_HAS_SUBTYPE		4
 #define FS_USERNS_MOUNT		8	/* Can be mounted by userns root */
 #define FS_USERNS_DEV_MOUNT	16 /* A userns mount does not imply MNT_NODEV */
+#define FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK	32	/* Supports cgroup-aware writeback */
 #define FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE	32768	/* FS will handle d_move() during rename() internally. */
 	struct dentry *(*mount) (struct file_system_type *, int,
 		       const char *, void *);
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index dc24dec60232..d4f763332f9f 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1141,6 +1141,11 @@ config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
 	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
 	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
 
+config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
+	bool
+	depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
+	default y
+
 endif # CGROUPS
 
 config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE