diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt
index 66fa7fb..50f0a57 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt
@@ -284,8 +284,9 @@
 		enq=N	Number of times async ops queued for processing
 		can=N	Number of async ops cancelled
 		rej=N	Number of async ops rejected due to object lookup/create failure
+		ini=N	Number of async ops initialised
 		dfr=N	Number of async ops queued for deferred release
-		rel=N	Number of async ops released
+		rel=N	Number of async ops released (should equal ini=N when idle)
 		gc=N	Number of deferred-release async ops garbage collected
 	CacheOp	alo=N	Number of in-progress alloc_object() cache ops
 		luo=N	Number of in-progress lookup_object() cache ops
diff --git a/fs/fscache/internal.h b/fs/fscache/internal.h
index 87c4544..a632251 100644
--- a/fs/fscache/internal.h
+++ b/fs/fscache/internal.h
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@
 extern atomic_t fscache_n_op_run;
 extern atomic_t fscache_n_op_enqueue;
 extern atomic_t fscache_n_op_deferred_release;
+extern atomic_t fscache_n_op_initialised;
 extern atomic_t fscache_n_op_release;
 extern atomic_t fscache_n_op_gc;
 extern atomic_t fscache_n_op_cancelled;
diff --git a/fs/fscache/operation.c b/fs/fscache/operation.c
index 61a6e78..9761df4 100644
--- a/fs/fscache/operation.c
+++ b/fs/fscache/operation.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 	op->processor = processor;
 	op->release = release;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&op->pend_link);
+	fscache_stat(&fscache_n_op_initialised);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fscache_operation_init);
 
diff --git a/fs/fscache/stats.c b/fs/fscache/stats.c
index 3a722e8..7cfa0aa 100644
--- a/fs/fscache/stats.c
+++ b/fs/fscache/stats.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 atomic_t fscache_n_op_enqueue;
 atomic_t fscache_n_op_requeue;
 atomic_t fscache_n_op_deferred_release;
+atomic_t fscache_n_op_initialised;
 atomic_t fscache_n_op_release;
 atomic_t fscache_n_op_gc;
 atomic_t fscache_n_op_cancelled;
@@ -251,7 +252,8 @@
 		   atomic_read(&fscache_n_op_enqueue),
 		   atomic_read(&fscache_n_op_cancelled),
 		   atomic_read(&fscache_n_op_rejected));
-	seq_printf(m, "Ops    : dfr=%u rel=%u gc=%u\n",
+	seq_printf(m, "Ops    : ini=%u dfr=%u rel=%u gc=%u\n",
+		   atomic_read(&fscache_n_op_initialised),
 		   atomic_read(&fscache_n_op_deferred_release),
 		   atomic_read(&fscache_n_op_release),
 		   atomic_read(&fscache_n_op_gc));