diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 41e2085..2762804 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -743,13 +743,11 @@
  *
  * If flags contains DCACHE_REFERENCED reference dentries will not be pruned.
  */
-static void __shrink_dcache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int *count, int flags)
+static void __shrink_dcache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int count, int flags)
 {
-	/* called from prune_dcache() and shrink_dcache_parent() */
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	LIST_HEAD(referenced);
 	LIST_HEAD(tmp);
-	int cnt = *count;
 
 relock:
 	spin_lock(&dcache_lru_lock);
@@ -777,7 +775,7 @@
 		} else {
 			list_move_tail(&dentry->d_lru, &tmp);
 			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-			if (!--cnt)
+			if (!--count)
 				break;
 		}
 		cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lru_lock);
@@ -787,83 +785,22 @@
 	spin_unlock(&dcache_lru_lock);
 
 	shrink_dentry_list(&tmp);
-
-	*count = cnt;
 }
 
 /**
- * prune_dcache - shrink the dcache
- * @count: number of entries to try to free
+ * prune_dcache_sb - shrink the dcache
+ * @nr_to_scan: number of entries to try to free
  *
- * Shrink the dcache. This is done when we need more memory, or simply when we
- * need to unmount something (at which point we need to unuse all dentries).
+ * Attempt to shrink the superblock dcache LRU by @nr_to_scan entries. This is
+ * done when we need more memory an called from the superblock shrinker
+ * function.
  *
- * This function may fail to free any resources if all the dentries are in use.
+ * This function may fail to free any resources if all the dentries are in
+ * use.
  */
-static void prune_dcache(int count)
+void prune_dcache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nr_to_scan)
 {
-	struct super_block *sb, *p = NULL;
-	int w_count;
-	int unused = dentry_stat.nr_unused;
-	int prune_ratio;
-	int pruned;
-
-	if (unused == 0 || count == 0)
-		return;
-	if (count >= unused)
-		prune_ratio = 1;
-	else
-		prune_ratio = unused / count;
-	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
-	list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
-		if (list_empty(&sb->s_instances))
-			continue;
-		if (sb->s_nr_dentry_unused == 0)
-			continue;
-		sb->s_count++;
-		/* Now, we reclaim unused dentrins with fairness.
-		 * We reclaim them same percentage from each superblock.
-		 * We calculate number of dentries to scan on this sb
-		 * as follows, but the implementation is arranged to avoid
-		 * overflows:
-		 * number of dentries to scan on this sb =
-		 * count * (number of dentries on this sb /
-		 * number of dentries in the machine)
-		 */
-		spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
-		if (prune_ratio != 1)
-			w_count = (sb->s_nr_dentry_unused / prune_ratio) + 1;
-		else
-			w_count = sb->s_nr_dentry_unused;
-		pruned = w_count;
-		/*
-		 * We need to be sure this filesystem isn't being unmounted,
-		 * otherwise we could race with generic_shutdown_super(), and
-		 * end up holding a reference to an inode while the filesystem
-		 * is unmounted.  So we try to get s_umount, and make sure
-		 * s_root isn't NULL.
-		 */
-		if (down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) {
-			if ((sb->s_root != NULL) &&
-			    (!list_empty(&sb->s_dentry_lru))) {
-				__shrink_dcache_sb(sb, &w_count,
-						DCACHE_REFERENCED);
-				pruned -= w_count;
-			}
-			up_read(&sb->s_umount);
-		}
-		spin_lock(&sb_lock);
-		if (p)
-			__put_super(p);
-		count -= pruned;
-		p = sb;
-		/* more work left to do? */
-		if (count <= 0)
-			break;
-	}
-	if (p)
-		__put_super(p);
-	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+	__shrink_dcache_sb(sb, nr_to_scan, DCACHE_REFERENCED);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1238,42 +1175,10 @@
 	int found;
 
 	while ((found = select_parent(parent)) != 0)
-		__shrink_dcache_sb(sb, &found, 0);
+		__shrink_dcache_sb(sb, found, 0);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrink_dcache_parent);
 
-/*
- * Scan `sc->nr_slab_to_reclaim' dentries and return the number which remain.
- *
- * We need to avoid reentering the filesystem if the caller is performing a
- * GFP_NOFS allocation attempt.  One example deadlock is:
- *
- * ext2_new_block->getblk->GFP->shrink_dcache_memory->prune_dcache->
- * prune_one_dentry->dput->dentry_iput->iput->inode->i_sb->s_op->put_inode->
- * ext2_discard_prealloc->ext2_free_blocks->lock_super->DEADLOCK.
- *
- * In this case we return -1 to tell the caller that we baled.
- */
-static int shrink_dcache_memory(struct shrinker *shrink,
-				struct shrink_control *sc)
-{
-	int nr = sc->nr_to_scan;
-	gfp_t gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask;
-
-	if (nr) {
-		if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
-			return -1;
-		prune_dcache(nr);
-	}
-
-	return (dentry_stat.nr_unused / 100) * sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure;
-}
-
-static struct shrinker dcache_shrinker = {
-	.shrink = shrink_dcache_memory,
-	.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS,
-};
-
 /**
  * __d_alloc	-	allocate a dcache entry
  * @sb: filesystem it will belong to
@@ -3083,8 +2988,6 @@
 	 */
 	dentry_cache = KMEM_CACHE(dentry,
 		SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD);
-	
-	register_shrinker(&dcache_shrinker);
 
 	/* Hash may have been set up in dcache_init_early */
 	if (!hashdist)
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 0450e25..1fdbb64 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
  *
  * We don't actually need it to protect anything in the umount path,
  * but only need to cycle through it to make sure any inode that
- * prune_icache took off the LRU list has been fully torn down by the
+ * prune_icache_sb took off the LRU list has been fully torn down by the
  * time we are past evict_inodes.
  */
 static DECLARE_RWSEM(iprune_sem);
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@
 	dispose_list(&dispose);
 
 	/*
-	 * Cycle through iprune_sem to make sure any inode that prune_icache
+	 * Cycle through iprune_sem to make sure any inode that prune_icache_sb
 	 * moved off the list before we took the lock has been fully torn
 	 * down.
 	 */
@@ -612,9 +612,10 @@
 }
 
 /*
- * Scan `goal' inodes on the unused list for freeable ones. They are moved to a
- * temporary list and then are freed outside sb->s_inode_lru_lock by
- * dispose_list().
+ * Walk the superblock inode LRU for freeable inodes and attempt to free them.
+ * This is called from the superblock shrinker function with a number of inodes
+ * to trim from the LRU. Inodes to be freed are moved to a temporary list and
+ * then are freed outside inode_lock by dispose_list().
  *
  * Any inodes which are pinned purely because of attached pagecache have their
  * pagecache removed.  If the inode has metadata buffers attached to
@@ -628,14 +629,15 @@
  * LRU does not have strict ordering. Hence we don't want to reclaim inodes
  * with this flag set because they are the inodes that are out of order.
  */
-static void shrink_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int *nr_to_scan)
+void prune_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nr_to_scan)
 {
 	LIST_HEAD(freeable);
 	int nr_scanned;
 	unsigned long reap = 0;
 
+	down_read(&iprune_sem);
 	spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_lru_lock);
-	for (nr_scanned = *nr_to_scan; nr_scanned >= 0; nr_scanned--) {
+	for (nr_scanned = nr_to_scan; nr_scanned >= 0; nr_scanned--) {
 		struct inode *inode;
 
 		if (list_empty(&sb->s_inode_lru))
@@ -707,111 +709,11 @@
 	else
 		__count_vm_events(PGINODESTEAL, reap);
 	spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_lru_lock);
-	*nr_to_scan = nr_scanned;
 
 	dispose_list(&freeable);
-}
-
-static void prune_icache(int count)
-{
-	struct super_block *sb, *p = NULL;
-	int w_count;
-	int unused = inodes_stat.nr_unused;
-	int prune_ratio;
-	int pruned;
-
-	if (unused == 0 || count == 0)
-		return;
-	down_read(&iprune_sem);
-	if (count >= unused)
-		prune_ratio = 1;
-	else
-		prune_ratio = unused / count;
-	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
-	list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
-		if (list_empty(&sb->s_instances))
-			continue;
-		if (sb->s_nr_inodes_unused == 0)
-			continue;
-		sb->s_count++;
-		/* Now, we reclaim unused dentrins with fairness.
-		 * We reclaim them same percentage from each superblock.
-		 * We calculate number of dentries to scan on this sb
-		 * as follows, but the implementation is arranged to avoid
-		 * overflows:
-		 * number of dentries to scan on this sb =
-		 * count * (number of dentries on this sb /
-		 * number of dentries in the machine)
-		 */
-		spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
-		if (prune_ratio != 1)
-			w_count = (sb->s_nr_inodes_unused / prune_ratio) + 1;
-		else
-			w_count = sb->s_nr_inodes_unused;
-		pruned = w_count;
-		/*
-		 * We need to be sure this filesystem isn't being unmounted,
-		 * otherwise we could race with generic_shutdown_super(), and
-		 * end up holding a reference to an inode while the filesystem
-		 * is unmounted.  So we try to get s_umount, and make sure
-		 * s_root isn't NULL.
-		 */
-		if (down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) {
-			if ((sb->s_root != NULL) &&
-			    (!list_empty(&sb->s_dentry_lru))) {
-				shrink_icache_sb(sb, &w_count);
-				pruned -= w_count;
-			}
-			up_read(&sb->s_umount);
-		}
-		spin_lock(&sb_lock);
-		if (p)
-			__put_super(p);
-		count -= pruned;
-		p = sb;
-		/* more work left to do? */
-		if (count <= 0)
-			break;
-	}
-	if (p)
-		__put_super(p);
-	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
 	up_read(&iprune_sem);
 }
 
-/*
- * shrink_icache_memory() will attempt to reclaim some unused inodes.  Here,
- * "unused" means that no dentries are referring to the inodes: the files are
- * not open and the dcache references to those inodes have already been
- * reclaimed.
- *
- * This function is passed the number of inodes to scan, and it returns the
- * total number of remaining possibly-reclaimable inodes.
- */
-static int shrink_icache_memory(struct shrinker *shrink,
-				struct shrink_control *sc)
-{
-	int nr = sc->nr_to_scan;
-	gfp_t gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask;
-
-	if (nr) {
-		/*
-		 * Nasty deadlock avoidance.  We may hold various FS locks,
-		 * and we don't want to recurse into the FS that called us
-		 * in clear_inode() and friends..
-		 */
-		if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
-			return -1;
-		prune_icache(nr);
-	}
-	return (get_nr_inodes_unused() / 100) * sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure;
-}
-
-static struct shrinker icache_shrinker = {
-	.shrink = shrink_icache_memory,
-	.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS,
-};
-
 static void __wait_on_freeing_inode(struct inode *inode);
 /*
  * Called with the inode lock held.
@@ -1691,7 +1593,6 @@
 					 (SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|
 					 SLAB_MEM_SPREAD),
 					 init_once);
-	register_shrinker(&icache_shrinker);
 
 	/* Hash may have been set up in inode_init_early */
 	if (!hashdist)
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index e63c754..37a75410 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -38,6 +38,48 @@
 LIST_HEAD(super_blocks);
 DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sb_lock);
 
+/*
+ * One thing we have to be careful of with a per-sb shrinker is that we don't
+ * drop the last active reference to the superblock from within the shrinker.
+ * If that happens we could trigger unregistering the shrinker from within the
+ * shrinker path and that leads to deadlock on the shrinker_rwsem. Hence we
+ * take a passive reference to the superblock to avoid this from occurring.
+ */
+static int prune_super(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb;
+	int count;
+
+	sb = container_of(shrink, struct super_block, s_shrink);
+
+	/*
+	 * Deadlock avoidance.  We may hold various FS locks, and we don't want
+	 * to recurse into the FS that called us in clear_inode() and friends..
+	 */
+	if (sc->nr_to_scan && !(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
+		return -1;
+
+	if (!grab_super_passive(sb))
+		return -1;
+
+	if (sc->nr_to_scan) {
+		/* proportion the scan between the two caches */
+		int total;
+
+		total = sb->s_nr_dentry_unused + sb->s_nr_inodes_unused + 1;
+		count = (sc->nr_to_scan * sb->s_nr_dentry_unused) / total;
+
+		/* prune dcache first as icache is pinned by it */
+		prune_dcache_sb(sb, count);
+		prune_icache_sb(sb, sc->nr_to_scan - count);
+	}
+
+	count = ((sb->s_nr_dentry_unused + sb->s_nr_inodes_unused) / 100)
+						* sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure;
+	drop_super(sb);
+	return count;
+}
+
 /**
  *	alloc_super	-	create new superblock
  *	@type:	filesystem type superblock should belong to
@@ -116,6 +158,9 @@
 		s->s_op = &default_op;
 		s->s_time_gran = 1000000000;
 		s->cleancache_poolid = -1;
+
+		s->s_shrink.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS;
+		s->s_shrink.shrink = prune_super;
 	}
 out:
 	return s;
@@ -183,6 +228,10 @@
 	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&s->s_active)) {
 		cleancache_flush_fs(s);
 		fs->kill_sb(s);
+
+		/* caches are now gone, we can safely kill the shrinker now */
+		unregister_shrinker(&s->s_shrink);
+
 		/*
 		 * We need to call rcu_barrier so all the delayed rcu free
 		 * inodes are flushed before we release the fs module.
@@ -311,7 +360,6 @@
 {
 	const struct super_operations *sop = sb->s_op;
 
-
 	if (sb->s_root) {
 		shrink_dcache_for_umount(sb);
 		sync_filesystem(sb);
@@ -399,6 +447,7 @@
 	list_add(&s->s_instances, &type->fs_supers);
 	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
 	get_filesystem(type);
+	register_shrinker(&s->s_shrink);
 	return s;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 460d2cc..d7f35e90 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -393,6 +393,7 @@
 #include <linux/semaphore.h>
 #include <linux/fiemap.h>
 #include <linux/rculist_bl.h>
+#include <linux/shrinker.h>
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
 
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>
@@ -1444,8 +1445,14 @@
 	 * Saved pool identifier for cleancache (-1 means none)
 	 */
 	int cleancache_poolid;
+
+	struct shrinker s_shrink;	/* per-sb shrinker handle */
 };
 
+/* superblock cache pruning functions */
+extern void prune_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nr_to_scan);
+extern void prune_dcache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nr_to_scan);
+
 extern struct timespec current_fs_time(struct super_block *sb);
 
 /*
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 9b9777a..e3a1a9e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/range.h>
 #include <linux/pfn.h>
 #include <linux/bit_spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/shrinker.h>
 
 struct mempolicy;
 struct anon_vma;
@@ -1121,45 +1122,6 @@
 }
 #endif
 
-/*
- * This struct is used to pass information from page reclaim to the shrinkers.
- * We consolidate the values for easier extention later.
- */
-struct shrink_control {
-	gfp_t gfp_mask;
-
-	/* How many slab objects shrinker() should scan and try to reclaim */
-	unsigned long nr_to_scan;
-};
-
-/*
- * A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
- *
- * 'sc' is passed shrink_control which includes a count 'nr_to_scan'
- * and a 'gfpmask'.  It should look through the least-recently-used
- * 'nr_to_scan' entries and attempt to free them up.  It should return
- * the number of objects which remain in the cache.  If it returns -1, it means
- * it cannot do any scanning at this time (eg. there is a risk of deadlock).
- *
- * The 'gfpmask' refers to the allocation we are currently trying to
- * fulfil.
- *
- * Note that 'shrink' will be passed nr_to_scan == 0 when the VM is
- * querying the cache size, so a fastpath for that case is appropriate.
- */
-struct shrinker {
-	int (*shrink)(struct shrinker *, struct shrink_control *sc);
-	int seeks;	/* seeks to recreate an obj */
-	long batch;	/* reclaim batch size, 0 = default */
-
-	/* These are for internal use */
-	struct list_head list;
-	long nr;	/* objs pending delete */
-};
-#define DEFAULT_SEEKS 2 /* A good number if you don't know better. */
-extern void register_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
-extern void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
-
 int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
 
 extern pte_t *__get_locked_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
diff --git a/include/linux/shrinker.h b/include/linux/shrinker.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..790651b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/shrinker.h
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_SHRINKER_H
+#define _LINUX_SHRINKER_H
+
+/*
+ * This struct is used to pass information from page reclaim to the shrinkers.
+ * We consolidate the values for easier extention later.
+ */
+struct shrink_control {
+	gfp_t gfp_mask;
+
+	/* How many slab objects shrinker() should scan and try to reclaim */
+	unsigned long nr_to_scan;
+};
+
+/*
+ * A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
+ *
+ * 'sc' is passed shrink_control which includes a count 'nr_to_scan'
+ * and a 'gfpmask'.  It should look through the least-recently-used
+ * 'nr_to_scan' entries and attempt to free them up.  It should return
+ * the number of objects which remain in the cache.  If it returns -1, it means
+ * it cannot do any scanning at this time (eg. there is a risk of deadlock).
+ *
+ * The 'gfpmask' refers to the allocation we are currently trying to
+ * fulfil.
+ *
+ * Note that 'shrink' will be passed nr_to_scan == 0 when the VM is
+ * querying the cache size, so a fastpath for that case is appropriate.
+ */
+struct shrinker {
+	int (*shrink)(struct shrinker *, struct shrink_control *sc);
+	int seeks;	/* seeks to recreate an obj */
+	long batch;	/* reclaim batch size, 0 = default */
+
+	/* These are for internal use */
+	struct list_head list;
+	long nr;	/* objs pending delete */
+};
+#define DEFAULT_SEEKS 2 /* A good number if you don't know better. */
+extern void register_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
+extern void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
+#endif