diff --git a/include/linux/raid/bitmap.h b/include/linux/raid/bitmap.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f785cf2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/raid/bitmap.h
@@ -0,0 +1,280 @@
+/*
+ * bitmap.h: Copyright (C) Peter T. Breuer (ptb@ot.uc3m.es) 2003
+ *
+ * additions: Copyright (C) 2003-2004, Paul Clements, SteelEye Technology, Inc.
+ */
+#ifndef BITMAP_H
+#define BITMAP_H 1
+
+#define BITMAP_MAJOR 3
+#define BITMAP_MINOR 38
+
+/*
+ * in-memory bitmap:
+ *
+ * Use 16 bit block counters to track pending writes to each "chunk".
+ * The 2 high order bits are special-purpose, the first is a flag indicating
+ * whether a resync is needed.  The second is a flag indicating whether a
+ * resync is active.
+ * This means that the counter is actually 14 bits:
+ *
+ * +--------+--------+------------------------------------------------+
+ * | resync | resync |               counter                          |
+ * | needed | active |                                                |
+ * |  (0-1) |  (0-1) |              (0-16383)                         |
+ * +--------+--------+------------------------------------------------+
+ *
+ * The "resync needed" bit is set when:
+ *    a '1' bit is read from storage at startup.
+ *    a write request fails on some drives
+ *    a resync is aborted on a chunk with 'resync active' set
+ * It is cleared (and resync-active set) when a resync starts across all drives
+ * of the chunk.
+ *
+ *
+ * The "resync active" bit is set when:
+ *    a resync is started on all drives, and resync_needed is set.
+ *       resync_needed will be cleared (as long as resync_active wasn't already set).
+ * It is cleared when a resync completes.
+ *
+ * The counter counts pending write requests, plus the on-disk bit.
+ * When the counter is '1' and the resync bits are clear, the on-disk
+ * bit can be cleared aswell, thus setting the counter to 0.
+ * When we set a bit, or in the counter (to start a write), if the fields is
+ * 0, we first set the disk bit and set the counter to 1.
+ *
+ * If the counter is 0, the on-disk bit is clear and the stipe is clean
+ * Anything that dirties the stipe pushes the counter to 2 (at least)
+ * and sets the on-disk bit (lazily).
+ * If a periodic sweep find the counter at 2, it is decremented to 1.
+ * If the sweep find the counter at 1, the on-disk bit is cleared and the
+ * counter goes to zero.
+ *
+ * Also, we'll hijack the "map" pointer itself and use it as two 16 bit block
+ * counters as a fallback when "page" memory cannot be allocated:
+ *
+ * Normal case (page memory allocated):
+ *
+ *     page pointer (32-bit)
+ *
+ *     [ ] ------+
+ *               |
+ *               +-------> [   ][   ]..[   ] (4096 byte page == 2048 counters)
+ *                          c1   c2    c2048
+ *
+ * Hijacked case (page memory allocation failed):
+ *
+ *     hijacked page pointer (32-bit)
+ *
+ *     [		  ][		  ] (no page memory allocated)
+ *      counter #1 (16-bit) counter #2 (16-bit)
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+#define PAGE_BITS (PAGE_SIZE << 3)
+#define PAGE_BIT_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT + 3)
+
+typedef __u16 bitmap_counter_t;
+#define COUNTER_BITS 16
+#define COUNTER_BIT_SHIFT 4
+#define COUNTER_BYTE_RATIO (COUNTER_BITS / 8)
+#define COUNTER_BYTE_SHIFT (COUNTER_BIT_SHIFT - 3)
+
+#define NEEDED_MASK ((bitmap_counter_t) (1 << (COUNTER_BITS - 1)))
+#define RESYNC_MASK ((bitmap_counter_t) (1 << (COUNTER_BITS - 2)))
+#define COUNTER_MAX ((bitmap_counter_t) RESYNC_MASK - 1)
+#define NEEDED(x) (((bitmap_counter_t) x) & NEEDED_MASK)
+#define RESYNC(x) (((bitmap_counter_t) x) & RESYNC_MASK)
+#define COUNTER(x) (((bitmap_counter_t) x) & COUNTER_MAX)
+
+/* how many counters per page? */
+#define PAGE_COUNTER_RATIO (PAGE_BITS / COUNTER_BITS)
+/* same, except a shift value for more efficient bitops */
+#define PAGE_COUNTER_SHIFT (PAGE_BIT_SHIFT - COUNTER_BIT_SHIFT)
+/* same, except a mask value for more efficient bitops */
+#define PAGE_COUNTER_MASK  (PAGE_COUNTER_RATIO - 1)
+
+#define BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE 512
+#define BITMAP_BLOCK_SHIFT 9
+
+/* how many blocks per chunk? (this is variable) */
+#define CHUNK_BLOCK_RATIO(bitmap) ((bitmap)->chunksize >> BITMAP_BLOCK_SHIFT)
+#define CHUNK_BLOCK_SHIFT(bitmap) ((bitmap)->chunkshift - BITMAP_BLOCK_SHIFT)
+#define CHUNK_BLOCK_MASK(bitmap) (CHUNK_BLOCK_RATIO(bitmap) - 1)
+
+/* when hijacked, the counters and bits represent even larger "chunks" */
+/* there will be 1024 chunks represented by each counter in the page pointers */
+#define PAGEPTR_BLOCK_RATIO(bitmap) \
+			(CHUNK_BLOCK_RATIO(bitmap) << PAGE_COUNTER_SHIFT >> 1)
+#define PAGEPTR_BLOCK_SHIFT(bitmap) \
+			(CHUNK_BLOCK_SHIFT(bitmap) + PAGE_COUNTER_SHIFT - 1)
+#define PAGEPTR_BLOCK_MASK(bitmap) (PAGEPTR_BLOCK_RATIO(bitmap) - 1)
+
+/*
+ * on-disk bitmap:
+ *
+ * Use one bit per "chunk" (block set). We do the disk I/O on the bitmap
+ * file a page at a time. There's a superblock at the start of the file.
+ */
+
+/* map chunks (bits) to file pages - offset by the size of the superblock */
+#define CHUNK_BIT_OFFSET(chunk) ((chunk) + (sizeof(bitmap_super_t) << 3))
+
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * bitmap structures:
+ */
+
+#define BITMAP_MAGIC 0x6d746962
+
+/* use these for bitmap->flags and bitmap->sb->state bit-fields */
+enum bitmap_state {
+	BITMAP_ACTIVE = 0x001, /* the bitmap is in use */
+	BITMAP_STALE  = 0x002  /* the bitmap file is out of date or had -EIO */
+};
+
+/* the superblock at the front of the bitmap file -- little endian */
+typedef struct bitmap_super_s {
+	__u32 magic;        /*  0  BITMAP_MAGIC */
+	__u32 version;      /*  4  the bitmap major for now, could change... */
+	__u8  uuid[16];     /*  8  128 bit uuid - must match md device uuid */
+	__u64 events;       /* 24  event counter for the bitmap (1)*/
+	__u64 events_cleared;/*32  event counter when last bit cleared (2) */
+	__u64 sync_size;    /* 40  the size of the md device's sync range(3) */
+	__u32 state;        /* 48  bitmap state information */
+	__u32 chunksize;    /* 52  the bitmap chunk size in bytes */
+	__u32 daemon_sleep; /* 56  seconds between disk flushes */
+
+	__u8  pad[256 - 60]; /* set to zero */
+} bitmap_super_t;
+
+/* notes:
+ * (1) This event counter is updated before the eventcounter in the md superblock
+ *    When a bitmap is loaded, it is only accepted if this event counter is equal
+ *    to, or one greater than, the event counter in the superblock.
+ * (2) This event counter is updated when the other one is *if*and*only*if* the
+ *    array is not degraded.  As bits are not cleared when the array is degraded,
+ *    this represents the last time that any bits were cleared.
+ *    If a device is being added that has an event count with this value or
+ *    higher, it is accepted as conforming to the bitmap.
+ * (3)This is the number of sectors represented by the bitmap, and is the range that
+ *    resync happens across.  For raid1 and raid5/6 it is the size of individual
+ *    devices.  For raid10 it is the size of the array.
+ */
+
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+/* the in-memory bitmap is represented by bitmap_pages */
+struct bitmap_page {
+	/*
+	 * map points to the actual memory page
+	 */
+	char *map;
+	/*
+	 * in emergencies (when map cannot be alloced), hijack the map
+	 * pointer and use it as two counters itself
+	 */
+	unsigned int hijacked:1;
+	/*
+	 * count of dirty bits on the page
+	 */
+	unsigned int  count:31;
+};
+
+/* keep track of bitmap file pages that have pending writes on them */
+struct page_list {
+	struct list_head list;
+	struct page *page;
+};
+
+/* the main bitmap structure - one per mddev */
+struct bitmap {
+	struct bitmap_page *bp;
+	unsigned long pages; /* total number of pages in the bitmap */
+	unsigned long missing_pages; /* number of pages not yet allocated */
+
+	mddev_t *mddev; /* the md device that the bitmap is for */
+
+	int counter_bits; /* how many bits per block counter */
+
+	/* bitmap chunksize -- how much data does each bit represent? */
+	unsigned long chunksize;
+	unsigned long chunkshift; /* chunksize = 2^chunkshift (for bitops) */
+	unsigned long chunks; /* total number of data chunks for the array */
+
+	/* We hold a count on the chunk currently being synced, and drop
+	 * it when the last block is started.  If the resync is aborted
+	 * midway, we need to be able to drop that count, so we remember
+	 * the counted chunk..
+	 */
+	unsigned long syncchunk;
+
+	__u64	events_cleared;
+
+	/* bitmap spinlock */
+	spinlock_t lock;
+
+	struct file *file; /* backing disk file */
+	struct page *sb_page; /* cached copy of the bitmap file superblock */
+	struct page **filemap; /* list of cache pages for the file */
+	unsigned long *filemap_attr; /* attributes associated w/ filemap pages */
+	unsigned long file_pages; /* number of pages in the file */
+
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	/*
+	 * the bitmap daemon - periodically wakes up and sweeps the bitmap
+	 * file, cleaning up bits and flushing out pages to disk as necessary
+	 */
+	unsigned long daemon_lastrun; /* jiffies of last run */
+	unsigned long daemon_sleep; /* how many seconds between updates? */
+
+	/*
+	 * bitmap write daemon - this daemon performs writes to the bitmap file
+	 * this thread is only needed because of a limitation in ext3 (jbd)
+	 * that does not allow a task to have two journal transactions ongoing
+	 * simultaneously (even if the transactions are for two different
+	 * filesystems) -- in the case of bitmap, that would be the filesystem
+	 * that the bitmap file resides on and the filesystem that is mounted
+	 * on the md device -- see current->journal_info in jbd/transaction.c
+	 */
+	mdk_thread_t *writeback_daemon;
+	spinlock_t write_lock;
+	struct semaphore write_ready;
+	struct semaphore write_done;
+	unsigned long writes_pending;
+	wait_queue_head_t write_wait;
+	struct list_head write_pages;
+	struct list_head complete_pages;
+	mempool_t *write_pool;
+};
+
+/* the bitmap API */
+
+/* these are used only by md/bitmap */
+int  bitmap_create(mddev_t *mddev);
+void bitmap_destroy(mddev_t *mddev);
+int  bitmap_active(struct bitmap *bitmap);
+
+char *file_path(struct file *file, char *buf, int count);
+void bitmap_print_sb(struct bitmap *bitmap);
+int bitmap_update_sb(struct bitmap *bitmap);
+
+int  bitmap_setallbits(struct bitmap *bitmap);
+
+/* these are exported */
+int bitmap_startwrite(struct bitmap *bitmap, sector_t offset, unsigned long sectors);
+void bitmap_endwrite(struct bitmap *bitmap, sector_t offset, unsigned long sectors,
+		     int success);
+int bitmap_start_sync(struct bitmap *bitmap, sector_t offset, int *blocks);
+void bitmap_end_sync(struct bitmap *bitmap, sector_t offset, int *blocks, int aborted);
+void bitmap_close_sync(struct bitmap *bitmap);
+
+int bitmap_unplug(struct bitmap *bitmap);
+int bitmap_daemon_work(struct bitmap *bitmap);
+#endif
+
+#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/raid/md_k.h b/include/linux/raid/md_k.h
index bce0032..16e94a9 100644
--- a/include/linux/raid/md_k.h
+++ b/include/linux/raid/md_k.h
@@ -267,6 +267,9 @@
 	atomic_t			writes_pending; 
 	request_queue_t			*queue;	/* for plugging ... */
 
+	struct bitmap                   *bitmap; /* the bitmap for the device */
+	struct file			*bitmap_file; /* the bitmap file */
+
 	struct list_head		all_mddevs;
 };
 
@@ -341,6 +344,7 @@
 	unsigned long           flags;
 	struct completion	*event;
 	struct task_struct	*tsk;
+	unsigned long		timeout;
 	const char		*name;
 } mdk_thread_t;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/raid/md_u.h b/include/linux/raid/md_u.h
index a2df5c2..81da20c 100644
--- a/include/linux/raid/md_u.h
+++ b/include/linux/raid/md_u.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #define GET_DISK_INFO		_IOR (MD_MAJOR, 0x12, mdu_disk_info_t)
 #define PRINT_RAID_DEBUG	_IO (MD_MAJOR, 0x13)
 #define RAID_AUTORUN		_IO (MD_MAJOR, 0x14)
+#define GET_BITMAP_FILE		_IOR (MD_MAJOR, 0x15, mdu_bitmap_file_t)
 
 /* configuration */
 #define CLEAR_ARRAY		_IO (MD_MAJOR, 0x20)
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@
 #define HOT_ADD_DISK		_IO (MD_MAJOR, 0x28)
 #define SET_DISK_FAULTY		_IO (MD_MAJOR, 0x29)
 #define HOT_GENERATE_ERROR	_IO (MD_MAJOR, 0x2a)
+#define SET_BITMAP_FILE		_IOW (MD_MAJOR, 0x2b, int)
 
 /* usage */
 #define RUN_ARRAY		_IOW (MD_MAJOR, 0x30, mdu_param_t)
@@ -106,6 +108,11 @@
 
 } mdu_start_info_t;
 
+typedef struct mdu_bitmap_file_s
+{
+	char pathname[4096];
+} mdu_bitmap_file_t;
+
 typedef struct mdu_param_s
 {
 	int			personality;	/* 1,2,3,4 */