diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 3e85886..402475a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -25,6 +25,24 @@
  */
 
 /*
+ * Calculate the block group number and offset, given a block number
+ */
+void ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(struct super_block *sb, ext4_fsblk_t blocknr,
+		unsigned long *blockgrpp, ext4_grpblk_t *offsetp)
+{
+        struct ext4_super_block *es = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es;
+	ext4_grpblk_t offset;
+
+        blocknr = blocknr - le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block);
+        offset = sector_div(blocknr, EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb));
+	if (offsetp)
+		*offsetp = offset;
+	if (blockgrpp)
+	        *blockgrpp = blocknr;
+
+}
+
+/*
  * The free blocks are managed by bitmaps.  A file system contains several
  * blocks groups.  Each group contains 1 bitmap block for blocks, 1 bitmap
  * block for inodes, N blocks for the inode table and data blocks.
diff --git a/include/linux/ext4_fs.h b/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
index 296609b..498503e 100644
--- a/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
@@ -769,26 +769,8 @@
  */
 #define ERR_BAD_DX_DIR	-75000
 
-/*
- * This function calculate the block group number and offset,
- * given a block number
- */
-
-static inline void ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(struct super_block * sb,
-                                ext4_fsblk_t blocknr, unsigned long* blockgrpp,
-                                ext4_grpblk_t *offsetp)
-{
-        struct ext4_super_block *es = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es;
-	ext4_grpblk_t offset;
-
-        blocknr = blocknr - le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block);
-        offset = sector_div(blocknr, EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb));
-	if (offsetp)
-		*offsetp = offset;
-	if (blockgrpp)
-	        *blockgrpp = blocknr;
-
-}
+void ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(struct super_block *sb, ext4_fsblk_t blocknr,
+			unsigned long *blockgrpp, ext4_grpblk_t *offsetp);
 
 /*
  * Function prototypes