diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 1f59d9340c4d..ec2b7a42b45f 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ enum {
 	SWP_DISCARDING	= (1 << 3),	/* now discarding a free cluster */
 	SWP_SOLIDSTATE	= (1 << 4),	/* blkdev seeks are cheap */
 	SWP_CONTINUED	= (1 << 5),	/* swap_map has count continuation */
+	SWP_BLKDEV	= (1 << 6),	/* its a block device */
 					/* add others here before... */
 	SWP_SCANNING	= (1 << 8),	/* refcount in scan_swap_map */
 };
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 6cd0a8f90dc7..ecb069e213d0 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1884,6 +1884,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
 		if (error < 0)
 			goto bad_swap;
 		p->bdev = bdev;
+		p->flags |= SWP_BLKDEV;
 	} else if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
 		p->bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
 		mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);