diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index e31f3691..cc28a69 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
 
 config JBD_DEBUG
 	bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
-	depends on JBD
+	depends on JBD && DEBUG_FS
 	help
 	  If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
 	  other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
@@ -229,10 +229,10 @@
 	  debugging output will be turned off.
 
 	  If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
-	  with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between
-	  1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is
-	  generated.  To turn debugging off again, do
-	  "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug".
+	  with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug", where N is a
+	  number between 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging
+	  output is generated.  To turn debugging off again, do
+	  "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug".
 
 config JBD2
 	tristate
diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c
index f810047..5d14243 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/poison.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
@@ -1851,63 +1852,40 @@
 }
 
 /*
- * /proc tunables
+ * debugfs tunables
  */
-#if defined(CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG)
-int journal_enable_debug;
+#ifdef CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG
+
+u8 journal_enable_debug __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(journal_enable_debug);
-#endif
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG) && defined(CONFIG_PROC_FS)
+static struct dentry *jbd_debugfs_dir;
+static struct dentry *jbd_debug;
 
-static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_jbd_debug;
-
-static int read_jbd_debug(char *page, char **start, off_t off,
-			  int count, int *eof, void *data)
+static void __init jbd_create_debugfs_entry(void)
 {
-	int ret;
-
-	ret = sprintf(page + off, "%d\n", journal_enable_debug);
-	*eof = 1;
-	return ret;
+	jbd_debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir("jbd", NULL);
+	if (jbd_debugfs_dir)
+		jbd_debug = debugfs_create_u8("jbd-debug", S_IRUGO,
+					       jbd_debugfs_dir,
+					       &journal_enable_debug);
 }
 
-static int write_jbd_debug(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
-			   unsigned long count, void *data)
+static void __exit jbd_remove_debugfs_entry(void)
 {
-	char buf[32];
-
-	if (count > ARRAY_SIZE(buf) - 1)
-		count = ARRAY_SIZE(buf) - 1;
-	if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, count))
-		return -EFAULT;
-	buf[ARRAY_SIZE(buf) - 1] = '\0';
-	journal_enable_debug = simple_strtoul(buf, NULL, 10);
-	return count;
-}
-
-#define JBD_PROC_NAME "sys/fs/jbd-debug"
-
-static void __init create_jbd_proc_entry(void)
-{
-	proc_jbd_debug = create_proc_entry(JBD_PROC_NAME, 0644, NULL);
-	if (proc_jbd_debug) {
-		/* Why is this so hard? */
-		proc_jbd_debug->read_proc = read_jbd_debug;
-		proc_jbd_debug->write_proc = write_jbd_debug;
-	}
-}
-
-static void __exit remove_jbd_proc_entry(void)
-{
-	if (proc_jbd_debug)
-		remove_proc_entry(JBD_PROC_NAME, NULL);
+	debugfs_remove(jbd_debug);
+	debugfs_remove(jbd_debugfs_dir);
 }
 
 #else
 
-#define create_jbd_proc_entry() do {} while (0)
-#define remove_jbd_proc_entry() do {} while (0)
+static inline void jbd_create_debugfs_entry(void)
+{
+}
+
+static inline void jbd_remove_debugfs_entry(void)
+{
+}
 
 #endif
 
@@ -1965,7 +1943,7 @@
 	ret = journal_init_caches();
 	if (ret != 0)
 		journal_destroy_caches();
-	create_jbd_proc_entry();
+	jbd_create_debugfs_entry();
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1976,7 +1954,7 @@
 	if (n)
 		printk(KERN_EMERG "JBD: leaked %d journal_heads!\n", n);
 #endif
-	remove_jbd_proc_entry();
+	jbd_remove_debugfs_entry();
 	journal_destroy_caches();
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/jbd.h b/include/linux/jbd.h
index d77f67d..16e7ed8 100644
--- a/include/linux/jbd.h
+++ b/include/linux/jbd.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
  * CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG is on.
  */
 #define JBD_EXPENSIVE_CHECKING
-extern int journal_enable_debug;
+extern u8 journal_enable_debug;
 
 #define jbd_debug(n, f, a...)						\
 	do {								\