diff --git a/fs/ext4/dir.c b/fs/ext4/dir.c
index 6a2b8bc..ea5e6cb 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/dir.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 
 	if (EXT4_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(inode->i_sb,
 				    EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX) &&
-	    ((EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_INDEX_FL) ||
+	    ((ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INDEX)) ||
 	     ((inode->i_size >> sb->s_blocksize_bits) == 1))) {
 		err = ext4_dx_readdir(filp, dirent, filldir);
 		if (err != ERR_BAD_DX_DIR) {
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 		 * We don't set the inode dirty flag since it's not
 		 * critical that it get flushed back to the disk.
 		 */
-		EXT4_I(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_INDEX_FL;
+		ext4_clear_inode_flag(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode, EXT4_INODE_INDEX);
 	}
 	stored = 0;
 	offset = filp->f_pos & (sb->s_blocksize - 1);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 413321ff..7441488 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -344,6 +344,83 @@
 		return flags & EXT4_OTHER_FLMASK;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Inode flags used for atomic set/get
+ */
+enum {
+	EXT4_INODE_SECRM	= 0,	/* Secure deletion */
+	EXT4_INODE_UNRM		= 1,	/* Undelete */
+	EXT4_INODE_COMPR	= 2,	/* Compress file */
+	EXT4_INODE_SYNC		= 3,	/* Synchronous updates */
+	EXT4_INODE_IMMUTABLE	= 4,	/* Immutable file */
+	EXT4_INODE_APPEND	= 5,	/* writes to file may only append */
+	EXT4_INODE_NODUMP	= 6,	/* do not dump file */
+	EXT4_INODE_NOATIME	= 7,	/* do not update atime */
+/* Reserved for compression usage... */
+	EXT4_INODE_DIRTY	= 8,
+	EXT4_INODE_COMPRBLK	= 9,	/* One or more compressed clusters */
+	EXT4_INODE_NOCOMPR	= 10,	/* Don't compress */
+	EXT4_INODE_ECOMPR	= 11,	/* Compression error */
+/* End compression flags --- maybe not all used */
+	EXT4_INODE_INDEX	= 12,	/* hash-indexed directory */
+	EXT4_INODE_IMAGIC	= 13,	/* AFS directory */
+	EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA	= 14,	/* file data should be journaled */
+	EXT4_INODE_NOTAIL	= 15,	/* file tail should not be merged */
+	EXT4_INODE_DIRSYNC	= 16,	/* dirsync behaviour (directories only) */
+	EXT4_INODE_TOPDIR	= 17,	/* Top of directory hierarchies*/
+	EXT4_INODE_HUGE_FILE	= 18,	/* Set to each huge file */
+	EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS	= 19,	/* Inode uses extents */
+	EXT4_INODE_EA_INODE	= 21,	/* Inode used for large EA */
+	EXT4_INODE_EOFBLOCKS	= 22,	/* Blocks allocated beyond EOF */
+	EXT4_INODE_RESERVED	= 31,	/* reserved for ext4 lib */
+};
+
+#define TEST_FLAG_VALUE(FLAG) (EXT4_##FLAG##_FL == (1 << EXT4_INODE_##FLAG))
+#define CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(FLAG) if (!TEST_FLAG_VALUE(FLAG)) { \
+	printk(KERN_EMERG "EXT4 flag fail: " #FLAG ": %d %d\n", \
+		EXT4_##FLAG##_FL, EXT4_INODE_##FLAG); BUG_ON(1); }
+
+/*
+ * Since it's pretty easy to mix up bit numbers and hex values, and we
+ * can't do a compile-time test for ENUM values, we use a run-time
+ * test to make sure that EXT4_XXX_FL is consistent with respect to
+ * EXT4_INODE_XXX.  If all is well the printk and BUG_ON will all drop
+ * out so it won't cost any extra space in the compiled kernel image.
+ * But it's important that these values are the same, since we are
+ * using EXT4_INODE_XXX to test for the flag values, but EXT4_XX_FL
+ * must be consistent with the values of FS_XXX_FL defined in
+ * include/linux/fs.h and the on-disk values found in ext2, ext3, and
+ * ext4 filesystems, and of course the values defined in e2fsprogs.
+ *
+ * It's not paranoia if the Murphy's Law really *is* out to get you.  :-)
+ */
+static inline void ext4_check_flag_values(void)
+{
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(SECRM);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(UNRM);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(COMPR);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(SYNC);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(IMMUTABLE);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(APPEND);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(NODUMP);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(NOATIME);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(DIRTY);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(COMPRBLK);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(NOCOMPR);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(ECOMPR);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(INDEX);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(IMAGIC);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(JOURNAL_DATA);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(NOTAIL);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(DIRSYNC);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(TOPDIR);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(HUGE_FILE);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(EXTENTS);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(EA_INODE);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(EOFBLOCKS);
+	CHECK_FLAG_VALUE(RESERVED);
+}
+
 /* Used to pass group descriptor data when online resize is done */
 struct ext4_new_group_input {
 	__u32 group;		/* Group number for this data */
@@ -639,9 +716,8 @@
  */
 struct ext4_inode_info {
 	__le32	i_data[15];	/* unconverted */
-	__u32	i_flags;
-	ext4_fsblk_t	i_file_acl;
 	__u32	i_dtime;
+	ext4_fsblk_t	i_file_acl;
 
 	/*
 	 * i_block_group is the number of the block group which contains
@@ -652,6 +728,7 @@
 	 */
 	ext4_group_t	i_block_group;
 	unsigned long	i_state_flags;		/* Dynamic state flags */
+	unsigned long	i_flags;
 
 	ext4_lblk_t		i_dir_start_lookup;
 #ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR
@@ -1087,20 +1164,22 @@
 	EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN,	/* need convert on dio done*/
 };
 
-static inline int ext4_test_inode_state(struct inode *inode, int bit)
-{
-	return test_bit(bit, &EXT4_I(inode)->i_state_flags);
+#define EXT4_INODE_BIT_FNS(name, field)					\
+static inline int ext4_test_inode_##name(struct inode *inode, int bit)	\
+{									\
+	return test_bit(bit, &EXT4_I(inode)->i_##field);		\
+}									\
+static inline void ext4_set_inode_##name(struct inode *inode, int bit)	\
+{									\
+	set_bit(bit, &EXT4_I(inode)->i_##field);			\
+}									\
+static inline void ext4_clear_inode_##name(struct inode *inode, int bit) \
+{									\
+	clear_bit(bit, &EXT4_I(inode)->i_##field);			\
 }
 
-static inline void ext4_set_inode_state(struct inode *inode, int bit)
-{
-	set_bit(bit, &EXT4_I(inode)->i_state_flags);
-}
-
-static inline void ext4_clear_inode_state(struct inode *inode, int bit)
-{
-	clear_bit(bit, &EXT4_I(inode)->i_state_flags);
-}
+EXT4_INODE_BIT_FNS(flag, flags)
+EXT4_INODE_BIT_FNS(state, state_flags)
 #else
 /* Assume that user mode programs are passing in an ext4fs superblock, not
  * a kernel struct super_block.  This will allow us to call the feature-test
@@ -1287,7 +1366,7 @@
 
 #define is_dx(dir) (EXT4_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(dir->i_sb, \
 				      EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX) && \
-		      (EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT4_INDEX_FL))
+		    ext4_test_inode_flag((dir), EXT4_INODE_INDEX))
 #define EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(dir) (!is_dx(dir) && (dir)->i_nlink >= EXT4_LINK_MAX)
 #define EXT4_DIR_LINK_EMPTY(dir) ((dir)->i_nlink == 2 || (dir)->i_nlink == 1)
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
index b79ad51..dade0c0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
 		return 1;
 	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_DATA)
 		return 1;
-	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL)
+	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA))
 		return 1;
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
 		return 0;
 	if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
 		return 0;
-	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL)
+	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA))
 		return 0;
 	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT4_MOUNT_ORDERED_DATA)
 		return 1;
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
 		return 0;
 	if (EXT4_JOURNAL(inode) == NULL)
 		return 1;
-	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL)
+	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA))
 		return 0;
 	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT4_MOUNT_WRITEBACK_DATA)
 		return 1;
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
 		return 0;
 	if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
 		return 0;
-	if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+	if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)))
 		return 0;
 	if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode))
 		return 0;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 91c3873..42d8ce9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -3498,7 +3498,7 @@
 			map->m_flags |= EXT4_MAP_UNINIT;
 	}
 
-	if (unlikely(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL)) {
+	if (unlikely(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EOFBLOCKS))) {
 		if (unlikely(!eh->eh_entries)) {
 			EXT4_ERROR_INODE(inode,
 					 "eh->eh_entries == 0 ee_block %d",
@@ -3509,7 +3509,7 @@
 		last_ex = EXT_LAST_EXTENT(eh);
 		if (map->m_lblk + ar.len > le32_to_cpu(last_ex->ee_block)
 		    + ext4_ext_get_actual_len(last_ex))
-			EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL;
+			ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EOFBLOCKS);
 	}
 	err = ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle, inode, path, &newex, flags);
 	if (err) {
@@ -3650,7 +3650,7 @@
 		 * can proceed even if the new size is the same as i_size.
 		 */
 		if (new_size > i_size_read(inode))
-			EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags |= EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL;
+			ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EOFBLOCKS);
 	}
 
 }
@@ -3677,7 +3677,7 @@
 	 * currently supporting (pre)allocate mode for extent-based
 	 * files _only_
 	 */
-	if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+	if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	/* preallocation to directories is currently not supported */
@@ -3922,7 +3922,7 @@
 	int error = 0;
 
 	/* fallback to generic here if not in extents fmt */
-	if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+	if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)))
 		return generic_block_fiemap(inode, fieinfo, start, len,
 			ext4_get_block);
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index d0776e4..5313ae4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 	 * is smaller than s_maxbytes, which is for extent-mapped files.
 	 */
 
-	if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)) {
+	if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS))) {
 		struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
 		size_t length = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index 52618d5..7f6b582 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@
 
 	if (S_ISDIR(mode) &&
 	    ((parent == sb->s_root->d_inode) ||
-	     (EXT4_I(parent)->i_flags & EXT4_TOPDIR_FL))) {
+	     (ext4_test_inode_flag(parent, EXT4_INODE_TOPDIR)))) {
 		int best_ndir = inodes_per_group;
 		int ret = -1;
 
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@
 	if (EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS)) {
 		/* set extent flag only for directory, file and normal symlink*/
 		if (S_ISDIR(mode) || S_ISREG(mode) || S_ISLNK(mode)) {
-			EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags |= EXT4_EXTENTS_FL;
+			ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS);
 			ext4_ext_tree_init(handle, inode);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 3b68772..c2b0724 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@
 	int count = 0;
 	ext4_fsblk_t first_block = 0;
 
-	J_ASSERT(!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL));
+	J_ASSERT(!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)));
 	J_ASSERT(handle != NULL || (flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE) == 0);
 	depth = ext4_block_to_path(inode, map->m_lblk, offsets,
 				   &blocks_to_boundary);
@@ -1059,7 +1059,7 @@
  */
 static int ext4_calc_metadata_amount(struct inode *inode, sector_t lblock)
 {
-	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)
+	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS))
 		return ext4_ext_calc_metadata_amount(inode, lblock);
 
 	return ext4_indirect_calc_metadata_amount(inode, lblock);
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@
 	 * file system block.
 	 */
 	down_read((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem));
-	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) {
+	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) {
 		retval = ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle, inode, map, 0);
 	} else {
 		retval = ext4_ind_map_blocks(handle, inode, map, 0);
@@ -1295,7 +1295,7 @@
 	 * We need to check for EXT4 here because migrate
 	 * could have changed the inode type in between
 	 */
-	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) {
+	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) {
 		retval = ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle, inode, map, flags);
 	} else {
 		retval = ext4_ind_map_blocks(handle, inode, map, flags);
@@ -2325,7 +2325,7 @@
 		goto flush_it;
 
 	/* check if thereserved journal credits might overflow */
-	if (!(EXT4_I(mpd->inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)) {
+	if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(mpd->inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS))) {
 		if (nrblocks >= EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA) {
 			/*
 			 * With non-extent format we are limited by the journal
@@ -2779,7 +2779,7 @@
 	 * number of contiguous block. So we will limit
 	 * number of contiguous block to a sane value
 	 */
-	if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) &&
+	if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) &&
 	    (max_blocks > EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA))
 		max_blocks = EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA;
 
@@ -3995,7 +3995,7 @@
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
 
-	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)
+	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS))
 		return ext4_ext_direct_IO(rw, iocb, iov, offset, nr_segs);
 
 	return ext4_ind_direct_IO(rw, iocb, iov, offset, nr_segs);
@@ -4631,12 +4631,12 @@
 	if (!ext4_can_truncate(inode))
 		return;
 
-	EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL;
+	ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EOFBLOCKS);
 
 	if (inode->i_size == 0 && !test_opt(inode->i_sb, NO_AUTO_DA_ALLOC))
 		ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DA_ALLOC_CLOSE);
 
-	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) {
+	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) {
 		ext4_ext_truncate(inode);
 		return;
 	}
@@ -5473,7 +5473,7 @@
 	}
 
 	if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
-		if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)) {
+		if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS))) {
 			struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
 
 			if (attr->ia_size > sbi->s_bitmap_maxbytes) {
@@ -5486,7 +5486,7 @@
 	if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
 	    attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE &&
 	    (attr->ia_size < inode->i_size ||
-	     (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL))) {
+	     (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EOFBLOCKS)))) {
 		handle_t *handle;
 
 		handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, 3);
@@ -5518,7 +5518,7 @@
 			}
 		}
 		/* ext4_truncate will clear the flag */
-		if ((EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL))
+		if ((ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EOFBLOCKS)))
 			ext4_truncate(inode);
 	}
 
@@ -5594,7 +5594,7 @@
 
 static int ext4_index_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks, int chunk)
 {
-	if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+	if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)))
 		return ext4_indirect_trans_blocks(inode, nrblocks, chunk);
 	return ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(inode, nrblocks, chunk);
 }
@@ -5929,9 +5929,9 @@
 	 */
 
 	if (val)
-		EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags |= EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL;
+		ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA);
 	else
-		EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL;
+		ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA);
 	ext4_set_aops(inode);
 
 	jbd2_journal_unlock_updates(journal);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index e5dcdc9..0bdc018 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2006,7 +2006,7 @@
 	sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
 	ngroups = ext4_get_groups_count(sb);
 	/* non-extent files are limited to low blocks/groups */
-	if (!(EXT4_I(ac->ac_inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+	if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(ac->ac_inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)))
 		ngroups = sbi->s_blockfile_groups;
 
 	BUG_ON(ac->ac_status == AC_STATUS_FOUND);
@@ -3171,7 +3171,7 @@
 			continue;
 
 		/* non-extent files can't have physical blocks past 2^32 */
-		if (!(EXT4_I(ac->ac_inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) &&
+		if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(ac->ac_inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) &&
 			pa->pa_pstart + pa->pa_len > EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS)
 			continue;
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/migrate.c b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
index 34dcfc5..6f3a27e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/migrate.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@
 	 */
 	if (!EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(inode->i_sb,
 				       EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS) ||
-	    (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+	    (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_blocks == 0)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/move_extent.c b/fs/ext4/move_extent.c
index b8b8ea1..3a6c92a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/move_extent.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/move_extent.c
@@ -977,11 +977,11 @@
 	}
 
 	/* Ext4 move extent supports only extent based file */
-	if (!(EXT4_I(orig_inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)) {
+	if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(orig_inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS))) {
 		ext4_debug("ext4 move extent: orig file is not extents "
 			"based file [ino:orig %lu]\n", orig_inode->i_ino);
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	} else if (!(EXT4_I(donor_inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)) {
+	} else if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(donor_inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS))) {
 		ext4_debug("ext4 move extent: donor file is not extents "
 			"based file [ino:donor %lu]\n", donor_inode->i_ino);
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index bff77b0..7b4bf8f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@
 	dxtrace(printk(KERN_DEBUG "In htree_fill_tree, start hash: %x:%x\n", 
 		       start_hash, start_minor_hash));
 	dir = dir_file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
-	if (!(EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT4_INDEX_FL)) {
+	if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(dir, EXT4_INODE_INDEX))) {
 		hinfo.hash_version = EXT4_SB(dir->i_sb)->s_def_hash_version;
 		if (hinfo.hash_version <= DX_HASH_TEA)
 			hinfo.hash_version +=
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@
 {
 	if (!EXT4_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(inode->i_sb,
 				     EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX))
-		EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_INDEX_FL;
+		ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INDEX);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@
 		brelse(bh);
 		return retval;
 	}
-	EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags |= EXT4_INDEX_FL;
+	ext4_set_inode_flag(dir, EXT4_INODE_INDEX);
 	data1 = bh2->b_data;
 
 	memcpy (data1, de, len);
@@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@
 		retval = ext4_dx_add_entry(handle, dentry, inode);
 		if (!retval || (retval != ERR_BAD_DX_DIR))
 			return retval;
-		EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_INDEX_FL;
+		ext4_clear_inode_flag(dir, EXT4_INODE_INDEX);
 		dx_fallback++;
 		ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, dir);
 	}
@@ -2294,7 +2294,7 @@
 		}
 	} else {
 		/* clear the extent format for fast symlink */
-		EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_EXTENTS_FL;
+		ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS);
 		inode->i_op = &ext4_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
 		memcpy((char *)&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data, symname, l);
 		inode->i_size = l-1;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 2e8790e..9766b2a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -4148,6 +4148,7 @@
 {
 	int err;
 
+	ext4_check_flag_values();
 	err = init_ext4_system_zone();
 	if (err)
 		return err;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 0a09a2e..47431bc 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@
 						EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_group);
 
 			/* non-extent files can't have physical blocks past 2^32 */
-			if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+			if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)))
 				goal = goal & EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS;
 
 			block = ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle, inode,
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@
 			if (error)
 				goto cleanup;
 
-			if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+			if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)))
 				BUG_ON(block > EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS);
 
 			ea_idebug(inode, "creating block %d", block);