if (verifier == nfsi->cache_change_attribute)
                nfsi->flags &= ~(NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR|NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME);
        /* Do the page cache invalidation */
-       if (flags & NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA) {
-               if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
-                       if (filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping) == 0)
-                               filemap_fdatawait(inode->i_mapping);
-                       nfs_wb_all(inode);
-               }
-               nfsi->flags &= ~NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA;
-               invalidate_inode_pages2(inode->i_mapping);
-               memset(NFS_COOKIEVERF(inode), 0, sizeof(NFS_COOKIEVERF(inode)));
-               dfprintk(PAGECACHE, "NFS: (%s/%Ld) data cache invalidated\n",
-                               inode->i_sb->s_id,
-                               (long long)NFS_FILEID(inode));
-               /* This ensures we revalidate dentries */
-               nfsi->cache_change_attribute++;
-       }
+       nfs_revalidate_mapping(inode, inode->i_mapping);
        if (flags & NFS_INO_INVALID_ACL)
                nfs_zap_acl_cache(inode);
        dfprintk(PAGECACHE, "NFS: (%s/%Ld) revalidation complete\n",
        return __nfs_revalidate_inode(server, inode);
 }
 
+/**
+ * nfs_revalidate_mapping - Revalidate the pagecache
+ * @inode - pointer to host inode
+ * @mapping - pointer to mapping
+ */
+void nfs_revalidate_mapping(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+       struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode);
+
+       if (nfsi->flags & NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA) {
+               if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
+                       if (filemap_fdatawrite(mapping) == 0)
+                               filemap_fdatawait(mapping);
+                       nfs_wb_all(inode);
+               }
+               invalidate_inode_pages2(mapping);
+               nfsi->flags &= ~NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA;
+               if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
+                       memset(nfsi->cookieverf, 0, sizeof(nfsi->cookieverf));
+                       /* This ensures we revalidate child dentries */
+                       nfsi->cache_change_attribute++;
+               }
+               dfprintk(PAGECACHE, "NFS: (%s/%Ld) data cache invalidated\n",
+                               inode->i_sb->s_id,
+                               (long long)NFS_FILEID(inode));
+       }
+}
+
 /**
  * nfs_begin_data_update
  * @inode - pointer to inode
 
 extern int nfs_attribute_timeout(struct inode *inode);
 extern int nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *server, struct inode *inode);
 extern int __nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *, struct inode *);
+extern void nfs_revalidate_mapping(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping);
 extern int nfs_setattr(struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
 extern void nfs_begin_attr_update(struct inode *);
 extern void nfs_end_attr_update(struct inode *);