diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
index d6f1ae342b1dd545c5c9d4d1e85af7eb59445d89..f5c56f4fd2a3f5bae4201f86a57b28ba27d5a4cb 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
@@ -1382,8 +1382,12 @@ extern void drbd_suspend_io(struct drbd_conf *mdev);
 extern void drbd_resume_io(struct drbd_conf *mdev);
 extern char *ppsize(char *buf, unsigned long long size);
 extern sector_t drbd_new_dev_size(struct drbd_conf *, struct drbd_backing_dev *, int);
+enum dds_flags {
+	DDSF_FORCED    = 1,
+	DDSF_NO_RESYNC = 2, /* Do not run a resync for the new space */
+};
 enum determine_dev_size { dev_size_error = -1, unchanged = 0, shrunk = 1, grew = 2 };
-extern enum determine_dev_size drbd_determin_dev_size(struct drbd_conf *, int force) __must_hold(local);
+extern enum determine_dev_size drbd_determin_dev_size(struct drbd_conf *, enum dds_flags) __must_hold(local);
 extern void resync_after_online_grow(struct drbd_conf *);
 extern void drbd_setup_queue_param(struct drbd_conf *mdev, unsigned int) __must_hold(local);
 extern int drbd_set_role(struct drbd_conf *mdev, enum drbd_role new_role,
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
index 6429d2b19e064a0e5aa56c77a91aca2d96e588dd..97abbc2acc5c30a6b0f232e3a28b73de79b7268e 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ void drbd_resume_io(struct drbd_conf *mdev)
  * Returns 0 on success, negative return values indicate errors.
  * You should call drbd_md_sync() after calling this function.
  */
-enum determine_dev_size drbd_determin_dev_size(struct drbd_conf *mdev, int force) __must_hold(local)
+enum determine_dev_size drbd_determin_dev_size(struct drbd_conf *mdev, enum dds_flags flags) __must_hold(local)
 {
 	sector_t prev_first_sect, prev_size; /* previous meta location */
 	sector_t la_size;
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ enum determine_dev_size drbd_determin_dev_size(struct drbd_conf *mdev, int force
 	/* TODO: should only be some assert here, not (re)init... */
 	drbd_md_set_sector_offsets(mdev, mdev->ldev);
 
-	size = drbd_new_dev_size(mdev, mdev->ldev, force);
+	size = drbd_new_dev_size(mdev, mdev->ldev, flags & DDSF_FORCED);
 
 	if (drbd_get_capacity(mdev->this_bdev) != size ||
 	    drbd_bm_capacity(mdev) != size) {
@@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ static int drbd_nl_resize(struct drbd_conf *mdev, struct drbd_nl_cfg_req *nlp,
 	}
 
 	mdev->ldev->dc.disk_size = (sector_t)rs.resize_size;
-	dd = drbd_determin_dev_size(mdev, rs.resize_force);
+	dd = drbd_determin_dev_size(mdev, rs.resize_force ? DDSF_FORCED : 0);
 	drbd_md_sync(mdev);
 	put_ldev(mdev);
 	if (dd == dev_size_error) {