u64 btrfs_reduce_alloc_profile(struct btrfs_root *root, u64 flags)
 {
-       u64 num_devices = root->fs_info->fs_devices->rw_devices;
+       /*
+        * we add in the count of missing devices because we want
+        * to make sure that any RAID levels on a degraded FS
+        * continue to be honored.
+        */
+       u64 num_devices = root->fs_info->fs_devices->rw_devices +
+               root->fs_info->fs_devices->missing_devices;
 
        if (num_devices == 1)
                flags &= ~(BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID1 | BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID0);
        u64 stripped = BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID0 |
                BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID1 | BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID10;
 
-       num_devices = root->fs_info->fs_devices->rw_devices;
+       /*
+        * we add in the count of missing devices because we want
+        * to make sure that any RAID levels on a degraded FS
+        * continue to be honored.
+        */
+       num_devices = root->fs_info->fs_devices->rw_devices +
+               root->fs_info->fs_devices->missing_devices;
+
        if (num_devices == 1) {
                stripped |= BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DUP;
                stripped = flags & ~stripped;
 
 
                device->fs_devices = fs_devices;
                fs_devices->num_devices++;
-       } else if (strcmp(device->name, path)) {
+       } else if (!device->name || strcmp(device->name, path)) {
                name = kstrdup(path, GFP_NOFS);
                if (!name)
                        return -ENOMEM;
                kfree(device->name);
                device->name = name;
+               if (device->missing) {
+                       fs_devices->missing_devices--;
+                       device->missing = 0;
+               }
        }
 
        if (found_transid > fs_devices->latest_trans) {
 
        device->fs_devices->num_devices--;
 
+       if (device->missing)
+               root->fs_info->fs_devices->missing_devices--;
+
        next_device = list_entry(root->fs_info->fs_devices->devices.next,
                                 struct btrfs_device, dev_list);
        if (device->bdev == root->fs_info->sb->s_bdev)
        device->devid = devid;
        device->work.func = pending_bios_fn;
        device->fs_devices = fs_devices;
+       device->missing = 1;
        fs_devices->num_devices++;
+       fs_devices->missing_devices++;
        spin_lock_init(&device->io_lock);
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&device->dev_alloc_list);
        memcpy(device->uuid, dev_uuid, BTRFS_UUID_SIZE);
                        device = add_missing_dev(root, devid, dev_uuid);
                        if (!device)
                                return -ENOMEM;
+               } else if (!device->missing) {
+                       /*
+                        * this happens when a device that was properly setup
+                        * in the device info lists suddenly goes bad.
+                        * device->bdev is NULL, and so we have to set
+                        * device->missing to one here
+                        */
+                       root->fs_info->fs_devices->missing_devices++;
+                       device->missing = 1;
                }
        }