diff --git a/block/blk-rq-qos.c b/block/blk-rq-qos.c
index 656460636ad34a176297bfb991aba977b3c0e9ca..e83af7bc759194126a645bea59eef2b841603961 100644
--- a/block/blk-rq-qos.c
+++ b/block/blk-rq-qos.c
@@ -266,8 +266,8 @@ void rq_qos_wait(struct rq_wait *rqw, void *private_data,
 	if (!has_sleeper && acquire_inflight_cb(rqw, private_data))
 		return;
 
-	prepare_to_wait_exclusive(&rqw->wait, &data.wq, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-	has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper(&rqw->wait);
+	has_sleeper = !prepare_to_wait_exclusive(&rqw->wait, &data.wq,
+						 TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
 	do {
 		/* The memory barrier in set_task_state saves us here. */
 		if (data.got_token)
diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h
index fe10e8570a522166903411cfd9ab02f4109813fe..6598ae35e1b5ab18ab10210df6ea7f2adb2aff97 100644
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ do {										\
  * Waitqueues which are removed from the waitqueue_head at wakeup time
  */
 void prepare_to_wait(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, int state);
-void prepare_to_wait_exclusive(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, int state);
+bool prepare_to_wait_exclusive(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, int state);
 long prepare_to_wait_event(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, int state);
 void finish_wait(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry);
 long wait_woken(struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, unsigned mode, long timeout);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c
index 183cc6ae68a68d714a2fd4f7fcb845314f65871d..76577d1642a5dc6fa6eb15048210414bd0591265 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/wait.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c
@@ -264,17 +264,22 @@ prepare_to_wait(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_ent
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(prepare_to_wait);
 
-void
+/* Returns true if we are the first waiter in the queue, false otherwise. */
+bool
 prepare_to_wait_exclusive(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, int state)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
+	bool was_empty = false;
 
 	wq_entry->flags |= WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE;
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&wq_head->lock, flags);
-	if (list_empty(&wq_entry->entry))
+	if (list_empty(&wq_entry->entry)) {
+		was_empty = list_empty(&wq_head->head);
 		__add_wait_queue_entry_tail(wq_head, wq_entry);
+	}
 	set_current_state(state);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wq_head->lock, flags);
+	return was_empty;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(prepare_to_wait_exclusive);