diff --git a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
index 26f8d7e46462..02e0b79753e7 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ void __jbd2_log_wait_for_space(journal_t *journal)
 	nblocks = jbd2_space_needed(journal);
 	while (jbd2_log_space_left(journal) < nblocks) {
 		write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-		mutex_lock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
+		mutex_lock_io(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
 
 		/*
 		 * Test again, another process may have checkpointed while we
@@ -276,9 +276,22 @@ restart:
 		"JBD2: %s: Waiting for Godot: block %llu\n",
 		journal->j_devname, (unsigned long long) bh->b_blocknr);
 
+			if (batch_count)
+				__flush_batch(journal, &batch_count);
 			jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, tid);
+			/*
+			 * jbd2_journal_commit_transaction() may want
+			 * to take the checkpoint_mutex if JBD2_FLUSHED
+			 * is set, jbd2_update_log_tail() called by
+			 * jbd2_journal_commit_transaction() may also take
+			 * checkpoint_mutex.  So we need to temporarily
+			 * drop it.
+			 */
+			mutex_unlock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
 			jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, tid);
-			goto retry;
+			mutex_lock_io(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
+			spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
+			goto restart;
 		}
 		if (!buffer_dirty(bh)) {
 			if (unlikely(buffer_write_io_error(bh)) && !result)
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 8ef6b6daaa7a..88d8f22d2cba 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -2067,7 +2067,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_wipe(journal_t *journal, int write)
 	err = jbd2_journal_skip_recovery(journal);
 	if (write) {
 		/* Lock to make assertions happy... */
-		mutex_lock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
+		mutex_lock_io(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
 		jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal, REQ_SYNC | REQ_FUA);
 		mutex_unlock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
 	}