diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
index 7aeb9456aec7..7ef08e7f00a6 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
@@ -348,13 +348,13 @@ static int f2fs_write_meta_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		goto skip_write;
 
 	/* if locked failed, cp will flush dirty pages instead */
-	if (!mutex_trylock(&sbi->cp_mutex))
+	if (!down_write_trylock(&sbi->cp_global_sem))
 		goto skip_write;
 
 	trace_f2fs_writepages(mapping->host, wbc, META);
 	diff = nr_pages_to_write(sbi, META, wbc);
 	written = f2fs_sync_meta_pages(sbi, META, wbc->nr_to_write, FS_META_IO);
-	mutex_unlock(&sbi->cp_mutex);
+	up_write(&sbi->cp_global_sem);
 	wbc->nr_to_write = max((long)0, wbc->nr_to_write - written - diff);
 	return 0;
 
@@ -1579,7 +1579,7 @@ int f2fs_write_checkpoint(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct cp_control *cpc)
 		f2fs_warn(sbi, "Start checkpoint disabled!");
 	}
 	if (cpc->reason != CP_RESIZE)
-		mutex_lock(&sbi->cp_mutex);
+		down_write(&sbi->cp_global_sem);
 
 	if (!is_sbi_flag_set(sbi, SBI_IS_DIRTY) &&
 		((cpc->reason & CP_FASTBOOT) || (cpc->reason & CP_SYNC) ||
@@ -1649,7 +1649,7 @@ stop:
 	trace_f2fs_write_checkpoint(sbi->sb, cpc->reason, "finish checkpoint");
 out:
 	if (cpc->reason != CP_RESIZE)
-		mutex_unlock(&sbi->cp_mutex);
+		up_write(&sbi->cp_global_sem);
 	return err;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index 76f5930e6c6e..07c443570207 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -1429,7 +1429,7 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
 	int cur_cp_pack;			/* remain current cp pack */
 	spinlock_t cp_lock;			/* for flag in ckpt */
 	struct inode *meta_inode;		/* cache meta blocks */
-	struct mutex cp_mutex;			/* checkpoint procedure lock */
+	struct rw_semaphore cp_global_sem;	/* checkpoint procedure lock */
 	struct rw_semaphore cp_rwsem;		/* blocking FS operations */
 	struct rw_semaphore node_write;		/* locking node writes */
 	struct rw_semaphore node_change;	/* locking node change */
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
index 5b95d5a146eb..a8c5a6b3e22f 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
@@ -1592,7 +1592,7 @@ int f2fs_resize_fs(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, __u64 block_count)
 
 	freeze_super(sbi->sb);
 	down_write(&sbi->gc_lock);
-	mutex_lock(&sbi->cp_mutex);
+	down_write(&sbi->cp_global_sem);
 
 	spin_lock(&sbi->stat_lock);
 	if (shrunk_blocks + valid_user_blocks(sbi) +
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ recover_out:
 		spin_unlock(&sbi->stat_lock);
 	}
 out_err:
-	mutex_unlock(&sbi->cp_mutex);
+	up_write(&sbi->cp_global_sem);
 	up_write(&sbi->gc_lock);
 	thaw_super(sbi->sb);
 	clear_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_IS_RESIZEFS);
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
index 1ad3d1fd0c35..b50b5e07ade1 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ int f2fs_recover_fsync_data(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool check_only)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dir_list);
 
 	/* prevent checkpoint */
-	mutex_lock(&sbi->cp_mutex);
+	down_write(&sbi->cp_global_sem);
 
 	/* step #1: find fsynced inode numbers */
 	err = find_fsync_dnodes(sbi, &inode_list, check_only);
@@ -834,7 +834,8 @@ skip:
 	} else {
 		clear_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_POR_DOING);
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&sbi->cp_mutex);
+
+	up_write(&sbi->cp_global_sem);
 
 	/* let's drop all the directory inodes for clean checkpoint */
 	destroy_fsync_dnodes(&dir_list, err);
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index 40544f8d9960..afc055fb27a2 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -3521,7 +3521,7 @@ try_onemore:
 	sbi->valid_super_block = valid_super_block;
 	init_rwsem(&sbi->gc_lock);
 	mutex_init(&sbi->writepages);
-	mutex_init(&sbi->cp_mutex);
+	init_rwsem(&sbi->cp_global_sem);
 	init_rwsem(&sbi->node_write);
 	init_rwsem(&sbi->node_change);