diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index 169baa817d9653c4bcccdfa56eb0f1fa3b815248..d8e539fe5544e464689bf1e07f9acdc647ab566c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -1304,6 +1304,16 @@ struct btrfs_fs_info {
 	 * so it is also safe.
 	 */
 	u64 max_inline;
+	/*
+	 * Protected by ->chunk_mutex and sb->s_umount.
+	 *
+	 * The reason that we use two lock to protect it is because only
+	 * remount and mount operations can change it and these two operations
+	 * are under sb->s_umount, but the read side (chunk allocation) can not
+	 * acquire sb->s_umount or the deadlock would happen. So we use two
+	 * locks to protect it. On the write side, we must acquire two locks,
+	 * and on the read side, we just need acquire one of them.
+	 */
 	u64 alloc_start;
 	struct btrfs_transaction *running_transaction;
 	wait_queue_head_t transaction_throttle;
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index 6846ededfe95e63b020e2128fc389f41989ac4e8..eda330df45a4037387aa44606722e886a25aa9f8 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -519,7 +519,9 @@ int btrfs_parse_options(struct btrfs_root *root, char *options)
 		case Opt_alloc_start:
 			num = match_strdup(&args[0]);
 			if (num) {
+				mutex_lock(&info->chunk_mutex);
 				info->alloc_start = memparse(num, NULL);
+				mutex_unlock(&info->chunk_mutex);
 				kfree(num);
 				printk(KERN_INFO
 					"btrfs: allocations start at %llu\n",
@@ -1289,7 +1291,9 @@ static int btrfs_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
 	fs_info->mount_opt = old_opts;
 	fs_info->compress_type = old_compress_type;
 	fs_info->max_inline = old_max_inline;
+	mutex_lock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
 	fs_info->alloc_start = old_alloc_start;
+	mutex_unlock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
 	btrfs_resize_thread_pool(fs_info,
 		old_thread_pool_size, fs_info->thread_pool_size);
 	fs_info->metadata_ratio = old_metadata_ratio;