diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
index cea20b8..6aeed5b 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
@@ -762,10 +762,10 @@
 	 * until finishing nat/sit flush.
 	 */
 retry_flush_nodes:
-	mutex_lock(&sbi->node_write);
+	down_write(&sbi->node_write);
 
 	if (get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_NODES)) {
-		mutex_unlock(&sbi->node_write);
+		up_write(&sbi->node_write);
 		sync_node_pages(sbi, 0, &wbc);
 		goto retry_flush_nodes;
 	}
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@
 
 static void unblock_operations(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 {
-	mutex_unlock(&sbi->node_write);
+	up_write(&sbi->node_write);
 	f2fs_unlock_all(sbi);
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index 80c7869..9942567 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@
 	struct inode *meta_inode;		/* cache meta blocks */
 	struct mutex cp_mutex;			/* checkpoint procedure lock */
 	struct rw_semaphore cp_rwsem;		/* blocking FS operations */
-	struct mutex node_write;		/* locking node writes */
+	struct rw_semaphore node_write;		/* locking node writes */
 	struct mutex writepages;		/* mutex for writepages() */
 	bool por_doing;				/* recovery is doing or not */
 	wait_queue_head_t cp_wait;
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.c b/fs/f2fs/node.c
index a90f51d..7b5b5de 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
@@ -1231,12 +1231,12 @@
 	if (wbc->for_reclaim)
 		goto redirty_out;
 
-	mutex_lock(&sbi->node_write);
+	down_read(&sbi->node_write);
 	set_page_writeback(page);
 	write_node_page(sbi, page, &fio, nid, ni.blk_addr, &new_addr);
 	set_node_addr(sbi, &ni, new_addr, is_fsync_dnode(page));
 	dec_page_count(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_NODES);
-	mutex_unlock(&sbi->node_write);
+	up_read(&sbi->node_write);
 	unlock_page(page);
 	return 0;
 
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index f253e22..657582f 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@
 	mutex_init(&sbi->gc_mutex);
 	mutex_init(&sbi->writepages);
 	mutex_init(&sbi->cp_mutex);
-	mutex_init(&sbi->node_write);
+	init_rwsem(&sbi->node_write);
 	sbi->por_doing = false;
 	spin_lock_init(&sbi->stat_lock);