diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index e21459f..778b57b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1765,7 +1765,10 @@ static int
 xfs_remount_ro(
 	struct xfs_mount	*mp)
 {
-	int error;
+	struct xfs_icwalk	icw = {
+		.icw_flags	= XFS_ICWALK_FLAG_SYNC,
+	};
+	int			error;
 
 	/*
 	 * Cancel background eofb scanning so it cannot race with the final
@@ -1773,8 +1776,13 @@ xfs_remount_ro(
 	 */
 	xfs_blockgc_stop(mp);
 
-	/* Get rid of any leftover CoW reservations... */
-	error = xfs_blockgc_free_space(mp, NULL);
+	/*
+	 * Clear out all remaining COW staging extents and speculative post-EOF
+	 * preallocations so that we don't leave inodes requiring inactivation
+	 * cleanups during reclaim on a read-only mount.  We must process every
+	 * cached inode, so this requires a synchronous cache scan.
+	 */
+	error = xfs_blockgc_free_space(mp, &icw);
 	if (error) {
 		xfs_force_shutdown(mp, SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT_INCORE);
 		return error;