diff --git a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
index 68165a50951b68e4cdd16d08c1923b34e17301c7..c3b5930106b288bec70850a90f88f2fdc1ed5a38 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ static void blk_mq_debugfs_tags_show(struct seq_file *m,
 	seq_printf(m, "nr_tags=%u\n", tags->nr_tags);
 	seq_printf(m, "nr_reserved_tags=%u\n", tags->nr_reserved_tags);
 	seq_printf(m, "active_queues=%d\n",
-		   atomic_read(&tags->active_queues));
+		   READ_ONCE(tags->active_queues));
 
 	seq_puts(m, "\nbitmap_tags:\n");
 	sbitmap_queue_show(&tags->bitmap_tags, m);
diff --git a/block/blk-mq-tag.c b/block/blk-mq-tag.c
index d6af9d431dc631989dce6709971d1fc042e89dc1..42619731206952596a2b6cf3f5c5358acce2ae6c 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-tag.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-tag.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ static void blk_mq_update_wake_batch(struct blk_mq_tags *tags,
 void __blk_mq_tag_busy(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 {
 	unsigned int users;
+	struct blk_mq_tags *tags = hctx->tags;
 
 	if (blk_mq_is_shared_tags(hctx->flags)) {
 		struct request_queue *q = hctx->queue;
@@ -51,9 +52,11 @@ void __blk_mq_tag_busy(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 		set_bit(BLK_MQ_S_TAG_ACTIVE, &hctx->state);
 	}
 
-	users = atomic_inc_return(&hctx->tags->active_queues);
-
-	blk_mq_update_wake_batch(hctx->tags, users);
+	spin_lock_irq(&tags->lock);
+	users = tags->active_queues + 1;
+	WRITE_ONCE(tags->active_queues, users);
+	blk_mq_update_wake_batch(tags, users);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&tags->lock);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -86,9 +89,11 @@ void __blk_mq_tag_idle(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 			return;
 	}
 
-	users = atomic_dec_return(&tags->active_queues);
-
+	spin_lock_irq(&tags->lock);
+	users = tags->active_queues - 1;
+	WRITE_ONCE(tags->active_queues, users);
 	blk_mq_update_wake_batch(tags, users);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&tags->lock);
 
 	blk_mq_tag_wakeup_all(tags, false);
 }
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.h b/block/blk-mq.h
index 8c642e9f32f10275021da1d576e084ab7e2caf66..1743857e0b01d9c94406d74aa923433d86852dd5 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.h
+++ b/block/blk-mq.h
@@ -412,8 +412,7 @@ static inline bool hctx_may_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
 			return true;
 	}
 
-	users = atomic_read(&hctx->tags->active_queues);
-
+	users = READ_ONCE(hctx->tags->active_queues);
 	if (!users)
 		return true;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/blk-mq.h b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
index 59b52ec155b1b87d94db2dff97ff2aefcde42f17..f401067ac03a19dfa12bd6e97075a72d7f91b757 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk-mq.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
@@ -739,8 +739,7 @@ struct request *blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx(struct request_queue *q,
 struct blk_mq_tags {
 	unsigned int nr_tags;
 	unsigned int nr_reserved_tags;
-
-	atomic_t active_queues;
+	unsigned int active_queues;
 
 	struct sbitmap_queue bitmap_tags;
 	struct sbitmap_queue breserved_tags;