struct xfs_mount        *mp = XFS_M(sb);
        substring_t             args[MAX_OPT_ARGS];
        char                    *p;
+       int                     error;
 
        while ((p = strsep(&options, ",")) != NULL) {
                int token;
                }
        }
 
-       /* rw/ro -> rw */
+       /* ro -> rw */
        if ((mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY) && !(*flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
                mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY;
                if (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER)
                        xfs_mountfs_check_barriers(mp);
+
+               /*
+                * If this is the first remount to writeable state we
+                * might have some superblock changes to update.
+                */
+               if (mp->m_update_flags) {
+                       error = xfs_mount_log_sb(mp, mp->m_update_flags);
+                       if (error) {
+                               cmn_err(CE_WARN,
+                                       "XFS: failed to write sb changes");
+                               return error;
+                       }
+                       mp->m_update_flags = 0;
+               }
        }
 
        /* rw -> ro */
 
 #include "xfs_fsops.h"
 #include "xfs_utils.h"
 
-STATIC int     xfs_mount_log_sb(xfs_mount_t *, __int64_t);
 STATIC int     xfs_uuid_mount(xfs_mount_t *);
 STATIC void    xfs_unmountfs_wait(xfs_mount_t *);
 
  * Update alignment values based on mount options and sb values
  */
 STATIC int
-xfs_update_alignment(xfs_mount_t *mp, __uint64_t *update_flags)
+xfs_update_alignment(xfs_mount_t *mp)
 {
        xfs_sb_t        *sbp = &(mp->m_sb);
 
                if (xfs_sb_version_hasdalign(sbp)) {
                        if (sbp->sb_unit != mp->m_dalign) {
                                sbp->sb_unit = mp->m_dalign;
-                               *update_flags |= XFS_SB_UNIT;
+                               mp->m_update_flags |= XFS_SB_UNIT;
                        }
                        if (sbp->sb_width != mp->m_swidth) {
                                sbp->sb_width = mp->m_swidth;
-                               *update_flags |= XFS_SB_WIDTH;
+                               mp->m_update_flags |= XFS_SB_WIDTH;
                        }
                }
        } else if ((mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_NOALIGN) != XFS_MOUNT_NOALIGN &&
        xfs_sb_t        *sbp = &(mp->m_sb);
        xfs_inode_t     *rip;
        __uint64_t      resblks;
-       __int64_t       update_flags = 0LL;
        uint            quotamount, quotaflags;
        int             uuid_mounted = 0;
        int             error = 0;
                        "XFS: correcting sb_features alignment problem");
                sbp->sb_features2 |= sbp->sb_bad_features2;
                sbp->sb_bad_features2 = sbp->sb_features2;
-               update_flags |= XFS_SB_FEATURES2 | XFS_SB_BAD_FEATURES2;
+               mp->m_update_flags |= XFS_SB_FEATURES2 | XFS_SB_BAD_FEATURES2;
 
                /*
                 * Re-check for ATTR2 in case it was found in bad_features2
        if (xfs_sb_version_hasattr2(&mp->m_sb) &&
           (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_NOATTR2)) {
                xfs_sb_version_removeattr2(&mp->m_sb);
-               update_flags |= XFS_SB_FEATURES2;
+               mp->m_update_flags |= XFS_SB_FEATURES2;
 
                /* update sb_versionnum for the clearing of the morebits */
                if (!sbp->sb_features2)
-                       update_flags |= XFS_SB_VERSIONNUM;
+                       mp->m_update_flags |= XFS_SB_VERSIONNUM;
        }
 
        /*
         * allocator alignment is within an ag, therefore ag has
         * to be aligned at stripe boundary.
         */
-       error = xfs_update_alignment(mp, &update_flags);
+       error = xfs_update_alignment(mp);
        if (error)
                goto error1;
 
        }
 
        /*
-        * If fs is not mounted readonly, then update the superblock changes.
+        * If this is a read-only mount defer the superblock updates until
+        * the next remount into writeable mode.  Otherwise we would never
+        * perform the update e.g. for the root filesystem.
         */
-       if (update_flags && !(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY)) {
-               error = xfs_mount_log_sb(mp, update_flags);
+       if (mp->m_update_flags && !(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY)) {
+               error = xfs_mount_log_sb(mp, mp->m_update_flags);
                if (error) {
                        cmn_err(CE_WARN, "XFS: failed to write sb changes");
                        goto error4;
  * be altered by the mount options, as well as any potential sb_features2
  * fixup. Only the first superblock is updated.
  */
-STATIC int
+int
 xfs_mount_log_sb(
        xfs_mount_t     *mp,
        __int64_t       fields)
 
        spinlock_t              m_sync_lock;    /* work item list lock */
        int                     m_sync_seq;     /* sync thread generation no. */
        wait_queue_head_t       m_wait_single_sync_task;
+       __int64_t               m_update_flags; /* sb flags we need to update
+                                                  on the next remount,rw */
 } xfs_mount_t;
 
 /*
                        int64_t, int);
 extern int     xfs_mod_incore_sb_batch(xfs_mount_t *, xfs_mod_sb_t *,
                        uint, int);
+extern int     xfs_mount_log_sb(xfs_mount_t *, __int64_t);
 extern struct xfs_buf *xfs_getsb(xfs_mount_t *, int);
 extern int     xfs_readsb(xfs_mount_t *, int);
 extern void    xfs_freesb(xfs_mount_t *);