diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index cdeb5277dfd4..6190449e54e3 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ struct kobject *block_depr;
 /* for extended dynamic devt allocation, currently only one major is used */
 #define NR_EXT_DEVT		(1 << MINORBITS)
 
-/* For extended devt allocation.  ext_devt_mutex prevents look up
+/* For extended devt allocation.  ext_devt_lock prevents look up
  * results from going away underneath its user.
  */
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(ext_devt_mutex);
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ext_devt_lock);
 static DEFINE_IDR(ext_devt_idr);
 
 static struct device_type disk_type;
@@ -420,9 +420,13 @@ int blk_alloc_devt(struct hd_struct *part, dev_t *devt)
 	}
 
 	/* allocate ext devt */
-	mutex_lock(&ext_devt_mutex);
-	idx = idr_alloc(&ext_devt_idr, part, 0, NR_EXT_DEVT, GFP_KERNEL);
-	mutex_unlock(&ext_devt_mutex);
+	idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	spin_lock(&ext_devt_lock);
+	idx = idr_alloc(&ext_devt_idr, part, 0, NR_EXT_DEVT, GFP_NOWAIT);
+	spin_unlock(&ext_devt_lock);
+
+	idr_preload_end();
 	if (idx < 0)
 		return idx == -ENOSPC ? -EBUSY : idx;
 
@@ -447,9 +451,9 @@ void blk_free_devt(dev_t devt)
 		return;
 
 	if (MAJOR(devt) == BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR) {
-		mutex_lock(&ext_devt_mutex);
+		spin_lock(&ext_devt_lock);
 		idr_remove(&ext_devt_idr, blk_mangle_minor(MINOR(devt)));
-		mutex_unlock(&ext_devt_mutex);
+		spin_unlock(&ext_devt_lock);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -665,7 +669,6 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 		sysfs_remove_link(block_depr, dev_name(disk_to_dev(disk)));
 	pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(disk_to_dev(disk), false);
 	device_del(disk_to_dev(disk));
-	blk_free_devt(disk_to_dev(disk)->devt);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(del_gendisk);
 
@@ -690,13 +693,13 @@ struct gendisk *get_gendisk(dev_t devt, int *partno)
 	} else {
 		struct hd_struct *part;
 
-		mutex_lock(&ext_devt_mutex);
+		spin_lock(&ext_devt_lock);
 		part = idr_find(&ext_devt_idr, blk_mangle_minor(MINOR(devt)));
 		if (part && get_disk(part_to_disk(part))) {
 			*partno = part->partno;
 			disk = part_to_disk(part);
 		}
-		mutex_unlock(&ext_devt_mutex);
+		spin_unlock(&ext_devt_lock);
 	}
 
 	return disk;
@@ -1098,6 +1101,7 @@ static void disk_release(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct gendisk *disk = dev_to_disk(dev);
 
+	blk_free_devt(dev->devt);
 	disk_release_events(disk);
 	kfree(disk->random);
 	disk_replace_part_tbl(disk, NULL);
diff --git a/block/partition-generic.c b/block/partition-generic.c
index 789cdea05893..0d9e5f97f0a8 100644
--- a/block/partition-generic.c
+++ b/block/partition-generic.c
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ static const struct attribute_group *part_attr_groups[] = {
 static void part_release(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct hd_struct *p = dev_to_part(dev);
+	blk_free_devt(dev->devt);
 	free_part_stats(p);
 	free_part_info(p);
 	kfree(p);
@@ -253,7 +254,6 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno)
 	rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->last_lookup, NULL);
 	kobject_put(part->holder_dir);
 	device_del(part_to_dev(part));
-	blk_free_devt(part_devt(part));
 
 	hd_struct_put(part);
 }