diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
index 44b05e1d5d32..a2a5a0fd9233 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
@@ -968,9 +968,17 @@ xfs_mountfs(
 	/*
 	 * Finish recovering the file system.  This part needed to be delayed
 	 * until after the root and real-time bitmap inodes were consistently
-	 * read in.
+	 * read in.  Temporarily create per-AG space reservations for metadata
+	 * btree shape changes because space freeing transactions (for inode
+	 * inactivation) require the per-AG reservation in lieu of reserving
+	 * blocks.
 	 */
+	error = xfs_fs_reserve_ag_blocks(mp);
+	if (error && error == -ENOSPC)
+		xfs_warn(mp,
+	"ENOSPC reserving per-AG metadata pool, log recovery may fail.");
 	error = xfs_log_mount_finish(mp);
+	xfs_fs_unreserve_ag_blocks(mp);
 	if (error) {
 		xfs_warn(mp, "log mount finish failed");
 		goto out_rtunmount;