diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index ce88755baf4..115a6dd8583 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -8157,30 +8157,23 @@ static int md_notify_reboot(struct notifier_block *this,
 	struct mddev *mddev;
 	int need_delay = 0;
 
-	if ((code == SYS_DOWN) || (code == SYS_HALT) || (code == SYS_POWER_OFF)) {
-
-		printk(KERN_INFO "md: stopping all md devices.\n");
-
-		for_each_mddev(mddev, tmp) {
-			if (mddev_trylock(mddev)) {
-				/* Force a switch to readonly even array
-				 * appears to still be in use.  Hence
-				 * the '100'.
-				 */
-				md_set_readonly(mddev, 100);
-				mddev_unlock(mddev);
-			}
-			need_delay = 1;
+	for_each_mddev(mddev, tmp) {
+		if (mddev_trylock(mddev)) {
+			__md_stop_writes(mddev);
+			mddev->safemode = 2;
+			mddev_unlock(mddev);
 		}
-		/*
-		 * certain more exotic SCSI devices are known to be
-		 * volatile wrt too early system reboots. While the
-		 * right place to handle this issue is the given
-		 * driver, we do want to have a safe RAID driver ...
-		 */
-		if (need_delay)
-			mdelay(1000*1);
+		need_delay = 1;
 	}
+	/*
+	 * certain more exotic SCSI devices are known to be
+	 * volatile wrt too early system reboots. While the
+	 * right place to handle this issue is the given
+	 * driver, we do want to have a safe RAID driver ...
+	 */
+	if (need_delay)
+		mdelay(1000*1);
+
 	return NOTIFY_DONE;
 }