diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index fd574b015d78..f28e41f9ac4a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -8577,14 +8577,15 @@ static int is_mddev_idle(struct mddev *mddev, int init)
 {
 	struct md_rdev *rdev;
 	int idle;
-	int curr_events;
+	long long curr_events;
 
 	idle = 1;
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev, mddev) {
 		struct gendisk *disk = rdev->bdev->bd_disk;
-		curr_events = (int)part_stat_read_accum(disk->part0, sectors) -
-			      atomic_read(&disk->sync_io);
+		curr_events =
+			(long long)part_stat_read_accum(disk->part0, sectors) -
+			atomic64_read(&disk->sync_io);
 		/* sync IO will cause sync_io to increase before the disk_stats
 		 * as sync_io is counted when a request starts, and
 		 * disk_stats is counted when it completes.
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 097d9dbd69b8..d0db98c0d33b 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ struct md_rdev {
 
 	sector_t sectors;		/* Device size (in 512bytes sectors) */
 	struct mddev *mddev;		/* RAID array if running */
-	int last_events;		/* IO event timestamp */
+	long long last_events;		/* IO event timestamp */
 
 	/*
 	 * If meta_bdev is non-NULL, it means that a separate device is
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ extern void mddev_unlock(struct mddev *mddev);
 
 static inline void md_sync_acct(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned long nr_sectors)
 {
-	atomic_add(nr_sectors, &bdev->bd_disk->sync_io);
+	atomic64_add(nr_sectors, &bdev->bd_disk->sync_io);
 }
 
 static inline void md_sync_acct_bio(struct bio *bio, unsigned long nr_sectors)
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index c3e8f7cf96be..d0fa4f1c29a2 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ struct gendisk {
 	struct list_head slave_bdevs;
 #endif
 	struct timer_rand_state *random;
-	atomic_t sync_io;		/* RAID */
+	atomic64_t sync_io;		/* RAID */
 	struct disk_events *ev;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED