From: Venkat Subbiah <venkat.subbiah@xxxxxxxxxx> This is to exclude it from force threading to allow RT patch set to work. And while on this line * Remove IRQF_DISABLED as as this flag is NOOP * Add IRQF_PERCPU as this is a per cpu interrupt. Signed-off-by: Venkat Subbiah <venkat.subbiah@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c index 8b60642..efcfff4 100644 --- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c +++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c @@ -207,8 +207,9 @@ void octeon_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus) * the other bits alone. */ cvmx_write_csr(CVMX_CIU_MBOX_CLRX(cvmx_get_core_num()), 0xffff); - if (request_irq(OCTEON_IRQ_MBOX0, mailbox_interrupt, IRQF_DISABLED, - "SMP-IPI", mailbox_interrupt)) { + if (request_irq(OCTEON_IRQ_MBOX0, mailbox_interrupt, + IRQF_PERCPU | IRQF_NO_THREAD, "SMP-IPI", + mailbox_interrupt)) { panic("Cannot request_irq(OCTEON_IRQ_MBOX0)\n"); } } -- 1.7.0.4