1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ppc64/kernel/iSeries_setup.c b/arch/ppc64/kernel/iSeries_setup.c
index 86966ce76b58..2049b6dbafc7 100644
--- a/arch/ppc64/kernel/iSeries_setup.c
+++ b/arch/ppc64/kernel/iSeries_setup.c
@@ -855,17 +855,15 @@ late_initcall(iSeries_src_init);
 
 static int set_spread_lpevents(char *str)
 {
-        unsigned long i;
         unsigned long val = simple_strtoul(str, NULL, 0);
+        extern unsigned long spread_lpevents;
 
         /*
          * The parameter is the number of processors to share in processing
          * lp events.
          */
         if (( val > 0) && (val <= NR_CPUS)) {
-                for (i = 1; i < val; ++i)
-                        paca[i].lpqueue_ptr = paca[0].lpqueue_ptr;
-
+                spread_lpevents = val;
                 printk("lpevent processing spread over %ld processors\n", val);
         } else {
                 printk("invalid spread_lpevents %ld\n", val);