1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 66d250c00d11..58f78165d308 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -291,19 +291,6 @@ notrace static void __cpuinit start_secondary(void *unused)
         per_cpu(cpu_state, smp_processor_id()) = CPU_ONLINE;
         x86_platform.nmi_init();
 
-        /*
-         * Wait until the cpu which brought this one up marked it
-         * online before enabling interrupts. If we don't do that then
-         * we can end up waking up the softirq thread before this cpu
-         * reached the active state, which makes the scheduler unhappy
-         * and schedule the softirq thread on the wrong cpu. This is
-         * only observable with forced threaded interrupts, but in
-         * theory it could also happen w/o them. It's just way harder
-         * to achieve.
-         */
-        while (!cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), cpu_active_mask))
-                cpu_relax();
-
         /* enable local interrupts */
         local_irq_enable();