--- zzzz-none-000/linux-2.6.39.4/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c	2011-08-03 19:43:28.000000000 +0000
+++ puma6-arm-6490-729/linux-2.6.39.4/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c	2021-11-10 13:23:10.000000000 +0000
@@ -285,19 +285,6 @@
 	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();