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diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index f7b01b9a35b..5323f627585 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -241,6 +241,16 @@ static inline void __deprecated save_and_cli(unsigned long *x)
#define save_and_cli(x) save_and_cli(&x)
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
+/* Some architectures might implement lazy enabling/disabling of
+ * interrupts. In some cases, such as stop_machine, we might want
+ * to ensure that after a local_irq_disable(), interrupts have
+ * really been disabled in hardware. Such architectures need to
+ * implement the following hook.
+ */
+#ifndef hard_irq_disable
+#define hard_irq_disable() do { } while(0)
+#endif
+
/* PLEASE, avoid to allocate new softirqs, if you need not _really_ high
frequency threaded job scheduling. For almost all the purposes
tasklets are more than enough. F.e. all serial device BHs et