diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index be8b157f2be5..424503ee4e26 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 876a6682aac9b22cf24e0a3a7fea648fd64e112b
+refs/heads/master: a99bbccd8738c0d8df270391284db2fae28d8a82
diff --git a/trunk/arch/blackfin/mach-common/ints-priority-dc.c b/trunk/arch/blackfin/mach-common/ints-priority-dc.c
index 2db3546fc874..c2f05fabedc1 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/blackfin/mach-common/ints-priority-dc.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/blackfin/mach-common/ints-priority-dc.c
@@ -52,7 +52,13 @@
  * -
  */
 
-unsigned long irq_flags = 0;
+/* Initialize this to an actual value to force it into the .data
+ * section so that we know it is properly initialized at entry into
+ * the kernel but before bss is initialized to zero (which is where
+ * it would live otherwise).  The 0x1f magic represents the IRQs we
+ * cannot actually mask out in hardware.
+ */
+unsigned long irq_flags = 0x1f;
 
 /* The number of spurious interrupts */
 atomic_t num_spurious;
diff --git a/trunk/arch/blackfin/mach-common/ints-priority-sc.c b/trunk/arch/blackfin/mach-common/ints-priority-sc.c
index e06fe96b6fc3..7da5a0a134cc 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/blackfin/mach-common/ints-priority-sc.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/blackfin/mach-common/ints-priority-sc.c
@@ -58,7 +58,13 @@
  * -
  */
 
-unsigned long irq_flags = 0;
+/* Initialize this to an actual value to force it into the .data
+ * section so that we know it is properly initialized at entry into
+ * the kernel but before bss is initialized to zero (which is where
+ * it would live otherwise).  The 0x1f magic represents the IRQs we
+ * cannot actually mask out in hardware.
+ */
+unsigned long irq_flags = 0x1f;
 
 /* The number of spurious interrupts */
 atomic_t num_spurious;