diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/snps,archs-idu-intc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/snps,archs-idu-intc.txt
index 0dcb7c7d3e40b..944657684d73c 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/snps,archs-idu-intc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/snps,archs-idu-intc.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Properties:
   Second cell specifies the irq distribution mode to cores
      0=Round Robin; 1=cpu0, 2=cpu1, 4=cpu2, 8=cpu3
 
+  The second cell in interrupts property is deprecated and may be ignored by
+  the kernel.
+
   intc accessed via the special ARC AUX register interface, hence "reg" property
   is not specified.
 
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/mcip.c b/arch/arc/kernel/mcip.c
index 9274f8ade8c7c..9988b427a1e07 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/mcip.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/mcip.c
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ static void idu_irq_unmask(struct irq_data *data)
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mcip_lock, flags);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 static int
 idu_irq_set_affinity(struct irq_data *data, const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 		     bool force)
@@ -205,12 +204,27 @@ idu_irq_set_affinity(struct irq_data *data, const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 
 	return IRQ_SET_MASK_OK;
 }
-#endif
+
+static void idu_irq_enable(struct irq_data *data)
+{
+	/*
+	 * By default send all common interrupts to all available online CPUs.
+	 * The affinity of common interrupts in IDU must be set manually since
+	 * in some cases the kernel will not call irq_set_affinity() by itself:
+	 *   1. When the kernel is not configured with support of SMP.
+	 *   2. When the kernel is configured with support of SMP but upper
+	 *      interrupt controllers does not support setting of the affinity
+	 *      and cannot propagate it to IDU.
+	 */
+	idu_irq_set_affinity(data, cpu_online_mask, false);
+	idu_irq_unmask(data);
+}
 
 static struct irq_chip idu_irq_chip = {
 	.name			= "MCIP IDU Intc",
 	.irq_mask		= idu_irq_mask,
 	.irq_unmask		= idu_irq_unmask,
+	.irq_enable		= idu_irq_enable,
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	.irq_set_affinity       = idu_irq_set_affinity,
 #endif
@@ -243,36 +257,14 @@ static int idu_irq_xlate(struct irq_domain *d, struct device_node *n,
 			 const u32 *intspec, unsigned int intsize,
 			 irq_hw_number_t *out_hwirq, unsigned int *out_type)
 {
-	irq_hw_number_t hwirq = *out_hwirq = intspec[0];
-	int distri = intspec[1];
-	unsigned long flags;
-
+	/*
+	 * Ignore value of interrupt distribution mode for common interrupts in
+	 * IDU which resides in intspec[1] since setting an affinity using value
+	 * from Device Tree is deprecated in ARC.
+	 */
+	*out_hwirq = intspec[0];
 	*out_type = IRQ_TYPE_NONE;
 
-	/* XXX: validate distribution scheme again online cpu mask */
-	if (distri == 0) {
-		/* 0 - Round Robin to all cpus, otherwise 1 bit per core */
-		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&mcip_lock, flags);
-		idu_set_dest(hwirq, BIT(num_online_cpus()) - 1);
-		idu_set_mode(hwirq, IDU_M_TRIG_LEVEL, IDU_M_DISTRI_RR);
-		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mcip_lock, flags);
-	} else {
-		/*
-		 * DEST based distribution for Level Triggered intr can only
-		 * have 1 CPU, so generalize it to always contain 1 cpu
-		 */
-		int cpu = ffs(distri);
-
-		if (cpu != fls(distri))
-			pr_warn("IDU irq %lx distri mode set to cpu %x\n",
-				hwirq, cpu);
-
-		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&mcip_lock, flags);
-		idu_set_dest(hwirq, cpu);
-		idu_set_mode(hwirq, IDU_M_TRIG_LEVEL, IDU_M_DISTRI_DEST);
-		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mcip_lock, flags);
-	}
-
 	return 0;
 }