diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index 621992de49eee6afc65ee69afd0e62dcdd589f25..fe30d1854a4e26f0181dca4be566ffa9568af197 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -1453,54 +1453,72 @@ static void lapic_setup_esr(void)
 			oldvalue, value);
 }
 
-static void apic_pending_intr_clear(void)
+#define APIC_IR_REGS		APIC_ISR_NR
+#define APIC_IR_BITS		(APIC_IR_REGS * 32)
+#define APIC_IR_MAPSIZE		(APIC_IR_BITS / BITS_PER_LONG)
+
+union apic_ir {
+	unsigned long	map[APIC_IR_MAPSIZE];
+	u32		regs[APIC_IR_REGS];
+};
+
+static bool apic_check_and_ack(union apic_ir *irr, union apic_ir *isr)
 {
-	long long max_loops = cpu_khz ? cpu_khz : 1000000;
-	unsigned long long tsc = 0, ntsc;
-	unsigned int queued;
-	unsigned long value;
-	int i, j, acked = 0;
+	int i, bit;
+
+	/* Read the IRRs */
+	for (i = 0; i < APIC_IR_REGS; i++)
+		irr->regs[i] = apic_read(APIC_IRR + i * 0x10);
+
+	/* Read the ISRs */
+	for (i = 0; i < APIC_IR_REGS; i++)
+		isr->regs[i] = apic_read(APIC_ISR + i * 0x10);
 
-	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC))
-		tsc = rdtsc();
 	/*
-	 * After a crash, we no longer service the interrupts and a pending
-	 * interrupt from previous kernel might still have ISR bit set.
-	 *
-	 * Most probably by now CPU has serviced that pending interrupt and
-	 * it might not have done the ack_APIC_irq() because it thought,
-	 * interrupt came from i8259 as ExtInt. LAPIC did not get EOI so it
-	 * does not clear the ISR bit and cpu thinks it has already serivced
-	 * the interrupt. Hence a vector might get locked. It was noticed
-	 * for timer irq (vector 0x31). Issue an extra EOI to clear ISR.
+	 * If the ISR map is not empty. ACK the APIC and run another round
+	 * to verify whether a pending IRR has been unblocked and turned
+	 * into a ISR.
 	 */
-	do {
-		queued = 0;
-		for (i = APIC_ISR_NR - 1; i >= 0; i--)
-			queued |= apic_read(APIC_IRR + i*0x10);
-
-		for (i = APIC_ISR_NR - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
-			value = apic_read(APIC_ISR + i*0x10);
-			for_each_set_bit(j, &value, 32) {
-				ack_APIC_irq();
-				acked++;
-			}
-		}
-		if (acked > 256) {
-			pr_err("LAPIC pending interrupts after %d EOI\n", acked);
-			break;
-		}
-		if (queued) {
-			if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC) && cpu_khz) {
-				ntsc = rdtsc();
-				max_loops = (long long)cpu_khz << 10;
-				max_loops -= ntsc - tsc;
-			} else {
-				max_loops--;
-			}
-		}
-	} while (queued && max_loops > 0);
-	WARN_ON(max_loops <= 0);
+	if (!bitmap_empty(isr->map, APIC_IR_BITS)) {
+		/*
+		 * There can be multiple ISR bits set when a high priority
+		 * interrupt preempted a lower priority one. Issue an ACK
+		 * per set bit.
+		 */
+		for_each_set_bit(bit, isr->map, APIC_IR_BITS)
+			ack_APIC_irq();
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	return !bitmap_empty(irr->map, APIC_IR_BITS);
+}
+
+/*
+ * After a crash, we no longer service the interrupts and a pending
+ * interrupt from previous kernel might still have ISR bit set.
+ *
+ * Most probably by now the CPU has serviced that pending interrupt and it
+ * might not have done the ack_APIC_irq() because it thought, interrupt
+ * came from i8259 as ExtInt. LAPIC did not get EOI so it does not clear
+ * the ISR bit and cpu thinks it has already serivced the interrupt. Hence
+ * a vector might get locked. It was noticed for timer irq (vector
+ * 0x31). Issue an extra EOI to clear ISR.
+ *
+ * If there are pending IRR bits they turn into ISR bits after a higher
+ * priority ISR bit has been acked.
+ */
+static void apic_pending_intr_clear(void)
+{
+	union apic_ir irr, isr;
+	unsigned int i;
+
+	/* 512 loops are way oversized and give the APIC a chance to obey. */
+	for (i = 0; i < 512; i++) {
+		if (!apic_check_and_ack(&irr, &isr))
+			return;
+	}
+	/* Dump the IRR/ISR content if that failed */
+	pr_warn("APIC: Stale IRR: %256pb ISR: %256pb\n", irr.map, isr.map);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1576,6 +1594,7 @@ static void setup_local_APIC(void)
 	value |= 0x10;
 	apic_write(APIC_TASKPRI, value);
 
+	/* Clear eventually stale ISR/IRR bits */
 	apic_pending_intr_clear();
 
 	/*