diff --git a/arch/parisc/Kconfig b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
index 0339181bf3ac3d377db760ef93a7e74933288eee..0821e702d03f6fd1fa5c60a277c1fa44aa0decc7 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ config PARISC
 	select GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
 	select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
 	select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
+	select GENERIC_IDLE_LOOP
 	select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER
 	select SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
 	select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c
index d13507246c5d84c7ae1dcf9ef4fc7e789365e120..55f92b614182873014c170b2202c40f8e7a10f9a 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c
@@ -59,28 +59,6 @@
 #include <asm/unwind.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 
-/*
- * The idle thread. There's no useful work to be
- * done, so just try to conserve power and have a
- * low exit latency (ie sit in a loop waiting for
- * somebody to say that they'd like to reschedule)
- */
-void cpu_idle(void)
-{
-	set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
-
-	/* endless idle loop with no priority at all */
-	while (1) {
-		rcu_idle_enter();
-		while (!need_resched())
-			barrier();
-		rcu_idle_exit();
-		schedule_preempt_disabled();
-		check_pgt_cache();
-	}
-}
-
-
 #define COMMAND_GLOBAL  F_EXTEND(0xfffe0030)
 #define CMD_RESET       5       /* reset any module */
 
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/smp.c
index 6266730efd615552f71a9e9409932c2298001167..fd1bb1519c2b114be60f3d75089b7d81f29adbd7 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ void __init smp_callin(void)
 
 	local_irq_enable();  /* Interrupts have been off until now */
 
-	cpu_idle();      /* Wait for timer to schedule some work */
+	cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_ONLINE);
 
 	/* NOTREACHED */
 	panic("smp_callin() AAAAaaaaahhhh....\n");