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diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/irq.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/irq.h
index 956db6e201d1..ddd1c918103b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/irq.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/irq.h
@@ -18,9 +18,24 @@
#include <irq.h>
#define IRQ_STACK_SIZE THREAD_SIZE
+#define IRQ_STACK_START (IRQ_STACK_SIZE - sizeof(unsigned long))
extern void *irq_stack[NR_CPUS];
+/*
+ * The highest address on the IRQ stack contains a dummy frame put down in
+ * genex.S (handle_int & except_vec_vi_handler) which is structured as follows:
+ *
+ * top ------------
+ * | task sp | <- irq_stack[cpu] + IRQ_STACK_START
+ * ------------
+ * | | <- First frame of IRQ context
+ * ------------
+ *
+ * task sp holds a copy of the task stack pointer where the struct pt_regs
+ * from exception entry can be found.
+ */
+
static inline bool on_irq_stack(int cpu, unsigned long sp)
{
unsigned long low = (unsigned long)irq_stack[cpu];