diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c b/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c
index c14a5bea0c76792ead17b42e1f548e38960cc194..5d446df2c41353a15edfc5a5f7b05abd24b16df3 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c
@@ -58,8 +58,6 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_task, struct task_struct *next_task)
 		"st      sp, [r24]       \n\t"
 #endif
 
-		"sync   \n\t"
-
 		/*
 		 * setup _current_task with incoming tsk.
 		 * optionally, set r25 to that as well
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw_asm.S b/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw_asm.S
index e248594097e7d69c66b2f46044dbfe4782008bd0..e6890b1f8650647774b48678c88e805f6b16de3a 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw_asm.S
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw_asm.S
@@ -44,9 +44,6 @@ __switch_to:
 	* don't need to do anything special to return it
 	*/
 
-	/* hardware memory barrier */
-	sync
-
 	/*
 	 * switch to new task, contained in r1
 	 * Temp reg r3 is required to get the ptr to store val