diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c
index cb16fcc5f8f05228c3cf94a1593800749f6534fa..5537f95b28c9be169ffd42a42094eaeae68ce064 100644
--- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c
+++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c
@@ -267,6 +267,17 @@ static void octeon_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	default_machine_crash_shutdown(regs);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+void octeon_crash_smp_send_stop(void)
+{
+	int cpu;
+
+	/* disable watchdogs */
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+		cvmx_write_csr(CVMX_CIU_WDOGX(cpu_logical_map(cpu)), 0);
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CAVIUM_RESERVE32
@@ -911,6 +922,9 @@ void __init prom_init(void)
 	_machine_kexec_shutdown = octeon_shutdown;
 	_machine_crash_shutdown = octeon_crash_shutdown;
 	_machine_kexec_prepare = octeon_kexec_prepare;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+	_crash_smp_send_stop = octeon_crash_smp_send_stop;
+#endif
 #endif
 
 	octeon_user_io_init();
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/kexec.h
index ee25ebbf2a28809c73f68311c24284c53fe87907..493a3cc7c39ad5a412d6d460061b740260dfff9c 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/kexec.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/kexec.h
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ extern const unsigned char kexec_smp_wait[];
 extern unsigned long secondary_kexec_args[4];
 extern void (*relocated_kexec_smp_wait) (void *);
 extern atomic_t kexec_ready_to_reboot;
+extern void (*_crash_smp_send_stop)(void);
 #endif
 #endif
 
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/crash.c b/arch/mips/kernel/crash.c
index 610f0f3bdb3455cfa42629e98f8cc883524fe8ba..1723b17622976da35170caba062fe956a0fcd245 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/crash.c
@@ -47,9 +47,14 @@ static void crash_shutdown_secondary(void *passed_regs)
 
 static void crash_kexec_prepare_cpus(void)
 {
+	static int cpus_stopped;
 	unsigned int msecs;
+	unsigned int ncpus;
 
-	unsigned int ncpus = num_online_cpus() - 1;/* Excluding the panic cpu */
+	if (cpus_stopped)
+		return;
+
+	ncpus = num_online_cpus() - 1;/* Excluding the panic cpu */
 
 	dump_send_ipi(crash_shutdown_secondary);
 	smp_wmb();
@@ -64,6 +69,17 @@ static void crash_kexec_prepare_cpus(void)
 		cpu_relax();
 		mdelay(1);
 	}
+
+	cpus_stopped = 1;
+}
+
+/* Override the weak function in kernel/panic.c */
+void crash_smp_send_stop(void)
+{
+	if (_crash_smp_send_stop)
+		_crash_smp_send_stop();
+
+	crash_kexec_prepare_cpus();
 }
 
 #else /* !defined(CONFIG_SMP)  */
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/mips/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 50980bf3983ef3654d4f24c1dbf95e4576d0c3a8..59725204105c2b50aa476e1d0e5cb2e61d73cb7c 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ void (*_machine_crash_shutdown)(struct pt_regs *regs) = NULL;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 void (*relocated_kexec_smp_wait) (void *);
 atomic_t kexec_ready_to_reboot = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+void (*_crash_smp_send_stop)(void) = NULL;
 #endif
 
 int