diff --git a/arch/tile/mm/fault.c b/arch/tile/mm/fault.c
index a1da473c855592fed2a024ba5bfaf4831b0bf052..22e58f51ed23eedd405e9dc0b719eddb9550f502 100644
--- a/arch/tile/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/tile/mm/fault.c
@@ -342,9 +342,12 @@ static int handle_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
 	/*
 	 * If we're trying to touch user-space addresses, we must
 	 * be either at PL0, or else with interrupts enabled in the
-	 * kernel, so either way we can re-enable interrupts here.
+	 * kernel, so either way we can re-enable interrupts here
+	 * unless we are doing atomic access to user space with
+	 * interrupts disabled.
 	 */
-	local_irq_enable();
+	if (!(regs->flags & PT_FLAGS_DISABLE_IRQ))
+		local_irq_enable();
 
 	mm = tsk->mm;