From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>:

* do_timer() expects the arch-specific handler to take the lock as it
  modifies jiffies[_64] and xtime.
* writing timerhi/lo in timer_interrupt() will mess up
  fixed_rate_gettimeoffset() which reads timerhi/lo.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>