diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-smp.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-smp.c
index 5d8f2497017edb1755c75424c661fb912c453c3b..1e14899dbbf5df428fcf6f207404df091a505e11 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-smp.c
@@ -186,8 +186,6 @@ static void __init wakeup_secondary(void)
 		__raw_writel(virt_to_phys(omap5_secondary_startup),
 						base + OMAP_AUX_CORE_BOOT_1);
 
-	smp_wmb();
-
 	/*
 	 * Send a 'sev' to wake the secondary core from WFE.
 	 * Drain the outstanding writes to memory