diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-cavium-octeon/cpu-feature-overrides.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-cavium-octeon/cpu-feature-overrides.h
index 3d830756b13a4cf7b11fd5f51cb1c116e01675e3..425e708d4fb9726f1d48b5d0fa293044f074566b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-cavium-octeon/cpu-feature-overrides.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-cavium-octeon/cpu-feature-overrides.h
@@ -31,12 +31,16 @@
 #define cpu_has_cache_cdex_s	0
 #define cpu_has_prefetch	1
 
+#define cpu_has_llsc		1
 /*
- * We should disable LL/SC on non SMP systems as it is faster to
- * disable interrupts for atomic access than a LL/SC.  Unfortunatly we
- * cannot as this breaks asm/futex.h
+ * We Disable LL/SC on non SMP systems as it is faster to disable
+ * interrupts for atomic access than a LL/SC.
  */
-#define cpu_has_llsc		1
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+# define kernel_uses_llsc	1
+#else
+# define kernel_uses_llsc	0
+#endif
 #define cpu_has_vtag_icache	1
 #define cpu_has_dc_aliases	0
 #define cpu_has_ic_fills_f_dc	0