diff --git a/include/linux/irq.h b/include/linux/irq.h
index 553fb66da130..216b0ba109d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/irq.h
+++ b/include/linux/irq.h
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ enum {
 	IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND		= (1 <<  2),
 	IRQCHIP_ONOFFLINE_ENABLED	= (1 <<  3),
 	IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE		= (1 <<  4),
+	IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE		= (1 <<  5),
 };
 
 /* This include will go away once we isolated irq_desc usage to core code */
diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 0a8e8f059627..4c69326aa773 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -943,6 +943,18 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *new)
 		goto out_thread;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Drivers are often written to work w/o knowledge about the
+	 * underlying irq chip implementation, so a request for a
+	 * threaded irq without a primary hard irq context handler
+	 * requires the ONESHOT flag to be set. Some irq chips like
+	 * MSI based interrupts are per se one shot safe. Check the
+	 * chip flags, so we can avoid the unmask dance at the end of
+	 * the threaded handler for those.
+	 */
+	if (desc->irq_data.chip->flags & IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE)
+		new->flags &= ~IRQF_ONESHOT;
+
 	/*
 	 * The following block of code has to be executed atomically
 	 */
@@ -1017,7 +1029,8 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *new)
 		 */
 		new->thread_mask = 1 << ffz(thread_mask);
 
-	} else if (new->handler == irq_default_primary_handler) {
+	} else if (new->handler == irq_default_primary_handler &&
+		   !(desc->irq_data.chip->flags & IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE)) {
 		/*
 		 * The interrupt was requested with handler = NULL, so
 		 * we use the default primary handler for it. But it