diff --git a/include/linux/irqdesc.h b/include/linux/irqdesc.h
index 26e2661d3935..472c021a2d4f 100644
--- a/include/linux/irqdesc.h
+++ b/include/linux/irqdesc.h
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ struct irq_desc;
  * @irq_count:		stats field to detect stalled irqs
  * @last_unhandled:	aging timer for unhandled count
  * @irqs_unhandled:	stats field for spurious unhandled interrupts
+ * @threads_handled:	stats field for deferred spurious detection of threaded handlers
+ * @threads_handled_last: comparator field for deferred spurious detection of theraded handlers
  * @lock:		locking for SMP
  * @affinity_hint:	hint to user space for preferred irq affinity
  * @affinity_notify:	context for notification of affinity changes
@@ -52,6 +54,8 @@ struct irq_desc {
 	unsigned int		irq_count;	/* For detecting broken IRQs */
 	unsigned long		last_unhandled;	/* Aging timer for unhandled count */
 	unsigned int		irqs_unhandled;
+	atomic_t		threads_handled;
+	int			threads_handled_last;
 	raw_spinlock_t		lock;
 	struct cpumask		*percpu_enabled;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index d34131ca372b..3dc6a61bf06a 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -886,8 +886,8 @@ static int irq_thread(void *data)
 		irq_thread_check_affinity(desc, action);
 
 		action_ret = handler_fn(desc, action);
-		if (!noirqdebug)
-			note_interrupt(action->irq, desc, action_ret);
+		if (action_ret == IRQ_HANDLED)
+			atomic_inc(&desc->threads_handled);
 
 		wake_threads_waitq(desc);
 	}
diff --git a/kernel/irq/spurious.c b/kernel/irq/spurious.c
index a1d8cc63b56e..e2514b0e439e 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/spurious.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/spurious.c
@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ try_misrouted_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc,
 	return action && (action->flags & IRQF_IRQPOLL);
 }
 
+#define SPURIOUS_DEFERRED	0x80000000
+
 void note_interrupt(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc,
 		    irqreturn_t action_ret)
 {
@@ -277,15 +279,111 @@ void note_interrupt(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc,
 	    irq_settings_is_polled(desc))
 		return;
 
-	/* we get here again via the threaded handler */
-	if (action_ret == IRQ_WAKE_THREAD)
-		return;
-
 	if (bad_action_ret(action_ret)) {
 		report_bad_irq(irq, desc, action_ret);
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * We cannot call note_interrupt from the threaded handler
+	 * because we need to look at the compound of all handlers
+	 * (primary and threaded). Aside of that in the threaded
+	 * shared case we have no serialization against an incoming
+	 * hardware interrupt while we are dealing with a threaded
+	 * result.
+	 *
+	 * So in case a thread is woken, we just note the fact and
+	 * defer the analysis to the next hardware interrupt.
+	 *
+	 * The threaded handlers store whether they sucessfully
+	 * handled an interrupt and we check whether that number
+	 * changed versus the last invocation.
+	 *
+	 * We could handle all interrupts with the delayed by one
+	 * mechanism, but for the non forced threaded case we'd just
+	 * add pointless overhead to the straight hardirq interrupts
+	 * for the sake of a few lines less code.
+	 */
+	if (action_ret & IRQ_WAKE_THREAD) {
+		/*
+		 * There is a thread woken. Check whether one of the
+		 * shared primary handlers returned IRQ_HANDLED. If
+		 * not we defer the spurious detection to the next
+		 * interrupt.
+		 */
+		if (action_ret == IRQ_WAKE_THREAD) {
+			int handled;
+			/*
+			 * We use bit 31 of thread_handled_last to
+			 * denote the deferred spurious detection
+			 * active. No locking necessary as
+			 * thread_handled_last is only accessed here
+			 * and we have the guarantee that hard
+			 * interrupts are not reentrant.
+			 */
+			if (!(desc->threads_handled_last & SPURIOUS_DEFERRED)) {
+				desc->threads_handled_last |= SPURIOUS_DEFERRED;
+				return;
+			}
+			/*
+			 * Check whether one of the threaded handlers
+			 * returned IRQ_HANDLED since the last
+			 * interrupt happened.
+			 *
+			 * For simplicity we just set bit 31, as it is
+			 * set in threads_handled_last as well. So we
+			 * avoid extra masking. And we really do not
+			 * care about the high bits of the handled
+			 * count. We just care about the count being
+			 * different than the one we saw before.
+			 */
+			handled = atomic_read(&desc->threads_handled);
+			handled |= SPURIOUS_DEFERRED;
+			if (handled != desc->threads_handled_last) {
+				action_ret = IRQ_HANDLED;
+				/*
+				 * Note: We keep the SPURIOUS_DEFERRED
+				 * bit set. We are handling the
+				 * previous invocation right now.
+				 * Keep it for the current one, so the
+				 * next hardware interrupt will
+				 * account for it.
+				 */
+				desc->threads_handled_last = handled;
+			} else {
+				/*
+				 * None of the threaded handlers felt
+				 * responsible for the last interrupt
+				 *
+				 * We keep the SPURIOUS_DEFERRED bit
+				 * set in threads_handled_last as we
+				 * need to account for the current
+				 * interrupt as well.
+				 */
+				action_ret = IRQ_NONE;
+			}
+		} else {
+			/*
+			 * One of the primary handlers returned
+			 * IRQ_HANDLED. So we don't care about the
+			 * threaded handlers on the same line. Clear
+			 * the deferred detection bit.
+			 *
+			 * In theory we could/should check whether the
+			 * deferred bit is set and take the result of
+			 * the previous run into account here as
+			 * well. But it's really not worth the
+			 * trouble. If every other interrupt is
+			 * handled we never trigger the spurious
+			 * detector. And if this is just the one out
+			 * of 100k unhandled ones which is handled
+			 * then we merily delay the spurious detection
+			 * by one hard interrupt. Not a real problem.
+			 */
+			desc->threads_handled_last &= ~SPURIOUS_DEFERRED;
+		}
+	}
+
 	if (unlikely(action_ret == IRQ_NONE)) {
 		/*
 		 * If we are seeing only the odd spurious IRQ caused by