diff --git a/arch/parisc/Kconfig b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
index 531da9eb8f43..dda1f558ef35 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ config PARISC
 	  and later HP3000 series).  The PA-RISC Linux project home page is
 	  at <http://www.parisc-linux.org/>.
 
+config CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
+	def_bool y
+
 config MMU
 	def_bool y
 
diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 88fe0aad4390..bc208136bbb2 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct thread_info {
 
 /* thread information allocation */
 
-#define THREAD_SIZE_ORDER	2 /* PA-RISC requires at least 16k stack */
+#define THREAD_SIZE_ORDER	3 /* PA-RISC requires at least 32k stack */
 /* Be sure to hunt all references to this down when you change the size of
  * the kernel stack */
 #define THREAD_SIZE             (PAGE_SIZE << THREAD_SIZE_ORDER)
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
index 85a92db70afc..19c0c141bc3f 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
@@ -587,13 +587,12 @@ void flush_cache_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (parisc_requires_coherency())
 		flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end);
 
-	if ((end - start) >= parisc_cache_flush_threshold) {
+	if ((end - start) >= parisc_cache_flush_threshold
+	    || vma->vm_mm->context != mfsp(3)) {
 		flush_cache_all();
 		return;
 	}
 
-	BUG_ON(vma->vm_mm->context != mfsp(3));
-
 	flush_user_dcache_range_asm(start, end);
 	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_EXEC)
 		flush_user_icache_range_asm(start, end);
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
index 5404e4086cb9..0ca254085a66 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static inline int eirr_to_irq(unsigned long eirr)
 /*
  * IRQ STACK - used for irq handler
  */
-#define IRQ_STACK_SIZE      (4096 << 2) /* 16k irq stack size */
+#define IRQ_STACK_SIZE      (4096 << 3) /* 32k irq stack size */
 
 union irq_stack_union {
 	unsigned long stack[IRQ_STACK_SIZE/sizeof(unsigned long)];
diff --git a/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c b/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c
index 7147aa53e9a2..b1ff46fe4547 100644
--- a/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c
+++ b/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c
@@ -333,11 +333,11 @@ pdcspath_hwpath_write(struct pdcspath_entry *entry, const char *buf, size_t coun
 	
 	/* Update the symlink to the real device */
 	sysfs_remove_link(&entry->kobj, "device");
+	write_unlock(&entry->rw_lock);
+
 	ret = sysfs_create_link(&entry->kobj, &entry->dev->kobj, "device");
 	WARN_ON(ret);
 
-	write_unlock(&entry->rw_lock);
-	
 	printk(KERN_INFO PDCS_PREFIX ": changed \"%s\" path to \"%s\"\n",
 		entry->name, buf);
 	
@@ -998,6 +998,7 @@ pdcs_register_pathentries(void)
 		/* kobject is now registered */
 		write_lock(&entry->rw_lock);
 		entry->ready = 2;
+		write_unlock(&entry->rw_lock);
 		
 		/* Add a nice symlink to the real device */
 		if (entry->dev) {
@@ -1005,7 +1006,6 @@ pdcs_register_pathentries(void)
 			WARN_ON(err);
 		}
 
-		write_unlock(&entry->rw_lock);
 		kobject_uevent(&entry->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 	}