diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c b/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c
index df4d3f2..dc9eb72 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
 /*
  * FPU Use Factor empirically derived from experiments on 34K
  */
-#define FPUSEFACTOR 333
+#define FPUSEFACTOR 2000
 
 static __init int mt_fp_affinity_init(void)
 {
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
index ce76843..22fc19b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 	while (1) {
 		tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1);
 		while (!need_resched()) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMTC_IDLE_HOOK_DEBUG
+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_MT_SMTC
 			extern void smtc_idle_loop_hook(void);
 
 			smtc_idle_loop_hook();
@@ -145,19 +145,18 @@
 	 */
 	p->thread.cp0_status = read_c0_status() & ~(ST0_CU2|ST0_CU1);
 	childregs->cp0_status &= ~(ST0_CU2|ST0_CU1);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_MT_SMTC
+	/*
+	 * SMTC restores TCStatus after Status, and the CU bits
+	 * are aliased there.
+	 */
+	childregs->cp0_tcstatus &= ~(ST0_CU2|ST0_CU1);
+#endif
 	clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_USEDFPU);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_MT_FPAFF
 	clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_FPUBOUND);
-
-	/*
-	 * FPU affinity support is cleaner if we track the
-	 * user-visible CPU affinity from the very beginning.
-	 * The generic cpus_allowed mask will already have
-	 * been copied from the parent before copy_thread
-	 * is invoked.
-	 */
-	p->thread.user_cpus_allowed = p->cpus_allowed;
 #endif /* CONFIG_MIPS_MT_FPAFF */
 
 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
index 5fd0cd0..b602ac6 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
@@ -825,8 +825,10 @@
 		if (cpus_intersects(current->cpus_allowed, mt_fpu_cpumask)) {
 			cpumask_t tmask;
 
-			cpus_and(tmask, current->thread.user_cpus_allowed,
-			         mt_fpu_cpumask);
+			current->thread.user_cpus_allowed
+				= current->cpus_allowed;
+			cpus_and(tmask, current->cpus_allowed,
+				mt_fpu_cpumask);
 			set_cpus_allowed(current, tmask);
 			set_thread_flag(TIF_FPUBOUND);
 		}