diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6110.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6110.c
index 87b18e928c7..fdfa95d0dd7 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6110.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6110.c
@@ -509,16 +509,7 @@ static void ipath_ht_handle_hwerrors(struct ipath_devdata *dd, char *msg,
 		if (!hwerrs) {
 			ipath_dbg("Clearing freezemode on ignored or "
 				  "recovered hardware error\n");
-			/*
-			 * clear all sends, becauase they have may been
-			 * completed by usercode while in freeze mode, and
-			 * therefore would not be sent, and eventually
-			 * might cause the process to run out of bufs
-			 */
-			ipath_cancel_sends(dd);
-			ctrl &= ~INFINIPATH_C_FREEZEMODE;
-			ipath_write_kreg(dd, dd->ipath_kregs->kr_control,
-					 ctrl);
+			ipath_clear_freeze(dd);
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6120.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6120.c
index e67e4a89fcc..9868ccda5f2 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6120.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6120.c
@@ -435,16 +435,7 @@ static void ipath_pe_handle_hwerrors(struct ipath_devdata *dd, char *msg,
 			freeze_cnt++;
 			ipath_dbg("Clearing freezemode on ignored or recovered "
 				  "hardware error (%u)\n", freeze_cnt);
-			/*
-			 * clear all sends, becauase they have may been
-			 * completed by usercode while in freeze mode, and
-			 * therefore would not be sent, and eventually
-			 * might cause the process to run out of bufs
-			 */
-			ipath_cancel_sends(dd);
-			ctrl &= ~INFINIPATH_C_FREEZEMODE;
-			ipath_write_kreg(dd, dd->ipath_kregs->kr_control,
-			   		 dd->ipath_control);
+			ipath_clear_freeze(dd);
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_intr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_intr.c
index e86a23a0591..ce490235c24 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_intr.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_intr.c
@@ -132,6 +132,17 @@ void ipath_disarm_senderrbufs(struct ipath_devdata *dd, int rewrite)
 	 INFINIPATH_E_SMINPKTLEN | INFINIPATH_E_SPKTLEN | \
 	 INFINIPATH_E_INVALIDADDR)
 
+/*
+ * this is similar to E_SUM_ERRS, but can't ignore armlaunch, don't ignore
+ * errors not related to freeze and cancelling buffers.  Can't ignore
+ * armlaunch because could get more while still cleaning up, and need
+ * to cancel those as they happen.
+ */
+#define E_SPKT_ERRS_IGNORE \
+	 (INFINIPATH_E_SDROPPEDDATAPKT | INFINIPATH_E_SDROPPEDSMPPKT | \
+	 INFINIPATH_E_SMAXPKTLEN | INFINIPATH_E_SMINPKTLEN | \
+	 INFINIPATH_E_SPKTLEN)
+
 /*
  * these are errors that can occur when the link changes state while
  * a packet is being sent or received.  This doesn't cover things
@@ -760,6 +771,72 @@ static int handle_errors(struct ipath_devdata *dd, ipath_err_t errs)
 	return chkerrpkts;
 }
 
+
+/*
+ * try to cleanup as much as possible for anything that might have gone
+ * wrong while in freeze mode, such as pio buffers being written by user
+ * processes (causing armlaunch), send errors due to going into freeze mode,
+ * etc., and try to avoid causing extra interrupts while doing so.
+ * Forcibly update the in-memory pioavail register copies after cleanup
+ * because the chip won't do it for anything changing while in freeze mode
+ * (we don't want to wait for the next pio buffer state change).
+ * Make sure that we don't lose any important interrupts by using the chip
+ * feature that says that writing 0 to a bit in *clear that is set in
+ * *status will cause an interrupt to be generated again (if allowed by
+ * the *mask value).
+ */
+void ipath_clear_freeze(struct ipath_devdata *dd)
+{
+	int i, im;
+	__le64 val;
+
+	/* disable error interrupts, to avoid confusion */
+	ipath_write_kreg(dd, dd->ipath_kregs->kr_errormask, 0ULL);
+
+	/*
+	 * clear all sends, because they have may been
+	 * completed by usercode while in freeze mode, and
+	 * therefore would not be sent, and eventually
+	 * might cause the process to run out of bufs
+	 */
+	ipath_cancel_sends(dd);
+	ipath_write_kreg(dd, dd->ipath_kregs->kr_control,
+			 dd->ipath_control);
+
+	/* ensure pio avail updates continue */
+	ipath_write_kreg(dd, dd->ipath_kregs->kr_sendctrl,
+		 dd->ipath_sendctrl & ~IPATH_S_PIOBUFAVAILUPD);
+	ipath_read_kreg64(dd, dd->ipath_kregs->kr_scratch);
+	ipath_write_kreg(dd, dd->ipath_kregs->kr_sendctrl,
+		 dd->ipath_sendctrl);
+
+	/*
+	 * We just enabled pioavailupdate, so dma copy is almost certainly
+	 * not yet right, so read the registers directly.  Similar to init
+	 */
+	for (i = 0; i < dd->ipath_pioavregs; i++) {
+		/* deal with 6110 chip bug */
+		im = i > 3 ? ((i&1) ? i-1 : i+1) : i;
+		val = ipath_read_kreg64(dd, 0x1000+(im*sizeof(u64)));
+		dd->ipath_pioavailregs_dma[i] = dd->ipath_pioavailshadow[i]
+			= le64_to_cpu(val);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * force new interrupt if any hwerr, error or interrupt bits are
+	 * still set, and clear "safe" send packet errors related to freeze
+	 * and cancelling sends.  Re-enable error interrupts before possible
+	 * force of re-interrupt on pending interrupts.
+	 */
+	ipath_write_kreg(dd, dd->ipath_kregs->kr_hwerrclear, 0ULL);
+	ipath_write_kreg(dd, dd->ipath_kregs->kr_errorclear,
+		E_SPKT_ERRS_IGNORE);
+	ipath_write_kreg(dd, dd->ipath_kregs->kr_errormask,
+		~dd->ipath_maskederrs);
+	ipath_write_kreg(dd, dd->ipath_kregs->kr_intclear, 0ULL);
+}
+
+
 /* this is separate to allow for better optimization of ipath_intr() */
 
 static void ipath_bad_intr(struct ipath_devdata *dd, u32 * unexpectp)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_kernel.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_kernel.h
index f1f812759ee..8bad3e3c555 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_kernel.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_kernel.h
@@ -645,6 +645,7 @@ int ipath_enable_wc(struct ipath_devdata *dd);
 void ipath_disable_wc(struct ipath_devdata *dd);
 int ipath_count_units(int *npresentp, int *nupp, u32 *maxportsp);
 void ipath_shutdown_device(struct ipath_devdata *);
+void ipath_clear_freeze(struct ipath_devdata *);
 
 struct file_operations;
 int ipath_cdev_init(int minor, char *name, const struct file_operations *fops,