for (i = 0; i < SGE_RXQ_PER_SET; ++i)
                if (q->fl[i].desc) {
-                       spin_lock(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
+                       spin_lock_irq(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
                        t3_sge_disable_fl(adapter, q->fl[i].cntxt_id);
-                       spin_unlock(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
+                       spin_unlock_irq(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
                        free_rx_bufs(pdev, &q->fl[i]);
                        kfree(q->fl[i].sdesc);
                        dma_free_coherent(&pdev->dev,
 
        for (i = 0; i < SGE_TXQ_PER_SET; ++i)
                if (q->txq[i].desc) {
-                       spin_lock(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
+                       spin_lock_irq(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
                        t3_sge_enable_ecntxt(adapter, q->txq[i].cntxt_id, 0);
-                       spin_unlock(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
+                       spin_unlock_irq(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
                        if (q->txq[i].sdesc) {
                                free_tx_desc(adapter, &q->txq[i],
                                             q->txq[i].in_use);
                }
 
        if (q->rspq.desc) {
-               spin_lock(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
+               spin_lock_irq(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
                t3_sge_disable_rspcntxt(adapter, q->rspq.cntxt_id);
-               spin_unlock(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
+               spin_unlock_irq(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
                dma_free_coherent(&pdev->dev,
                                  q->rspq.size * sizeof(struct rsp_desc),
                                  q->rspq.desc, q->rspq.phys_addr);
                (16 * 1024) - SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)) :
                MAX_FRAME_SIZE + 2 + sizeof(struct cpl_rx_pkt);
 
-       spin_lock(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
+       spin_lock_irq(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
 
        /* FL threshold comparison uses < */
        ret = t3_sge_init_rspcntxt(adapter, q->rspq.cntxt_id, irq_vec_idx,
                        goto err_unlock;
        }
 
-       spin_unlock(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
+       spin_unlock_irq(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
 
        q->adap = adapter;
        q->netdev = dev;
        return 0;
 
       err_unlock:
-       spin_unlock(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
+       spin_unlock_irq(&adapter->sge.reg_lock);
       err:
        t3_free_qset(adapter, q);
        return ret;