diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
index 0d92d0f915e9acb0f04dcbce9583fcd16d7c8422..c7ba948d253c456fa346452d491fab214489f0ba 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
@@ -331,15 +331,6 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_info(struct acpi_device *device)
 		pr->throttling.duty_width = acpi_gbl_FADT.duty_width;
 
 		pr->pblk = object.processor.pblk_address;
-
-		/*
-		 * We don't care about error returns - we just try to mark
-		 * these reserved so that nobody else is confused into thinking
-		 * that this region might be unused..
-		 *
-		 * (In particular, allocating the IO range for Cardbus)
-		 */
-		request_region(pr->throttling.address, 6, "ACPI CPU throttle");
 	}
 
 	/*
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c
index f170d746336d355c7212bbac37b15d2a0164af1a..c72e64893d039f9e4d32d19da926ccd8f71a200a 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c
@@ -676,6 +676,15 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_throttling_fadt(struct acpi_processor *pr)
 	if (!pr->flags.throttling)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	/*
+	 * We don't care about error returns - we just try to mark
+	 * these reserved so that nobody else is confused into thinking
+	 * that this region might be unused..
+	 *
+	 * (In particular, allocating the IO range for Cardbus)
+	 */
+	request_region(pr->throttling.address, 6, "ACPI CPU throttle");
+
 	pr->throttling.state = 0;
 
 	duty_mask = pr->throttling.state_count - 1;