diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
index 89ff7af2de508ba0c34c2ce24c227dea5bf6d973..16f82a3aaec7c9c8d85e7c8b4f805da396981fce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static void hpet_legacy_clockevent_register(void)
 	 * Start hpet with the boot cpu mask and make it
 	 * global after the IO_APIC has been initialized.
 	 */
-	hpet_clockevent.cpumask = cpumask_of(smp_processor_id());
+	hpet_clockevent.cpumask = cpumask_of(boot_cpu_data.cpu_index);
 	clockevents_config_and_register(&hpet_clockevent, hpet_freq,
 					HPET_MIN_PROG_DELTA, 0x7FFFFFFF);
 	global_clock_event = &hpet_clockevent;