diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index 3d5fc0fd1ccac7648f743519a5851ed08c4bcb19..6f740d9f09485a3843086d20472c169b86c232aa 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -238,8 +238,9 @@ void clockevents_exchange_device(struct clock_event_device *old,
  */
 void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg)
 {
-	struct list_head *node, *tmp;
+	struct clock_event_device *dev, *tmp;
 	unsigned long flags;
+	int cpu;
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 	clockevents_do_notify(reason, arg);
@@ -250,8 +251,19 @@ void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg)
 		 * Unregister the clock event devices which were
 		 * released from the users in the notify chain.
 		 */
-		list_for_each_safe(node, tmp, &clockevents_released)
-			list_del(node);
+		list_for_each_entry_safe(dev, tmp, &clockevents_released, list)
+			list_del(&dev->list);
+		/*
+		 * Now check whether the CPU has left unused per cpu devices
+		 */
+		cpu = *((int *)arg);
+		list_for_each_entry_safe(dev, tmp, &clockevent_devices, list) {
+			if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, dev->cpumask) &&
+			    cpumask_weight(dev->cpumask) == 1) {
+				BUG_ON(dev->mode != CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED);
+				list_del(&dev->list);
+			}
+		}
 		break;
 	default:
 		break;
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 5db5a8d2681168cfcf9c571d2da69629245c92ba..15533b792397be532ddcce7f2d24c04f78efba75 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -656,8 +656,6 @@ __mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires,
 
 	debug_activate(timer, expires);
 
-	new_base = __get_cpu_var(tvec_bases);
-
 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)