diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c b/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c
index 10cef5ca8a5b..f8a3c4054c70 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ void __init setup_pit_timer(void)
 	 * Start pit with the boot cpu mask and make it global after the
 	 * IO_APIC has been initialized.
 	 */
-	pit_clockevent.cpumask = cpumask_of_cpu(0);
+	pit_clockevent.cpumask = cpumask_of_cpu(smp_processor_id());
 	pit_clockevent.mult = div_sc(CLOCK_TICK_RATE, NSEC_PER_SEC, 32);
 	pit_clockevent.max_delta_ns =
 		clockevent_delta2ns(0x7FFF, &pit_clockevent);