diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm b/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm
index 21340e0be73e..f52144808455 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 config ARM_CPUIDLE
         bool "Generic ARM/ARM64 CPU idle Driver"
         select DT_IDLE_STATES
+	select CPU_IDLE_MULTIPLE_DRIVERS
         help
           Select this to enable generic cpuidle driver for ARM.
           It provides a generic idle driver whose idle states are configured
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c
index f440d385ed34..7080c384ad5d 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/of.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/topology.h>
 
 #include <asm/cpuidle.h>
 
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ static int arm_enter_idle_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 	return CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER(arm_cpuidle_suspend, idx);
 }
 
-static struct cpuidle_driver arm_idle_driver = {
+static struct cpuidle_driver arm_idle_driver __initdata = {
 	.name = "arm_idle",
 	.owner = THIS_MODULE,
 	/*
@@ -80,30 +81,42 @@ static const struct of_device_id arm_idle_state_match[] __initconst = {
 static int __init arm_idle_init(void)
 {
 	int cpu, ret;
-	struct cpuidle_driver *drv = &arm_idle_driver;
+	struct cpuidle_driver *drv;
 	struct cpuidle_device *dev;
 
-	/*
-	 * Initialize idle states data, starting at index 1.
-	 * This driver is DT only, if no DT idle states are detected (ret == 0)
-	 * let the driver initialization fail accordingly since there is no
-	 * reason to initialize the idle driver if only wfi is supported.
-	 */
-	ret = dt_init_idle_driver(drv, arm_idle_state_match, 1);
-	if (ret <= 0)
-		return ret ? : -ENODEV;
-
-	ret = cpuidle_register_driver(drv);
-	if (ret) {
-		pr_err("Failed to register cpuidle driver\n");
-		return ret;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Call arch CPU operations in order to initialize
-	 * idle states suspend back-end specific data
-	 */
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+
+		drv = kmemdup(&arm_idle_driver, sizeof(*drv), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!drv) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			goto out_fail;
+		}
+
+		drv->cpumask = (struct cpumask *)cpumask_of(cpu);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize idle states data, starting at index 1.  This
+		 * driver is DT only, if no DT idle states are detected (ret
+		 * == 0) let the driver initialization fail accordingly since
+		 * there is no reason to initialize the idle driver if only
+		 * wfi is supported.
+		 */
+		ret = dt_init_idle_driver(drv, arm_idle_state_match, 1);
+		if (ret <= 0) {
+			ret = ret ? : -ENODEV;
+			goto out_fail;
+		}
+
+		ret = cpuidle_register_driver(drv);
+		if (ret) {
+			pr_err("Failed to register cpuidle driver\n");
+			goto out_fail;
+		}
+
+		/*
+		 * Call arch CPU operations in order to initialize
+		 * idle states suspend back-end specific data
+		 */
 		ret = arm_cpuidle_init(cpu);
 
 		/*
@@ -141,10 +154,11 @@ out_fail:
 		dev = per_cpu(cpuidle_devices, cpu);
 		cpuidle_unregister_device(dev);
 		kfree(dev);
+		drv = cpuidle_get_driver();
+		cpuidle_unregister_driver(drv);
+		kfree(drv);
 	}
 
-	cpuidle_unregister_driver(drv);
-
 	return ret;
 }
 device_initcall(arm_idle_init);