Only switch to IPI broadcast timer on Intel when C3 is supported From: Venkatesh Pallipadi Bug in apic timer removal on C3 patch. We should switch to IPI from APIC timer only when C3 state is valid. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c +++ linux/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c @@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ static int acpi_processor_power_verify(s case ACPI_STATE_C3: acpi_processor_power_verify_c3(pr, cx); #ifdef ARCH_APICTIMER_STOPS_ON_C3 - if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL) { + if (cx->valid && c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL) { on_each_cpu(switch_APIC_timer_to_ipi, &mask, 1, 1); }