* Reduce the watchdog noise by only printing messages
  * that are different from what cpu0 displayed.
  */
-static unsigned long cpu0_err;
+static unsigned long firstcpu_err;
+static atomic_t watchdog_cpus;
 
 int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu)
 {
        struct perf_event_attr *wd_attr;
        struct perf_event *event = per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu);
+       int firstcpu = 0;
 
        /* nothing to do if the hard lockup detector is disabled */
        if (!(watchdog_enabled & NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED))
        if (event != NULL)
                goto out_enable;
 
+       if (atomic_inc_return(&watchdog_cpus) == 1)
+               firstcpu = 1;
+
        wd_attr = &wd_hw_attr;
        wd_attr->sample_period = hw_nmi_get_sample_period(watchdog_thresh);
 
        /* Try to register using hardware perf events */
        event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(wd_attr, cpu, NULL, watchdog_overflow_callback, NULL);
 
-       /* save cpu0 error for future comparision */
-       if (cpu == 0 && IS_ERR(event))
-               cpu0_err = PTR_ERR(event);
+       /* save the first cpu's error for future comparision */
+       if (firstcpu && IS_ERR(event))
+               firstcpu_err = PTR_ERR(event);
 
        if (!IS_ERR(event)) {
-               /* only print for cpu0 or different than cpu0 */
-               if (cpu == 0 || cpu0_err)
+               /* only print for the first cpu initialized */
+               if (firstcpu || firstcpu_err)
                        pr_info("enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.\n");
                goto out_save;
        }
        smp_mb__after_atomic();
 
        /* skip displaying the same error again */
-       if (cpu > 0 && (PTR_ERR(event) == cpu0_err))
+       if (!firstcpu && (PTR_ERR(event) == firstcpu_err))
                return PTR_ERR(event);
 
        /* vary the KERN level based on the returned errno */
 
                /* should be in cleanup, but blocks oprofile */
                perf_event_release_kernel(event);
-       }
-       if (cpu == 0) {
+
                /* watchdog_nmi_enable() expects this to be zero initially. */
-               cpu0_err = 0;
+               if (atomic_dec_and_test(&watchdog_cpus))
+                       firstcpu_err = 0;
        }
 }