diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h
index 4fa88154e4de..92e05b6c84f8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h
@@ -334,14 +334,17 @@ static inline void __thread_fpu_begin(struct task_struct *tsk)
 typedef struct { int preload; } fpu_switch_t;
 
 /*
- * FIXME! We could do a totally lazy restore, but we need to
- * add a per-cpu "this was the task that last touched the FPU
- * on this CPU" variable, and the task needs to have a "I last
- * touched the FPU on this CPU" and check them.
+ * Must be run with preemption disabled: this clears the fpu_owner_task,
+ * on this CPU.
  *
- * We don't do that yet, so "fpu_lazy_restore()" always returns
- * false, but some day..
+ * This will disable any lazy FPU state restore of the current FPU state,
+ * but if the current thread owns the FPU, it will still be saved by.
  */
+static inline void __cpu_disable_lazy_restore(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	per_cpu(fpu_owner_task, cpu) = NULL;
+}
+
 static inline int fpu_lazy_restore(struct task_struct *new, unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	return new == percpu_read_stable(fpu_owner_task) &&
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 6e1e406038c2..849cdcf2e76a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@
 #include <asm/mwait.h>
 #include <asm/apic.h>
 #include <asm/io_apic.h>
+#include <asm/i387.h>
+#include <asm/fpu-internal.h>
 #include <asm/setup.h>
 #include <asm/uv/uv.h>
 #include <linux/mc146818rtc.h>
@@ -851,6 +853,9 @@ int __cpuinit native_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
 
 	per_cpu(cpu_state, cpu) = CPU_UP_PREPARE;
 
+	/* the FPU context is blank, nobody can own it */
+	__cpu_disable_lazy_restore(cpu);
+
 	err = do_boot_cpu(apicid, cpu);
 	if (err) {
 		pr_debug("do_boot_cpu failed %d\n", err);