diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c
index f44c34d7313b..5d466b7d8609 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c
@@ -1339,6 +1339,7 @@ static __initconst const struct x86_pmu p4_pmu = {
 __init int p4_pmu_init(void)
 {
 	unsigned int low, high;
+	int i, reg;
 
 	/* If we get stripped -- indexing fails */
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(ARCH_P4_MAX_CCCR > INTEL_PMC_MAX_GENERIC);
@@ -1357,5 +1358,19 @@ __init int p4_pmu_init(void)
 
 	x86_pmu = p4_pmu;
 
+	/*
+	 * Even though the counters are configured to interrupt a particular
+	 * logical processor when an overflow happens, testing has shown that
+	 * on kdump kernels (which uses a single cpu), thread1's counter
+	 * continues to run and will report an NMI on thread0.  Due to the
+	 * overflow bug, this leads to a stream of unknown NMIs.
+	 *
+	 * Solve this by zero'ing out the registers to mimic a reset.
+	 */
+	for (i = 0; i < x86_pmu.num_counters; i++) {
+		reg = x86_pmu_config_addr(i);
+		wrmsrl_safe(reg, 0ULL);
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 }