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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
index da3c599584a3..c752cb43e52f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -558,6 +558,17 @@ void native_machine_shutdown(void)
{
/* Stop the cpus and apics */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
+ /*
+ * Disabling IO APIC before local APIC is a workaround for
+ * erratum AVR31 in "Intel Atom Processor C2000 Product Family
+ * Specification Update". In this situation, interrupts that target
+ * a Logical Processor whose Local APIC is either in the process of
+ * being hardware disabled or software disabled are neither delivered
+ * nor discarded. When this erratum occurs, the processor may hang.
+ *
+ * Even without the erratum, it still makes sense to quiet IO APIC
+ * before disabling Local APIC.
+ */
disable_IO_APIC();
#endif