diff --git a/hw/core/cpu-common.c b/hw/core/cpu-common.c
index 71425cb742..d5cd227fe6 100644
--- a/hw/core/cpu-common.c
+++ b/hw/core/cpu-common.c
@@ -249,7 +249,6 @@ static void cpu_common_initfn(Object *obj)
     /* user-mode doesn't have configurable SMP topology */
     /* the default value is changed by qemu_init_vcpu() for system-mode */
     cpu->nr_threads = 1;
-    cpu->cflags_next_tb = -1;
 
     /* allocate storage for thread info, initialise condition variables */
     cpu->thread = g_new0(QemuThread, 1);