Looks like IRQ 31 is assigned to timer 3, even without the patch!
I wonder who wrote the number 31. But the manual says that it is
zero by default.

I think we should check whether the timer has been allocated an IRQ before
proceeding to assign one to it.  Here is a patch that does this.
Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>