diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/jitter.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/jitter.sh
index 188b864bc4bf..3a856ec2e92a 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/jitter.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/jitter.sh
@@ -67,10 +67,10 @@ do
 		srand(n + me + systime());
 		ncpus = split(cpus, ca);
 		curcpu = ca[int(rand() * ncpus + 1)];
-		mask = lshift(1, curcpu);
-		if (mask + 0 <= 0)
-			mask = 1;
-		printf("%#x\n", mask);
+		z = "";
+		for (i = 1; 4 * i <= curcpu; i++)
+			z = z "0";
+		print "0x" 2 ^ (curcpu % 4) z;
 	}' < /dev/null`
 	n=$(($n+1))
 	if ! taskset -p $cpumask $$ > /dev/null 2>&1