Re: lockdep: access percpu variable too early

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > What's the practical effect of it? Do we copy the value from the boot CPU and 
> > thus the secondary CPUs start with slightly increased stats?
> 
> Yes, it is the major effect.
> 
> Also the arch dependent __my_cpu_offset might be initialized a bit late.

I suspect we could try to fix it - post-initializing it after percpu setup sounds 
like a viable option, if it does not get too ugly.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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