Re: lockdep: access percpu variable too early

[Ingo Molnar]

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

> Hi,
> 
> The percpu variables of 'lockdep_stats' and 'cpu_lock_stat' may be accessed before 
> percpu area is brought up in case of CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP/CONFIG_LOCK_STAT, so 
> these variables in non-boot CPUs will be initialized incorrectly.

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?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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