* Ming Lei <ming....@canonical.com> 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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