From: Ingo Molnar x86_64 uses spinlocks very early - earlier than start_kernel(). So call lockdep_init() from the arch setup code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c~lockdep-x86_64-early-init arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c~lockdep-x86_64-early-init +++ a/arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c @@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char * r clear_bss(); /* + * This must be called really, really early: + */ + lockdep_init(); + + /* * switch to init_level4_pgt from boot_level4_pgt */ memcpy(init_level4_pgt, boot_level4_pgt, PTRS_PER_PGD*sizeof(pgd_t)); _