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Making its trampoline read-only splits a\nlarge page, and CPA collapses it again right away. The split table has\nbeen a kernel page table since commit 9e4a3ec3411b\n(\"x86/mm/pat: Allocate split page tables as kernel page tables\"), so the\ncollapse frees it through pagetable_free_kernel(), which queues work on\nsystem_percpu_wq - still NULL at that point. That commit is correct in\nitself; it only lets CPA reach pagetable_free_kernel() before the\nworkqueue that function relies on exists.\n\nKeep putting the table on the list, but don't schedule the work while\nthe system is still booting. 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