diff --git a/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c b/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c
index 72e17f7..786e36e 100644
--- a/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c
@@ -281,8 +281,6 @@
 	 */
 	set_ist(_vectors_start);
 
-	lockdep_init();
-
 	/*
 	 * dtb is passed in from bootloader.
 	 * fdt is linked in blob.
diff --git a/arch/microblaze/kernel/setup.c b/arch/microblaze/kernel/setup.c
index 89a2a939..f31ebb5 100644
--- a/arch/microblaze/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/microblaze/kernel/setup.c
@@ -130,8 +130,6 @@
 	memset(__bss_start, 0, __bss_stop-__bss_start);
 	memset(_ssbss, 0, _esbss-_ssbss);
 
-	lockdep_init();
-
 /* initialize device tree for usage in early_printk */
 	early_init_devtree(_fdt_start);
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
index ad8c9db..d544fa3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -114,8 +114,6 @@
 
 notrace void __init machine_init(u64 dt_ptr)
 {
-	lockdep_init();
-
 	/* Enable early debugging if any specified (see udbg.h) */
 	udbg_early_init();
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 5c03a6a..f98be83 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -255,9 +255,6 @@
 	setup_paca(&boot_paca);
 	fixup_boot_paca();
 
-	/* Initialize lockdep early or else spinlocks will blow */
-	lockdep_init();
-
 	/* -------- printk is now safe to use ------- */
 
 	/* Enable early debugging if any specified (see udbg.h) */
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/early.c b/arch/s390/kernel/early.c
index c55576b..a0684de 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/early.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/early.c
@@ -448,7 +448,6 @@
 	rescue_initrd();
 	clear_bss_section();
 	init_kernel_storage_key();
-	lockdep_init();
 	lockdep_off();
 	setup_lowcore_early();
 	setup_facility_list();
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/sparc/kernel/head_64.S
index f2d30ca..cd1f592 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -696,14 +696,6 @@
 	call	__bzero
 	 sub	%o1, %o0, %o1
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
-	/* We have this call this super early, as even prom_init can grab
-	 * spinlocks and thus call into the lockdep code.
-	 */
-	call	lockdep_init
-	 nop
-#endif
-
 	call	prom_init
 	 mov	%l7, %o0			! OpenPROM cif handler
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
index 4ba229a..f56cc41 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
@@ -1520,12 +1520,6 @@
 	 */
 	reserve_top_address(lguest_data.reserve_mem);
 
-	/*
-	 * If we don't initialize the lock dependency checker now, it crashes
-	 * atomic_notifier_chain_register, then paravirt_disable_iospace.
-	 */
-	lockdep_init();
-
 	/* Hook in our special panic hypercall code. */
 	atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &paniced);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h
index 4dca42f..d026b19 100644
--- a/include/linux/lockdep.h
+++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h
@@ -261,7 +261,6 @@
 /*
  * Initialization, self-test and debugging-output methods:
  */
-extern void lockdep_init(void);
 extern void lockdep_info(void);
 extern void lockdep_reset(void);
 extern void lockdep_reset_lock(struct lockdep_map *lock);
@@ -392,7 +391,6 @@
 # define lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(g)	do { } while (0)
 # define lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state()	do { } while (0)
 # define lockdep_trace_alloc(g)			do { } while (0)
-# define lockdep_init()				do { } while (0)
 # define lockdep_info()				do { } while (0)
 # define lockdep_init_map(lock, name, key, sub) \
 		do { (void)(name); (void)(key); } while (0)
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 58c9e37..b3008bc 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -499,11 +499,6 @@
 	char *command_line;
 	char *after_dashes;
 
-	/*
-	 * Need to run as early as possible, to initialize the
-	 * lockdep hash:
-	 */
-	lockdep_init();
 	set_task_stack_end_magic(&init_task);
 	smp_setup_processor_id();
 	debug_objects_early_init();
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 716547f..3261214 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -123,8 +123,6 @@
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int lockdep_initialized;
-
 unsigned long nr_list_entries;
 static struct lock_list list_entries[MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES];
 
@@ -434,19 +432,6 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP
 /*
- * We cannot printk in early bootup code. Not even early_printk()
- * might work. So we mark any initialization errors and printk
- * about it later on, in lockdep_info().
- */
-static int lockdep_init_error;
-static const char *lock_init_error;
-static unsigned long lockdep_init_trace_data[20];
-static struct stack_trace lockdep_init_trace = {
-	.max_entries = ARRAY_SIZE(lockdep_init_trace_data),
-	.entries = lockdep_init_trace_data,
-};
-
-/*
  * Various lockdep statistics:
  */
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct lockdep_stats, lockdep_stats);
@@ -669,20 +654,6 @@
 	struct hlist_head *hash_head;
 	struct lock_class *class;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP
-	/*
-	 * If the architecture calls into lockdep before initializing
-	 * the hashes then we'll warn about it later. (we cannot printk
-	 * right now)
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(!lockdep_initialized)) {
-		lockdep_init();
-		lockdep_init_error = 1;
-		lock_init_error = lock->name;
-		save_stack_trace(&lockdep_init_trace);
-	}
-#endif
-
 	if (unlikely(subclass >= MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES)) {
 		debug_locks_off();
 		printk(KERN_ERR
@@ -4013,28 +3984,6 @@
 	raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
-void lockdep_init(void)
-{
-	int i;
-
-	/*
-	 * Some architectures have their own start_kernel()
-	 * code which calls lockdep_init(), while we also
-	 * call lockdep_init() from the start_kernel() itself,
-	 * and we want to initialize the hashes only once:
-	 */
-	if (lockdep_initialized)
-		return;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < CLASSHASH_SIZE; i++)
-		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(classhash_table + i);
-
-	for (i = 0; i < CHAINHASH_SIZE; i++)
-		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(chainhash_table + i);
-
-	lockdep_initialized = 1;
-}
-
 void __init lockdep_info(void)
 {
 	printk("Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar\n");
@@ -4061,14 +4010,6 @@
 
 	printk(" per task-struct memory footprint: %lu bytes\n",
 		sizeof(struct held_lock) * MAX_LOCK_DEPTH);
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP
-	if (lockdep_init_error) {
-		printk("WARNING: lockdep init error: lock '%s' was acquired before lockdep_init().\n", lock_init_error);
-		printk("Call stack leading to lockdep invocation was:\n");
-		print_stack_trace(&lockdep_init_trace, 0);
-	}
-#endif
 }
 
 static void
diff --git a/tools/lib/lockdep/common.c b/tools/lib/lockdep/common.c
index 9be6633..d1c89cc 100644
--- a/tools/lib/lockdep/common.c
+++ b/tools/lib/lockdep/common.c
@@ -11,11 +11,6 @@
 bool debug_locks = true;
 bool debug_locks_silent;
 
-__attribute__((constructor)) static void liblockdep_init(void)
-{
-	lockdep_init();
-}
-
 __attribute__((destructor)) static void liblockdep_exit(void)
 {
 	debug_check_no_locks_held();
diff --git a/tools/lib/lockdep/include/liblockdep/common.h b/tools/lib/lockdep/include/liblockdep/common.h
index a60c14b..6e66277 100644
--- a/tools/lib/lockdep/include/liblockdep/common.h
+++ b/tools/lib/lockdep/include/liblockdep/common.h
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
 void lock_release(struct lockdep_map *lock, int nested,
 			unsigned long ip);
 extern void debug_check_no_locks_freed(const void *from, unsigned long len);
-extern void lockdep_init(void);
 
 #define STATIC_LOCKDEP_MAP_INIT(_name, _key) \
 	{ .name = (_name), .key = (void *)(_key), }
diff --git a/tools/lib/lockdep/preload.c b/tools/lib/lockdep/preload.c
index 21cdf86..5284484 100644
--- a/tools/lib/lockdep/preload.c
+++ b/tools/lib/lockdep/preload.c
@@ -439,7 +439,5 @@
 	ll_pthread_rwlock_unlock = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "pthread_rwlock_unlock");
 #endif
 
-	lockdep_init();
-
 	__init_state = done;
 }