diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index f12225f..091e089 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5851,11 +5851,14 @@ void __init sched_init_smp(void)
 	/*
 	 * There's no userspace yet to cause hotplug operations; hence all the
 	 * CPU masks are stable and all blatant races in the below code cannot
-	 * happen.
+	 * happen. The hotplug lock is nevertheless taken to satisfy lockdep,
+	 * but there won't be any contention on it.
 	 */
+	cpus_read_lock();
 	mutex_lock(&sched_domains_mutex);
 	sched_init_domains(cpu_active_mask);
 	mutex_unlock(&sched_domains_mutex);
+	cpus_read_unlock();
 
 	/* Move init over to a non-isolated CPU */
 	if (set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_DOMAIN)) < 0)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index ee271bb..3648d03 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2400,8 +2400,8 @@ void task_numa_fault(int last_cpupid, int mem_node, int pages, int flags)
 		local = 1;
 
 	/*
-	 * Retry task to preferred node migration periodically, in case it
-	 * case it previously failed, or the scheduler moved us.
+	 * Retry to migrate task to preferred node periodically, in case it
+	 * previously failed, or the scheduler moved us.
 	 */
 	if (time_after(jiffies, p->numa_migrate_retry)) {
 		task_numa_placement(p);