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diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
index 9891effcf4c3c..f05650c801d2a 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -646,6 +646,15 @@ cpu_init (void)
ia64_set_kr(IA64_KR_FPU_OWNER, 0);
/*
+ * Initialize the page-table base register to a global
+ * directory with all zeroes. This ensure that we can handle
+ * TLB-misses to user address-space even before we created the
+ * first user address-space. This may happen, e.g., due to
+ * aggressive use of lfetch.fault.
+ */
+ ia64_set_kr(IA64_KR_PT_BASE, __pa(ia64_imva(empty_zero_page)));
+
+ /*
* Initialize default control register to defer all speculative faults. The
* kernel MUST NOT depend on a particular setting of these bits (in other words,
* the kernel must have recovery code for all speculative accesses). Turn on