On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:22:08PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > > > > This does not work on Octeon 71xx platforms. I will look at it more > > > > closely tomorrow. > > > > > > What's the outcome here? It seems we want a bugfix for 4.9 but this > > > report keeps me reluctant to apply the series. > > > > > > > Steven, did you have a chance to check which of the patches makes > > Octeon 71xx fail? > > How do we proceed with this one? Is somebody at Cavium able to contact > Steven internally? I mentioned this on-going regression to Linus and > said an rc8 would help us, but reading LWN it seems we shouldn't count > on it... > Hi Wolfram, if possible we should at least revert commit 70121f7f3725. I should get access to an Octeon 71xx board tomorrow, but I'm afraid we'll miss the deadline for a well tested fix that works across all machines. --Jan
