Re: 3.16.55-stable breaks yeeloong

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On Sun, 2018-03-18 at 11:06 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Commit 304acb717e5b67cf56f05bc5b21123758e1f7ea0 AKA
> https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9705/ was backported to 3.16.55
> stable as 8605aa2fea28c0485aeb60c114a9d52df1455915 and I'm afraid it
> causes yeeloongs to fail to boot up.  3.16.54 was fine; bisection took
> me to this patch.
> 
> The symptom is a kernel panic -- attempt to kill init.  No further info
> is provided.
> 
> Is this problem already known?  Is there by any chance a known fix for
> me to try, or should I investigate further?

Guenter Roeck reported the same problem on QEMU Malta emulation.
I haven't yet ivnestigated why this causes breakage.  I will aim to fix
this in the next update (will be 3.16.57 now), if necessary by
reverting that and whatever depends on it.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky

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