On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, Ben Hutchings 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. I'll see if I can trigger it with my development setup and investigate. Maciej
