Re: 3.16.55-stable breaks yeeloong

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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


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