linux-kernel - Re: Regression in 4.11 - PowerPC crashes on boot, bisected to commit 5657933dbb6e

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Date:   Thu, 2 Mar 2017 04:07:58 +0000
From:   Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@...disk.com>
To:     "regressions@...mhuis.info" <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
        "benh@...nel.crashing.org" <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        "Larry.Finger@...inger.net" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in 4.11 - PowerPC crashes on boot, bisected to
 commit 5657933dbb6e

On Wed, 2017-03-01 at 21:26 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> My Powerbook G4 Aluminum generates a fatal splat early in the boot process, just 
> after identifying the driver for the disk. Unfortunately, it turns off almost 
> immediately, thus I cannot report the message. After this bug has been 
> triggered, the system clock has been reset to Dec. 31, 1969. I assume this is a 
> side effect of an uncontrolled DMA operation.
> 
> This problem has been bisected to commit 5657933dbb6e ("treewide: Move dma_ops 
> from struct dev_archdata into struct device").

Can you provide the kernel .config of that G4?

Thanks,

Bart.