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

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Date:   Thu, 2 Mar 2017 06:26:57 -0600
From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:     Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@...disk.com>,
        "regressions@...mhuis.info" <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
        "benh@...nel.crashing.org" <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
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 03/01/2017 10:07 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> 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?

Attached.

Larry



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