Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/91] 4.4.53-stable review

From: Kevin Hilman
Date: Tue Mar 14 2017 - 13:08:38 EST


Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:27:57 -0800, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>
>> This board seems to never have successfully booted for
>> stable/linux-4.4.y:
>> https://kernelci.org/boot/id/58c2a47559b51483e7645541/
>
> It does:
>
> https://kernelci.org/boot/id/58b457dc59b514bc145e8e4c/

Right, what I meant was that board with that defconfig has never booted.

> The problem is not 4.4, but the CONFIG_SMP=n. It also fails with other
> kernel versions, and is a bug we need to investigate.
>
> See https://kernelci.org/boot/id/58c2952159b514785a645536/, which is
> the same failure, but on 4.9, also due to CONFIG_SMP=n.
>
> I guess it's yet another I/O coherency issue, I'll try to have a look.

Thanks for looking into it,

Kevin