Sorry I didn't notice earlier - my 3.18/4.1 build scripts were broken.
arch/mips/kernel/setup.c: In function 'arch_mem_init': arch/mips/kernel/setup.c:689:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'reserve_bootmem_region' Offending commit is 1dd0964204277108e ("MIPS: Reserve nosave data for hibernation"). It fixes a bug which does not exist in 3.18 / 4.1, in turn causing all mips builds in 3.18 and 4.1 to fail. Guenter