On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 02:33:51 UTC, Larry Finger wrote:
> Code inserted during the code merged between kernels 4.10 and 4.11-rc1
> caused an early panic quickly followed by a complete shutdown for
> PowerPC. The traceback was not displayed long enough to read or
> photograph, thus it is not reproduced here.
>
> The problem was bisected to commit 5657933dbb6e ("treewide: Move dma_ops
> from struct dev_archdata into struct device"). The problem was a missing
> copy of critical information from struct dev_archdata into struct device,
> leading to the dereference of a null pointer.
>
> This fix was suggested by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.
>
> Fixes: commit 5657933dbb6e ("treewide: Move dma_ops from struct dev_archdata
> into struct device")
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/46f401c4297a2232a037ad8801b6c8
cheers
