On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 11:29:55AM +0300, Janne Huttunen wrote:
Please consider the upstream commit below for the 4.14.y branch.
Without the fix the configuration mentioned in the commit message crashes every time immediately at boot. What's even worse, at least in our setup this crash is completely silent and the computer just seems to hang, so the user gets no hints what actually happened.
commit 10d94ff4d558b96bfc4f55bb0051ae4d938246fe Author: Rakib Mullick rakib.mullick@gmail.com Date: Wed Nov 1 10:14:51 2017 +0600
irq/core: Fix boot crash when the irqaffinity= boot parameter is passed on CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y kernels(v1)
Note, when asking for patches to be backported, it's nice to cc: the authors and maintainers of the patches you are asking about, so that they can weigh in.
thanks,
greg k-h