On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:59:29PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
NOTE, this kernel release is broken for i386 systems. If you are running such a machine, do NOT update to this release, you will not be able to boot properly.
I did this release anyway with this known problem as there is a fix in here for x86-64 systems that was nasty to track down and was affecting people. Given that the huge majority of systems are NOT i386, I felt this was a safe release to do at this point in time.
Once the proper fix for i386 systems has been accepted into Linus's tree (it has been posted already), I will pick it up and do a new 4.17.y release so that users of those systems can update.
Just a heads up, it was picked up by Linux yesterday but it wasn't tagged for stable: d1b47a7c9efc ("mm: don't do zero_resv_unavail if memmap is not allocated").