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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Janne Huttunen <janne.huttunen@nokia.com>
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Subject: Re: 10d94ff4d558b96b for 4.14.y
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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