A while ago we faced a build issue for MIPS architecture (see attached config) and someone (forgot who) provided reference to following patch which fixed the issue so I applied it in our repo. commit cd532e6356425fef41f25c31411867cf80d7541b Author: Maciej W. Rozycki Date: Sun May 3 10:36:19 2015 +0100 MIPS: pgtable-bits.h: Correct _PAGE_GLOBAL_SHIFT build failure Correct a build failure introduced by be0c37c9 [MIPS: Rearrange PTE bits into fixed positions.]: With a merge of 4.2-rc4 those changes were lost and the build issue was back. Is there any chance the patch will be posted upstream in some form. For now I reapplied the patch, but would like to get rid of that type of maintenance. Regards, Arend