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Date:   Wed, 1 Dec 2021 11:28:31 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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Subject: Re: linux-next: boot failure after merge of the akpm tree
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On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 11:13:39AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 08:21:52AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 06:46:22PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Bisected to commit
> > > 
> > >   f00ff38c1dfa ("sysctl: add and use base directory declarer and registration helper")
> > > 
> > > I have reverted that complete 6 patch series for today.
> > 
> > I'll be trying to reproduce and fix, thanks for the report!
> 
> OK please try this patch, I can boot with this just fine on ppc64le:

And to be clear I reproduced the issue and this patch fixes it for me
on ppc64le.

  Luis