Re: freeze during boot regression Re: [PATCH 6.12 000/265] 6.12.77-rc1 review

Ron Economos
2026-03-13T09:37:21Z

On 3/13/26 01:05, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On 3/12/26 23:10, Ron Economos wrote:
>> Probably those sched/fair patches.
>
> Yes, after bisecting it turned out to be
> sched-fair-fix-eevdf-entity-placement-bug-causing-sc.patch
>
> Taking 6.12.77-rc1 and reverting both of the sched-fair patches
> results in a working kernel that boots consistently (which I am
> using now to send this email).

Confirmed on RISC-V. Reverting "sched/fair: Fix lag clamp" commit b547745a2c78fd1cc1fdc6a0d1b05c884c05cec2 and "sched/fair: Fix
EEVDF entity placement bug causing scheduling lag" commit f9891a33ba67ce40e5a17023d2f3a5e2b7d72ffd resolves the issue.