Debugging spinlocks in the Linux kernel; a war story.
https://rovarma.com/articles/a-tale-about-fixing-ebpf-spinlock-issues-in-the-linux-kernel/
'we tested this fix together with all the other fixes and we’re finally in a state where we’re not seeing any freezes on the system when running our repro, and dmesg is free from timeout warnings. Yay!'
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