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Re:Linux futex_wait() bug – update to latest patches now by userbinator on Thursday May 14, 2015 @12:04AM (#9543386)
They mention seeing this bug appear on Haswell CPUs, and nothing about any other x86 - is it a Haswell-specific bug?
Re:Linux futex_wait() bug – update to latest patches now by matheweis on Thursday May 14, 2015 @01:48AM (#9543620)
Looks to be more than just Haswell. I was wondering this too, and just noticed this comment on the (fix) patch: "the problem (user space deadlocks) can be seen with Android bionic's mutex implementation on an arm64 multi-cluster system."