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Quoting from https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/761 : [...] reading the Power ISA documentation[1], the assembly in [the CPU_SPINWAIT macro] isn't correct anyway (as @marxin points out): the setting of the program-priority register is "sticky", and we never undo the lowering. We could do something similar, but given that we don't have testing here in the first place, I'm inclined to simply not try. I'll put something up reverting the problematic commit tomorrow. [1] Book II, chapter 3 of the 2.07B or 3.0B ISA documents.
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