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ajays on July 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Critical Linux bug that leads 100% CPU (leap secon...

This seems like the best explanation I've found so far: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/1/203

pilif on July 3, 2012 [–]

Agreed. Also it clearly accounts for the futex related load issues and it even gives nice and readable C code to see the problem happening.

This explains it for me. Thanks a lot for the pointer.

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