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There was a lock-order reversal between lockTSO() and the TVar lock, see #15136 for the details. It turns out we can fix this pretty easily by just deleting all the locking code(!). The principle for unblocking a `BlockedOnSTM` thread then becomes the same as for other kinds of blocking: if the TSO belongs to this capability then we do it directly, otherwise we send a message to the capability that owns the TSO. That is, a thread blocked on STM is owned by its capability, as it should be. The possible downside of this is that we might send multiple messages to wake up a thread when the thread is on another capability. This is safe, it's just not very efficient. I'll try to do some experiments to see if this is a problem. Test Plan: Test case from #15136 doesn't deadlock any more. Reviewers: bgamari, osa1, erikd Reviewed By: osa1 Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter GHC Trac Issues: #15136 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4956 (cherry picked from commit 7fc418df)
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