Avoid racy optimization in signal sending.
The bug is probably impossible to trigger on x86, due to its fairly strong coherency model (the SMP-safe bitops end up being memory barriers etc), but other architectures - notably ppc64 - can apparently trigger a race whereby the signal sender doesn't wake up the target because it doesn't notice that it has gone to sleep. The optimization also optimizes only what appears to be the uncommon case, where the signal happens for an already-running process.
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