[GHC] #13633: testwsdeque failure on POWER8

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#13633: testwsdeque failure on POWER8
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        Reporter:  trommler          |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  patch
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Runtime System    |              Version:  8.1
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:  SMP, ci-
                                     |  breakage
Operating System:  Linux             |         Architecture:  powerpc64
 Type of failure:  Runtime crash     |            Test Case:
                                     |  rts/testwsdeque
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
 Related Tickets:                    |  Differential Rev(s):  ghc/ghc!445
       Wiki Page:                    |
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Comment (by bgamari):

 Replying to [comment:4 RyanGlScott]:
 > I'm experiencing nondeterministic CI failures on `validate-x86_64-linux-
 deb9-unreg` due to `testwsdeque` unexpectedly //passing//, such as in
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 I'm rather puzzled by this. This test isn't marked as `expect_broken` as
 far as I can tell. Why is the testsuite driver expecting it to fail?

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