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> If the Store() caller goes to sleep between setting the type and storing the pointer, it causes every Goroutine that calls Load() to block.

Where does this go to sleep: https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.18.3:src/...

It looks like a CAS busy loop with preemption disabled, to me.

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Make sure to read between the lines. It only looks like a busy loop. Remember, the OS can pause and preempt your thread at any time. This is a real and likely event.

By reading the lines and not between them, you could read these two lines: runtime_procPin() and runtime_procUnpin(). With explicit comments that these pause preemption.

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