I think that pretty surely is the reason that Arch is different. That
flag will cause Xen to use its own paravirtualized spinlocks which I am
suspecting of causing the problems (in some way related to having tasks
in taskgroups which autogroup does automatically to happen). This seems,
when the conditions are right, to cause a deadlock situation.

For now (as figuring out the problem and getting a solution could prove
to take a bit) I think the best work-around for affected production
systems is "noautogroup". That could then be removed as soon as we got a
proper solution.

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