This patch fixes assertion failure for dynamic schedule with 8 byte induction variable. It checks the steal lock of selected victim and if the lock is not initialized then pick a different victim to steal from.
The bug report: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/54422#issuecomment-1274020428
This change fights with the consequence of the problem, not with the root cause. IMHO, the better fix would be to change
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Then the acquire load would synchronize with release store at buffer initialization, that should prevent the steal_lock pointer to ever be NULL here.