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pkg/proc/native: intermittent test failures in TestWatchpointsBasic

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#2,768 opened on Oct 29, 2021

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For whatever reason it seems that the hardware breakpoint state gets restored somehow on some threads, sometimes, after a hardware breakpoint has been disabled.

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Research direction
Investigate the hardware breakpoint state restoration logic in the native process handling code, specifically focusing on thread context after disabling hardware breakpoints.
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go
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backend
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